# Have you ever been mistaken for someone famous? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418 "2010-08-25T16:44:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/41 "2010-08-26T18:30:41Z")
Insert joke about “stiffs” here. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/42 "2010-08-26T19:18:24Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > More than once I was mistaken for the crazy guy who used to preach outside of one of our campus buildings. Somehow I don’t think that counts. > > I always wanted to put on a red hoodie and jeans (his trademark outfit) and start a little counter-preaching just to freak him out. I already freaked him out enough just by walking past him, because every time I walked near him he would actually stop and get flustered. Maybe he thought I was his Evil Twin. Gary the Willard Preacher? I miss that guy, sorta. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/43 "2010-08-26T19:25:12Z")
Back when _Twin Peaks_ was on, some folks thought I looked like Kyle MacLachlan ([http://2.bp.blogspot.com/\_jJSCzAHbXm4/SWW1GqMcGBI/AAAAAAAAFzY/Vj6SNDb33Po/s400/Cooper.jpg](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jJSCzAHbXm4/SWW1GqMcGBI/AAAAAAAAFzY/Vj6SNDb33Po/s400/Cooper.jpg)), but no one ever freaked out over me. I don’t look much like that anymore, anyway ([http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/46809.html](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/46809.html)). ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/44 "2010-08-26T19:33:44Z")
Me? No. But my friend’s dad has signed autographs as both Huey Lewis and Joe Montana (he lives in Daly City, which borders San Francisco). ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/45 "2010-08-26T19:39:51Z")
I’ve been told I resemble Sean Penn, Gerard Depardieu, Shaggy from Scooby Doo and Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry). ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/46 "2010-08-27T14:11:53Z")
I’m often mistaken for the Elephant Man when I’m out, also I bear a strong resemblance to someone who gets drunk alot and throws my clothes all around my room. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/47 "2010-08-27T14:49:59Z")
In addition to being mistaken for Eddie Murphy, I left out my doppelgangers, although the others I’ve never been _mistaken_ for. Sammy Davis, Jr., Martin Lawrence and Steve Urkel. What a mix, but at least they’re all Black. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/48 "2010-08-27T15:37:15Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > In addition to being mistaken for Eddie Murphy, I left out my doppelgangers, although the others I’ve never been _mistaken_ for. > > Sammy Davis, Jr., Martin Lawrence and Steve Urkel. > > What a mix, but at least they’re all Black. It’s an honor to meet you, Mr. President! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/49 "2010-08-27T18:41:46Z")
People always used to ask me if I was Henry Rollins. I looked like him, sounded like him, and was as big an asshole as he was. I never actively used his name to my advantage, but there were times when people asked if I was him and I didn’t disabuse them of the idea and I was given preferential treatment. This only happened when I was wearing long sleeves (to hide the fact that I didn’t have his tattoos), and the lack of a Black Flag tattoo on my neck must have gone unnoticed. My hair has thinned out some now and I keep it shorter so all I get now is “You look kinda like Henry Rollins.” But 15 years ago I was a dead ringer. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/50 "2010-08-27T21:45:49Z")
Never been mistaken for him but apparently I look like Leonardo diCaprio. I don’t see it but whatever. When I was younger it was James Dean. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/51 "2010-08-28T00:32:15Z")
> [@Jet\_Jaguar](#): > > Not in the US, but when I was in China apparently everyone thought I looked like this Canadian guy (who performs under the name “Da Shan”) who is a very famous celebrity over there. I don’t really look much like him at all, aside from the fact that we have the same hair color and we both wear glasses. All white people look the same, I guess.😉 Ugh, Da Shan. He is the mental definition of “white guy” to just about every Chinese person, he is the stick by which we’re all measured. Tall and bespectacled? “You look like Da Shan!” Speak Chinese well enough? “You speak as well as Da Shan!” Canadian? “That’s where Da Shan is from!” Is it any wonder that he’s so hated among the foreign community here? ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/52 "2010-08-28T02:12:07Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Lots of people say I look like Richard Dreyfus, and I occasionally get someone who thinks I’m John McCain. > My photo is on the Doper photo board [here](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/14540.html). More Dreyfus than McCain but John’s a lot older than you. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/53 "2010-08-28T02:13:17Z")
> [@NicePete](#): > > I’m constantly being mistaken for John Holmes. Soooo, you have a mustache? ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/54 "2010-08-28T02:23:30Z")
Almost daily people tell me I look like Kurt Cobain ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/55 "2010-08-28T02:25:40Z")
> [@Gulo\_gulo](#): > > I’ve been told I look like Amy Lee (from Evanescence) but I don’t see it. > > BUT my husband has been very screamingly mistaken for Mark Wahlberg on more than one occasion. Do you ever have fun pretending he is Mark Wahlburg? ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/56 "2010-08-28T02:26:45Z")
> [@may\_be\_ignorant](#): > > Almost daily people tell me I look like Kurt Cobain Is half your head missing? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/57 "2010-08-28T02:26:53Z")
[Randy Jackson](http://www.thecelebrityautopsy.com/News1/Randy%20jackson.jpg). On more than one occasion. I could be called a lot worse. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/58 "2010-08-28T02:42:01Z")
Years ago I was playing in a warm up band in PA for then country artist Gary Morris We both had a full beard and longer than average dark hair other than that maybe similar builds and coloring. At the end of the night , with guitar case in hand I walk out back and through a crowd I assume are waiting for Gary, heading for my van. I hear one woman say, “I can’t believe he just walked right by us without saying anything” I turn back and walk up to them. “I’d be glad to sign all the autographs you want but I’m really not Gary Morris” They kinda looked me over and laughed. Nobody wanted an autograph dam it. Later I saw Gary backstage and told him I was out back signing autographs for him. He didn’t see the humor in it. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/59 "2010-08-28T03:17:55Z")
My brother was once mistaken for Australian Rugby captain [Michael Lynagh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lynagh) outside the ground after a rugby test match. He does look like him and happened to be wearing a jumper that could be mistaken for one Lynagh may wear. He ended up in an animated conversation with several fans and rather than disappoint them he and his friends didn’t let on that it was a case of mistaken identity. He said he even accepted their stupid suggestions with good grace and said that he would recommend them to the coach. He made an excuse to get away before anyone asked for an autograph. When I suggested it was a weird thing to do he said, “It was a thrill for those people that they’ll never forget and it was no skin off my nose. It only took a few minutes.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418/60 "2010-08-28T04:12:09Z")
Years ago, a person I was talking to on a voice chat over the internet was convinced that I was Sam the Sham, of “Wooly Bully” fame. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-mistaken-for-someone-famous/551418.md?page=4)