List of pseudonyms
This article gives a list of pseudonyms, in various categories.
See also: List of real-life characters
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
- Note: List of Urdu language poets provides pen names for a range of Urdu poets.
- Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Annu)
- Acton Bell (Anne Brontë)
- Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier)
- Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)
- Anne Rice (Howard Allen O'Brien)
- Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
- Boz (Charles Dickens)
- Branislav Nusic (Ben Akiba)
- 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)
- Emanuel Morgan (Witter Bynner)
- 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)
- Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
- Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins)
- Nisa (Nicola Salerno), Italian lyricist
- 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)
- Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
- Saki (Herbert Hugh Munro)
- Sapper (H. C. McNeile)
- Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis)
- 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)
Politicians
- Abu Ala (Ahmad Qurei)
- Abu Ammar and Yasser Arafat (Muhammad Abd ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husayni)
- Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas)
- Abu Nidal (Sabri Khalil al-Banna)
- Anacharsis Cloots (Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots)
- Anthony Garotinho (Anthony William Matheus de Oliveira)
- Bob Denard (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
- Che Guevara (Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna)
- Comandante Gonzalo (Abimael Guzmán)
- Germain (Ernest Mandel)
- Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (Gheorghe Gheorghiu)
- Gracchus Babeuf (François-Noël Babeuf)
- Gus Hall (Arvo Kusta Halberg)
- Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Tat Thŕnh)
- Houari Boumedienne (Mohamed Ben Brahim Boukharouba)
- H. Rap Brown (Hubert Gerold Brown)
- Ińaki de Rentería (Ignacio Gracia Arregui)
- János Kádár (János Csermanek)
- Joseph Estrada (Joseph Marcelo Ejército)
- Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili)
- Josip Tito (Josip Broz)
- J. Posadas (Homero Cristali)
- Kay Rala Xanana Gusmăo (José Alexandre Gusmăo)
- Kim Il Sung (Kim Song Ju)
- Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
- La Pasionaria (Dolores Ibárruri)
- Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)
- Loulou (Enver Hoxha)
- Martin Thembisile Hani (Chris Hani)
- Michel Pablo (Michel Raptis)
- Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu)
- Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
- Nahuel Moreno (Hugo Bressano)
- Pol Pot (Saloth Sar)
- Prachanda (Pushpa Kamal Dahal)
- Saďd Moustapha Mahdjoub (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
- Sara Jane Olson (Kathleen Soliah)
- Tariq Aziz (Michael Yuhanna)
- Ted Grant (Isaac Blank)
- Tony Cliff (Ygael Gluckstein)
- Tristán Marof (Gustavo Navarro)
- Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)
- William Rabbit (Katay Don Sasorith)
Religion
- Mata Amritanandamayi (Sudhamani)
- His Divine Grace Abhay Charana-Aravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De)
- Buddha Gautama
- Yusuf Islam (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, formerly known as Cat Stevens)
- Pope John-Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła)
- 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
Main article (with full list): Stage name
- Albert Brooks (Albert Lawrence Einstein)
- Alice Cooper (Vincent Damon Furnier)
- Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Italiano)
- Ashok Kumar (Kumudlal Kanjilal Ganguly)
- Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds)
- Barbara (Monique Serf)
- Bela Lugosi (Be'la Ferenc Dezso Blasko)
- Betty Hutton (Elizabeth June Thornburg)
- Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan)
- Bobby Darin (Walden Robert Cassotto)
- Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman)
- Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope)
- Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins)
- Bono (Paul Hewson)
- Burt Holiday (Bonaldo Bonaldi)
- Cantinflas (Mario Moreno)
- Capucine (Germaine Lefebvre)
- Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters)
- Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach)
- Cat Stevens (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, later Yusuf Islam)
- Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Dorléac)
- Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez)
- Chespirito (Roberto Gómez Bolanos)
- Cilla Black (Priscilla White)
- Conway Twitty (Harold Jenkins)
- Coolio (Artis Ivey, Jr.)
- 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)
- The Edge (David Evans)
- 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)
- Frankie Valli (Francis Castelluccio)
- 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)
- Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss)
- Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson)
- Ice T (Tracy Morrow)
- Jamie Fox (Eric Bishop)
- Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer)
- Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpentier)
- Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
- Jill Corey (Norma Jean Speranza)
- Joan Crawford (Lucille Fay LeSueur)
- 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)
- Marni Nixon (Marni McEathron)
- Marion Hutton (Marion Thornburg)
- 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)
- 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)
- Slash (Saul Hudson)
- Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
- Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone)
- Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris)
- Sting (Gordon Sumner)
- Sugar (Stephanie Beard)
- Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock)
- Tom Cruise (Thomas Cruise Mapother IV)
- Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz)
- Tony Martin (Alvin Morris)
- Vangelis (Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou)
- Vic Reeves (Jim Moir)
- Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley)
Sportspeople
Other
- Manoj (Mayank)
External links
- FamousFolk - An extensive list of pseudonyms (http://www.famousfolk.com/)
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