identical twin

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James Warren Whittaker was born on Feb. 10, 1929, in Seattle, 10 minutes before his identical twin brother, Louis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

People who disagree with him include his identical twin brother.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Brendon has an identical twin brother named Kelly Donovan, who appeared as his stand-in and double in episodes of “Buffy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

"I always wished I was an identical twin - I liked being a twin, but being an identical twin is a bit cooler," Grace said.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

He says that if you put one identical twin in a high-speed rocket for a week, he’d come back to find his brother ten years older than he is himself.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood