I 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: Marie Curie? * |
| 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: |
| 65: Lei Feng* | 66: Henry Ford* | 67: Charlie Chaplin | 68: Ernest Hemingway?* / Charles Bukowski |
| 69: Sun Yat-sen** | 70: Deng Xiaoping? | 71: Sigmund Freud | 72: Mike Tyson |
| 73: B. F. Skinner* | 74: Chiang Kai-shek* | 75: Stamford Raffles? | 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.
► By Naghme, many thanks.
► By RS, many thanks.
► By Pegazus, many thanks.
► By Zach, many thanks.
With thanks to Monica for her correction.
Wow, great effort with the tagging!!!
Roba: haha … thanks, that took alot of time and clicking 🙂
My God! How many hours did you spend doing this tagging 🙂
Good job. Ping me if you get all tagged.
All the best!
٢- 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 ..
Haitham: :-)… 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.
correction (87) Mahatma Ghandi .. , (27) maw-tsi tong
6. 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?
Dandooneh: 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.
24 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
Danke schön Bettina!
I guess i have to brush up on my German lit. ;-).
9. Yao Ming
am 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
that 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 …
1: 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 …
75 – 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 …
Ana khalas ba6alt ajamme3 :S
Wallah enak fazee3 🙂
Amazing effort:)
84: Sharon
p.s: I couldn’t disassociate your name with za3tara, the most horrible checkpoint of Nablus. Sorry!
ooops its 94 and already known. al3atab 3al nazar:)
Sami: 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 :-(.
OH 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 🙂
Maioush: 🙂 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.
wait… isn’t 63: Hamid Karzai?
Great 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
lol after seeing hte high resolution picture I realized I was mistaken about the face 😀
66 = Henry Ford
that 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 😉
I don’t see Jesus on this picture…how come he’s not here?
Anon: 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.
number 70 is Pol Pot
Bashar: 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.
wow.
you are so unbelievably neat.
Who made this anyways (the collage)?
Dana: 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 :-).
Could you tag the high resolution picture? Pretty please? 🙂
http://funtasticus.com//ups/2007/11/1.jpg
What 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
37 is Leonardo Da Vinci not Leo Tolstoy.
And 50 is Albert Schweitzer not Mark Twain.
42 is Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
7. Ferdinand Marcos
9. Liu Ziang (9.88 was his record)
Titus: 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!
some say 92: is Georges Braque
Yeah, 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”
16 is Woodrow Wilson
51 – Attila the Hun?
101 – Samuel Adams?
70 – Pol Pot
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa230/HumanFrailty/PolPot.jpg
Bambam: 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 ?
58: Pele
39: Henri Matisse
92: Marcel Duchamp
http://www.chess-theory.com/images1/70107_duchamp_bride_mariee.jpg
101: JJ Rousseau
89: Thomas Lipton, note the beard and tea cup
88: Claude Monet
81: Leo Tolstoy
64: Rudyard Kipling
102: Rabindranath Tagore
70 is Deng Xiaoping
3 is a woman