People Who Changed Their Names

Screen/Adopted Name

Real Name

Alan Alda

Alphonso D'Abruzzo

Muhammad Ali

Cassius Marcellus Clay

Dave Allen

David Tynan O'Mahoney

Woody Allen

Allen Stewart Konigsberg

Kirstie Alley

Gladys Leeman

Julie Andrews

Julia Elizabeth Wells

Adam Ant

Stuart Leslie Goddard

Elizabeth Arden

Florence Lewis (nee Graham)

Fred Astaire

Frederick Austerlitz

Charles Atlas

Angelo Siciloano

Lauren Bacall

Betty Joan Perske

Lucille Ball

Dianne Desiree Belmont

Theda Bara

Theodosia Goodman

Brigitte Bardot

Camille Javal

Lionel Bart

Lionel Begleiter

Beachcomber

John Cameron Audrieu Bingham Michael Morton

Jack Benny

Benjamin Kubelsky

Irving Berlin

Israel Baline

Billy the Kid

Henry McCarty (aka William H. Bonney)

Cilla Black

Prucilla White

Dirk Bogarde

Derek Julius Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde

Marc Bolan

Mark Feld

David Bowie

David Robert Jones

Willy Brandt

Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm

Mel Brooks

Melvin Kaminsky

Buffalo Bill

William Frederick Cody

Richard Burton

Richard Walter Jenkins

Nicholas Cage

Nicholas Cuppola

Michael Caine

Maurice Micklewhite

Maria Callas

Maria Anne Sofia Cecelia Kalogeropoulous

Jeff Chandler

Ira Grossel

Butch Cassidy

Robert Leroy Parker

Cyd Charisse

Tula Ellice Finklea

Chubby Checker

Ernest Evans

Cher

Cherilyn Sarkisian Lapierre

Patsy Cline

Virginia Patterson Hensley

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Blythe

Gary Cooper

Frank James Cooper

David Copperfield

David Kotkin

Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick McManus

Joan Crawford

Lucille Le Sueur

Michael Crawford

Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith

Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis Crosby

Tony Curtis

Bernard Schwarz

Big Daddy (Wrestler)

Shirley Crabtree

Dana

Rosemary Brown

Bobby Darin

Walden Robert Cassello

Doris Day

Doris van Kappelhof

Kiki Dee

Pauline Matthews

John Denver

Henry John Deutschendorf

Marlene Dietrich

Maria Magdalele von Losch

Donatello

Donato di Noccolo di Betto Bardi

Diana Dors

Mavis Fluck

Kirk Douglas

Isidore Densky

Charlie Drake

Charles Sprigall

Bob Dylan

Robert Allen Zimmerman

Carmen Electra

Tara Leigh Parker

Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers

David Essex

David Albert Cook

Gloria Estefan

Gloria Maria Fajardo

Kenny Everett

Maurice Cole

Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Elton Ulman

Adam Faith

Terence Neelhams

Georgie Fame

Clive Powell

Errol Flynn

Leslie Thomas Flynn

Wayne Fontana

Glyn Geoffrey Ellis

Margot Fonteyn

Margaret Hookham

Gerald Ford

Leslie Lynch King

Billy Fury

Ronald Wycherley

Ali G

Sasha Baron Cohen

Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandus Karamchand Gandhi

Greta Garbo

Greta Lovisa Gustafson

Ava Gardner

Lucy Johnson

Judy Garland

Frances Ethel Gumm

George Gershwin

Jacob Gershvin

Gary Glitter

Paul Francis Gadd

Whoopi Goldberg

Caryn Johnson

Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldfish

Benny Goodman

Benjamin David

Lew Grade

Louis Eionogradsky

Stewart Granger

James Lablanche Stewart

Cary Grant

Archibald Alexander Leach

El Greco

Domeikos Theotokopoulos

Jean Harlow

Harlean Carpentier

Lawrence Harvey

Larushka Mischa Skikne

Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jean Studlendegehawn

Rita Hayworth

Margarita Carmen Cansino

Audrey Hepburn

Edda Van Heemstra Hepburn-Rusten

James Herriott

Alfred Wright

Charlton Heston

John Charlton Carter

Wild Bill Hickock

James Butler Hickock

Benny Hill

Alfred Hawthorne Hill

Hulk Hogan

Terry Gene Bollea

William Holden

William F. Beedle Jr.

Billie Holliday

Eleanor Fagan

Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley

Bob Hope

Leslie Townes Hope

Harrt Houdini

Erik Weisz

Rock Hudson

Roy Harold Scherer Jnr

Engelbert Humperdink

Arnold George (Jerry) Dorcey

Billy Idol

William Michael Albert Broad

Calamity Jane

Martha Burk

Elton John

Reginald Dwight

Tom Jones

Thomas Jones Woodward

Jordan

Katie Price

Eden Kane

Richard Sarstedt

Boris Karloff

William Pratt

Danny Kaye

David Daniel Kaminsky

Billy J, Kramer

William H, Ashton

Hedy Lamarr

Hedwig Keisler

Dorothy Lamour

Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton

Michael Langdon

Eugene Maurice Orowitz

Mario Lanza

Alfredo Arnold Cocozza

Estee Lauder

Josephine Esther Mentzer

Sir Harry Lauder

Hugh MacLennan

John Le Carre

David Cornwell

Brenda Lee

Brenda Mae Tarpley

Peggy Lee

Norma Egstrom

Vivien Leigh

Vivien Mary Hartley

Herbert Lom

Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacewich ze Schluderpacheru

Carole Lombard

Jane Peters

Sophia Loren

Sofia Scicolone

Joe Louis

Joseph Louis Barrow

Lulu

Marie MacDonald McLaughlin Lawrie

Elle Macpherson

Eleanor Gow

Barry Manilow

Barry Alan Pincus

Jayne Mansfield

Vera Jane Palmer

Dame Alicia Markova

Lilian Alicia Marks

Dean Martin

Dino Paul Crocetti

Hank Marvin

Brian Robson Rankin

Walter Matthau

Walter Matasschanskayasky

Tony Meehan

Daniel Meehan

Dame Nelli Melba

Helen Porter Mitchell

Freddie Mercury

Farookh Balsara

George Michael

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou

Moliere

Jean Baptiste Poquelin

Marilyn Monroe

Norma Jean Baker (or Mortenson)

Matt Monroe

Terry Parsons

Demi Moore

Demetria Gene Guynes

Eric Morecambe

John Eric Bartholemew

Billy Ocean

Leslie Sebastian Charles

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair

Elaine Paige

Elaine Bickerstaff

Jack Palance

Walter Jack Palahnuik

Tom Parker (Colonel)

Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk

Pele

Edson Arantes do Nascimento

Luke Perry

Coy Luther Perry III

Pat Phoenix (UK Soap star)

Pat Pilkington

Edith Piaf

Edith Giovanna Gassion

Stephanie Powers

Stefania Zofia Federkeiwicz

P. J. Proby

James Marcus Smith

Dame Marie Rambert

Cylvia Rambam

Rasputin

Gregory Yefimovich Novykh

Nancy Reagan (was Davis)

Ann Francis Robbins

Vic Reeves

Jim Moir

Cliff Richard

Harry Roger Webb

Joan Rivers

Joan Molinsky

Sugar Ray Robinson

Walker Smith

The Rock

Dwayne Douglas Johnson

Ginger Rogers

Virginia McMath

Mickey Rooney

Joe Yule

Meg Ryan

Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra

George Sand

Amandine Dupin

Lily Savage

Paul O'Grady

Del Shannon

Charles Weedon Westover

Omar Sharif

Michael Shalhoub

Irwin Shaw

Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff

Sandy Shaw

Sandra Goodrich

Jay Silverheels (Tonto)

Harold J. Smith

Nina Simone

Eunice Waymon

Fatboy Slim

Norman Cook

Dusty Springfield

Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashyiti

Alvin Stardust

Bernard Jewry

Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey

Tommy Steel

Tommy Hicks

Sting

Gordon Sumner

Tom Stoppard

Tom Straussler

Robert Taylor

Splanger Arlington Brugh

Mother Teresa

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhuis

Tito

Josip Broz

Leon Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Bronshlein

Tina Turner

Anna Mae Bullock

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Shania Twain

Eileen Regina Edwards

Twiggy

Lesley Hornby

Conway Twitty

Harold Jenkins

Bonnie Tyler

Gaynor Hopkins

Ricky Valence

David Spencer

Rudolph Valentino

Rodolpho Alphonso di Valentina d'Antonguolla

Frankie Vaughan

Frank Abselon

Voltaire

Francois-Marie Arouet

John Wayne

Marion Michael Morrison

Sigourney Weaver

Susan Weaver

Raquel Welch

Raquel Tejada

Kim Wilde

Kim Smith

Marty Wilde

Reginald Smith

Gene Wilder

Jerome (Jerry) Silberman

Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams

Oprah Winfrey

Orpah Winfrey

Ernie Wise

Ernest Wiseman

Stevie Wonder

Steveland Judkins

Natalie Wood

Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin

Bill Wyman (Rolling Stone)

William Perks