Paul McCartney look alike: the celebrities who look most like Paul McCartney
According to Ollie's face-recognition model, the celebrity who looks most like Paul McCartney is Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (73% on Ollie's scale), followed by Eric Clapton (72%) and Christoph Waltz (69%). The model compared 6 photos of Paul McCartney with 40,000+ photos of 5,000+ celebrities and ranked everyone by how close their faces are.
Paul McCartney
73%
lookalike
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
Who looks like Paul McCartney? The top 8
- 173%
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
British peer and author, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales
- 2
72%Eric Clapton
British musician
- 3
69%Christoph Waltz
Austrian and German actor
- 4
69%Ken Jennings
American game show contestant, host, and writer
- 5
67%Jeremy Clarkson
British broadcaster, journalist and writer
- 6
67%Aidan Quinn
American actor
- 7
66%Ted Nugent
American rock musician
- 8
66%John Lydon
British-born Irish-American singer and songwriter
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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 Paul McCartneywas 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 Paul McCartney?
Ollie's face-recognition model ranks Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, Eric Clapton, Christoph Waltz, Ken Jennings and Jeremy Clarkson as the celebrities who look most like Paul McCartney. Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer is the closest, at 73% on Ollie's scale.
How similar is Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer to Paul McCartney?
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer scores 73% against Paul McCartney 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 Paul McCartney?
Ollie's own face-recognition model turns every photo into 512 numbers that describe the face's structure. It compares each of Paul McCartney's 6 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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