A face recognition method and apparatus. The face recognition apparatus includes a Gabor filter unit which obtains a plurality of response values by applying a plurality of Gabor filters having different properties to a plurality of fiducial points extracted from an input face image, a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) unit which obtains first LDA results by performing LDA on each of a plurality of response value groups into which the response values of the plurality of response values are classified, a similarity calculation unit which calculates similarities between the first LDA results and second LDA results obtained by performing LDA on a face image other than the input face image, and a determination unit which classifies the input face image according to the similarities.