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jbenson2 says:

The old Asian names are the most difficult. Kind of a guess on some of them.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Karma39 says:

Picasso is next to Abraham Lincoln....Confucius is between Moses and Mahatma Ghandi....Then there's Bill Gates on the left there right next to Pele.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

Karen and Paul,

Thanks for the tips. I've posted an updated version. But I think Vincent van Gogh is the fellow blowing the horn next to Margaret Thatcher. Why the horn? Possibly to hide part of his face.

I'm pretty sure that Soctrates, Aristotle and Plato are in the picture, but they all look the same, so It's difficult to figure out who is who.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jialuolu says:

Humphrey Bogart is behind Elvis and Lewis Carroll is between Shirley Temple and Putin
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jialuolu says:

Actually that's Oppenheimer, not Bogart
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

I don't think I would have ever guessed Lewis Carroll. You are correct. The same wavy hair is in this photo of Lewis Carroll.

Same with Oppenheimer. I'd never guess him. But he certainly was an influential person. Here is the photo of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

I think the guy with the Horn is Ulysses S grant. Kevorkian is at the table next to Freud. (above mike tyson). That might be Henry Ford next to Chaplin, with the small car (maybe a model T) by his foot. You have Tolstoy at the table with the accordian. Then I think that is Marcos at the table with Saddam, sitting next to who I also think is Teddy Roosevelt. Bismark by the wall close to Gorbachev, and I think that is Hirohito kneeling as someone said before. Nietzsche is next to Marx at the table. Is that John Wayne next to Bush, looks like him but I can't tell for sure. Louie XV to the right of Clinton. Rockefeller to the left of Jordan. The old Chinese guy next to Monroe could be Lao Tzu, but a lot of the chinese ones are very simmilar. The one with the paint on his back is Van Gogh.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

I really wish I knew who the painter in the wheel chair was at the top.

Edit: I am guessing after a google search of painter famous wheelchair I came up with Henri Matisse.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

Sorry for spamming here, but is that Hitchcock next to Hemmingway
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

Thanks a million - it's certainly not spamming. I'll review your suggestions.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

Thanks for the super post. It helped a lot. I put in some of the suggestions and will continue to research some of the others.

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Kevorkian is at the table next to Freud. (above mike tyson).

Not a perfect match to the Kevorian I remember, but there are some similarities - white hair, round eyeglasses.
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Sigmund Freud - Yup, I agree
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That might be Henry Ford next to Chaplin, with the small car (maybe a model T) by his foot.

The hair and face look similar to Henry Ford
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Then I think that is Marcos at the table with Saddam, sitting next to who I also think is Teddy Roosevelt.

There are a lot of Marcos - do you have the first name?
I don't see anyone that resembles Teddy Roosevelt
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Is that John Wayne next to Bush, looks like him but I can't tell for sure.

It might be, but the picture has very dark hair. And it looks like some military insignias on his shoulder. I'm not sure it isJohn Wayne
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The old Chinese guy next to Monroe could be Lao Tzu, but a lot of the chinese ones are very simmilar.

I think you nailed this one.
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I think the guy with the Horn is Ulysses S grant.
I'm not sure - does not look similar.
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You have Tolstoy at the table with the accordian.

Thanks for the Tolstoy tip
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Bismark by the wall close to Gorbachev,

Yup, I agree.
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and I think that is Hirohito kneeling as someone said before.
Looks like him, but what a terrible pose for an emperor.
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Nietzsche is next to Marx at the table.

You are correct.
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Louie XV to the right of Clinton.

Not sure. Did he ever have a mustache? All the photos I found were clean shaven.
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Rockefeller to the left of Jordan.

OK
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The one with the paint on his back is Van Gogh.

Thanks
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I really wish I knew who the painter in the wheel chair was at the top. I am guessing after a google search of painter famous wheelchair I came up with Henri Matisse.

I agree.
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that Hitchcock next to Hemmingway

Not sure, the picture looks too thin for Hitchcock
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Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

pbbenson2 says:

I think the top left character could be Archimedes. but Plato and Aristotle look similar. The character to the far right sitting holding a book might be Mozart. Probably not, but the guy next to mother Teresa looks like Proximo from the movie "Gladiator".
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

By Marcos I mean Ferdinand Marcos who was the President of the phillipines. Also the guy who I think is Grant is in military uniform, or I believe he is. The person who the suspected Hirohito is kneeling too is maybe the first emporer of China, Qin Shi Huang, or several other names..Wiki is here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jeremywong704 says:

The artist on the bottom right who has his index finger shushing is possibly French Artist Marcel Duchamp.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

killerabbit says:

The Chinese guy on the bottom left is Lei Fung
www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/lf.html
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Quite Adept says:

I think the chinese guy next to Henry Ford is Mao Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong). Socrates is next to Liu Bei.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

Thanks for the new comments. Based on killerabbit's link, I think the Chinese fellow on the left is Lei Fung.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

armoblog says:

Next to Hussein is Maxim Gorky. Between Xiaoping and Roosevelt is Alexander Pushkin. Next to Gandhi is Rodin.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

I am pretty sure I was wrong eariler about Louis XV, I am pretty sure it's actually Peter the Great
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

armoblog:

Thank you for your help.

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Next to Hussein is Maxim Gorky.

Yes, I agree.
www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/gorky.jp g

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Between Xiaoping and Roosevelt is Alexander Pushkin.

I'm not sure. He looks and dresses similar but all the pictures I have found of Pushkin has his hair parted on his right side.
www.tourarena.ru/ta2graph.nsf/Graph/LITERAtur e1_Pushkin/$...
And I'm still not convinced that fellow next to him is Roosevelt.

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Next to Gandhi is Rodin.

Yup, I think you are right.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/N etsurf11_-_R...
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Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

lemonherbwrx said: I am pretty sure I was wrong eariler about Louis XV, I am pretty sure it's actually Peter the Great

my comment: He sure looks like Peter the Great.
www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk/images/peter_the_gr eat.jpg

Thanks
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

I think the guy folding his hands over the book on the wall is the Dali Llama Tenzin Gyatso just a younger picture. See this pic

cache.viewimages.com/xc/3424221.jpg?v=1&c =ViewImages&...
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

armoblog says:

Jbenson2:

Re Pushkin, have a look here: www.battlecreekmich.com/inspiration/Puskhin1. jpg

I'm pretty certain that it is him, because dress, look, and facial hair (as well as actual hair) seem a match, even if not 100% on the mark.

As for FDR, look here: www.mackinac.org/media/images/1998/gd-rooseve lt.jpg

In that picture he is also half in the shadow...sort of.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

Haha I had thought about the sheep thing before myself, but they all look alike to me.

That FDR one is dead on! I can't believe no one say that before, my and my hickcock meh.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

Armoblog and Lemonherbwrx
Thanks - I will add Pushking and Roosevelt
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

ozofnene has lived in England for all his life. There are a lot of sheep there. So I will trust his judgment on sheep. Dolly has been added.

Looks similar
news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41375000/jpg/_413 75405_dolly_...
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

I was looking through the Digg comments and the only one new was.

Rabindranath Tagore on the right below Bismark
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

Lemonherbwrx - thanks for the tip on Rabindranath Tagore. This process has been very educational.

www.kahlil.org/Tagore-1.jpg
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

I am trying to figure out the Chinese guy at the table laying back and I think it could possibly be Mo Ti AKA Mo Tzu.

Anyhow if anyone feels motivated here is a site that laundry lists a bunch of important people in China's history. www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/ China-FAMOUS...
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

I believe the chinese woman behind Mother Teresa is Song Qingling.

This is probably the reference photo here at the top of the page. malay.cri.cn/chinaabc/chapter12/chapter120401 .htm
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

Someone on digg found the source of the pictures and the artists, here is the link in chinese.

bk.baidu.com/view/1234818.html

I did a online tranlation and came up with some errors and what not.

The guy kneeling isn't hirohito it's. Hideki Tojo

Li Bai it says is the one laying back on the chair.

Also there is in fact Dolly the sheep, good call.

The Moses one it says is suppose to be either Noah or Moses, to envoke discussion.

It seems the three guys with Dante on the wall are the artists who did this work.

It's a bit hard to make out since the translation is bad but it seems the guy listed as plato on the pic here is supposed to represent either Socrates or Homer, or both.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4b15bce3010005rj.html

There is the artist's homepage, I can't seem to translate any of it because it keeps giving errors. But apparently there it lists all the people.

Apparently the painting is called "Discusses the Divine Comedy with Dante"

cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm# Someone has made the picture with Wiki links. They seem to have most of them done, but they have some of them wrong I think.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

I'm back - been traveling for the past day. I'll go over the latest comments.

Lemonherbwrx. - I found this painting on Flickr. The fellow used notes to identify people.

You can see it at
www.flickr.com/photos/hthg1983/2072271969/
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

I updated the picture by adding reference numbers to each name and slightly reduced the font sizes. Some more names have been added as well.

You can translate Chinese into English using Google. It is far from perfect, but a heck of a lot better than anything I could do.

The website is google.com/translate
At the bottom of the page is a translate option for an entire web page.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

The chinese guy with the Camera is suppose to be Run Run Shaw.

Also something I find interesting is the Moses/Noah character has Darwin's face. This is what I would assume the reference picture is. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Charles_Darwin_18 80.jpg

The guy with his arms crossed over his chest and glasses above Rodin is Corneliu Baba.

The guy under Linen's arm with the pointy hat with the red star is Ho Chi Min
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

Thanks again Lemonherbwrx. Wikipedia and Google are great services to help identify these paintings, but even with all their power, there are several images that I am still not confident in. The one with Bill Gates for instance. He looks a bit too bulky, but I can't find anyone else.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

lemonherbwrx says:

The old chinese guy under kofi Anon is Qi Bashi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_Baishi

Many are hard to identify because of the art and others I think are meant to represent multiple people. Take the Moses character, he looks very biblican and with his staff you identify him with Moses. But then he is leading animals as Noah would, but with the face of Darwin. So the Noah/Darwin connection is somewhat thought provoking.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

Thanks - I'll update later today.

I came across an interesting website that shows World Leaders when they were younger.

torispics.com/pic-307-Young-and-Old-World-Lea ders
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

cocoanut.grove says:

Is #005 really Ho Chi Minh? The hat that person is wearing is called a Budenovka, and was worn during the Russian Civil War. I've been trying to find noteworthy Russians, and it turns out the person is Veitnamese?!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

kenjisss says:

005 is not Uncle Ho...Never seen Uncle Ho in that outfit before and I'm from Vietnam. Uncle Ho would typically sport a goatee
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

kenjisss says:

Thought 062 is Yao Ming, Houston Rockets basketball player :)
Don't forget Boot the cat, next to Dali :)
Next to Zhou Enlai, looks like Kirk Douglas in Ben Hur
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

cocoanut.grove and kenjisss - thanks - I agree that 005 is not Ho Chi Minh. I removed his name and will continue the search.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

kenjiss - I also thought 062 was Yao Ming, but the 12.88 on his tee-shirt bothered me. I googled 12.88 and came up with Liu Xiang who broke the 110-metre hurdles world record with a time of 12.88 seconds at a super grand prix meeting.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

kenjiss - Boot the cat - Do you mean the fairy tale: Puss in Boots?

The painters used a lot of paint in that area for a big red drape, bird, cat being pulled by camel.

It must mean something, but I am stumped.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

listorama says:

What, me worry?---I can't find Alfred E. Neuman (sp?).
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

Good suggestion. I added Alfred E. Neuman - he is under #74.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

listorama says:

I meant that as a joke, but he was an icon for me when I was a kid.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

jbenson2 says:

Me too.

I think he ranks up there with Sigmund Freud, Gandhi, and Dante.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

ThomasYung says:

The "005" should be "PAVEL KORCHAGI", which was the main character of the Former USSR novel .
The novel is very famous in China. So the artist put him in the painting.

Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

bigblue92691 says:

Is number 71 Sean Penn?
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samchen229 says:

Maybe the 005 is Jackie Chan 成龍 ( Hong Kong )
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rogerchatelain1 says:

Why I have not seen Mohamed Ali yet ??

Roger
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

awama says:

My guess for 013 is Yul Brynner as Pharaoh Ramesses II in The Ten Commandments.
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

odielynx says:

Hi
would like to put an idea out there the person you have linked to - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Or from the numbered drawing behind -089 Run Run Shaw is

Captain James Cook - the image is almost identical to one from an old school book
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