Posted on by Tom Truex

Johansson: Ingemar and Scarlett

Family resemblance or coincidence?

You may have noticed that two recent articles on this blOg mentioned the name “Johansson.” Scarlett Johansson is the actress in The Island (2005). Ingemar Johansson is the boxer to who knocked Floyd Patterson down seven times, in their championship boxing match in 1959. A reader wondered if they are related? I couldn’t find any reference connecting the two on the Internet. If they were related, I’m sure the kinship would have been reported somewhere on the world wide web.1

Anyway, for the skeptics, here is a side by side photographic comparison of Scarlett Johansson and Ingemar Johansson. Actually, I do see a bit of a resemblance. What do YOU think???

Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson. Apparently no relation to the heavyweight boxer, although they do have an uncanny resemblance

Ingemar Johansson (1932 - 2009), standing. That's Floyd Patterson, napping on the canvas. Johansson won the fight by a TKO in the 3rd round on June 26, 1959.



Vintage video clip of the 1959 fight follows…

Note: Click on the screen after the video loads if you need to go to the YouTube website for a bigger picture.



FOOTNOTE:

  1. This is just the sort of knowledge exchange that Al Gore had in mind when he invented the Internet ↩
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2 Replies to “Johansson: Ingemar and Scarlett”

  1. i do not think that they are related. but now that this blog is so highly rated on google perhaps you could start a rumor to that effect.

  2. I heard that they are from a reliable source in the Johansson family lineage. The resemblance it uncanny!

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