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How to Make AI Images of Celebrities (50 Midjourney Prompts)

May 16, 2023

You’ve probably seen AI-generated images of the Pope wearing a fashionable white puffer jacket circulating the internet. You have to admit, they’re funny. If you’ve been wondering how to make funny and creative images of celebrities, then you’re in the right place.

Most (if not all) of the viral AI-generated celebrity images were made on Midjourney. 

What is Midjourney?

Midjourney is a generative text-to-image tool that uses AI to create beautiful images based on the text prompts that you provide. This powerful tool is improving exponentially, and can be a lot of fun to use.

If you don’t know how to use Midjourney, this video is a great place to start.  

How can I create images of famous people using Midjourney?

To create interesting and entertaining images of celebrities, you’re going to need to the right prompts. To get your creative juices flowing, here are 50 Midjourney prompts for making images of celebrities. 

PLEASE NOTE: Using a person's face in a derogatory way or for a commercial purpose could be an infringement of the law. This article is for entertainment purposes solely. Please use any AI images you create for personal purposes only.

Prompt:  Beyoncé made entirely out of ramen noodles. Noodles are uniform scale. Noodles are dripping soup. Yellow background. Max details. Cinematic lighting. Hyper realistic. 8k

Prompt:  Beyoncé Queen the most beautiful transparent kivano bionical of the world with designer hair in hard wind posing for high fashion magazine by Jean Paul Gaultier, petals, swirls high octane render, professional photography, photographed by Erwin Olaf cinematic shot with Epic lighting + photos taken by Erwin Olaf, photos taken by hasselblad + incredibly detailed, sharpen, details + professional lighting, photography lighting + 50mm, 80mm, 100m + lightroom gallery + behance photographys + unsplash

Prompt: lady gaga born this way as a synthwave album

Prompt:  a Lady Gaga album with a sci – fi Overwatch feel, 8k render

Prompt: Donald trump super hero

Prompt: photo full body shot of Donald Trump as evil wizard in orange robes holding evil magic staff

Prompt: 8k ultra realistic photo if The Rock meeting Dwayne Johnson

Prompt:  lebron james as a fortnite character wearing a king’s attire with Lakers colors, dribbling a basketball in a basketball arena

Prompt: harry styles as street art by frank miller

Prompt: elon musk as joker, photorealistic

Prompt: kanye west in a visibly reflective pink ball

Prompt: a scene from a claymation show starring Kanye west wearing a mask covered in diamonds, directed by Stanley Kubrick

Prompt: Modern home made of black glass covered

Prompt: Iron Man

in the styles of Dr. Seuss, Peter Max and H. R. Giger

Prompt:  huge ugly tattoo in around the face of Tom Cruise, photorealistic hyper detailed closeup shot of 55 year old tom cruise with ugliest face tattoo in the world, tattoo on forehead and cheeks and nose, photos taken by sony, photos taken by canon, photos taken by nikon, photos taken by sony, incredibly detailed, sharpen, details + professional lighting, photography lighting + 50mm, 80mm, 100m + lightroom gallery + behance photographys + unsplash,

Prompt:  Tom Cruise flying on a Pegasus, over the mountains of Singapur, red laser eyes, epic fight against antelope

Prompt:  Kim Kardashian as Catwoman, realistic eyes, extremely detailed, melancholy expression, painted by Tom Bagshaw and Eve Ventrue and Jeremy Lipking, ultra hd, hdr, 8k, cinematic, dramatic lighting, studio Portrait Lighting, illuminated face, 85mm, volumetric lighting, ray tracing reflections

Prompt: leonardo dicaprio as batman

Prompt: ariana grande as disney’s little mermaid

Prompt:  Taylor Swift as Cinderella, blurred castle and night in the background, anime style

Prompt: kendall jenner wearing super detail futuristic chrome silver armor full body in a big wide background

Prompt:  ryan reynolds is a futuristic scifi cyber cyborg, digital hologram eye goggle, wearing computer cyborg headpiece, wires and microchips in his head, digital cyber body armor, a photorealistic painting by Igor Grabar, tumblr, lowbrow, 3d, behance hd, photo, , intricate detail, photorelistic, cinematic lighting,

Prompt:  beyonce as android with pretty features, white cybernetic facial details, ceramic robot, perfectly symmetrical, black armor, cyberpunk, cinematic, 4k, 8k, octane render

Prompt: shia labeouf covered in tiger stripes

Prompt:  orlando bloom as legolas, with blue eyes and pointed ears, full body portrait painted in the style of vincent van gough,

Prompt:  a Portrait of Hugh Jackman with a gray beard, wearing a leather jacket from Star Wars

Prompt: Joel Miller at 70 years old The Last Of Us In Alex Ross Art Style

Prompt:  Photographic portrait of Eddie Murphy, ultra – detailed, award – winning, cinematic lighting, 85mm lens, by Annie Leibovitz

Prompt:  Zac Efron baywatch, blue lightsaber

Prompt:  Swole and muscular Harry Potter, 8k, cinematography, photorealistic, epic composition Unreal Engine, Cinematic, Color Grading, portrait Photography, Ultra – Wide Angle, Depth of Field, hyper detailed, beautifully coded by color, insane detail, intricate detail, beautifully colored, Unreal Engine, Cinematic, Color Grading, Editorial Photography, Photography, Photoshoot, Depth of Field, DOF, White Balance, 32k, Super – Resolution, Megapixel, ProPhoto RGB, VR, Halfrear Lighting, Backlight, Natural Lighting, Incandescent, Fiber Optic, Moody Lighting, Cinematic Lighting, Studio Lighting, Soft Lighting, Volumetric, Contre – Jour, Beautiful Lighting, Accent Lighting, Global Illumination, Screen Space Global Illumination, Ray Tracing Global Illumination, Optical, Scattering, Glowing, Shadows, Rough, Shimmer, Ray Tracing Reflections, Lumen Reflections, Screen Space Reflections, Diffraction Gradation, Chr Aberration omatics, GB displacement, scan lines, ray tracing, ray tracing ambient occlusion, anti – aliasing, FK AA, TXAA, RTX, SSAO, Shaders, OpenGL – Shaders, GLSL – Shaders, Post – processing, Post – production, Cel Shading, Tone Mapping, CGI, VFX, SFX, incredibly detailed and intricate, hypermaximal, elegant, hyper realistic, super detailed, dynamic pose, photography, 8k

Prompt:  Photorealistic Hyperrealistic angry SYLVESTER STALLONE is THE PUNISHER wearing black tactical armor with METAL SKULL on chest armor, dynamic Action GUNFIGHT dynamic lighting abandoned alleyway, 35 mm film resolution 8k movie 1986

Prompt: Ryan Gosling as a bottle of windex

Prompt:  Anne Hathaway eyeing the camera from the door of a video booth at an adult bookstore, Cyberpunk Universe, very detailed face, very detailed arms, full body portrait, Realistic photo

Prompt: meryl streep new yorker style cartoon

Prompt: Chris Hemsworth “thor” Actor Celebrity dressed as Peaky Blinder fierce facial expression, rainy, streetlamp, cinematic lighting, volumetric lighting, etheral light, intricate details, extremely detailed, very realistic

Prompt:  bobblehead of oprah winfrey on a desk, photograph, realistic, 3d render

Prompt: Obama as Harry Potter

Prompt: Hillary Clinton is a robot

Prompt:  Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, by Terry Richardson, Upper Body Shot

Prompt:  Jeff Bezos dressed like an egyptian pharoh, next to a sphix statue with a face carved in his image, photoreal, 8k,

Prompt: Mark Zuckerberg as Cyborg

Prompt: Super Sayain Biden

Prompt:  the Pope in vatican on skateboard doing an ollie, painting by Frank Frazetta

Prompt: mugshot of queen Elizabeth

Prompt:  bruno mars, portrait, neon, colors lights, futuristic, realistic, ultra realistic, cinema 4D, 8K

Prompt:  Oil painting, Steven Colbert, Senate ar: 9: 16

Prompt:  Baby Singer Freddy Mercury, Pixar Style, 3D, HD, 8K, v 4

Prompt: Samuel Jackson is a medieval advisor, ::1

glasses ::-0.1

Prompt: Modern home made of black glass covered

Prompt:  Anthony Hopkins Hollywood actor, old and tired, paper cut art by Weta Digital, by Wētā FX, by WLOP, Cinematic, vantage point, Color Grading, depth, Editorial Photography, Photography, Shot on 70mm, , Shutter Speed 1/ 60, F/ 11, Gamma, White Balance, Light, Dark, Light Mode, Dark Mode, Super – Resolution, Megapixel, ProPhoto RGB, VR, Spotlight, Frontlight, Halfrear Lighting, Backlight, Rim Lights, Natural Lighting, Cinematic Lighting, Soft Lighting, Volumetric, Contre – Jour, Rembrandt Lighting, Split Lighting, Lumen Global Illumination, Ray Tracing Global Illumination, Optics diffusion, Ambient Occlusion, Scattering, Glowing, Shadows, Ray Tracing Reflections, Lumen Reflections, Diffraction Grading, Ray Tracing Ambient Occlusion, Anti – Aliasing, FXAA, TXAA, RTX, SSAO, Shaders, OpenGL – Shaders, Post Processing, Post – Production, Cel Shading, Tone Mapping, CGI, VFX, SFX, intricate, hypermaximalist, elegant, ornate, hyper realistic, super detailed,

Further Resources

Here at WGMI, we’ve become a little obsessed with collecting Midjourney Prompts. If you’re hunting for the perfect Midjourney prompts then make sure you check out our free resource of over 1,000 Midjourney Prompts. It includes more styles, logo prompts, photography prompts, game design prompts, Anime prompts and a lot more. It’s 100% free.

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