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* Actor [[Robert Sacchi]] has made his entire career on the fact that he's a dead ringer for [[Humphrey Bogart]]. In ''[[The Man With Bogart's Face]]'', he effectively plays himself, a man who's a dead ringer for Humphrey Bogart.
* Female wrestler Shelly Martinez, better known as Ariel in [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] and Salinas in [[TNA]], has done [[Bettie Page]] porn.
* The vast majority of [[Scott Innes]]' voicework is impersonating the late [[Casey Kasem]]'s higher-voiced roles, such as voicing modern adaptations of [[Scooby Doo|Shaggy]] and parodying Casey's ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman|Gatchaman]]'' work in ''[[Megas XLR]]''.
* Rich Little mostly just does voice impressions, but for [[The Movie]] of ''The Late Shift'', he played Johnny Carson.
* The Universal Studios theme parks have celebrity look-alikes wander around occasionally as photo/autograph opportunities for the tourist. Why someone would want an autograph from a Marilyn Monroe or Charlie Chaplin ''impersonator''...
* Mikheil Gelovani managed to impersonate Josef Stalin so well (essentially Stalin's romantic vision of himself), that Stalin forbade him from doing any other role until his death. Arguably, he's more Stalin than Stalin
* Quite a few rulers (especially dictators) would have a [[Body Double]] of themselves to make public appearances so that if an assassination attempt happened, they wouldn't be in any danger.
* Fred Travalena was nicknamed "Mr. Everybody" for this reason.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190509213440/http://mysteryvisits.com/ John C. Sherwood] is the reason so many people in the world can claim to have personally met [[Sherlock Holmes]].
* ''[[Improv Everywhere]]'' had their own fun with this, by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvBbVA36y1U positioning a double for King Phillip IV of Spain (1605-65) in front of a 400-year-old painting of the king],.
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