List of pseudonyms

Artists, Sculptors, Architects

• Canaletto -- Giovanni Antonio Canal or Bernardo Belotto
• El Greco -- Domenico Theotocopoulos
• Le Corbusier -- Charles Edouard Jeanneret
• Il Sodoma -- Giovanni Antonio Bazzi

Pen Names

• Woody Allen -- Allen Stewart Konigsberg
• Piers Anthony -- Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
• Michael Arlen -- Dikran Kuyumjian
• Richard Bachman -- Stephen King
• Acton Bell -- Anne Bronte
• Nicolas Bourbaki -- a group of 20th-century mathematicians.
• Boz -- Charles Dickens
• Currer Bell -- Charlotte Bronte
• Ellis Bell -- Emily Bronte
• John Beynon -- John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
• Lewis Carroll -- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
• George Eliot -- Mary Ann Evans
• Michael Innes -- J. I. M. Stewart
• Anne Knish -- Arthur Davison Ficke
• Barbara Michaels -- Barbara Mertz
• Emanuel Morgan -- Witter Bynner
• Flann O'Brien -- Brian O'Nolan
• George Orwell -- Eric Arthur Blair
• Elizabeth Peters -- Barbara Mertz
• Ellis Peters -- Edith Pargeter
• Jean Plaidy -- Eleanor Hibbert
• George Sand -- Amandine Dupin
• Cordwainer Smith -- Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
• Lemony Snicket -- Daniel Handler
• Student -- William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics.
• Italo Svevo -- Ettore Schmitz
• Mark Twain -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens
• Voltaire -- François-Marie Arouet
• John Wyndham -- John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
• Publius -- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers

Politicians

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

Stage Names

• Cantinflas -- Mario Moreno
• Cilla Black -- Priscilla White
• Bono -- Paul Hewson
• Michael Caine -- Maurice Micklewhite
• Chespirito -- Roberto Gómez Bolanos
• Coolio -- Artis Ivey, Jr.
• Tom Cruise -- Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
• Doris Day -- Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff
• Bob Dylan -- Robert Zimmerman
• The Edge -- David Evans
• Eminem -- Marshall Mathers III
• Fatboy Slim -- Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook
• Judy Garland -- Frances Gumm
• Cary Grant -- Archibald Leach
• Billie Holiday -- Eleanora Fagan
• Judy Holliday -- Judith Tuvim
• Engelbert Humperdinck -- Gerry Dorsey
• Ice Cube -- O'Shea Jackson
• Ice T -- Tracy Marrow
• Elton John -- Reginald Kenneth Dwight
• José José -- José Sosa
• Danny Kaye -- David Daniel Kaminski
• Jerry Lewis -- Joseph Levitch
• LL Cool J -- James Todd Smith
• Little Richard -- Richard Wayne Penniman
• Lulu (singer) -- Marie Lawrie
• Dean Martin -- Dino Crocetti
• Meat Loaf -- Marvin Lee Aday
• Freddie Mercury -- Faroukh Bulsara
• Moby -- Richard Melville Hall
• Marilyn Monroe -- Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker
• Eric Morecambe -- John Eric Bartholemew
• Mary Pickford -- Gladys Smith
• Queen Latifah -- Dana Owens
• Vic Reeves -- Jim Moir
• The Rock -- Dwayne Douglas Johnson
• Seal -- Sealhenry Samuel
• Sandie Shaw -- Sandra Goodrich
• Charlie Sheen -- Carlos Irwin Estevez
• Martin Sheen -- Ramon Estevez
• Shania Twain -- Eileen Regina Edwards, later Eileen Regina Twain
• Slash -- Saul Hudson
• Snoop Dogg -- Calvin Broadus
• Ringo Starr -- Richard Starkey
• Sting -- Gordon Sumner
• Sugar -- Stephanie Beard
• Ritchie Valens -- Ricardo Valenzuela
• John Wayne -- Marion Michael Morrison
• Ernie Wise -- Ernest Wiseman
• Stevie Wonder -- Steveland Morris

Other

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

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