World Famous People Tagged & Identified
November 27, 2007 | 6:01 pmI saw this picture on a couple of blogs (first here, then here), so i tried to identify some of the characters portrayed. So i decided to tag them and see if i can identify them with the help of the community. Here is a scaled down version of the picture, click it to see it full scale (~750 KB in size). The original untagged picture can be found here. High resolution versions of the original picture here and here (thanks Isam). Qwaider also applied the numbered tags to the higher resolution version, many thanks!
A hi-res tagged version can be found here. (~1.1 MB)
Here is a list of the people that i have figured out so far, if you know of more, please let me know and i will add them to this list.
| The list of who’s who … well at least in the picture above | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1: Jacques Verges | 2: Dante Allghieri | 3: Deng Xiaoping? | 4: Mother Teresa |
| 5: Yul Brynner? | 6: Mikhail Gorbachev | 7: Ferdinand Marcos? | 8: Kofi Annan |
| 9: Liu Xiang** | 10: Prince Charles | 11: Empress Dowager Cixi | 12: Osama Bin Laden |
| 13: George W. Bush? | 14: Luciano Pavarotti | 15: Salvador Dali?* | 16: Gregory Peck? / John Wayne? |
| 17: Spartacus? / Julius Caesar?* | 18: Yasser Arafat | 19: Marilyn Monroe | 20: Marlon Brando |
| 21: Fidel Castro | 22: Laozi* | 23: Chi Guevara | 24: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| 25: Zhou Enlai | 26: Napoléon Bonaparte | 27: Mao Zedong | 28: |
| 29: Abraham Lincoln | 30: Genghis Khan | 31: Pablo Picasso | 32: Steven Spielberg?* |
| 33: Friedrich Nietzsche | 34: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 35: Karl Marx | 36: William Shakespeare |
| 37: Leonardo da Vinci* | 38: Robert Oppenheimer | 39: Henri Matisse? | 40: Joseph Stalin |
| 41: Elvis Presley | 42: Franklin D. Roosevelt* / Jorge Luis Borges | 43: Winston Churchill | 44: Bruce Lee |
| 45: James Garfield? | 46: Margert Thatcher* | 47: Peter the Great?* | 48: Charles de Gaulle |
| 49: Bill Clinton | 50: Maxim Gorky* | 51: Lin Biao | 52: Solomon? |
| 53: Vladimir Lenin | 54: Guan Yu | 55: Cui Jian | 56: Aristotle / Plato?** / Homer / Socrates |
| 57: | 58: Pelé | 59: Adolf Hitler | 60: Saddam Hussein |
| 61: Ludwig van Beethoven | 62: Audrey Hepburn | 63: Benito Mussolini | 64: Rudyard Kipling? |
| 65: Lei Feng* | 66: Henry Ford* | 67: Charlie Chaplin | 68: Ernest Hemingway?* |
| 69: Sun Yat-sen** | 70: Deng Xiaoping? | 71: Sigmund Freud | 72: Mike Tyson |
| 73: B. F. Skinner* | 74: Chiang Kai-shek* | 75: | 76: Vladimir Putin |
| 77: Lu Xun?* | 78: Lewis Carroll* / Hans Christian Andersen | 79: Queen Elizabeth II | 80: Shirley Temple |
| 81: Charles Darwin?* / Leo Tolstoy | 82: Albert Einstein | 83: Li Bai / Mozi* | 84: Moses** |
| 85: Confucius?* | 86: | 87: Mahatma Gandhi | 88: Claude Monet? |
| 89: Dwight Eisenhower?* / Thomas Lipton? | 90: Vincent van Gogh | 91: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | 92: Marcel Duchamp |
| 93: Michael Jordan | 94: Ariel Sharon | 95: Hideki Tojo* | 96: |
| 97: Yue Fei* | 98: | 99: Qin Shi Huang?* | 100: Run Run Shaw? |
| 101: Samuel Adams? | 102: Rabindranath Tagore / Saint Peter?* | 103: Otto von Bismarck* / Moltke the Younger? | 104: Jacob |
| Names with question marks? need further verification | |||
| Coloured stars* denote supporting people | |||
If you recognize somebody that is not included in the table above, or if you believe there is a mistake somewhere, please leave me a comment, and i will add him/her to the list. … tell your friends to jump in on that too 
Acknowledgements
► By Hayfa, many thanks.
► By Dave, many thanks.
► By Bettina, many thanks.
► By Isam, many thanks.
► By BamBam, many thanks.
► By Ola, many thanks.
► By Upendra Samaranayake, many thanks.
► By Qwaider قويدر, many thanks.
► By Fred Chan, many thanks.
► By Burak, many thanks.
► By Egl, many thanks.
► By Fez, many thanks.
► By Shaughn, many thanks.
► By Pamela, many thanks.
► By Eliana, many thanks.
► By WhtFalcon, many thanks.
► By Dave (July 21 2008), many thanks.
Roba
On November 27, 2007 | 6:08 pmWow, great effort with the tagging!!!
za3tar
On November 27, 2007 | 6:13 pmRoba: haha … thanks, that took alot of time and clicking
Haitham Sabbah
On November 27, 2007 | 7:51 pmMy God! How many hours did you spend doing this tagging
Good job. Ping me if you get all tagged.
All the best!
هيفاء
On November 27, 2007 | 8:18 pm٢- يوليوس قيصر
٤- الأم تيريزا؟
١٠- الأمير تشارلز
١٤- لوتشيانو بافاروتي
٤٠- جوزف ستالين
٤٦- مارغريت تاتشر
٦٢- اودري هيبورن
٨٠- شيرلي تيمبل
هذا اللي طلع معي الحين .. الإستخراج كان مسلّي جداً ! شكراً عالترقيم ..
za3tar
On November 27, 2007 | 9:10 pmHaitham: :-)… many many hours. Hopefully it will be worth it. Help me out, add a few of the missing names if you can
Hayfa: Thank you for your help. Stalin was there already, and although the lady on #46 looks like Thatcher to me as well, but i don’t know why is she carrying an American flag (not that i know much about her history
). The rest of your list is up on the page now, thanks.
Dandooneh
On November 27, 2007 | 10:14 pmcorrection (87) Mahatma Ghandi .. , (27) maw-tsi tong
Dave
On November 27, 2007 | 10:36 pm6. Mikhail Gorbachev
17. Spartacus (as played by Michael Douglas)
22. Confucius?
30. Genghis Khan?
35. Karl Marx
36. Leonardo da Vinci
50. Mark Twain
54. Genghis Khan?
56. Aristotle
63. Benito Mussolini?
84. Moses?
90. Vincent van Gogh?
92. Pablo Picasso?
za3tar
On November 27, 2007 | 11:18 pmDandooneh: Thank you for your suggestions. Mahatma Gandhi’s first name was actually Mohandas, but i have changed that as you suggested, thanks. As for Mao Zedong (maw-tsi tong), i was searching for the latter spelling, but Wikipedia led me to believe that the former spelling is the agreed upon one.
Dave: Thank you! I am not too sure about the depictions of Confucius, Moses, and Mussolini. (Can somebody clarify that please). However, i have added the rest.
*bettina
On November 28, 2007 | 2:14 am24 is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe! the famous german poet, how could you not recognise him ;)?
http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=de-de&q=goethe&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
za3tar
On November 28, 2007 | 3:46 amDanke schön Bettina!
I guess i have to brush up on my German lit. ;-).
sami
On November 28, 2007 | 3:50 am9. Yao Ming
Isam
On November 28, 2007 | 11:18 amam not gonna suggest any names now … but these is a higher res picture here …
http://funtasticus.com//ups/2007/11/1.jpg
it can make things alot easier … i wish u found it before the tagging … and u missed a couple of faces here and there … am gonna try to find the origin of this picture … wish me luck
Isam
On November 28, 2007 | 1:59 pmthat is what i have until now … am gonna crack this for sure …
15 - Salvadore Dali
33 - Friedrich Nietzsche
38 - Robert J. Oppenheimer
43 - Winston Churchel
48 - Charles De Gaulle
57 - Bill Gates (how could anyone miss him ?)
71 - Sigmund Frued
73 - Yitzhak Rabin
correction : am gonna crack this without the far-east-asian people … they all look the same to me …
I’ll be back …
bambam
On November 28, 2007 | 3:08 pm1: jacques verges
2:Dante Alighieri not julius
3: deng xiapong
9: Liu Xiang
11:Empress Dowager Cixi
13:dubya in a women’s dress holding a scope ?
15:jacques clouseau
17: Julius Ceaser
22:Confucius
25:Hua guofeng
30:Genghis Khan
31: picasso
32:steven speilberg
38:Robert J. Oppenheimer
42:Franklin D. Roosevelt
45: Robert E. Lee
48: Charles De Gaulle
50:Wyatt Erp
52:solomon (animals and the thrown)
54:guan yun Chang
56:plato
62: Audrey Hepburn
63:Benito Mussolini
64:Gregor Mendal?
65:Lei Feng
68: ernest hemingway
69:Sun Yat-sen
71:Sigmund Freud
73:B.F Skinner?
76:Vladimir Putin
78:Harry Houdini or Lewis Carrol ?
77:Mark Twain
81:Charles Darwin ??
83:Mozi ???
84:Moses
85:Confucius
86:Rembrandt??
89:Dwight D. Eisenhower??
91:Toulouse-Lautrec ?
92:pablo picasso
95:Hideki Tojo
96:Michaelangelo
97:Yue Fei??
99:emperor Qin
101:Thomas Jefferson?
102:saint peter (the key around his neck)
103:oto von Bismarck
Dammit i need to get a life !
oh well and yeah thats not exactly off the top of my head …
Isam
On November 28, 2007 | 3:37 pm75 - Benjamin Disraeli
68 - Ernest Hemingway
66 - Henry Ford ??
103 - Bismark ?? Moltke the Younger ??
47 - Peter The Great
37 - Leo Tolstoy
84 - Moses
95 - Hideki Tojo
2 - Dante Alighieri (Not Ceaser)
25 - Zhou Enlai
11 - Empress Cixi
54 - Guan Yu
more to come … but tommorow maybe …
7ala
On November 28, 2007 | 4:01 pmAna khalas ba6alt ajamme3 :S
Wallah enak fazee3
ohoud
On November 28, 2007 | 5:56 pmAmazing effort:)
84: Sharon
p.s: I couldn’t disassociate your name with za3tara, the most horrible checkpoint of Nablus. Sorry!
ohoud
On November 28, 2007 | 6:12 pmooops its 94 and already known. al3atab 3al nazar:)
za3tar
On November 28, 2007 | 6:39 pmSami: Thanks!
Isam: Thanks alot for the high-res link (i’ve put it up in the first paragraph), and thanks for your identifications. I have added what i could verify.
bambam: Wow, that is one big list :-). Thanks for the help, i have added what i could verify (reasonably
).
Isam and Bambam, i wonder how you two know all these people. That is quite amazing!
7ala: hahaha salamtik :-). If looking at this picture makes you perplexed, imagine drawing all these arrows in a (hopefully) semi-decent way ;-p.
Ohoud: lah lah lah, salamit nazarik
i figured you meant #94, thanks!. As for Za3tara Checkpoint, i am pleased to tell you that nowadays Howara Checkpoint is 10x more horrible than za3tara :-(.
Maioush
On November 28, 2007 | 10:47 pmOH WOW!!! amazing effort..
how many hours (or days) did it take you to finish that??
and yeah, how can Isam and bambam recognize all these people??
ya3teek el 3afyeh, fazee3
za3tar
On November 28, 2007 | 11:02 pmMaioush:
Thanks! Finding the picture was easy (although i would love to claim that too :-p). The tagging took many hours (3~5) … i definitely had more important stuff to do … but you know …. i think i have a bit of 5aleely genes in me ;-).
Now we’re much closer … just need the remaining figures identified.
Anon
On November 29, 2007 | 6:43 amwait… isn’t 63: Hamid Karzai?
Ola
On November 29, 2007 | 9:24 amGreat job! I searched the net for a tagged version and there you go
Notice the figure under Lenin’s stretched arm, is that a face? And there’s a woman beside Bin Laden
I’m not sure of those but 96 could be Plato, and 5 looks liek one of the Wright brothers
Ola
On November 29, 2007 | 9:37 amlol after seeing hte high resolution picture I realized I was mistaken about the face
Ola
On November 29, 2007 | 9:56 am66 = Henry Ford
Isam
On November 29, 2007 | 12:24 pmthat is what i discovered today
47 - Peter The Great
74 - Chiang Kai-Shek (sorry i mixed 47 with 74 yesterday)
99 - Qin Shi-Hunag
89 - Dwight Eisenhower
9 - Xiang Liu
50 - Maxim Gorky
22 - Lao Zi
69 - Sun Yat-Sen
85 - Confucius
7 - Pol Pot ??
3 - Deng Xiaoping ??
65 - Lei Feng
25 - Zhoy En Lai
97 - Yue Fei
77 - Lu Xun
for those who are wondering … i am getting some help from other forums … but alot of Marxist and Communist leaders are there … and i happen to know my share about that part of history …
will continue on Saturday … am taking tommorow off
La chicharra
On November 29, 2007 | 7:38 pmI don’t see Jesus on this picture…how come he’s not here?
za3tar
On November 29, 2007 | 9:24 pmAnon: Thanks, but i think Hamid Karzai would have been depicted with a beard.
Ola: Thank you. As for the woman next to Bin Laden, she has been depicted with her back to the picture, along with many a row of faceless people. So i thought it would be hard to recognize her, so i did not tag her. But, I have added Henry Ford up there. Thanks
Isam: Thanks again for this nice list. I see you have your Marxist/Communist history down right :-). I have added most of the people from your list. There were a few that i could not verify (Pol Pot for example) since i could not find close-matching pictures online.
La Chicharra: Yeah, the painter/creator’s selection of figures is a bit weird. There are many people who should have been up there but aren’t, and there are many others that are in the picture but i don’t know why he/she added them.
Bashar
On November 29, 2007 | 10:24 pmnumber 70 is Pol Pot
za3tar
On December 1, 2007 | 1:22 pmBashar: hmm … #70 doesn’t seem to resemble the pictures i found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot and here: http://images.google.com/images?q=pol+pot&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi . Do you have any other pictures that look closer to him ? The depiction above shows #70 with a receding hairline, but Pol Pot’s pictures show him with a full head of hair.
Dana
On December 2, 2007 | 5:29 amwow.
you are so unbelievably neat.
Who made this anyways (the collage)?
za3tar
On December 2, 2007 | 10:24 amDana: hahaha … thanks! Yeah i spent extra effort to try and minimize the number of lines crossing, and such
(OCD ? .. hope not 
).
I don’t know who made the original picture. Actually that was the primary reason for doing this tagging. I could not find any good info about this on the web, so i figured the community will be able to help :-).
Titus
On December 4, 2007 | 6:50 pmCould you tag the high resolution picture? Pretty please?
http://funtasticus.com//ups/2007/11/1.jpg
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 5, 2007 | 2:00 amWhat I have so far:
1.Jacques Verges
2.Dante Alighieri
3.Deng Xiaoping
4.Mother Theresa
5.Prince Mongkut?
6.Mikhail Gorbachev
7.
8.Kofi Annan
9.
10.Prince Charles
11.Empress Dowager Cixi
12.Osama Bin Laden
13.George W. Bush
14.Luciano Pavrotti
15.Salvador Dali
16.
17.Julius Ceasar
18.Yasser Arafat
19.Marilyn Monroe
20.Marlon Brando
21.Fidel Castro
22.Laozi?
23.Che Guevara
24.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25.Zhou En Lai
26.Napoleon Bonaparte
27.Mao Zedong
28.
29.Abraham Lincoln
30.Genghis Khan
31.Pablo Picasso
32.Steven Speilberg
33.Frederick Nietzsche
34.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
35.Karl Marx
36.William Shakespeare
37.
38.Robert Oppenheimer
39.
40.Josef Stalin
41.Elvis Presley
42.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
43.Winston Churchill
44.Bruce Lee
45.
46.Margert Thatcher
47.Peter the Great
48.Charles De Gaulle
49.Bill Clinton
50.Albert Schweitzer
51.
52.
53.Vladimir Lenin
54.Guan Yu
55.
56.
57.Bill Clinton
58.Pele
59.Adolf Hitler
60.Saddam Hussein
61.Ludwig Beethoven
62.Audrey Hepburn
63.Benito Mussolini
64.
65.Lei Feng
66.Henry Ford
67.Charlie Chaplin
68.Ernest Hemingway
69.Sun Yat-sen
70.
71.Sigmund Freud
72.Mike Tyson
73.B. F. Skinner
74.Chiang Kai-shek
75.Benjamin Disraeli
76.Vladimir Putin
77.
78.Lewis Carroll
79.Queen Elizabeth the Second
80.Shirley Temple
81.Charles Darwin?
82.Albert Einstein
83.Mozi
84.Moses
85.Confucius
86.Rembrandt van Rijn
87.Mohandes Gandhi
88.Leonardo De Vinci
89.Dwight Eisenhower
90.Vincent Van Gogh
91.Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
92.
93.Michael Jordan
94.
95.Hideki Tojo
96.Michelangelo
97.
98.
99.Qin Shi Huang
100.
101.
102.Saint Peter
103.Otto Von Bismarck
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 5, 2007 | 2:03 am37 is Leonardo Da Vinci not Leo Tolstoy.
And 50 is Albert Schweitzer not Mark Twain.
42 is Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 5, 2007 | 2:18 am7. Ferdinand Marcos
9. Liu Ziang (9.88 was his record)
za3tar
On December 5, 2007 | 12:49 pmTitus: Although it would be better to have the higher resolution image tagged, but we are almost done with identifying these figures. So unfortunately it is not worth it at this point.
Upendra: Wow !! that is pretty amazing! Thanks for the input. I have added most of your input. Some of the names you mentioned were mentioned before but might not have been added on the grid. So i attributed them to the first contributor and added you as a star. … anyway, thanks again!
bambam
On December 5, 2007 | 7:47 pmsome say 92: is Georges Braque
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 5, 2007 | 10:07 pmYeah, an art teacher I asked said 92 could be Georges Braque
She also said that 86 couldn’t be Rembrandt because of the glasses and that 88 is Michaelangelo (Renaissance hat)
96 is probably a biblical figure
5 could be Yul Brynner in “King and I”
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 5, 2007 | 10:09 pm16 is Woodrow Wilson
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 5, 2007 | 10:17 pm51 - Attila the Hun?
101 - Samuel Adams?
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 5, 2007 | 10:23 pm70 - Pol Pot
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa230/HumanFrailty/PolPot.jpg
za3tar
On December 5, 2007 | 11:27 pmBambam: Thanks again. I have added Georges Barque to the list.
Upendra: Thanks again. I have made the changes to Michelangelo, Yul Brynner, and Samuel Adams. However, i couldn’t find a Woodrow Wilson picture that resembled #16. Most of Attila the Hun’s depictions were bearded, #51 isn’t. Similarly, #70 doesn’t look alot like Pol Pot in terms of facial expressions, hair style, and clothing style. Do you have a better picture ?
Ather
On December 6, 2007 | 8:55 am58: Pele
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 7, 2007 | 10:11 am39: Henri Matisse
92: Marcel Duchamp
http://www.chess-theory.com/images1/70107_duchamp_bride_mariee.jpg
101: JJ Rousseau
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 7, 2007 | 10:17 am89: Thomas Lipton, note the beard and tea cup
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 7, 2007 | 10:27 am88: Claude Monet
81: Leo Tolstoy
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 7, 2007 | 10:33 am64: Rudyard Kipling
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 7, 2007 | 10:37 am102: Rabindranath Tagore
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 7, 2007 | 10:45 am70 is Deng Xiaoping
3 is a woman
za3tar
On December 7, 2007 | 3:23 pmAther: Thanks for your input. He has been identified.
Upendra: Thanks! Duchamp’s painting was definitely a key. Thank you for the identification
#39 is wearing clothes that are outdated for Matisse’s time. Also, i am not too sure about JJ Rousseau. #64’s moustache is thinner than that of Rudyard Kipling. You are right, #3 could be a woman, so i added Xiaoping for #70 as well. Thanks again.
Keep up the good work
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 8, 2007 | 3:42 amGoing back to Isam,
50: Maxim Gorky http://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/gorky.jpg
77: Lu Xun http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/~sma/images/print/radicalism/liyitai.jpg
And:
88: Claude Monet http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=67887&rendTypeId=4
http://www.nndb.com/people/807/000029720/monet2.jpg
39 looks very much like Henri Matisse I think. I’m not quite sure why he is wearing a medieval-esque costime.
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 8, 2007 | 3:45 am45 could be James Garfield http://www.nndb.com/people/434/000026356/biggarf.jpg
Upendra Samaranayake
On December 8, 2007 | 3:54 am56: Plato (on the left) http://digitalphilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/sanzio_01_plato_aristotle.jpg
za3tar
On December 8, 2007 | 10:26 amUpendra: Thanks for another great input, and thanks alot for including these links, they were definitely helpful. I have added/corrected the figures above according to your feedback. I personally still want to verify Lu Xun and Matisse a bit more (specially Lu Xun), but they seem to have good resemblance of the depictions above.
On a general note: i have removed #57’s identification (formerly Bill Gates) since the figure above does not seem to be wearing something that Bill Gates would be. Also, the facial expressions are not very close to those of Bill Gates.
D
On December 11, 2007 | 6:59 am70 looks a lot more like Deng Xiaoping than 3.
Qwaider قويدر
On December 12, 2007 | 8:41 pmOH MY GOD … This is such an AMAAAAAZING effort!
Za3tar, this is REALLY awesome! Bravo! And everyone else who participated, jad jad .. well done!
Can’t wait to see the whole complete thing! This is a Masterpiece!
Qwaider قويدر
On December 12, 2007 | 11:53 pmThere is one more guy next to #12. I think that is Jacob, sending his sons to Egypt
Anyway, I added your numbering on top of the hi resolution picture. You can download it here
I Hope you like it
za3tar
On December 13, 2007 | 12:30 amD: Thanks, i will double check that again.
Qwaider: Thank you very much. Yeah it is amazing what you can accomplish collaboratively with the community.
Regarding the figure next to #12, yeah i noticed that, but since its face was not visible, i thought it did not have any significance in this picture (specially since it was followed by many faceless bodies). I read some more about Jacob on Wikipedia and it states that Jacob had 12 sons who were sent to Egypt. The picture above shows more than 12 people heading towards the pyramids. Do you have some more supporting information for tagging that figure as Jacob ?
Also, thanks alot for moving the numbers to the hi-res pictures. How in the world did you do that ? that must have been painful
. Thanks alot, i have put up a link for it in the post.
Qwaider قويدر
On December 13, 2007 | 3:15 amImagine, if Jacob had 12 sons, how many each one of them had?
They go from east to west (same as in the picture) from Palestine to Egypt through the desert. And he stay behind
So he’s saying prayers while the caravan leaves
Oh and during that time, Polygamy was allowed and so was slavery (so he had 2 wives and two concubines resulting in 12 male sons, the 12 tribes of Israel and countless grandchildren and daughters)
Anyway, Awesome effort man… seriously
za3tar
On December 13, 2007 | 12:36 pmQwaider: thanks for this great explanation. I have changed the lo-res and the hi-res tagged pictures to include a #104, and i have add Jacob to the list at that number. Thanks again.
Fred Chan
On December 14, 2007 | 3:22 pmNo 97 could be Yue Fei who has has evolved into the standard model of loyalty in Chinese culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_Fei or he could be Zheng He , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He , http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0507/feature2/index.html . Once you read his achievements as logged by the Chinese history books you will realise that Chrisopher Columbus deserve a second place to this man but he is virtually unknown in western history and his name is never in school text books in the west.
Fred Chan
On December 14, 2007 | 3:28 pmNo 100 is Run Run Shaw http://www.china.org.cn/english/entertainment/226850.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Run_Shaw
Fred Chan
On December 14, 2007 | 7:04 pmNo 5. is Chow Yun Fat, far most famous than Yul Brynner http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/6104/Events/6104/ChowYunF_Steve_14049197_400.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Chow,%20Yun-Fat
Fred Chan
On December 14, 2007 | 9:05 pmNo 4 is as stated ealier is Mother Teresa or Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu , Albanian by birth. Here is the image of her that looks like her in the art work http://www.ascension-research.org/teresa.html
Fred Chan
On December 14, 2007 | 11:22 pmCorrection of above : Liu Xiang the numbers 12.88 on the shirt means: Liu set a new world record in the 110 metre hurdles, at the Super Grand Prix in Lausanne on July 11, 2006, with a time of 12.88 seconds .
za3tar
On December 16, 2007 | 10:42 amFred Chan: Thanks for your many helpful comments
.
I think #97 is more fitted for Yue Fei than Zheng He, since the latter is known more as being a diplomat and explorer rather than a fighter as Yue Fei. I have added Run Run Shaw to the list, however, would you happen to know of a picture of him at a younger age, i couldn’t find any.
As for #5, i think it is more fitted for Yul Brynner since he is known for his shaved head.
You are right about Mother Teresa and Liu Xiang’s world record.
Thanks again.
burak
On December 16, 2007 | 12:50 pmI think 56 is much like Homeros not Aristotle
egl
On December 17, 2007 | 2:21 pm55: Cui Jian (chinese rock star)
za3tar
On December 17, 2007 | 7:12 pmBurak: Thanks, that figure does look like Homer (Homeros) as well, i have added that name to the list.
Egl: Thanks, i have added Cui Jian to the list. Good Guess
Sjarel
On December 20, 2007 | 1:27 amThis painting has been around quite some time now; How come I can’t find a complete list yet ? Wasn’t that published when the painting was originally published on the Internet and does anyone know whare it originated from ?
za3tar
On December 20, 2007 | 11:19 amSjarel: Yeah i heard that this has been circulating in the internet for a while, however i could not find info about its creator and/or the people in it. Anyway, that is why i did the tagging, and it seems to have been very successful with the contributions of the community (thanks)
Fez
On January 6, 2008 | 9:00 am42 is not Franklin D. Roosevelt, but actually Jorge Luis Borges, a famous Argentine writer.
za3tar
On January 8, 2008 | 4:55 pmThanks Fez, you are right. #42 does look like Borges, i have added him to the list.
Umer
On January 13, 2008 | 12:18 pm57: Bill Gates
33: Allama Muhammad Iqbal
za3tar
On January 15, 2008 | 2:05 amUmer: Thanks for your suggestions. But it seems that #33 is closer to Friedrich Nietzsche than to Muhammad Iqbal. Do you have any picture of Iqbal that looks closer to this depiction ?
Naghme
On January 25, 2008 | 9:48 am28 could be Marie Curie.
za3tar
On January 27, 2008 | 8:48 amNaghme: Thanks. I think that the tray that person is holding should be a clue. But i can’t tell exactly what it is.
Jonesy1908
On February 10, 2008 | 6:46 am57-Bill Gates
45-Ulsyess S. Grant
Jonesy1908
On February 10, 2008 | 6:49 amand i believe that 88 is not Monet but Johannes Gutenberg
Shaughn
On March 13, 2008 | 8:47 pmWow. I can’t believe how much discussion you have going on here. Very nice.
I can provide a little insight about the background of this picture.
In late September/early October of last year, two of my students from China brought in this picture on a laptop. We spent the entire class discussing it, fun times indeed. We were able to get almost everyone.
It’s important to note that the author of this piece, whomever it may be, is Chinese. This is hinted by the image of Hideki Tojo (94) kneeling prone in front of Qin Shi Huang (95), and the positioning of Li Bai (83) at the center (drunk on liquor, with his poems nearby), as well as a few other details that I have since forgotten.
Also, if it were an Western artist, there would be less Asians and more women
Whatever the original site or source, we need Mandarin script in order to search for it : /
Good luck!
Shaughn
On March 13, 2008 | 8:49 pm*correction*
Qin Shi Huang (99), not (95)
za3tar
On March 16, 2008 | 8:45 amJonesy1908: Thanks for the suggestions. I don’t suppose that #57 is bill gates, but i will check #45 for Ulysses S. Grant.
Shaughn, thanks. I think you’re justification is valid. It seems that the author of this piece is of oriental origins based on the figures put here. I have added Li Bai at #83. Thanks.
Pamela
On March 23, 2008 | 11:56 pm64 Rudyard Kipling?
Pamela
On March 25, 2008 | 7:35 pm51 - Lin Piao / Lin Biao ?
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1966/1101660909_400.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Biao
Pamela
On March 25, 2008 | 7:39 pmLin Piao / Lin Biao
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1966/1101660909_400.jpg
Pamela
On March 25, 2008 | 7:40 pm51 - Lin Piao
Pamela
On March 26, 2008 | 10:21 am16 - Gregory Peck?
http://www.ez-entertainment.net/features/gregory_peck_2.jpg
za3tar
On March 27, 2008 | 9:41 amPamela: Thank you very much for your help. #51 Lin Biao seems like a perfect identification, the others seem like likely candidates. I have added them all to the table above.
Thanks again for your help.
Eliana
On April 8, 2008 | 12:37 amhi, za3tar - have some suggestions:
16 believe this is John Wayne, instead of Gregory Peck
56 seems to be Socrates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates)
57 looks like Bill Gates
78 looks like Josephine Baker (http://www.cmgww.com/stars/baker/about/photogallery.html)
88 believe he is the sculptor Auguste Rodin (http://www.cantorfoundation.org/Rodin/rbiom.html)
Alisson
On April 25, 2008 | 3:37 am76: Simón Bolivar
Alisson
On April 25, 2008 | 3:38 am75: Simón Bolivar
Alisson
On April 25, 2008 | 3:42 am104: Mary, mother of Jesus
WhtFalcon
On May 23, 2008 | 9:36 pm78: Hans Christian Andersen ?
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/andersen.jpg
mike
On June 3, 2008 | 2:34 pmCould 68 be Oliver Reed complete with booze bottle and beard as in Gladiator?
Dave
On July 21, 2008 | 8:04 am#102 is Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian writer and poet.
Also, #75 really bugs me, I KNOW I have seen that dude recently. I think he’s some English explorer or something like that. If anyone knows that one, please help me out.
Ozzy
On August 5, 2008 | 3:38 pmWikipedia has a wealth of photographs and I’ve been comparing for some confirmations.
66. Looks more like Thomas Edison than Henry Ford although the clue of a little car at his feet is misleading.
33. Orville Wright ~ clue is the airplane on the table by him.
35. Alexander Graham Bell
za3tar
On August 6, 2008 | 7:39 pmEliana: Thank you for your suggestions. I have added those for #16 and #56. However, i don’t think that #57 is bill gates because he doesn’t seem to be wearing something that Gates would wear. Additionally, the face is not quite the same as that of Gates, and further more, there is nothing that identifies him as Bill Gates. Maybe a computer or the Windows logo would have worked. I don’t think that #78 is Josephine Baker because the hair style does not quite match. I think it is more likely to be Lewis Carroll because of all the Alice in Wonderland creatures around her.
Alisson: I doubt that #75 is Simón Bolivar because the puffy white thing on his chest under his neck does not resemble anything worn in “Spanish America” region in his time. I checked some pictures of him online, and none showed him with any such puffy thing, and his coat looks different. As for #104, the cloths worn by that person are common in that region and era, so it could be any person. Does the posture in #104 resemble some painting or statue of Mary ?
WhtFalcon: You are right, i think that could be Hans Christian Andersen because of the looks and the surrounding characters. I have added that to the list, thanks.
Mike: Thanks for your contribution. I checked some pictures of Oliver Reed, and i didn’t see something that quite resembles #68.
Dave @ July 21: Thanks for your help. #102 definitely looks like Rabindranath Tagore, i have added him to the list. If you or somebody else figure out #75 please let me know.
Ozzy: Thanks for your input. As for #66, Thomas Edison’s face looked a bit fatter than that of character in the picture above. I looked around, and couldn’t find a picture of Edison that has a similar face or posture to that of the picture above. So i think it might very well be Henry Ford.
As for #33, the character depicted appears to be fatter than the pictures of Orville Wright. Additionally, the model of the airplane is newer than that of the Wright Brothers. And for #35, Alexander Bell’s hair seems in all his pictures seems to be shorter than that of the depicted figure.
Fitri
On August 22, 2008 | 12:32 am#78 Harry Houdini?