Before you start complaining, let me just say this first – This isn’t an optical illusion! Hah, 1st comment! My aunt sent me this photo, and I found it quite interesting. Assignment she gave me was to recognize more than 100 famous people through history inside it. Email I received stated that if you recognize more than 25, you can consider yourself well educated and cultural person. I have recognized around 30 of them, but never considered my self much of an expert in general culture field. Unfortunately, the artist forgot to include my portrait in his artwork, but maybe some of you are famous enough to take part in it. Who knows! Let’s try to recognize them all together! Please no more than 5 answers per post. I’ll start with some dictators: Stalin, Lenin, Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong, Saddam… be sure to open the picture in new window, to see it in full size. More similar “games” can be found here. Good luck!
P.S. Alessandro added numbers so you can connect the celebrity with according person…
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Thanks SuperSando for posting your answers with numbers…why can’t others do the same???
1 William ‘Bill’ Gates 21 George W. Bush 41 61 Adolf Hitler 81
2 Socrates 22 Prince Charles 42 Giorgio De Chirico ??? 62 Benito Mussolini 82 Queen Elizabeth II ???
3 23 Liu Xiang 43 63 Sadam Hussein 83 Galileo
4 Lenin 24 Nelson Mandela 44 64 84
5 25 45 65 85
6 Bill Clinton 26 Michail Gorbaciov 46 66 86
7 27 47 Marilin Monroe 67 87
8 Margaret Thatcher 28 Dante Alighieri 48 68 88 Michael Jordan
9 Bruce Lee 29 49 69 Josef Stalin 89
10 Winston Churchill 30 Pelé 50 70 90
11 31 Guan Yu 51 71 Karl Marx 91
12 Gengis Khan 32 Alessandro Magno??? 52 72 Molotov Stalin 92 Mike tyson
13 Napoleone Bonaparte 33 Charles De Gaulle 53 Madre Teresa di Calcutta 73 Abraham Lincoln 93 Vladimir Putin
14 Ernesto Che Guevera 34 Vincent Van Gogh??? 54 74 Mao Tse Tung 94
15 Fidel Castro 35 55 75 Charlie Chaplin 95 Shirley Temple
16 Marlon Brando 36 56 76 96 Albert Einstein
17 Arafat 37 Elvis Presley 57 77 97 Mosé
18 38 58 78 98
19 39 Williams Shakespeare 59 Audrey Hepbrun ??? 79 99 Ghandi
20 Luciano Pavarati 40 Volfgang Amadeus Mozart 60 Ludwig Van Beethoven 80 100 Toulouse Lautrec
Honorable Mention – Bin Laden
Names people have called and haven’t been placed Salvador Dali, Leonardo DaVinci, Alexander Graham Bell, Chris Columbus,
Galileo, Mark Twain, The Dalai Lama, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, FDR,
Made some corrections to yours SuperSandro
#92 is not Ali nor Tyson (no tattoos). It looks like the famous knockdown of Joe Louis. #23 looks like Yao Ming (basketball player). #102 looks like Salvidor Dali. #88 is Michael Jordan. #50 looks like Nyetenyahu (Sp.) the Israeli leader. Yes, that is Osama Bin Laden (not numbered) in the background. Well, that’s my limit although i recognize most of them.
50 Ariel Sharon israel leader
48 Salvador Dali Painter
79 Sigmund Freud Psychoanalyst
64 Bismarck
66 Dengxia Ping former chinese Leader
41. Constantin Brancusi
28. Dante Alighieri
1. Oscar Wilde(?) either this or Clark Kent:B
94. Ella Fitzgerald
10. Winston Churchill
I think 102 is Escher, but I’m not sure…
It is better to use the numbers, so as to find all.
I think 59 is Maria Kallas.
To sum up the first 25 are:
1 -
2. Socrates
3. –
4. Lenin
5. –
6. Bill Clinton
7. –
8. Margaret Thausther
9. Bruce Lee
10. Winston Churchill
11. –
12. Jacky Chan
13. Napoleon
14.Gevara
15.Fidel Castro
16.Marlon Brando
17.Arafat
18.-
19.-
20.Pavvaroti
21.Bush and behind him Landen
22.Charls of England
23.Lennon
24.Nelson Madela
25. -
Can somobody fill the gups and continue the list?
23 is not lennon and yao ming
i think it’s more likely to be Liu Xiang , the chinese hurdler because he had 12.88 on his shirt wich is his old World record of 110 m hurdle
n.7 looks like Peter the Great
:( only 1 or 2 mention n.83 Lev Tolstoy and Lomonosov
I’ve found one interesting thing. George W. Bush (21) is searching the Saddam Hussein (83). By drawing a straight line from his periscope direction, you can see it clearly.
I found about 40.
I got 25. Which I think is pretty good for a 15 year old =]
5 of them are…
Ghandi
Moses [in the background parting the Red Sea]
Che Geuvara..Probably spelt wrong.
Kim Jong Il
Mother Theresa [I think]
:)
Please tell me where I can get a copy for my wall! That’s cool.
Just exactly who painted it??
I got 35 but with my sons help got up to 45.
I believe 24 is Kofi Annan, not Nelson Mandela
yeah, id also like to kn ow how/where i can get a copy of this!
This is what I have got so far…
please help if you can fill in the gaps.
1 Bill Gates
2 Socrate
3 Cui Jian
4 Vladimir Lenin
5 –
6 Bill Clinton
7 Peter the Great (Romanov)
8 Margaret Thatcher
9 Bruce Lee
10 Winston Churchill
11 –
12 Gengis Khan
13 Napoleone Bonaparte
14 Che Guevare (Ernesto)
15 Fidel Castro
16 Marlon Brando
17 Yasser Arafat
18 Julius Ceasar
19 –
20 Luciano Pavarotti
21 George W. Bush
22 Prince Charles
23 Liu Xiang
24 Kofi Annan
25 –
26 Michail Gorbaciov
27 –
28 Dante Alighieri
29 –
30 –
31 Kublai Khan –
32 Ramses III
33 Charles De Gaulle –
34 Ulysses S. Grant –
35 –
36 –
37 Elvis Presley
38 Robert Oppenheimer
39 William Shakespeare
40 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
41 Stephen spielberg
42 Hunter S Thompson (?)
43 –
44 –
45 Mark Twain–
46 Confucius –
47 Marilin Monroe
48 Salvador Dalì
49 Empress Dowager Cixi
50 Ariel Sharon
51 –
52 –
53 Mother Teresa
54 –
55 Martin Luther King Snr
56 –
57 –
58 Johann Sebastian Bach
59 Audrey Hepburn
60 Ludwig Van Beethoven
61 Adolf Hitler
62 Benito Mussolini
63 Sadam Hussein
64 Guglielmo II di Prussia
65 –
66 –
67 –
68 –
69 Joseph Stalin
70 Leonardo Da Vinci
71 Karl Marx
72 Vyacheslav Molotov
73 Abraham Lincoln
74 Mao Tse Tung
75 Charlie Chaplin
76 Henry Ford
77 –
78 –
79 Sigmund Freud
80 –
81 Chiang Kai Shek
82 Queen Elizabeth II
83 Leo Tolstoy
84 Li Bai
85 Robert Edwards
86 –
87 –
88 Michael Jordan
89 Hideki Tojo
90 Michelangelo
91 –
92 Mike Tyson
93 Vladimir Putin
94 Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Caroll)
95 Shirley Temple
96 Albert Einstein
97 Noah
98 –
99 Ghandi
100 Vincent Van Gogh
101 Toulouse Lautrec
102 Pablo Picasso
Behind George W is Moses And Osama bin ladin
I will add to Jenniev’s list as it is the most complete, and the last one. I will have to do this in sessions as I don’t have much time right now.
102 Pablo Picasso seems very unlikely as there is a much better example of him in nr. 42. Jenniev suggests Hunter Thompson for 42, but isn’t sure.
52 is unnamed so far but represents without doubt Qin Shi Huang Di.
72 Molotov, I’m rather in favour of Friedrich Nietzsche
23 Liu Xiang is definately right, because his T-shirt says 12.88, so it’s not the Chinese basket ball player
87 I’m inclined to say Alan Greenspan for now, but not sure. Hardly top 100.
98 I would argue for Confucius. Jeniev leaves this blank and instead uses 46 for Confucius. Although I’m less sure about 46, I would suggest that this is Lao Tsu instead.
56 left blank, but I suggest Bismarck here, although not sure. Somebody suggested 64 for Bismarck, but I believe that to be false, as the outfit doesn’t fit Bismarck. 56 has the right outfit, and a similar moustache.
102 instead of Picasso, is possibly Juan gris, a friend of Picasso
64 I believe to be George Custer, and not who Jenniev suggests
well.. I found
Hitler
Bruce Lee
Mozart
Shakespeare
Lincoln
Mao ze dong
Elvis
charlie Chaplin
Beethoven
Saddam
Clinton
gandi
Stalin
feudal Castro
Arafat
Darwin
Marx
Lenin
bush
bin laden
Einstein
Aristotle or Plato
kofi annan
mikhail
1. Bill Gates
2. Socrates
3. Cui Jian
4. Vladimir Lenin
5.
6. Bill Clinton
7. Peter the Great
8. Elenor Roosevelt maybe Margaret Thatcher
9. Bruce Lee
10. Winston Churchil
11.
12. Ghengis Khan
13. Napolean
14. Chez G
15. Castro
16. Marlon Brando
17. Arafat
18. Charlton Heston
19.
20. Pavaroti
21. George W. Bush
22. Prince Charles
(Above Yao Ming and G.W. but not numbered is Osama Bin Laden)
23. Yao Ming or Liu Xiang
24. Fredrick Douglas or Kofi Annan
25.
26. Michail Gorbaciov
27.
28. Dante Alighieri
29. William Hung
30. Pele
31. Kublai
32. King tut? or Ramses III
33. Franklin Roosevelt
34. Ulysses S. Grant
35.
36.
37. Elvis
38. John Wayne
39. Shakespere
40. Mozart
41. George Carlin
42. Redd Foxx
43. Alexander the Great
44.
45. Mark Twain
46. Confucius
47. Marilyn Monroe
48. Salvador Dali
49. Empress Dowager Cixi
50. Ariel Sharon
51.
52. Qin Shi Huang Di
53. Mother Teresa
54.
55. Martin Luther King Snr
55. Martin Luther King Senior (Not sure why Junior is not in this painting)
56. Bismarck
57.
58. Johann Sebastian Bach
59. Audrey Hepburn
60. Ludwig Van Beethoven
61. Adolf Hitler
62. Benito Mussolini
63. Sadam Hussein
64. Guglielmo II di Prussia
65.
66. Cesar Chavez
67.
68.
69. Joseph Stalin
70. Leonardo Da Vinci
71. Karl Marx
72. Vyacheslav Molotov
73. Abraham Lincoln
74. Kim Jong Ill
75. Charlie Chaplin
76. Henry Ford
77.
78.
79. Sigmund Freud
80.
81. Chiang Kai Shek
82. Queen Elizabeth II
83. Leo Tolstoy
84. Li Bai
85. Robert Edwards
86.
87.
88. Michael Jordan
89. Hideki Tojo
90. Michelangelo
91.
92. Mike Tyson
93. Vladimir Putin
94. Lewis Caroll
95. Shirley Temple
96. Albert Einstein
97. Noah
98.
99. Ghandi
100. Vincent Van Gogh
101. Toulouse Lautrec
102. Pablo Picasso
My guesses are similar to the ones above, but there are some differences.
Did you know that there are 103 images on this poster ??
PLEASE can ANYONE name the painter, or tell us at least who it was, and the date painted. I think it likely is fairly recent.
Anon. March 7. 2009. 2.55pm
no 72 is NOT Molotov, it is one ogf the Wright Brothers! Wilbur i think;
no66 is Deng Xioa Ping (sorry Spelling, former president of china);
70. is NOT DaVincio – it is the philospher Aristotle.
42 – feel this is Pablo Picasso;
102 – does not look like Picasso at all, fairly certin this is Gearges Braque, the Cubist painter;
11 is Henri Matisse
31 is Guan Yu! He was a warrior in ancient China trying to restore the Han Dynasty. He famously chopped off one of the so called greatest warriors of the times head and paraded home with it. He also had a red haired horse,
No 45 is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Incredible painting. A hi-rez version complete with clickable Wikipedia links is here:
Just a friendly comment about some of the answers published so far.
1If this is Bill Gates it is a very heavy set BG. I think this one should be rethought.
2. This could be Socrates – but the portraits of him make him seem a bit less noble in appearance than this. The hairline is Socratic – but not the reast of the face.
7. Surely the armor marks an earlier period than the Romanovs.
18. Not Charlton Heston – out by a lot of centuries.
33. A president – but not of the USA.
34. Why is everyone saying this is Ulysses S Grant? It looks nothing like the pictures of him. What is the connection between Grant and a trumpet?
38. One of the beat poets!
41. Not Spielberg (maybe) or George Carlin– something to do with milk!
42 Just say Picasso.
45 I think there is a Mark Twain in this painting, but this is not him. Try a German Philosopher.
50. I don’t know 50 –but this character looks like a bit of a rustic – sneakers too. does this fit in with Sharon?
55. This does not look like one of the King family. The key around the neck could even be St Peter. But more likely a representative of one of the orthodox churches.
58. Maybe JS Bach –but it would have to be a poor rendition!
64 Major North American author
66. S.E Asia –mass murderer.
70. Some dispute this is Leonardo – you can see a sketch of the Vitruvian man on the cover of the book.
72 Another German philopher – not Molotov.
74. Chinese – not Korean.
76 Is this Henry Ford as claimed ? I tended to think this with the cars running around. But it is only a partial match visually.
79. This can’t be Freud – he would not dress like this, and he is too heavily set. No glasses either. But I don’t know who! I would love to know both the people sitting at this table. The other is not Truman
is it?
80. Robert Edwards?
83 Is a Russian – but not Tolstoy. Someone with opposite morals to Tolstoy.
90 Michelangelo?? – I don’t think they dressed like this in the renaissance.
My positve contribution? I think 45 is Hegel.
Just a few comments on some of the answers so far:
1. If this is Bill Gates it is a very heavy set BG. I think this one should be rethought.
2. This could be Socrates – but the portraits of him make him seem a bit less noble in appearance than this. The hairline is Socratic – but not the reast of the face.
7. Surely the armor marks an earlier period than the Romanovs.
18. Not Charlton Heston – out by a lot of centuries.
33. A president – but not of the USA.
34. Why is everyone saying this is Ulysses S Grant? It looks nothing like the pictures of him. What is the connection between Grant and a trumpet?
38. One of the beats!
41. Not Spielberg or George Carlin– something to do with milk!
42 Just say Picasso.
45 I think there is a Mark Twain in this painting, but this is not him. Try a German Philosopher.
50. I don’t know 50 –but this character looks like a bit of a rustic – sneakers too. Does this fit in with Sharon?
55. This does not look like one of the King family. The key around the neck could even be St Peter. But more likely a representative of one of the orthodox churches.
58. Maybe JS Bach –but it would have to be a poor rendition!
64 Major North American author
66. S.E Asia –mass murderer.
70. Some dispute this is Leonardo – you can see a sketch of the Vitruvian man on the cover of the book.
72 Another German philopher – not Molotov.
74. Chinese – not Korean.
76 Is this Henry Ford as claimed ? I tended to think this with the cars running around. But it is only a partial match.
79. This can’t be Freud – he would not dress like this, and he is too heavily set. No glasses either. But I don’t know who!
80. Robert Edwards?
83 Is a Russian – but not Tolstoy. Someone with opposite morals to Tolstoy.
90 Michelangelo – I don’t think they dressed like this in the renaissance.
I found Rabindra nath tagore, coffee anan, mahatma gandhi, mother theressa, and so on.
If you know others, pls. inform name with numbers, because most of us do not know most of the people in this picture.
Pls. help us.
I found-
Karl Marx
hitler
Saddam Hussein
Charlie Chaplain
Bruce Lee
Piccaso
Yasser Arrafat
Osama Bin Laden
Magaret Thatcher
Confucius
Albert Einstein
Lenin
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Chruchill
Bill Clinton
Ghengis Khan
Ghandi
Prince Charles
Queen Elizabeth II
Henry Tudor
Mother Theresa
Julius Caesar
Jesse Owens
The Israelites leaving Egypt
Mao
Stalin
Vladimir Putin
William Shakespeare
Napoleon Boneparte
Nelson Mandela
Aristotle/Socrates/Archimedes
Beethoven
Bach
Marilyn Monroe
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Mohammed Ali (?)
Trotsky
Che Guevra
Just to get this straight, #31 is Guan Yu, NOT Kublai Khan. Trust me. It’s a much better match.
No one appears to have mentioned:
#87 Dwight David Eisenhower,
#66 Ferdinand Marcos
I read quite a few of the comments and wondered if no one else but me recognised Guan Yu… One of the most famous caharacter from China’s Three Kingdoms period.
How come nobody mentioned 44? It’s clearly Zhou Enlai.
1.Oscar wilde
2. Aristotel
4. Lenin
6. Bill Clinton
8. M. Tatcher
9. Bruce Lee
10. Winston Churcill
12. Jingis Kahn
13. Napoleon Bonaparte
14. Che Guevara
15. Fidel Castro
16. Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone
17. Yaaser Araffat
18. Julius Cezar
20. Luciano Pavarotti
21. G.W. Bush
22. Prince Charles
28. DAnte Alighieri
30. Pele
32. Ramses II
36. Ernest Hemingway
37. Elvis Prisley
39. William Shakespeare
40. Wolfgana Amadeus Mozart
47. Marilyn Monroe
48. Salvador Dali
53. Mother Theresa
55. St. Peter
58. Johan Sebastian Bach
59. Audrey Hepburn
60. Ludwig van Beethoven
61. Adolf Hitler
63. Saddam Hussein
64. Giuseppe Garibaldi
69. Staljin
70. Leonardo da Vinci
71. Marx
72. Engels
73. Abraham Lincoln
75. Charlie Chaplin
82. Queen Elizabeth
83. Lav Tolstoj
88. Michael Jordan
90. Moses
92. Mike Tyson
93. Vladimir Putin
94. La Fontaine
95. Shirley Temple
96. Albert Einstein
97. Abraham
98. Confucius (?)
99. Mahatma Gandhi
101. Touluse Lautrec
102. Pablo Picasso
a young ben franklin is on far right of picture, believe that james dean, mandella, & eisenhower are in pic, also…very interesting and good for the mind…
that is so not Martin Luther King snr.
that is Rabindranath Tagore.
well over no.20 and 21 there is a person behind a hole herd of ppl…
he looks like bin laden doesnt he?
but on the other hand there is a woman besides him…
i guess its joseph with maria jesus’ parents. and there are 103 faces.. 104people in this one..
Let’s not forget the famous sheep Daisy (from the Woody Allen movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068555) and Dolly the clone :-)
hitler
einstein
muammed ali
abraham linclon
alexander the great?
i think everyone on here is stupid and ignrant and does not have correct information!
My guess…
66 Deng Xiao Peng
74 Mao Tze Tung
31 Guang Gong (Guan Yu)
1 Bill Gates
2 Plato
3 Cui Jian
4 Vladimir Lenin
5 Pavel Korchagin
6 Bill Clinton
7 Peter the Great (Romanov)
8 Margaret Thatcher
9 Bruce Lee
10 Winston Churchill
11 Henri Matisse
12 Gengis Khan
13 Napoleone Bonaparte
14 Che Guevare
15 Fidel Castro
16 Marlon Brando
17 Yasser Arafat
18 Julius Ceasar
19 Gen Claire Lee Chennault
20 Luciano Pavarotti
21 George W. Bush
22 Prince Charles
23 Liu Xiang
24 Kofi Annan
25 Michail Gorbaciov
26 Song Qingling
27 Otto Von Bismark
28 Li Tiezi (1 of the artists) (balcony)
29 Dai Dudu (1 of the artists) (balcony)
30 Dante
31 Zang an (1 of the artists) (balcony)
32 Pele
33 Guan Yu
34 Ramesses II
35 Charles de Gualle
36 Alfred Nobel
37 Franklin D Roosevelt
38 Hemmingway
39 Elvis
40 J. Robert Oppenheimer
41 William Shakespeare
42 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
43 Steven Spielberg
44 Pablo Picasso
45 Abraham Lincon
46 Julius Caesar
47 Zhou Enlai
48 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
49 Lao tzu
50 Marilyn Monroe
51 Salvador Dalí
52 Empress Dowager Cixi
53 Ariel Sharon
54 Qi Baishi
55 Qin Shi Huang
56 Mother Teresa
57 Saint Peter
58 Shaw Ren Leng
59 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
60 Audrey Hepburn
61 Ludwig van Beethoven
62 Adolf Hitler
63 Benito Mussolini
64 Saddam Hussein
65 Maxim Gorky
66 Sun Yat-sen
67 Deng Xiaoping
68 Alexander Pushkin
69 Lu Xun
70 Joseph Stalin
71 Leonardo da Vinci
72 Karl Marx
73 Friedrich Nietzsche
74 Mao Zedong
75 Charlie Chaplin
76 Henry Ford
77 Lei Feng
78 Jonas Salk
79 Sigmund Freud
80 Jack Kevorkian
81 Chiang Kai Shek
82 Queen Elizabeth II
83 Leo Tolstoy
84 Li Bai
85 Mike Tyson
86 Vladimir Putin
87 Lewis Carroll
88 Shirley Temple
89 Albert Einstein
90 Charles Darwin
91 Confucius
92 Corneliu Baba
93 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
94 Michelangelo
95 Dwight D. Eisenhower
96 Vincent van Gogh
97 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
98 Marcel Duchamp
99 Michael Jordan
100 Hideki Tōjō
101 Aristotle
102 Liu Bei
103 Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948
104 Osama bin Laden
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