Idris Elba look alike: the celebrities who look most like Idris Elba
According to Ollie's face-recognition model, the celebrity who looks most like Idris Elba is Mike Maignan (80% on Ollie's scale), followed by Keith David (77%) and Vágner Love (76%). The model compared 10 photos of Idris Elba with 40,000+ photos of 5,000+ celebrities and ranked everyone by how close their faces are.
Idris Elba
80%
lookalike
Mike Maignan
Who looks like Idris Elba? The top 8
- 180%
Mike Maignan
French footballer
- 2
77%Keith David
American actor
- 3
76%Vágner Love
Brazilian association football player
- 4
75%George Weah
President of Liberia from 2018 to 2024
- 5
75%Colman Domingo
American actor
- 6
75%Chris Rock
American comedian, actor, and filmmaker
- 7
74%Gilberto Gil
Brazilian recording artist, singer, guitarist, songwriter and politician
- 8
73%Eberechi Eze
English association football player
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Ollie's face-recognition model is a 20-layer convolutional neural network (SphereFace architecture) trained from scratch with CosFace loss. It scores 98.5%on Labeled Faces in the Wild, the standard test of whether two photos show the same person. It reads face structure, so hair colour, makeup and the background don't move the score.
For each celebrity, every photo of Idris Elbawas compared with every photo of them, and the two closest photo pairs were averaged. That way one lucky photo can't put someone at the top. Only celebrities of the same gender are ranked, as in the lookalike finder.
The percentage is a similarity score, not a probability. Two celebrities picked at random score about 33%, and only 1 pair in 100 reaches 58%. The full study of 5,000+ celebrities is in which celebrities look alike, according to an AI.
Common questions
Who looks like Idris Elba?
Ollie's face-recognition model ranks Mike Maignan, Keith David, Vágner Love, George Weah and Colman Domingo as the celebrities who look most like Idris Elba. Mike Maignan is the closest, at 80% on Ollie's scale.
How similar is Mike Maignan to Idris Elba?
Mike Maignan scores 80% against Idris Elba on Ollie's scale. For comparison, two celebrities picked at random score about 33%, and only 1 pair in 100 reaches 58%, so every match on this page is unusually close.
How does Ollie decide who looks like Idris Elba?
Ollie's own face-recognition model turns every photo into 512 numbers that describe the face's structure. It compares each of Idris Elba's 10 photos with every photo of each other celebrity, averages the two closest photo pairs, and ranks celebrities by that score. Hair, makeup and background don't count.
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