17 of the Worst People In History and Their Dopplegangers

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17 of the Worst People In History and Their Dopplegangers

Everybody has a doppelgänger, and these people are stuck dealing with the consequences of theirs.

Published 6 months ago in Wtf

With eight billion people in the world, and about 117 billion that have existed across history, there is bound to be someone who looks just like you. In all likelihood you'll never meet your doppelgänger, but since everybody has one, a few people are left with lookalikes they'd rather not have. These 17 folks are stuck dealing with the consequences of looking like some of the worst people in the history of the world.

Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares might not look like what we picture in our head when thinking of infamous terrorist Osama Bin Laden, but he was for the FBI, in a way. Attempting to generate a model for what Bin Laden might look like as an older man without a beard, the FBI turned to Llamazares's face as a template. Llamazares was understandably outraged when he discovered the images, and it begs the question, who in the FBI thought to use him in the first place?

See that photo, and 16 others of unfortunate historical doppelgängers.

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This poor Egyptian man, Mohamed Bishr, was attacked by a gang and almost kidnapped for looking like Saddam Hussein. They wanted him to star in an adult film.

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Dagestan circus artist Felix Dadaev, and Stalin.

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Richard Jones (right), was freed from prison after 17 years, when a lookalike was found.

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Fidel Castro and Liam Neeson.

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Two of Kim and Kanye's professional lookalikes.

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Beardless Osama Bin Laden and Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares. Llamazares was understandably outraged after the FBI randomly used his face as the basis to generate an older looking version of Bin Laden.