Celebrities and their historical counterparts

A small selection of historical counterparts of modern celebrity.

King Philip IV of Spain, and Mark Zuckerberg.




Millard Fillmore and Alec Baldwin.


Monet and Keanu Reeves.


Drown John and Charlie Sheen.


Socrates and Anthony Hopkins.


Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rose Wilder Lunt.


Paul Revere and Jack Black.


Louis XII and Vladimir Putin.


Bill Bailey and Thomas Hobbes.


Joseph Pulitzer and Dustin Diamond.