12 Shocking Photos of Celebrities Who Look *Exactly* Like Historical Figures

If they ever make a movie about President Andrew Johnson, they should definitely hire Tommy Lee Jones to play him! Johnson was the 17th president of The United States and took office right after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Jones is best known for his acting skills, which can be seen in Lincoln, In The Balley of Elah, The Fugitive and JFK – all of which earned him an Oscar nomination. 

Actor Alec Baldwin looks just like Millard Fillmore, who was the 13th President of the United States. Fillmore's claim to fame was that he was the last member of the Whig Party while in the White House. Baldwin is known for his work on Saturday Night Live, The Departed and It's Complicated. 

Actor Bruce Willis could be General Douglas MacArthur's grandson! MacArthur is best known for his work as a General in the US Army and his work as a field marshal in the Philippine Army. Willis is best known for his movies Die Hard, The Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction and a three-episode stint on the hit show Friends. 

Author Zora Neale Hurston and actress/rapper Queen Latifah definitely have identical smiles. Hurtson is considered to be one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature, thanks to her books Sweat, Mules and Men and Dust Tracks on a Road.  Latifah (whose real name is Dana Elaine Owens) starred in movies like Hairspray, Last Holiday, Taxi, Girls Trip and Chicago — for which she was earned an Oscar nomination. 

Actors Lee J Cobb and Jason Segal look like a pair of brothers! Cobb starred in movies like 12 Angry Men, Man of the West, On the Waterfront and The Exorcist. He is also a two-time Oscar nominee for his work in On the Waterfront and The Brothers Karamozov. Segal, has one Emmy nomination under his belt for the 2023 TV show Shrinking. He also starred in The Muppets, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and How I Met Your Mother. 

The last thing comedian and writer Jon Stewart probably expected was to look just like clergyman Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher is best known for his dissent of slavery and his famous 1875 adultery trial, where he was tried on charges that he had committed adultery with a friend's wife, Elizabeth Tilton. Stewart, on the other hand, is best known for hosting The Daily Show from 1999-2015 and, most recently, The Problem with Jon Stewert on Apple TV+. 

If TV show host Ellen Degeneres were a guy, she would look just like naturalist and essayist Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, which was a reflection on living in one's natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, which argues in favor of protests when they are needed. Degeneres is best known for her talk show Ellen and the hit Disney movies Finding Nemo and Finding Dory. 

Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde and English actor Stephen Fry could totally be the same person! Wilde is best known for his 1890 plays that were performed in London. Fry has been seen in the 2002 movie Godford Park and V for Vendetta in 2005. And in 1997, Fry even played Wilde in the movie Wilde. 

American actor Keanu Reeves and French actor Paul Mounet are definitely long-lost ancestors. Mounet, who was a doctor before he got into acting, starred as Macbeth in Macbeth and Ulysses in The Return of Ulysses, which were all filmed in France. Reeves, an American-based actor, has been in films like The Matrix, Toy Story 4, John Wick and Point Break. 

We are still not convinced Mahir Çayan and Jimmy Fallon are not the same person! Çayan was a Turkish communist revolutionary and the leader of the People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey. He died in 1972. TV show host Jimmy Fallon is known for Saturday Night Live and his show The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, which has gotten him four separate Emmy nominations. Fallon was born in 1974.

Pope Gregory IX and Sylvester Stallone's facial features are like looking in a mirror — just look at their jawlines. Pope Gregory IX was the head of the Catholic church and papal States from March 19, 1227, until his death on August 22, 1241. During his reign, he issued the Decretales and instituted the Papal Inquisition. American actor Stallone is best known for the Rocky Films, Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 2 and 3 and The Suicide Squad. He has 3 Oscar nominations to his name – one for Creed and two for Rocky. 

European philosopher John Locke and actor Adrien Brody are like seeing double! Locke was best known for his work on liberalism and worked so hard on it that people called him the "father of liberalism." Brody is best known for his on-screen roles in The Grand Budapest Hotel, Deatachemnt and Midnight in Paris. He also won an Oscar in 2003 for his work in The Pianist.