Is There A Name For Doing This ?

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Is there a name for looking at someone and thinking they look like someone famous or someone else you know?
e.g. Seeing someone in the street and thinking they look like someone famous or seeing someone famous on TV and think they look like someone you know.

Is there a name for finding this connection? or is it just human nature.

I'm not sure it's a common thing in the spectrum community ? due to the chance of having prosopagnosia

Hyperfamiliarity?

Thanks for making me spell that.

I get that when I go on holiday and everyone looks like everyone back home.

Weird.

Thanks Raliegh , I'll be googling that.

I have often commented that certain people, usually famous ones, look like someone else. I noticed that Simon Baker of The Mentalist bears a striking resemblance to tennis player Denis Istomin.

I thought I was the only one that did this.

I'm facially blind to the extent I don't even recognise many famous people, so it doesn't happen to me often.

Ok, I do have prosopragnosia and sometimes I may have it and other times I may not, and as it is something where I don't know if I have not recognized someone or not, I can't exactly define when I will be ok at recognizing people or when I do not, as I get the feeling that sometimes I can, and other times I do not (I find out from someone else who asks why I didn't say hello etc).
I did tend to over compensate and greet everyone just in case! However, I sometimes ended up in conversations with people who know me and I don't have a clue who I am talking to! And if I ask they will be deeply offended, so I carry on the conversation hoping to gain a few clues! And I have had lengthy conversations where I am prolonging them to try to find clues, and we eventually part with them looking happy and me not having a clue to this very day as to who they are!

But anyway... I have also had situations where I have thought I have known someone but it turns out when I go to speak to them, that it is not the person who I think that it is. This has been soo embarissing and has happened to me a few times, that if I see someone I think I know but am not 100% sure that I know them, I will refrain from approaching them just incase I mess up.

I sometimes get situations which are connected to faceblindness where I see someone that I know them from somewhere, but I can't think who they are or where I know them from. One famous time for me was when I saw a lady with her little boy. I said "Hello" and the boy seemed to know me. I carried on walking and reached the other end of the street and joined the queue inside the old Midland bank. All the time in my mind I was going through everyone I could think of who it may be. Eventually I came to closer family and.... Oh dear! It was my mother and my little brother! Now this took me ages to work out who it was and my Mum was trying to do the same thing as she has the same issues as well! If we had met at home it would not be a problem.

It's like being a super recogniser, with false positives.

I really wish this wasn't an old thread.

Shall we make a new one of the same type?