Who Is Your Inner Celebrity?

MyHeritage.com is using facial recognition technology to compare Average Joes to Famous Amoses. (Or Josephines to Angelinas.)

To find out which celebrity you most resemble, download a photo of yourself, and you'll quickly receive a list of stars with similar facial features. The results, which can include men and women, are often surprising.

In one trial, a white, goateed, middle-aged man came up as most resembling the young black comedian Chris Tucker -- and onlookers exclaimed, "You know, I can see that."

The Israel-based site uses algorithms to compare faces. From a database of 3,200 celebs, ten ranked results are provided, which can be quite disparate.

This is a perfect example of viral marketing, and the site's traffic must be exploding, as the server appears to be down half the time. If you get through, you may have to register to play. I was able to try it once, but then the registration screen started coming up.

By the way, my top celebrity twin is the 19th century writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Which makes sense. We come from Scottish stock. My match with Stevenson was 63 percent. Howard Dean (!?!) was my second closest match at 62 percent. He, too, is a Scot. Third was Clark Gable (53 percent -- and a much better choice, albeit a German one!) At 47 percent, Mississippi-born author William Faulkner (also of Scottish descent) finished tied for fourth with German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, best known for surrendering Stalingrad back to the Russians during World War II.

Thank God, he wasn't my celebrity twin. I may have pulled a Hemingway. Howard Dean was bad enough.