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List of pseudonyms

A list of pseudonyms, in various categories.

See also: List of real-life characters

Table of contents

1 Artists, Sculptors, Architects 2 Pen Names 3 Politicians 4 Religion 5 Stage Names 6 Other 7 External links

Artists, Sculptors, Architects

• Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal or Bernardo Bellotto)
• El Greco (Domenico Theotocopoulos)
• Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
• Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)

Pen Names

• Acton Bell (Anne Brontë)
• Anne Rice (Howard Allen O'Brien)
• Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
• Boz (Charles Dickens)
• Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm)
• Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
• Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë)
• Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz)
• Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)
• Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
• Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan)
• George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
• George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
• George Sand (Amandine Dupin)
• Harold Robbins (Harold Rubin)
• Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz)
• Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert )
• John Beynon (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
• John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
• Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski)
• Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
• Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
• Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
• Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian)
• Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart)
• Mirza Ghalib (Asadullah Beg Khan)
• Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins)
• Nicolas Bourbaki (a group of 20th-century mathematicians)
• Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
• Piers Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)
• Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers)
• Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
• Saki (Herbert Hugh Munro)
• Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)
• Emanuel Morgan (Witter Bynner)
• Student (William Sealey Gosset), discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics
• Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
• Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
• Walter (Henry Spencer Ashbee)
• Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
• Branislav Nusic (Ben Akiba)

Politicians

• Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas)
• Abu Ammar and Yasser Arafat (Muhammad Abd ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husayni)
• Abu Ala (Ahmad Qurei)

Religion

• Mata Amritanandamayi (Sudhamani)
• His Divine Grace Abhay Charana-Aravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De)
• Buddha Gautama
• Lord Mahavira (Vardhamana)
• Osho (Rajneesh Chandra Mohan)
• Sathya Sai Baba (Sathya Narayana Raju)
• Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)
• Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Dutta)

Stage Names

For full list, see Stage name

• Albert Brooks (Albert Lawrence Einstein)
• Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Italiano)
• Alice Cooper (Vincent Damon Furnier)
• Ashok Kumar (Kumudlal Kanjilal Ganguly)
• Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds)
• Barbara (Monique Serf)
• Bela Lugosi (Be'la Ferenc Dezso Blasko)
• Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan)
• Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman)
• Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope)
• Bobby Darin (Walden Robert Cassotto)
• Bono (Paul Hewson)
• Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins)
• Burt Holiday (Bonaldo Bonaldi)
• Cantinflas (Mario Moreno)
• Capucine (Germaine Lefebvre)
• Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters)
• Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach)
• Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Dorléac)
• Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez)
• Chespirito (Roberto Gómez Bolanos)
• Cilla Black (Priscilla White)
• Coolio (Artis Ivey, Jr)
• Conway Twitty (Harold Jenkins)
• Damia (Marie-Louise Damien)
• D'Angelo (Michael Archer, Sr)
• Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminski)
• David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian)
• Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti)
• Del Shannon (Charles Weedon Westover)
• Dharmendra (Dharam Singh Deol)
• Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan)
• Dirk Bogarde (Derek van den Bogaerde)
• Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff)
• Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien)
• Jamie Fox (Eric Bishop)
• Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight)
• Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus)
• Eminem (Marshall Mathers III)
• Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold Dorsey)
• Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholemew)
• Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman)
• Fatboy Slim (Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook)
• Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz)
• Freddie Mercury (Faroukh Bulsara)
• Gale Storm (Josephine Owaissa Cottle)
• Garry Moore (Thomas Garrison Morfit)
• Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman)
• Georgious (Georges Guibourg)
• Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath)
• Gogi Grant (Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg)
• Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson)
• Gribouille (Marie-France Gaîté)
• Groucho Marx (Julius Henry Marx)
• Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson)
• Ice T (Tracy Morrow)
• Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer)
• Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpentier)
• Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
• Jill Corey (Norma Jean Speranza)
• Joan Crawford (Lucille Fay LeSueur)
• Joëlle (Joëlle Mogensen)
• John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr)
• John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison)
• Joni James (Joan (or Giovanna) Carmella Babbo)
• Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson)
• José José (José Sosa)
• Judy Garland (Frances Gumm)
• Judy Holliday (Judith Tuvim)
• Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch Demsky)
• Kishore Kumar (Abhas Ganguly)
• Kitty Kallen (Genevieve Agostinello)
• Les Paul (Lester Polfuss )
• Lionel Barrymore (Lionel Herbert Blythe)
• Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman)
• LL Cool J (James Todd Smith)
• Lulu (singer) (Marie Lawrie)
• Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker)
• Martin Sheen (Ramon Estevez)
• Mary Astor (Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke)
• Mary Ford (Colleen Summers)
• Mary Pickford (Gladys Smith )
• Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday)
• Meena Kumari (Mahjabeen Bano)
• Meg Ryan (Margaret Mary Emily Ann Hyra)
• Mel Brooks (Melvin Kaminsky)
• Michael Caine (Maurice Micklewhite)
• Mireille (Mireille Hartuch)
• Moby (Richard Melville Hall)
• Natalie Wood (Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko)
• Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler)
• Queen Latifah (Dana Owens)
• Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson)
• Rikki (Nakano Ritsuki)
• Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
• Ritchie Valens (Ricardo Valenzuela)
• The Rock (Dwayne Douglas Johnson)
• Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer Jr)
• Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov)
• Ronnie Gaylord (Ronald L. Fredianelli)
• Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich)
• Seal (Sealhenry Samuel)
• Shania Twain (Eileen Regina Edwards, later Eileen Regina Twain)
• Simone Signoret (Simone Kaminker)
• Sinbad (David Adkins Sinbad)
• Slash (Saul Hudson)
• Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
• Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone)
• Sugar (Stephanie Beard)
• Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris)
• Sting (Gordon Sumner)
• The Edge (David Evans)
• Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock)
• Tom Cruise (Thomas Cruise Mapother IV)
• Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz)
• Tony Martin (Alvin Morris)
• Frankie Valli (Francis Castelluccio)
• Vangelis (Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou)
• Vic Reeves (Jim Moir)
• Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley)

Other

• Hermann Noordung (Herman Potočnik), pioneer of astronautics
• Jersey Joe Walcott (Arnold Raymond Cream, world champion boxer
• Joe Louis (Joseph Louis Barrow, world champion boxer
• Kid Gavilan (Gerardo Gonzalez, world champion boxer
• Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento), soccer legend
• Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine), composer
• Ras-I-Bramble, Abuja Bramble (Livingstone Bramble), world champion boxer
• Sugar Ray Leonard (Ray Charles Leonard), world champion boxer
• Sugar Ray Robinson (Walker Smith, Jr), world champion boxer
• Tommy Burns (Noah Brusso), world champion boxer

External links

*FamousFolk - An extensive list of pseudonyms

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