Stage name

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A stage name, or a screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers (such as actors, comedians, musicians, clowns, and professional wrestlers.

Performers take stage names for many reasons, often because their real name is considered unattractive, dull, unintentionally amusing, or difficult to pronounce or spell, or because it has either been used by another notable individual or projects the wrong image. Sometimes a performer wishes to adopt a name that is unusual (sometimes even outlandish), memorable or that complements his/her performing persona, or because he/she wishes to remain anonymous in relation to another sphere of work.

[edit] Family connections

Some individuals who are related to an already famous person who have taken a different last name so that they are not perceived to have received undue benefit from their family connection. Examples of these include Nicolas Cage (actually Nicholas Coppola, nephew of Francis Ford Coppola) and Mike McGear (brother of Paul McCartney). Conversely, individuals who wish to receive benefit from their family connections may take that loved one's first or last name. Lon Chaney Sr.'s son Creighton spent a number of years appearing in minor roles before renaming himself Lon Chaney Jr..

In an attempt to make a career on his own, Emilio Estevez chose not to take his father's stage name "Sheen," and uses his birth name "Estevez."

[edit] Actors' professional associations

Guilds and associations that represent actors, such as the Screen Actors Guild in the United States and British Actors' Equity Association in the United Kingdom, stipulate that no two members may have identical working names. An actor whose name has already been taken must choose a new name. Notable examples include Nathan Lane, whose birth name, Joseph Lane, was already in use, Stewart Granger, whose birth name was James Stewart, and Michael Keaton, born Michael Douglas. The latter chose the last name Keaton simply because he was an admirer of actress Diane Keaton.

Rarely, an actor may change his name if he shares it with a namesake in another field. Albert Brooks, originally Albert Einstein, changed his name so as not to be confused with the renowned physicist.

[edit] Ethnicity

In the past, a stage name was often used when a performer's real name was considered to denote a specific ethnicity that faced potential discrimination. One of the most famous examples of this type of name change involved Freddie Mercury of Queen, who was born Farrokh Bulsara to Parsi parents; his name change was partly intended to conceal his heritage. Historically, Jews in Hollywood were encouraged to anglicize their names to avoid possible discrimination. This still happens to a degree (Jon Stewart, for instance), but the growing acceptance of ethnic performers in the performing arts has made this occurrence less frequent.

[edit] Ease of use

Another consideration in choosing a stage name is ease of use. The Actors' Equity Association (AEA) advises performers to select a name that is easy for others to pronounce, spell and remember. Some performers while paying great attention to their skills and abilities give little thought to the difference that a well thought out name can make to their career. Often it is only after the realization that a poorly chosen name results in an undesired impression that a person or group decides on a different name. A survey of the three US regional heads of AEA reveals that a performer whose name is difficult to pronounce, spell, or remember is less likely to be hired than other performers.^{[citation needed]}

Actor Michael Caine was born Maurice Micklewhite and chose the name Michael because he preferred the sound of it to the less glamorous-sounding "Maurice". He chose the name Caine reputedly because at the precise instant he needed to decide upon his new stage name, he saw a cinema marquee for the then-current movie The Caine Mutiny and thought that it would make a good last name in conjunction with Michael.

[edit] Musical genres

Some types of music are more associated with stage names than others. For example hip hop musicians almost always use stage names, whereas 'classical' composers and performers virtually never do. Some Algerian raï musicians use Cheb (for men) or Chaba (Chebba) for women. Both Arabic words mean "young" (e.g. as in Cheb Khaled, or "Young Khaled").

[edit] Multiple stage names

Some performers take a series of different stage names. The British pop singer successful in the 1970s as Alvin Stardust previously went by the stage name of Shane Fenton in the 1960s. He had been born as Bernard William Jewry.

[edit] Legitimised stage names

Many performers refer to their stage name as their "professional name." In some cases performers subsequently adopt their stage name as their legal name. For instance, the former Robert Zimmerman's legal name has been Robert Dylan (Bob Dylan) since he changed it at the Supreme Court building in New York City in August 1962. Elton John was born Reginald Dwight but changed his name by deed poll and subsequently took that name as his real name. When he was knighted, he became Sir Elton John rather than Sir Reginald Dwight. Names so adopted are technically no longer "stage names," but are often perceived as such by the public (and for that reason stage names that come into that category are included in the following list).

[edit] Pen names

The equivalent concept among writers is called a nom de plume or pen-name.

[edit] List

Note on methodology of the list: Individuals who have dropped their last name and substituted their middle name as their last name are listed. Also listed are individuals who have changed the spelling of one (or more) of their legal names (such as Willem Dafoe). People whose main forename just happens not to be the first one (such as Paul McCartney and Marie Osmond) are not listed here—these are their real names, not stage names.

Also, people who are referred to by merely a shortened or informal version of their given name (such as Bob Barker and Jimmie Rodgers) and people who may be popularly (though not necessarily professionally) known by a nickname (such as Robert John ("Mutt") Lange) will not be listed here.

See also: List of entertainers by nickname.

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Stage names listed alphabetically according to surname (assumed or genuine) and nickname:

[edit] A

• Lee Aaron - Karen Lynn Greening
• Goodman Ace - Goodman Aiskowitz
• Jane Ace - Jane Epstein
• Mellow Man Ace — Ulpiano Sergio Reyes
• Derek Acorah - Derek Johnson
• Don Adams — Donald James Yarmy
• Sunrise Adams - Carrie Huggins
• Tracey Adams - Deborah Blaisdell
• Adamski — Adam Tinley
• MC ADE — Adrian Hines
• Adeva — Patricia Daniels
• King Adrock — Adam Horovitz
• Afrob — Robert Zemichiel
• Afroman — Joseph Foreman
• Agent M - Emily Whitehurst
• Karen Akers - Karen Orth-Pallavicini
• Akon — Aliaune Thiam (note: "Akon" is the second-to-last name in the artist's very long real name)
• Akufen — Marc Leclair
• Eddie Albert — Edward Albert Heimberger
• Bernard Albrecht — Bernard Dicken
• Alan Alda — Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo
• Robert Alda — Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo
• Flex Alexander - Mark Alexander Knox
• Jason Alexander — Jason Scott Greenspan
• Peter Alexander - Peter Alexander Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer
• Mary Alice - Mary Alice Smith
• Byron Allen - Byron Allen Folks
• Dave Allen - David Tynan O'Mahoney
• Elizabeth Allen - Elizabeth Ellen Gillease
• Fred Allen - John Florence Sullivan
• Rae Allen - Raffaella D'Abruzzo
• Tim Allen — Timothy Alan Dick
• Woody Allen — Allen Stewart Konigsberg
• Bobby Alto - Robert Altomare
• Don Alvarado - José Paige
• Lauren Ambrose - Lauren Anne D'Ambruoso
• Amina - Franco-Tunisian pop singer and participant in a 1991 Eurovision song contest
• Tori Amos — Myra Ellen Amos
• Anastacia — Anastacia Lyn Newkirk
• Trey Anastasio — Ernest Joseph Anastasio III
• Thomas Anders — Bernd Weidung
• Broncho Billy Anderson — Max H. Aronson
• Juliet Anderson - Judith Carr
• André 3000 — André Benjamin
• André the Giant — André René Roussimoff
• Brittany Andrews - Michelle Carmel Barry
• Julie Andrews — Julia Elizabeth Wells
• Bob Andy - Keith Anderson
• Horace Andy — Horace Hinds
• Eve Angel - Eva Dobos
• John Aniston - Ioannis Anastassakis
• Julia Ann - Julia Ann Tavella
• Ann-Margret — Ann Margaret Olsson
• ANT - Anthony Steven Kalloniatis
• Adam Ant — Stuart Leslie Goddard
• Gerald Anthony - Gerald Anthony Bucchiarelli
• Michael Anthony - Michael Anthony Sobolewski
• Ray Anthony - Raymond Antonioni
• Steve Anthony - Steve Gomes
• Alan Anton - Alan Alizojvodic
• Apache Indian — Steven Kapur
• Aphex Twin — Richard D. James
• apl.de.ap (Black Eyed Peas) - Allen Pineda Lindo
• Apollonia — Patricia Kotero
• Fiona Apple — Fiona Apple Maggart
• Eve Arden — Eunice Quedens
• Jann Arden - Jann Arden Richards
• Toni Arden — Antoinette Ardizzone
• Tina Arena — Filippina Lydia Arena
• Victor Argo - Victor Jimenez
• Richard Arlen - Cornelius Richard Van Mattimore
• Bea Arthur — Bernice Frankel
• Julia Arthur — Ida Lewis
• Ashanti — Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas
• Brooke Ashley - Anne Marie Ballowe
• Fred Astaire — Frederick Austerlitz
• Mary Astor — Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
• Astro — Terence Wilson
• Jeanne Aubert — Marguerite Perrinot
• Gene Austin - Lemeul Eugene Lucas
• Steve Austin — Steven Williams
• Frankie Avalon — Francis Thomas Avallone
• Jane Avril — Jeanne Beaudon
• AZ — Anthony Cruz
• Trey Azagthoth — George Emmanuel III
• Charles Aznavour — Shahnour Aznavurjan
• AiM — Ai Maeda

[edit] B

• Derek B — Derek Bolland
• Eric B — Eric Barrier
• Jazzie B — Beresford Romeo
• Jon B. — Jonathan David Buck
• Mel B - Melanie Janine Brown
• B-Real — Louis Freese
• (French) Baaziz - Abdelazziz Bakhti, Algerian-born Berber singer
• Babyface — Kenneth Brian Edmonds
• Lauren Bacall — Betty Joan Perske
• Barbara Bach - Barbara Goldbach
• Catherine Bach - Catherine Bachman
• Badly Drawn Boy — Damon Gough
• Erykah Badu — Erica Wright
• Benny Bailey - Ernest Harold Bailey
• Cheryl Baker — Rita Crudgington
• Josephine Baker — Josephine Carson
• LaVern Baker — Delores Williams
• Tammy Faye Bakker - Tamara Faye LaValley
• Bobby Ball - Robert Harper
• Kaye Ballard — Catherine Gloria Balotta
• Afrika Bambaataa — Kevin Donovan
• Eric Bana — Eric Banadinovich
• Anne Bancroft — Anna Maria Louisa Italiano
• Briana Banks - Briana Bany
• Elizabeth Banks - Elizabeth Mitchell
• Lloyd Banks — Christopher Lloyd
• Jill Banner - Mary Molumby
• Buju Banton - Mark Anthony Myrie
• Barbara — Monique Serf
• Brigitte Bardot — Camille Javal
• Lynn Bari - Margaret Schuyler Fisher
• Binnie Barnes - Gittel Enoyce Barnes (later Gertrude Maude Barnes)
• Baron Longfellow — Andrew Youakim
• Candy Barr — Juanita Slusher
• Majel Barrett — Majel Lee Hudec
• Rona Barrett — Rona Burstein
• Barbara Barrie — Barbara Ann Berman
• Chris Barrie - Christopher Jonathan Brown
• Mona Barrie - Mona Smith
• Blue Barron - Harry Freidman
• Gene Barry - Eugene Klass
• Lionel Barrymore — Lionel Herbert Blythe
• Michael Barrymore - Michael Ciaran Parker
• Freddie Bartholomew - Frederick Llewellyn March
• Billy Barty — William John Bertanzetti
• Toni Basil — Antonia Basilotta
• Batista — David Michael Bautista
• Stiv Bators — Steven John Bator
• Orson Bean — Dallas Frederick Burrows
• Guy Béart — Guy Béhar
• Beck — Bek David Campbell Hansen
• Bedders — Mark Bedford
• Beenie Man — Anthony Moses Davis
• Tia Bella - Christina Smith
• Buzz Belmondo - Lorenzo Matawaran
• Pat Benatar — Patricia Mae Andrzejewski
• Dirk Benedict - Dirk Niewoehner
• Tony Bennett — Anthony Dominick Benedetto
• Jack Benny — Benjamin Kubelsky
• Barbi Benton - Barbara Klein
• Benzino — Raymond Scott
• Tom Berenger — Thomas Michael Moore
• Polly Bergen - Nellie Paulina Burgin
• Milton Berle — Milton Berlinger
• Irving Berlin — Israel Isidore Baline
• Ben Bernie - Bernard Anzelevitz
• Dru Berrymore - Nicole Hilbig
• Jello Biafra — Eric Boucher
• Big Boi — Antwan André Patton
• The Big Bopper — Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr
• Big L — Lamont Coleman
• Big Pun — Christopher Lee Rios
• Big Youth — Manley Augustus Buchanan
• Mr. Biggs — Ellis William (not to be confused with the Ronald Isley alter ego)
• Acker Bilk — Bernard Stanley Bilk
• Barbara Billingsley - Barbara Lillian Combes
• Beeb Birtles — Gerard Bertelkamp
• Joey Bishop — Joseph Abraham Gottlieb
• Julie Bishop - Jacqueline Wells
• Kelly Bishop - Carole Bishop
• Jacqueline Bisset — Winifred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset
• Bill Bixby — Wilfred Bailey Bixby
• Bizarre — Rufus Johnson
• Bizzy Bone — Bryon McCane
• Björk — Björk Gudmundsdóttir
• Cilla Black — Priscilla Maria Veronica White
• Frank Black — Charles Michael Kitridge Thompson IV
• Jack Black — Thomas Black
• Jet Black — Brian Duffy
• Karen Black — Karen Blanche Ziegler
• Michael Ian Black — Michael Schwarz
• Amanda Blake — Beverly Louise Neill
• Robert Blake — Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi
• Marcie Blane - Marcia Blank
• Claire Bloom - Patricia Claire Blume
• Kurtis Blow — Curtis Walker
• Blowfly — Clarence Reid
• Ashley Blue - Oriana Rene Small
• Vanessa Blue - Tanya Faulkner
• Betty Blythe - Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter
• DJ Bobo — Peter René Baumann
• Dirk Bogarde — Derek van den Bogaerde
• Marc Bolan — Mark Feld
• Jon Bon Jovi — John Francis Bongiovi
• Lisa Bonet — Lisa Boney
• Bono — Paul David Hewson
• Sonny Bono — Salvatore Philip Bono
• Taka Boom - Yvonne Stevens
• Pat Boone — Charles Eugene Boone
• Shirley Booth — Thelma Marjorie Ford
• Victor Borge — Borge Rosenbaum
• Ernest Borgnine — Ermes Effron Borgnino
• Lyrics Born — Tom Shimura
• Bounty Killer — Rodney Price
• Bow Wow — Shad Gregory Moss
• David Bowie — David Robert Jones
• Boxcar Willie — Lecil Travis Martin
• Jenny Boyd - Helen Mary Boyd
• Erica Boyer - Amanda Gantt
• Brandy — Brandy Rayonda Norwood
• Da Brat — Shawntae Harris
• Alan Braxe — Alain Quême
• Veronica Brazil - Veronica Cruz
• Nicholas Brendon — Nicholas Brendon Schultz
• Evelyn Brent - Mary Elizabeth Riggs
• George Brent - George Brendan Nolan
• Jeremy Brett - Peter Jeremy William Huggins
• Teresa Brewer — Teresa Breuer
• Fanny Brice - Fania Borach
• Christie Brinkley — Christie Lee Hudson
• Pete Briquette — Patrick Cusack
• Elton Britt - James Britt Baker
• May Britt — Maybritt Wilkens
• J. Edward Bromberg — Joseph Bromberger
• James Brolin — James Kenneth Bruderlin
• Charles Bronson — Charles Buchinski
• Kelly Brook - Kelly Ann Parsons
• Albert Brooks — Albert Lawrence Einstein
• Donnie Brooks — John Dee Abohosh
• Mel Brooks — Melvin Kaminsky
• Foxy Brown — Inga Marchaud
• Vanessa Brown - Smylla Brynd
• Aristide Bruant — Louis Armand Bruant
• Lenny Bruce — Leonard Alfred Schneider
• Patrick Bruel — Patrick Benguigui
• Sabrina Bryan - Reba Sabrina Hinojos
• Buckethead — Brian Carroll
• Bebe Buell — Beverle Lorence Buell
• Bun B — Bernard Freeman
• Burning Spear — Winston Rodney
• George Burns — Nathan Birnbaum
• Ellen Burstyn — Edna Mae Gilhooley
• Buster Bloodvessel — Douglas Trendle
• Busty Heart - Susan Sykes
• Brett Butler (actress/comedienne) - Brett Anderson
• Red Buttons — Aaron Chwatt

[edit] C

• Mel C — Melanie Chisholm
• Christian Cage - Jason Reso
• Nicolas Cage — Nicholas Kim Coppola
• Sir Michael Caine — Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
• Rory Calhoun - Francis Timothy McCown Durgin
• Maria Callas — Maria Kalogeropoulos
• Cam'ron — Cameron Giles
• Monica Cameron - Monic Kincses
• Rod Cameron - Nathan Roderick Cox
• Camoflauge — Jason Johnson
• Dinah Cancer - Mary Simms
• Canibus — Germaine Williams
• Dyan Cannon — Samile Diane Friesen
• Freddy Cannon — Frederick Anthony Picariello
• Cantinflas — Mario Moreno
• Eddie Cantor — Edward Israel Iskowitz
• Blu Cantrell - Tiffany Cobb
• Christy Canyon - Melissa Bardizbanian
• Jesse Capelli - Jennifer Leone
• Cappadonna — Darryl Hill
• Kate Capshaw - Kathleen Sue Nail
• Capucine — Germaine Lefebvre
• Irene Cara - Irene Escalera
• Mary Carey - Mary Ellen Cook
• Caribou — Dan Snaith (formerly Manitoba)
• Kitty Carlisle - Kitty Carlisle Hart
• Don Carlos - Euvin Spencer
• Judy Carne - Joyce Botterill
• Alan Carney - David Boughal
• Sue Carol - Evelyn Lederer
• Cathy Carr - Angelina Helen Catherine Cordovano
• Eric Carr - Paul Charles Caravello
• Vikki Carr — Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona
• David Carradine - John Arthur Carradine
• Asia Carrera - Jessica Andrea Steinhauser
• Tia Carrere — Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo
• Diahann Carroll — Carol Diahann Johnson
• Carrot Top — Scott Thompson
• Jasper Carrott OBE - Robert Davies
• Jeannie Carson - Jean Schufflebottom
• Betty Carter - Lillie Mae Jones
• Mrs. Leslie Carter — Caroline Louise Dudley Carter Payne
• Nell Carter - Nell Ruth Hardy
• Nina Carter - Penny Mallett
• Johnny Cash - J.R. Cash
• Tabatha Cash - Céline Barbe
• Hopalong Cassidy — William Lawrence Boyd
• Cassie - Casandra Ventura
• Peggie Castle - Peggy Blair
• C.C. Catch — Caroline Catherine Müller
• Phoebe Cates - Phoebe Belle Katz
• Emma Caulfield — Emma Chukker
• Cedric the Entertainer — Cedric Kyles
• Marilyn Chambers - Marilyn Ann Briggs
• Chamillionaire - Hakeem Seriki
• Jackie Chan — Chan Kong-sang (Cheng Long was a Chinese screen name)
• Gene Chandler — Eugene Dixon
• Jeff Chandler — Ira Grossel
• Stockard Channing —- Susan Antonia Williams Stockard
• Omar Chaparro - Omar Rafael Chaparro Alvidrez
• Cyd Charisse - Tula Ellice Finklea
• Ray Charles — Ray Charles Robinson
• Nikki Charm - Shannon Louise Eaves
• Charo — Maria Rosario Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza
• Charley Chase - Charles Joseph Parrott, Jr.
• Chevy Chase — Cornelius Crane Chase
• Vanessa Chase - Lara Marie Oveross
• (French) Chaba (Chebba) Zahouania - Halima Mazzi
• Chayanne — Elmer Figueroa de Arce
• Cheb Hasni - Hasni Chekroun
• Cheb Khaled - Khaled Hadj Brahim
• Cheb Mami - Mohamed Khelifati
• Chubby Checker — Ernest Evans
• Joan Chen — Chong Chen
• Cher — Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre
• Cherrelle - Cheryl An Norton
• Nena Cherry - Dawn Marie Anderson
• Chespirito — Roberto Gómez Bolaños
• Chilli — Rozonda Ocielian Thomas
• Chingy — Howard Bailey, Jr.
• Chloe (actress) - Chloe Hoffman
• Choclair — Kareem Blake
• Annabel Chong — Grace Quek
• Tommy Chong - Thomas Chong Kin
• Agatha Christie — Agatha Marie Clarissa Miller
• Katalyn Cica — Tímea Vágvölgyi
• Cinque - Terrance Mason
• Eric Clapton — Eric Patrick Clapp
• Buddy Clark — Samuel Goldberg
• Dane Clark - Bernard Zanville
• Dick Clark - Richard Wagstaff Clark
• Petula Clark - Petula Sally Olwen Clark
• Andrew Dice Clay — Andrew Clay Silverstein
• David Clayton-Thomas — David Henry Thomsett
• Jimmy Cliff — James Chambers
• Patsy Cline — Virginia Patterson Hensley
• Lee J. Cobb — Amos Jacob
• Cocoa Tea - Calvin George Scott
• Alma Cogan — Alma Angela Cohen
• Ian Cognito - Paul Barbieri
• Anita Colby - Anita Counihan
• Chanel Cole - Chanel Cole Whalley
• Kyla Cole - Martina Jacová
• Nat King Cole — Nathaniel Adams Coles
• Collette - Collette Roberts
• Careena Collins - Sandee Johnson
• Jo Collins - Janet Canoy
• Jessi Colter - Miriam Johnson
• Common — Lonnie Rashied Lynn
• Didi Conn - Edith Bernstein
• Chuck Connors - Kevin Joseph Connors
• Robert Conrad — Konrad Robert Falkowski
• Eddie Constantine - Edward Constantinowsky
• Gary Conway - Gareth Carmody
• Karla Conway - Karla Jo Musacchia
• Coolio — Artis Leon Ivey, Jr.
• Tré Cool — Frank Edwin Wright III
• Alice Cooper — Vincent Damon Furnier (Vincent legally changed his name to Alice Cooper after quitting the original band 'Alice Cooper' so he could use the name)
• Gary Cooper — Frank James Cooper
• Pat Cooper - Pasquale Caputo
• David Copperfield — David Seth Kotkin
• Mara Corday - Marilyn Joan Watts
• Jill Corey — Norma Jean Speranza
• Corneille — Corneille Nyungura
• Bud Cort - Walter Edward Cox
• Dave "Baby" Cortez — David Cortez Clowney
• Elvis Costello —- Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus
• Lou Costello — Louis Francis Cristillo
• Josie Cotton - Kathleen Josey
• Desireé Cousteau - Deborah Clearbranch
• Bucky Covington — William Joel Covington III
• Sindee Coxx - Brenda Grislaw
• Carl Crack — Carl Bohm
• Joan Crawford — Lucille Fay LeSueur
• Michael Crawford — Michael Dumble-Smith
• Randy Crawford — Veronica Crawford
• Peter Criss — Peter Criscoula
• Bing Crosby — Harry Lillis Crosby
• Christopher Cross — Christopher Geppert
• Tom Cruise — Thomas Cruise Mapother, IV
• James Cruze - Jens Vera Cruz Bosen
• Stan Cullimore - Ian Cullimore
• Carol Cummings - Kimberly Dee Spiess
• Constance Cummings - Constance Halverstadt
• Irving Cummings - Irving Camisky
• Betty Curse - Megan Burns
• King Curtis — Curtis Ousley
• Tony Curtis — Bernard Schwartz
• Miley Cyrus - Destiny Cyrus

[edit] D

• Chuck D — Carlton Ridenhour
• Master D — Deeder Saidullah Zaman
• Mike D — Michael Diamond
• D-Flame — Daniel Kretschmar
• D'Angelo — Michael Eugene Archer
• Willem Dafoe — William Dafoe, Jr.
• Khosrow Daivari — Shawn Daivari
• Dalbello — Lisa Dalbello
• Alan Dale — Aldo Sigismondi
• Cass Daley - Catherine Dailey
• Bobby Dall — Robert Harry Kuykendall
• Béatrice Dalle — Béatrice Cabarrou
• Brody Dalle — Bree Leslie Pucilowski ("Dalle" surname adopted due to admiration to Béatrice Dalle)
• Mr. Dalvin — Dalvin DeGrate
• Damia — Marie-Louise Damien
• Jerry Dammers — Gerald Dankin
• Vic Damone — Vito Farinola
• Dana — Rosemary Brown
• Karl Dane - Rasmus Karl Therkelsen Gottlieb
• Rodney Dangerfield — Jacob Cohen
• Tony Danza — Anthony Iadanza
• Glenn Danzig — Glenn Allen Anzalone
• Terence Trent D'Arby — Terence Trent Howard; later became Sananda Maitreya
• Barbara Dare - Stacey Mitnick
• Bobby Darin — Walden Robert Cassotto
• Angel Dark - Viktoria Knezova
• Mona Darkfeather — Josephine Mona Workman
• Linda Darnell - Monetta Eloyse Darnell
• Dimebag Darrell — Darrell Lance Abbott
• James Darren — James William Ercolani
• Racquel Darrian - Kelly Jackson
• Dascha - Dagmar Kozelková
• Randy David — Randy David Goldstein
• Bette Davis — Ruth Elizabeth Davis
• Gail Davis - Betty Jeanne Davis (nee Grayson)
• Jim Davis - Marlin Davis
• Joan Davis - Madonna Josephine Davis
• Nancy Davis — Anne Frances Robbins (Mrs. Nancy Reagan)
• Ossie Davis — Raiford Chatman Davis
• Bobby Davro - Robert Nankeville
• Richard Dawson — Colin Emm
• Bobby Day — Robert J. Byrd
• Dennis Day - Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty
• Doris Day — Doris von Kappelhoff
• Inaya Day - Inaya Davis
• Taylor Dayne — Lesley Wunderman
• Chris de Burgh — Christopher John Davison
• Yvonne De Carlo - Peggy Yvonne Middleton
• Inspectah Deck — Jason Hunter
• Kiki Dee — Pauline Matthews
• Kool Moe Dee — Mohandas Dewese
• Sandra Dee — Alexandra Zuck
• Cat Deeley - Catherine Elizabeth Deeley
• Deesha - Baldesh Kaur Sarai
• Desmond Dekker — Desmond Dacres
• Del Tha Funky Homosapien — Teron Delvon Jones
• Jan Delay - Jan Phillip Eißfeldt
• Danièle Delorme — Danièle Girard
• Vanessa del Rio - Ana Maria Sanchez
• Samy Deluxe — Samuel Sorge
• Monique DeMoan — Cheyenne August Camarillo
• Rebecca DeMornay — Rebecca George
• Catherine Deneuve — Catherine Dorléac
• Nikita Denise - Denisa Balážová
• Sandy Denny - Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny
• John Denver — Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.
• Margot Depard — Tímea Vágvölgyi
• Amir Derakh - Amir Davidson
• Bo Derek — Mary Cathleen Collins
• Portia de Rossi — Amanda Lee Rogers
• Johnny Desmond — Giovanni Alfredo De Simone
• Des'ree — Des'ree Weeks
• Angela Devi - Angela Shunali Dhingra
• C.C. DeVille — Bruce Anthony Johannesson
• Danny DeVito — Daniel Michaeli
• Diana Devoe - April Diane Carter
• Howard Devoto — Howard Trafford
• Buck Dharma — Donald Roeser
• Dharmendra — Dharam Singh Deol
• Nikki Dial - Nicole Grenier
• Coby Dick - Jacoby Shaddix
• B.B. Dickerson — Morris Dickerson
• Angie Dickinson —- Angeline Brown
• Bo Diddley — Ellas Bates, later Ellas McDaniel
• P. Diddy — Sean John Combs
• Dido — Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong
• Vin Diesel — Mark Vincent
• Bobby Digital — Robert Dixon
• Phyllis Diller — Phyllis Driver
• Daz Dillinger — Delmar Arnaud
• Ronnie James Dio — Ronald James Padavona
• Dion — Dion DiMucci
• Chloe Dior - Jennifer Bearley-Overgaard
• Mike Dirnt (Green Day) — Michael Ryan Pritchard
• Divine — Harris Glenn Milstead
• Floyd Dixon — Jay Riggins Jr.
• Ruben DJ — Ruben Urrutia
• DMC — Darryl McDaniels
• DMX — Earl Simmons
• The D.O.C. — Tracy Curry
• Doc Gynéco - Bruno Beausir, a popular French hip hop artist of Guadeloupian origin
• Doctor Dré (MTV/radio personality) — André Brown
• Dr. Dre (N.W.A rapper) — André Romel Young
• Doctor Sparkles - Kevin Patrick Baiko
• Thomas Dolby — Thomas Morgan Robertson
• Arielle Dombasle — Arielle Sonnery de Fromental
• Fats Domino — Antoine Domino
• Troy Donahue — Merle Johnson, Jr.
• Stacey Donovan - Kelly Howell
• Karin Dor - Kätherose Derr
• Diana Dors — Diana Mary Fluck
• Doug E. Doug - Douglas Bourne
• Jon Dough - Chester Anuszak
• Donna Douglas — Dorothy Smith
• Kirk Douglas — Issur Danielovitch Demsky
• Mike Douglas — Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr.
• Billie Dove - Bertha Bohny
• Taime Downe — Gus Molnick
• Billy Drago - Billy Eugene Burrows
• Alfred Drake - Alfred Capurro
• Charlie Drake - Charles Edward Springall
• Louise Dresser - Louise Josephine Kerlin
• Marie Dressler - Leila Marie Koerber
• Minnie Driver — Amelia Driver
• Patty Duke - Anna Marie Duke
• Margaret Dumont — Daisy Juliette Baker
• Elaine Dundy — Elaine Brimberg
• Jermaine Dupri or JD — Jermaine Dupri Maudlin
• Jeff Duran - Jeff Dandurand
• Bob Dylan — born Robert Allen Zimmerman; legally changed to Robert Dylan

[edit] E

• E — Mark Oliver Everett
• Earthquake - Nathaniel Stroman
• Sheena Easton — Sheena Shirley Orr
• Eazy-E — Eric Wright
• Johnny Eck — John Eckhart Jr.
• Billy Eckstine - William Clarence Eckstein
• Barbara Eden — Barbara Huffman
• Edge — Adam Copeland
• The Edge — David Howell Evans
• Jimmy Edwards - James Keith O'Neill
• Vince Edwards - Vincent Edward Zoino
• Edwin — Edwin Ghazal
• Eek-A-Mouse — Ripton Joseph Hilton
• Carmen Electra — Tara Leigh Patrick
• Christine Elise - Christine Elise McCarthy
• Elissa - Alissar Khoury, a Lebanese pop-music singer
• Sarah Elizabeth - Sarah Elizabeth Bowers
• Shannon Elizabeth - Shannon Elizabeth Fadal
• "Mama" Cass Elliott — Ellen Naomi Cohen
• Elvira, "Mistress of the Dark" - Cassandra Peterson
• Emerson - Emerson Ferreira da Rosa
• Ethan Embry — Ethan Philan Randall
• Eminem — Marshall Bruce Mathers III
• Enya — Eithne ní Bhraonáin
• Wreckless Eric — Eric Goulden
• Esham — Rashaam Smith
• David Essex — David Albert Cook
• Esteban — Stephen Paul
• Esthero — Jen-Bea Englishman
• Armando Alejandro Estrada - Hazem Ali
• Erik Estrada - Henry Enrique Estrada
• Kim Eternity - Kimberly Hines
• Euronymous - Øystein Aarseth
• Little Eva — Eva Narcissus Boyd
• Dale Evans - Frances Octavia Smith
• Linda Evans — Linda Evanstad
• Sophie Evans - Zsófia Szabó
• Eve — Eve Jihan Jeffers
• Everlast — Erik Schrody
• Kenny Everett — Maurice Cole

[edit] F

• Shelley Fabares - Michele Ann Marie Fabares
• Fabian - Fabiano Anthony Forte
• Lara Fabian - Lara Crokaert
• Fabio - Fabio Lanzoni
• Fabolous - Skylar Jackson
• Nanette Fabray - Nanette Ruby Bernadette Fabares
• Douglas Fairbanks - Douglas Elton Ullman
• Morgan Fairchild — Patsy Ann McClenny
• Virginia Browne Faire - Virginia Labuna
• Adam Faith — Terence Nelhams
• Eagle "Bones" Falconhawk - Ian Fowles
• Kerissa Fare - Keri Furman Mendoza
• Donna Fargo - Yvonne Vaughan
• Dennis Farina - Donaldo Guglielmo Farina
• Mimi Farina - Mimi Margharita Baez
• Jamie Farr — Jameel Joseph Farah
• Perry Farrell — Perry Bernstein
• Terry Farrell — Theresa Lee Farrell Grussendorf
• Mick Fazz - Michael Fazalore
• Mia Farrow — Maria de Lourdes Villers Farrow
• Fatboy Slim — Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook
• Fatman Scoop — Isaac Freeman III
• Alice Faye — Alice Jeane Leppert
• Freddie Fender — Baldemar G. Huerta
• Fergie (Black Eyed Peas) — Stacy Ann Ferguson
• Olinka Ferova — Tímea Vágvölgyi
• Lolo Ferrari - Eve Valois
• Tina Fey — Elizabeth Stamatina Fey
• Jacques Feyder — Jacques Frederix
• Sally Field — Sally Mahoney
• Virginia Field - Margaret Cynthia Field
• Romaine Fielding — William Grant Blandin
• Gracie Fields — Grace Stansfield
• Totie Fields - Sophie Feldman
• W. C. Fields — William Claude Dukenfield
• Dani Filth — Daniel Lloyd Davey
• Peter Finch — William Mitchell
• Jeanna Fine - Angel Gauthier
• Larry Fine — Louis Feinberg
• Johnny Fingers — Johnny Moylett
• Fish — Derek William Dick
• Ricky Fitness - Richard Falomir
• Barry Fitzgerald - William Joseph Shields
• Five for Fighting - John Ondrasik
• Ric Flair - Richard Morgan Fliehr
• Flame - Alicia Vickers
• Grandmaster Flash — Joseph Saddler
• Flavor Flav — William Drayton
• Flea —- Michael Balzary
• Rhonda Fleming - Marilyn Louis
• Flesh-n-Bone — Stanley Howse
• April Flowers - Diana Rae Espen
• Joan Fontaine — Joan de Havilland
• Gail Force - Heidi Lynn Beeson
• Frankie Ford — Francis Guzzo
• John Ford — Sean Aloysius O'Fearna
• Mary Ford — Colleen Summers
• George Formby — George Hoy Booth
• Maureen Forrester - Kathleen Stewart
• John Forsythe — John Lincoln Freund
• J.D. Fortune — Jason Dean Bennison
• John Fortune - John Wood
• Jodie Foster — Alicia Christian Foster
• Samantha Fox (actress) - Stasia Therese Angela Micula
• Jamie Foxx — Eric Bishop
• Redd Foxx — John Elroy Sanford
• Shyla Foxxx - Anutza Herling
• Arlene Francis - Arline Francis Kazanjian
• Connie Francis — Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero
• Dennis Franz - Dennis Franz Schlachta
• Fab Five Freddy — Fred Braithwaite
• Fréhel — Marguerite Boulc'h
• Ace Frehley — Paul Frehley
• Doug E. Fresh — Douglas E. Davis
• Pierre Fresnay — Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach
• Nikki Fritz - Nikki Goldstein
• Faudel - Faudel Belloua
• Blind Boy Fuller — Fulton Allen
• Robert Fuller - Buddy Lee
• Edward Furlong - Edward Walter Torres

[edit] G

• Andrew G - Andrew Jonas Günsberg
• Bobby G — Robert Gubby
• Daddy G — Grant Marshall
• Dog G — Tseng Kuan-jung
• Kenny G — Kenneth Gorelick
• Shock G — Gregory Jacobs
• Warren G — Warren Griffin
• Jean Gabin — Jean-Alexis Moncorge
• Serge Gainsbourg — Lucien Ginzburg
• The Game — Jayceon Taylor
• Robert Gant — Robert Gonzalez
• Greta Garbo — Greta Gustafsson
• Beverly Garland - Beverly Lucy Fessenden
• Judy Garland — Frances Ethel Gumm
• James Garner — James Scott Baumgarner
• Brad Garrett - Bradley Gerstenfeld
• Leif Garrett — Leif Per Narvik
• Gene Gauntier — Genevieve Liggett
• Marvin Gaye — Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.
• Crystal Gayle — Brenda Gail Webb Gatzimos
• Ronnie Gaylord — Ronald L. Fredianelli
• Gloria Gaynor — Gloria Fowles
• Mitzi Gaynor — Franceska Mitzi von Gerber
• Ben Gazzara — Biagio Anthony Gazzara
• Gidget Gein — Bradley Stewart
• Sir Horace Gentleman — Horace Panter
• Bobbie Gentry — Roberta Streeter
• Geordie — Kevin Walker (Guitarist with UK punk band Killing Joke)
• Boy George — George Alan O'Dowd
• Georgious — Georges Guibourg
• Ashlyn Gere - Kimberly Ashlyn McKamy
• George Gershwin — Jacob Gershowitz
• Ira Gershwin — Israel Gershowitz
• Estelle Getty — Estelle Scher
• Stan Getz — Stanley Gayetsky
• Ghostface Killah — Dennis Coles
• Georgia Gibbs - Frieda Lipschitz
• Kathie Lee Gifford — Kathie Epstein
• Billy Gilbert — William Gilbert Barron
• John Gilbert - John Cecil Pringle
• Jamie Gillis - Jamey Ira Gurman
• Ginuwine — Elgin Lumpkin
• Aria Giovanni — Cindy Renee Volk
• Dorothy Gish - Dorothy Elizabeth de Guiche
• Lillian Gish - Lillian Diana de Guiche
• Leslie Glass - Leslie Fisher
• Paul Michael Glaser - Paul Manfred Glaser
• Paulette Goddard - Marion Pauline Levy
• Whoopi Goldberg — Caryn Elaine Johnson
• Samuel Goldwyn — Samuel Gelbfisch
• Tweety González - Fabián González Amado
• Lesley Gore — Lesley Goldstein
• Eydie Gorme — Edith Gormezano
• Jetta Goudal — Julie Henriette Goudeket
• Elliott Gould — Elliot Goldstein
• Betty Grable — Elizabeth Ruth Grable
• Topher Grace — Christopher Grace
• Bill Graham — Wolfgang Wolodja Grajonka
• Lou Gramm - Louis Grammatico
• Grand Puba — Maxwell Dixon
• Stewart Granger — James Stewart
• Cary Grant — Archibald Alexander Leach
• Gogi Grant — Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg
• Rachel Grant — Rachel Louise Grant De Longueuil
• Shauna Grant - Colleen Marie Applegate
• Dobie Gray — Leonard Victor Ainsworth
• Gilda Gray - Marianna Winchalaska
• Macy Gray — Natalie Renee McIntyre
• Al Green — Al Greene
• Mitzi Green - Elizabeth Keno
• Shecky Greene - Sheldon Greenfield
• Gribouille — Marie-France Gaîté
• Professor Griff — Richard Griffin
• Barbie Griffin - Michelle McCurry
• CP Grogan — Clare Grogan (confusingly known by her own name as a musician but by her initials as an actress, as the name was already registered at Equity.)
• Eddie Guerrero — Eduardo Gory Guerrero Llanes
• Robert Guillaume — Robert Peter Williams
• Buddy Guy — George Guy
• GZA — Gary Grice

[edit] H

• Hadise - Hadise Açıkgöz, a Turkish-Belgian R&B singer
• Haiducii — Paula Mitrache
• Larry Hagman —- Larry Martin Hageman
• Alan Hale Sr. - Rufus Edward Mackahan
• Alan Hale Jr. - Alan Hale Mackahan
• Daryl Hall —- Daryl Franklin Hohl
• Jon Hall - Charles Hall Locher
• Geri Halliwell - Geraldine Estelle Halliwell
• Halston — Roy Halston Frowick
• Sarah Jane Hamilton - Sarah Jane Gage
• MC Hammer — Stanley Kirk Burrell
• Max Hardcore — Paul Little
• Ann Harding - Dorothy Walton Gatley
• Sarah Harding — Sarah Hardman
• Harisu - Lee Kyung-eun
• Jean Harlow — Harlean Carpentier
• Tess Harper - Tessie Jean Washam
• Harpo — Jan Svensson
• Slim Harpo — James Moore
• Jonathan Harris - Jonathan Charasuchin
• Julie Harris — Julia Ann Harris
• Wood Harris — Sherwin David Harris
• Rex Harrison — Reginald Carey Harrison
• Mary Hart — Mary Johanna Harum
• Susan Hart - Susanna Probyn
• Nina Hartley — Marie Louise Hartman
• Muhammad Hassan -- Mark Copani
• Davey Havok - David Marchand
• Goldie Hawn — Goldie Jean Studlendegehawn
• Salma Hayek - Salma Hayek-Jiménez
• Louis Hayward - Seafield Grant
• Neil Hayward — Niels Bonke
• Susan Hayward — Edythe Marriner
• Rita Hayworth — Margarita Carmen Cansino
• Jenna Haze - Jennifer Corrales
• Sundance Head - Jason Sundance Head
• Heino - Heinz Georg Kramm
• Richard Hell — Richard Myers
• Brian Helicopter - Gareth Holder
• Audrey Hepburn — Audrey Kathleen Ruston
• Charlton Heston — John Charles Carter
• Hildegarde — Hildegarde Loretta Sell
• Benny Hill - Alfred Hawthorn Hill
• Faith Hill — Audrey Faith Perry
• Steven Hill - Solomon Krakovsky
• Hiromi - Hiromi Uehara, Japanese pianist
• hitomi — Hitomi Furuya
• Brooke Hogan — Brooke Ellen Bollea
• Hulk Hogan — Terry Gene Bollea
• William Holden — William Beedle
• Noddy Holder - Neville Holder
• Billie Holiday — Eleanora Fagan Gough
• Deidre Holland - Martine Helene Smit
• Xaviera Hollander - Vera de Vries
• Judy Holliday - Judith Tuvim
• Buddy Holly - Charles Hardin Holley
• John Holmes — John Curtis Estes
• Jack Holt — Charles John Holt II
• Jennifer Holt — Elizabeth Marshall Holt
• Tim Holt — Charles John Holt III
• Nellee Hooper - Paul Andrew Hooper
• Bob Hope — Leslie Townes Hope
• Linda Hopkins - Melinda Helen Mathews
• hide - Hideto Matsumoto
• Tiffany Hopkins - Claire Hauville
• Harry Houdini — Ehrich Weiss
• Cissy Houston — Emily Drinkard
• Curly Howard — Jerome Lester Horwitz
• Leslie Howard — Leslie Howard Stainer
• Moe Howard — Moses Horwitz
• Shemp Howard — Samuel Horwitz
• Howlin' Wolf — Chester Arthur Burnett
• H.R. - Paul Hudson
• Rock Hudson — Roy Scherer, Jr.
• Betty Hutton — Elizabeth June Thornburg
• Lauren Hutton — Mary Laurence Hutton
• Marion Hutton — Marion Thornburg
• Engelbert Humperdinck — Arnold George "Gerry" Dorsey
• GiO- Lisa Suarez

[edit] I

• Janis Ian — Janis Eddy Fink
• Ice Cube — O'Shea Jackson
• Ice T — Tracy Marrow
• Ichiro — Ichiro Suzuki
• Billy Idol — William Michael Albert Broad
• iLLmacuLate — Greg Poe
• Lux Interior — Erick Lee Purkhiser
• Mr. II — Joseph Mbilinyi
• Henry Irving - John Henry Brodribb
• May Irwin — Ada May Campbell
• Ivan — Ivan Doroschuk
• Ivy Queen — Martha Ivelisse Pesante

[edit] J

• David J - David Haskins
• Jackie Jackson — Sigmund Esco Jackson
• Rebbie Jackson — Maureen Reilette Jackson
• Tito Jackson — Toriano Adaryl Jackson
• Jaël - Rahel Krebs
• Brian James — Brian Robertson
• Dennis James - Demi James Sposa
• Etta James — Jamesetta Hawkins
• Joni James — Joan (or Giovanna) Carmella Babbo
• Kevin James - Kevin George Knipfing
• Rick James — James Ambrose Johnson
• Skip James — Nehemiah James
• Sonny James — James Loden
• Jenna Jameson — Jennifer Marie Massoli
• Janine — Janine Lindemulder
• Steve Jansen — Stephen Batt
• David Janssen - David Harold Meyer
• Sir David Jason — David John White
• Jam Master Jay — Jason Mizell
• Jay-Z — Shawn Corey Carter
• Jazzy Jeff — Jeffrey Townes
• Jefferson - Geoff Turton
• Blind Lemon Jefferson — Clarence Jefferson
• Anne Jeffreys - Anne Carmichael
• Ron Jeremy — Ronald Jeremy Hyatt
• Chris Jericho - Christopher Keith Irvine
• Jessicka — Jessica Fodera
• Jethro - Jeff Rowe
• Joan Jett - Joan Marie Larkin
• Jewel — Jewel Kilcher
• Dina Jewel - Nanna Grønnevik
• Jibbs - Jovan Campbell
• Ann Jillian - Ann Jura Nauseda
• Jim Bob — James Robert Morrison
• Jimmy The Robot - James Briggs
• John 5 - John Lowery
• Sir Elton John — Reginald Kenneth Dwight (He legally changed his name to Elton Hercules John on September 2, 1972. An image of the deed poll certificate for Mr. John's change of name is visible here.)
• Don Johnson — Don Wayne
• Holly Johnson — William Johnson
• JoJo — Joanna Noëlle Levesque
• Angelina Jolie — Angelina Jolie Voight
• Al Jolson — Asa Yoelson
• Lil Jon — Jonathan Smith
• Buck Jones - Charles Gebhart
• Chloe Jones - Melinda Dee Taylor
• Grace Jones — Grace Mendoza
• James Earl Jones — Todd Jones
• Jennifer Jones - Phylis Lee Isley
• Jenny Jones - Janina Stranski
• John Paul Jones (musician) - John Baldwin
• Samantha Jones - Jean Owen
• Tom Jones — Thomas Jones Woodward
• Dave Jonsen — Gordon C.
• Lonnie Jordan — Leroy Jordan
• Jordan — Katie Price (formerly Katie Infield)
• Mrs Jordan — Dorothea Bland (mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom)
• José José — José Sosa
• Darwin Joston — F. Darwin Solomon
• Joudia - Joudia Belkabir[1]
• Louis Jourdan - Louis Gendre
• Brenda Joyce - Betty Leabo
• Ashley Judd - Ashley Tyler Ciminella
• Naomi Judd - Diana Ellen Judd
• Wynonna Judd — Christina Claire Ciminella
• Ashley Juggs - Cynthia Gonzalez
• Juliette - Juliette Augustina Sysak Cavazzi
• Miranda July — Miranda Grossinger
• Junkyard Dog — Sylvester Ritter
• Juvenile — Terius Gray

[edit] K

• K-Ci — Cedric Hailey
• K'Maro - Cyril Kamar, a Lebanese-Canadian rapper now living in Montreal
• Ya Kid K — Barbara Kamosi Maoso Duogi
• Madeline Kahn — Madeline Gail Wolfson
• Kitty Kallen — Genevieve Agostinello
• Kane — Glen Jacobs
• Big Daddy Kane — Antonio Harding
• Sharon Kane - Sharon Louise Cain
• James Karen - James Karnufsky
• Boris Karloff — William Henry Pratt
• Mick Karn — Anthony Michaelides
• Richard Karn — Richard Karn Wilson
• Casey Kasem - Kemal Amin Kasem
• John Kay - Joachim Fritz Krauledat
• Kelly Kay - Kelly Kershaw
• Danny Kaye — David Daniel Kaminski
• Staci Keanan — Anastasia Sagorsky
• Diane Keaton — Diane Hall
• Michael Keaton — Michael John Douglas
• Ruby Keeler - Ethel Hilda Keeler
• Maynard James Keenan — James Herbert Keenan
• Toby Keith - Toby Keith Covel
• Kelis — Kelis Rogers
• Angel Kelly - Pamela Moore
• Emma Kennedy — Elizabeth Emma Williams
• Jayne Kennedy - Jane Harrison
• Norman Kerry - Arnold Kaiser
• Cevin key — Kevin Crompton
• Alicia Keys — Alicia Augello Cook
• Chaka Khan — Carole Yvette Marie Stevens
• Kid Creole — August Darnell
• Kid Rock — Robert Ritchie
• Andy Kim — Andrew Youakim
• Lil Kim — Kimberly Denise Jones
• Sandra Kim — Sandra Caldarone
• Alan King - Irwin Alan Kniberg
• Albert King — Albert Nelson
• Andrea King - Georgette André Barry
• Anita King — Anna Keppen
• B.B. King — Riley B. King
• Ben E. King — Benjamin Earl Nelson
• Carole King — Carole Klein
• Freddie King — Frederick Christian
• Larry King — Larry Zieger
• King Africa – Alan Duffy
• King Diamond - Kim Bendix Petersen
• Ben Kingsley — Krishna Banji
• Bruno Kirby - Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, Jr.
• Kish — Andrew Kishino
• Eartha Kitt - Eartha Mae Keith
• Alisha Klass - Alicia Lynn Pieri
• Jack Klugman - Jacob Joachin Klugman
• Beverley Knight — Beverley Anne Smith
• Ted Knight — Tadeus Wladyslaw Konopka
• Dr. Know — Gary Wayne Miller
• Johnny Knoxville — Phillip John Clapp
• Kon Artis - Denaun Porter
• Kool — Robert Bell
• Kool Keith — Keith Matthew Thornton
• (French) K'mel - Kamel Houari, an Algerian-born rapper, member and leader of a French hip hop group
• Véra Korène — Rébecca Véra Korestzky
• Alexis Korner - Alexis Koerner
• Krayzie Bone — Anthony Henderson
• Marta Kristen — Birgit Annalisa Rusanen
• KRS-One — Lawrence Krisna Parker
• Ashok Kumar — Kumudlal Kanjilal Ganguly
• Dilip Kumar — Yusuf Khan
• Kishore Kumar — Abhas Ganguly
• Meena Kumari — Mahjabeen Bano
• Kuniva - Von Carlisle
• Kurupt — Ricardo Brown

[edit] L

• La Goulue — Louise Weber
• Patti LaBelle — Patricia Louise Holt
• James LaBrie — Kevin James LaBrie
• Cheryl Ladd — Cheryl Stoppelmoor
• Lagbaja — Bisade Ologunde
• Chasey Lain - Tiffany Anne Jones
• Dame Cleo Laine — Clementina Dinah Campbell
• Veronica Lake — Constance Ockleman
• Hedy Lamarr - Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
• Dorothy Lamour — Mary Leta Dorothy Kaumeyer
• David Lander - David Landau
• Carole Landis - Frances Lillian Mary Ridste
• Michael Landon — Eugene Michael Orowitz
• Nathan Lane — Joseph Lane
• Jonny Lang - Jon Gordon Langseth, Jr.
• Mario Lanza — Alfredo Cocozza
• Alexandra Maria Lara — Alexandra Plătăreanu
• Alexis Laree — Michaela Laree James
• Eddie Large - Edward Hugh McGinnis
• Brie Larson — Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers
• Queen Latifah — Dana Elaine Owens
• Larry The Cable Guy — Daniel Lawrence Whitney
• James Last — Hans Last
• Stan Laurel — Arthur Stanley Jefferson
• Dyanna Lauren - Diane Hurley
• Ralph Lauren — Ralph Lipschitz
• Piper Laurie — Rosetta Jacobs
• Blackie Lawless — Steven Duren
• Lucy Lawless — Lucille Frances Ryan
• Carol Lawrence - Carol Marie Laraia
• Joey Lawrence — Joseph Lawrence Mignona, Jr.
• Steve Lawrence — Sidney Leibowitz
• Vicki Lawrence — Vicki Ann Axelrad
• Layzie Bone — Steven Howse
• Anna Lee - Joan Boniface Winnifrith
• Arthur Lee — Arthur Taylor Porter
• Brenda Lee — Brenda Mae Tarpley
• Bruce Lee — Lee Jun-fan
• Dee C. Lee - Diane Sealey
• Dixie Lee - Wilma Winifred Wyatt
• Geddy Lee — Gary Lee Weinrib OC
• Ginger Lee - Candice Raines
• Gypsy Rose Lee — Rose Louise Hovick
• Hyapatia Lee - Victoria Lynch
• Lila Lee - Augusta Appel
• Michele Lee — Michelle Lee Dusick
• Peggy Lee — Norma Delores Egstrom
• Spike Lee — Shelton Jackson Lee
• Stan Lee — Stanley Martin Lieber
• Tommy Lee — Thomas Lee Bass
• Left Eye - Lisa Nicole Lopes
• John Legend — John Stephens
• Dorian Leigh - Dorian Leigh Parker
• Janet Leigh — Jeanette Helen Morrison
• Jennifer Jason Leigh — Jennifer Lee Morrow
• Megan Leigh - Michelle Maira Schei
• Vivien Leigh — Vivien Mary Hartley
• Lemmy — Ian Fraiser Kilminster
• Marcelle Lender — Anne-Marie Marcelle Bastien
• Gloria Leonard - Gail Leonardi
• Téa Leoni — Elizabeth Téa Pantleoni
• Johnny Lever - John Rao
• Huey Lewis — Hugh Anthony Cregg III
• Jerry Lewis — Joseph Levitch
• Jet Li — Li Lian Jie
• Liberace — Wladziu Lee Valentino Liberace
• Mr. Lif — Jeffrey Haynes
• Alex Lifeson — Alexander Zivojinovich OC
• Judith Light — Judith Ellen Licht
• Rickey Lime — Anna Goodling
• Elmo Lincoln - Otto Elmo Linkenhelt
• Hal Linden - Harold Lipschitz
• Max Linder — Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle
• Lisa Lipps - Leslie Godfrey
• Lita — Amy Dumas
• Little Jimmy Urine — James Euringer
• Little Oral Annie - Andrea Parducci
• Bunny Livingston/Bunny Wailer — Neville O'Riley
• Lizzie — Liz Enriquez
• LL Cool J — James Todd Smith
• Lobo - Roland Kent Lavoie
• Josef Locke — Joseph McLaughlin
• Carole Lombard — Jane Alice Peters
• Julie London — Gayle Peck
• Sky Lopez - Corrie Floris
• Jack Lord — John Joseph Patrick Ryan
• Traci Lords — Nora Louise Kuzma
• Sophia Loren — Sofia Scicolone
• Trinity Loren - Joyce Evelyn McPherson
• Gloria Loring - Gloria Goff
• Peter Lorre — László Löwenstein
• Loscil — Scott Morgan
• Lou — Louise Mary Watts
• Joe Louis — Joe Louis Barrow
• Anita Louise - Anita Louise Fremault
• Tina Louise - Tina Blacker
• Love and Sas — Lovena Fox and Saskia Garel
• Courtney Love — born Courtney Michelle Harrison, legally changed to Courtney Michelle Love
• Darlene Love — Darlene Wright
• Melody Love - Melanie Love
• Lovefoxxx — Luísa Hanaê Matsushita (singer of Cansei de Ser Sexy)
• Linda Lovelace — Linda Susan Boreman
• Patty Loveless - Patricia Lee Ramey
• Lene Lovich — Lili-Marlene Premilovich
• Myrna Loy — Myrna Adele Williams
• Luba — Luba Kowalchyk
• Paco de Lucía - Francisco Sánchez Gómez
• Luciano - Jepther McClymont
• Ludacris — Christopher Bridges
• Bela Lugosi — Béla Ferenc Dezsõ Blaskó
• Paul Lukas - Pál Lukács
• Lulu — Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie
• Lydia Lunch — Lydia Koch
• Annabella Lwin — Myant Myant Aye Dunn-Lwin
• Amber Lynn — Laura Allen
• Cassandra Lynn - Cassandra Lynn Jensen
• Ginger Lynn — Ginger Lynn Allen
• Krysti Lynn - Shawna Kristi Yager
• Loretta Lynn — Loretta Lynn Webb
• Porsche Lynn - Lauren Pokorny
• Dame Vera Lynn — Vera Welsh

[edit] M

• -M- — Matthieu Chedid
• Massari - Sari Abboud, a Lebanese-Canadian rapper
• Milla Jovovich — Militza Jovovich
• Edo Maajka — Edin Osmic
• Bernie Mac — Bernard Jeffrey McCollough
• Lee Mack - Lee McKillop
• Willard Mack — Charles McLaughlin
• Gisèle MacKenzie - Gisèle Marie-Louise Marguerite LaFlèche
• Shirley MacLaine — Shirley Beaty
• Gavin MacLeod - Allan See
• Elle MacPherson — Eleanor Gow
• Guy Madison - Robert Ozell Mosely
• Madonna — Madonna Louise Ciccone
• Maestro — Wesley Williams
• Magic Sam — Samuel Maghett
• Magic Slim - Morris Holt
• Magoo — Melvin Barcliff
• Lee Majors — Harvey Lee Yeary II
• Makaveli - Tupac Shakur
• Karl Malden — Mladen Sekulovich
• Yngwie Malmsteen - Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbäck
• Alexis Malone - Roberta Joanna Germaine
• Dorothy Malone - Dorothy Eloise Maloney
• Camryn Manheim — Debra Frances Manheim
• Barry Manilow — Barry Alan Pinkus
• Handsome Dick Manitoba - Richard Blum
• Manitoba — Dan Snaith (formerly, now uses the stage name Caribou)
• Anthony Mann - Emil Anton Bundmann
• Jayne Mansfield — Vera Jane Palmer
• Marilyn Manson — Brian Hugh Warner
• Roots Manuva — Rodney Hylton Smith
• Fredric March - Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel
• Hal March - Harold Mendelson
• Peggy March - Margaret Annemarie Battavio
• Sophie Marceau - Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu
• Rocky Marciano — Rocco Francis Marchegiano
• Bam Margera — Brandon Cole Margera
• Marilyn — Peter Robinson
• Biz Markie — Marcel Hall
• Marley Marl — Marlon Williams
• Ziggy Marley — David Marley
• Johnny Marr — John Maher
• Mick Mars — Robert Alan (Bob) Deal
• Garry Marshall - Anthony Wallace Marsciarelli
• Penny Marshall — Carole Penelope Marsciarelli
• Peter Marshall - Ralph Pierre LaCock
• Martika — Martha Marrero
• Dean Martin — Dino Paul Crocetti
• Ricky Martin — Enrique Jose Martin Morales IV
• Tony Martin — Alvin Morris
• Wink Martindale - Winston Conrad Martindale
• Hank B. Marvin — Brian Rankin
• Chico Marx — Leonard Marx
• Groucho Marx — Julius Henry Marx
• Gummo Marx — Milton Marx
• Harpo Marx — Adolph Arthur Marx
• Zeppo Marx — Herbert Marx
• Ma$e — Mason Betha
• Pepper Mashay - Jean McClain
• Masked Musician - Leonard Monatono
• Jackie Mason - Jacob Maza
• Masta Killa — Elgin Turner
• Chris Masters — Christopher Mordetsky
• Walter Matthau — Walter John Matthow — there is a common urban legend that his original name was Matuschanskyayasky. This was a joke told by Matthau himself.
• Lisa Matthews - Lisa Reich
• The MC Bat Commander - Christian Jacobs
• MC Lyte — Lana Michelle Moorer
• MCA — Adam Yauch
• Maxim Reality - Keith Palmer
• Brini Maxwell — Ben Sander
• Jordan Maze - Szvedlák Magdolna
• Kent McCord — Kent Franklin McWhirter
• Patty McCormack - Patricia Ellen Russo
• Andie McDowell — Rosalie Anderson-MacDowell
• Mike McGear - Peter Michael McCartney (brother of Paul McCartney)
• Duff McKagan - Michael Andrew McKagan
• Siobhán McKenna — Siobhán Giollamhuire Nic Cionnaith
• Crash McLarson - Chad Larson
• Audrey Meadows - Audrey Cotter
• Meat Loaf — Marvin Lee Aday
• Melissa-Ashley - Melissa Weiland
• Melle Mel — Melvin Glover
• Memphis Slim — Peter Chatman
• Carlos Mencia — Ned Holness
• Freddie Mercury — Faroukh Bulsara
• Ethel Merman — Ethel Zimmerman
• Method Man — Clifford Smith
• George Michael — Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou
• Bret Michaels - Bret Michael Sychak
• Shawn Michaels - Michael Shawn Hickenbottom
• Pras Michel — Prakazrel Michel
• Candice Michelle - Candice Michelle Beckman-Ehrlich
• Donna Michelle - Donna Michelle Ronne
• Cindy Miel — Tímea Vágvölgyi
• Luis Miguel — Luis Miguel Gallegos Basteri
• Buddy Miles - George Miles
• Lewis Milestone - Lev Milstein
• Marilyn Miller - Mary Ellen Reynolds
• Millie — Millicent Small
• Donna Mills — Donna Jean Miller
• Minnesota Fats - Rudolph Walter Wanderone Jr.
• Mary Miles Minter — Juliet Reilly
• Mina — Anna Maria Mazzini
• Carmen Miranda — Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha
• Mistinguett — Jeanne Bourgeois
• Joni Mitchell — Roberta Joan Anderson
• Mitsou - Mitsou-Miel Rioux-Gélinas
• Sir Mix-A-Lot — Anthony Ray
• Mimi Miyagi - Melody Damayo
• Moby — Richard Melville Hall
• Destiny Monique - Destiny Monique Arredondo
• Matt Monro — Terence Parsons
• Jordan Monroe - Emily Ranheim
• Marilyn Monroe — Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker
• Lenny Montana - Leonardo Passofaro
• Yves Montand — Ivo Livi
• Sophie Moone - Renáta Somossy
• Chessie Moore - Robin Lynn Morgan
• Demi Moore — Demetria Gene Guynes
• Garry Moore — Thomas Garrison Morfit
• Julianne Moore — Julie Anne Smith
• Melba Moore - Melba Hill
• Eric Morecambe — Eric John Bartholomew
• Rita Moreno — Rosita Dolores Alverio
• Chesty Morgan - Ilana Wilczkowsky
• Frank Morgan - Francis Phillip Wuppermann
• Harry Morgan - Henry Bratsburg
• Jane Morgan — Florence Catherine Currier
• Van Morrison — George Ivan Morrison
• Morrissey — Stephen Patrick Morrissey
• Gary Morton - Morton Goldapper
• Jelly Roll Morton — Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe
• Mos Def - Dante Terrell Smith
• Zero Mostel — Samuel Mostel
• DJ Mpulse - DeWight Rutherford
• DJ Muggs — Lawrence Muggerud
• Maria Muldaur - Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato
• Jan Murray - Murray Janofsky
• Mae Murray - Marie Adrienne Koenig
• Murray the K - Murray Kaufman
• Musidora - Jeanne Roques
• Alannah Myles - Alannah Byles
• Mystikal — Micheal Tyler

[edit] N

• Tech N9ne — Aaron D. Yates
• Najma - Najma Akhtar
• Bif Naked - Beth Torbert
• Nita Naldi - Anita Donna Dooley
• Nas — Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
• Nate Dogg — Nathaniel Dawayne Hale
• Alla Nazimova — Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon
• Me'shell Ndegeocello — born Michelle Johnson, later Meshell Suihailia Bashir Shakur
• Pola Negri - Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec
• Vince Neil - Vincent Neil Wharton
• Sam Neill - Nigel John Dermot Neill
• Nelly — Cornell Haynes, Jr.
• Barry Nelson - Robert Haakon Nielsen
• Gene Nelson - Leander Eugene Berg
• Harriet Nelson — Peggy Lou Snyder
• Ricky Nelson — Eric Hilliard Nelson
• Franco Nero - Francesco Sparanero
• Julie Newmar — Julia Charlene Newmeyer
• Juice Newton — Judy Cohen
• Ne-Yo — Shaffer Chimere Smith
• Crista Nicole - Crista Nicole Wagner
• Nichelle Nichols - Grace Nichols
• Nico - Christa Päffgen
• Steve Nieve - Steven Nason
• Dale Nixon — Greg Ginn
• Marni Nixon — Marni McEathron
• Danbert Nobacon - Alan Whaley
• Chelsea Noble - Nancy Mueller
• Noko — Norman Fisher-Jones
• Noodles — Kevin Wasserman
• Chuck Norris — Carlos Ray Norris
• Sheree North — Dawn Shirley Crang (later Bethel)
• Graham Norton - Graham Walker
• The Notorious B.I.G. — Christopher Wallace
• Aldo Nova - Aldo Caporuscio
• Anna Nova - Katharina Meier
• Nikki Nova - J. Nichole Italiano-Zaza
• Kim Novak — Marilyn Pauline Novak
• Gary Numan — Gary Anthony James Webb
• Numskull — Garrick Husbands
• Laura Nyro — Laura Nigro

[edit] O

• Karen O — Karen Lee Orzolek
• Merle Oberon — Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson
• Margaret O'Brien - Angela Maxine O'Brien
• Billy Ocean — Leslie Sebastian Charles
• Anita O'Day - Anita Belle Cotton
• Maureen O'Hara — Maureen FitzSimons
• Ol' Dirty Bastard — Russell Tyrone Jones
• Warner Oland — Johan Verner Ölund
• Tony Orlando — Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis
• George Orwell — Eric Arthur Blair
• Super Dave Osborne — Bob Einstein
• Ozzy Osbourne — Jonathan Michael Osborne
• Lee Oskar — Oskar Levetin Hansen
• Gilbert O'Sullivan — Raymond Edward O'Sullivan
• Cheri Oteri - Cheryl O'Teari
• Annette O'Toole - Annette Toole
• Johnny Otis — John Veliotes
• Natalino Otto — Natale Codognotto

[edit] P

• Master P — Percy Miller Sr.
• Augustus Pablo — Horace Swaby
• Anita Page - Anita Pomares
• Patti Page — Clara Ann Fowler
• Debra Paget — Debralee Griffin
• Elaine Paige — Elaine Bickerstaff
• Janis Paige - Donna Mae Tjaden
• Jack Palance — Vladimir Palahnuik
• Lilli Palmer - Lillie Marie Peiser
• Paris — Oscar Jackson, Jr.
• Mica Paris — Michelle Wallen
• Victoria Paris - Sheila Young
• Annie Parisse - Anne Marie Cancelmi
• Jean Parker - Lois Mae Green
• Kay Parker - Kay Rebecca Taylor
• Colonel Tom Parker — Andreas Cornelius van Kujik
• Jason Patric - Jason Patric Miller, Jr.
• Robert Patrick - Robert Patrick O'Shaugnessy
• Tera Patrick - Linda Ann Hopkins Shapiro
• Les Paul — Lester Polfuss
• Vinnie Paul — Vinnie Paul Abbott
• Katina Paxinou - Ekaterini Konstantopoulou
• Johnny Paycheck - Donald Eugene Lytle
• Pandora Peaks - Stephanie Schick
• Tawny Peaks - Michele Ann Laird
• Minnie Pearl - Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon
• Harold Peary - Harrold Jese Pereira de Faria
• Roberta Pedon - Rosma Grantoviskis
• Pelé - Edson Arantes do Nascimento
• Queen Pen — Lynise Walters
• Dawn Penn - Dawn Pickering
• Kal Penn — Kalpen Modi
• Lynne Perrie - Jean Dudley
• Jim Perry - James Edward Dooley
• Joe Perry - Anthony Joseph Pereira
• Lee "Scratch" Perry — Rainford Hugh Perry
• Luke Perry - Coy Luther Perry III
• Bernadette Peters - Bernadette Lazzara
• Susan Peters - Suzanne Carnahan
• Le Pétomane — Joseph Pujol
• Olga Petrova - Muriel Harding
• Phife Dog — Malik Taylor
• Lou Diamond Phillips — Starman Jackson
• Michelle Phillips — Holly Michelle Gilliam
• Édith Piaf — Édith Gassion
• Piano Red - William Perryman
• Slim Pickens - Louis Bert Lindley, Jr.
• Mary Pickford — Gladys Smith
• Pink Duke - Adithya Rangarajan
• P!nk — Alecia Moore
• Billie Piper - Leanne Paul Piper
• Roddy Piper — Roderick Toombs
• Ingrid Pitt — Ingoushka Petrov
• Buster Poindexter — David Johansen
• Doc Pomus — Jerome Solon Felder
• Iggy Pop — James Jewel Osterberg, Jr.
• Natalie Portman — Natalie Hershlag
• Bridget Powers - Cheryl Marie Murphy
• Kid Congo Powers — Brian Tristan
• Stefanie Powers — Stefania Zofija Federkiewicz
• Paula Prentiss - Paula Ragusa
• Hovis Presley - Richard Henry McFarlane
• Teagan Presley - Ashley Erickson
• Maxi Priest — Max Elliot
• Prince — Prince Rogers Nelson
• Prince Adam - Adam Deibert
• Prince Buster — Cecil Bustamente Campbell
• Prince Paul — Paul Houston
• Princess Superstar — Concetta Kirschner
• Victoria Principal — Concettina Ree Principale
• Yvonne Printemps — Yvonne Wignolle
• Freddie Prinze — Frederick Karl Pruetzel
• El-Producto — Jaime Meline
• Proof — DeShaun Holton

[edit] Q

• Q-Tip — Jonathan Davis (now Kamaal Fareed)
• Suzi Quatro - Susan Kay Quatrocchio
• QBoy - Marcos Brito

[edit] R

• Sun Ra — Herman Poole Blount
• Roddy Radiation — Rodney Byers
• Charlotte Rae - Charlotte Rae Lubotsky
• Raekwon — Corey Woods
• Rakim — William Griffin
• Buck Ram — Samuel Ram
• Twiggy Ramirez — Jeordie Francis White
• Dee Dee Ramone — Douglas Colvin
• Joey Ramone — Jeffrey Hyman
• Johnny Ramone — John Cummings
• Marky Ramone — Marc Bell
• Tommy Ramone — Tommy Erdelyi
• Tony Randall — Leonard Rosenberg
• James Randi - Randall James Hamilton Zwinge
• Joyce Randolph - Joyce Sirola
• Ranking Roger - Roger Charlery
• Shabba Ranks — Rexton Fernando Gordon
• Dizzee Rascal — Dylan Mills
• Raven — Scott Levy
• Aldo Ray - Aldo DaRe
• Gene Rayburn - Eugene Rubessa
• Martha Raye - Margaret Teresa Yvonne Reed
• Ray-J - William Raymond Norwood, Jr.
• Raylene - Stacey Briana Bernstein
• Gene Raymond - Raymond Guion
• Rayvon - Bruce Brewster
• Nancy Reagan — Anne Frances Robbins Davis
• Maxim Reality — Keeti Palmer
• Redman — Reggie Noble
• Donna Reed - Donna Belle Mullenger
• Della Reese — Delloreese Patricia Early
• George Reeves - George Keefer Brewer
• Vic Reeves — James Moir
• Amy Reid - Devin Valencia
• Judge Reinhold — Edward Ernest Reinhold Jr.
• MC Ren — Lorenzo Patterson
• Wendy Rene - Mary Frierson
• Debbie Reynolds — Mary Frances Reynolds
• Rhino — Terrance Gerin
• Erik Rhodes — Ernest Sharpe
• Nick Rhodes — Nicholas James Bates
• Sammie Rhodes - Laura Fisher
• Busta Rhymes — Trevor Tahiem Smith Jr.
• Cliff Richard — Harry Rodger Webb
• Little Richard — Richard Wayne Penniman
• Rihanna — Robyn Rihanna Fenty
• Rikki — Nakano Ritsuki
• Jeannie C. Riley — Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson
• Belinda Rio - Belinda Ramos
• Joan Rivers — Joan Alexandra Molinsky
• Johnny Rivers - John Ramistella
• Harold Robbins - Harold Rubin
• Marty Robbins - Martin David Robinson
• Julia Roberts — Julie Fiona Roberts
• Roy Roberts — Roy Barnes Jones
• Tanya Roberts - Victoria Leigh Blum
• Tawny Roberts - Adrienne Almond
• Edward G. Robinson — Emanuel Goldenberg
• Sugar Ray Robinson — Walker Smith, Jr.
• Alex Rocco - Alexander Federico Petricone
• Aesop Rock — Ian Bavitz
• Chubb Rock - Richard Simpson
• Derek Lee Rock - Derek Lee Smith
• Pete Rock — Peter Phillips
• The Rock — Dwayne Douglas Johnson
• Rikki Rockett - Richard Allan Ream
• Rockwell — Kennedy Gordy
• Rod Roddy — Robert Ray Roddy
• Red Rodney - Robert Roland Chudnick
• Ginger Rogers — Virginia Katherine McMath
• Jimmy Rogers - James Lane
• Roy Rogers — Leonard Slye
• Henry Rollins — Henry Garfield
• Sandra Romain - Maria Popescu
• Lil' Romeo — Percy Romeo Miller, Jr.
• Ronaldinho — Ronaldo Assis de Moreira
• Mickey Rooney — Joe Yule Jr.
• Axl Rose — William Bruce Bailey
• George Roper - George Francis Furnival
• Karma Rosenberg - Renáta Karásková
• Diana Ross — Diane Ernestine Earle Ross
• Shirley Ross - Bernice Grant
• Lillian Roth - Lillian Rutstein
• Johnny Rotten — John Joseph Lydon
• Kelly Rowland - Kelendria Trene Rowland
• Run — Joseph Simmons
• Ja Rule — Jeffrey Atkins
• Daniella Rush - Daniela Motlikova
• Jennifer Rush - Heidi Stern
• Hal Russell - Harold Luttenbacher
• John Russell — William Lawrence Russell
• Leon Russell - Claude Russell Bridges
• Lillian Russell - Helen Louise Leonard
• Jeri Ryan - Jeri Lynn Zimmerman
• Mark Ryan - Mark Gaumont
• Meg Ryan — Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra
• Winona Ryder — Winona Laura Horowitz
• RZA — Robert Diggs
• R Kelly- Robert Sylvester Kelly

[edit] S

• Raphael Saadiq — Charlie Ray Wiggins
• Sable — Rena Greek (later Rena Mero, or Merowitz)
• Sabu — Terry Brunk
• Sade — Helen Folasade Adu
• James St. James — James Clark
• Rebecca St. James — Rebecca Smallbone
• Susan Saint James — Susan Jane Miller
• Jill St. John — Jill Arlyn Oppenheim
• Pat Sajak - Patrick Leonard Sajdak
• Soupy Sales — Milton Supman
• Salt-N-Pepa — Cheryl James & Sandra Denton
• Savanna Samson - Natalie Oliveros
• Flo Sandon's — Mammola Sandon
• Juelz Santana — LaRon Louis James
• Susan Sarandon — Susan Abigail Tomalin
• Father Guido Sarducci — Don Novello
• Dick Sargent — Richard Cox
• Ann Savage - Bernice Maxine Lyon
• Michael Savage — Michael Alan Weiner
• Randy Savage — Randall Poffo
• Telly Savalas — Aristotle Savalas
• John Saxon - Carmine Orrico
• Leo Sayer — Gerard Hugh Sayer
• Rat Scabies — Chris Miller
• Boz Scaggs — William Royce Scaggs
• Gia Scala — Giovanna Scoglio
• Scarface — Brad Jordan
• Catherine Schell - Catherina Schell von Bauschlott
• Romy Schneider — Rosemarie Magdalena Albach
• Scientist - Overton Brown
• Bon Scott — Ronald Bedford Scott
• Lizabeth Scott — Emma Matzo
• Randolph Scott — George Randolph Crane
• Seal — Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Samuel
• Seka — Dorothiea Hundley
• Selena — Selena Quintanilla Pérez
• Connie Sellecca - Concetta Sellecchia
• Peter Sellers — Richard Henry Sellers
• Sen Dog — Sennen Reyes
• Captain Sensible — Ray Burns
• MC Serch — Michael Berrin
• Yahoo Serious — Gregory Pead
• Steve Severin — Steven Bailey
• David Seville — Ross Bagdasarian
• Jane Seymour — Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenburg
• DJ Shadow — Josh Davis
• Shaggy — Orville Richard Burrell
• Shakira — Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll Chedid
• MC Shan — Shawn Moltke
• Del Shannon — Charles Weedon Westover
• Omar Sharif — Michael Shalhoub
• Dee Dee Sharp - Dione LaRue
• Artie Shaw — Arthur Arshawsky
• Sandie Shaw — Sandra Goodrich
• Dick Shawn - Richard Schulefand
• Charlie Sheen — Carlos Irwin Estevez
• Martin Sheen — Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez
• Pete Shelley — Peter McNeish
• Anne Shelton — Patricia Sibley
• Shemp — Samuel Howard
• Shereen - Shereen (Sherine) Abdul Wahab (Wahhab)[2]
• Ann Sheridan - Clara Louise Sheridan
• Nicollette Sheridan - Colette Sheridan
• Sandra Shine - Judit Barbara Diós
• Anne Shirley — Dawn Evelyn Paris
• Michelle Shocked — Karen Michelle Johnson
• Dinah Shore — Frances Rose Shore
• Too $hort — Todd Anthony Shaw
• Sice - Simon Rowbottom
• Sylvia Sidney - Sophia Kosow
• Simone Signoret — Simone Kaminker
• Beverly Sills — Belle Miriam Silverman
• Cheyenne Silver - Cara Fawn Ballou
• Horace Silver - Horace Silva
• Phil Silvers — Philip Silversmith
• Gene Simmons — Chaim Klein Witz, later Gene Klein
• Dominique Simone - Deidre Morrow
• Nina Simone — Eunice Kathleen Waymon
• Sinbad — David Adkins
• Bob Sinclar — Christophe Le Friant
• Siouxsie Sioux — Susan Janet Ballion
• Sisqó — Mark Althavan Andrews
• Nikki Sixx — Frank Carlton Serafino Ferranno
• Sizzla - Miguel Orlando Collins
• Muzz Skillings — Muzz Skillings
• Skin — Deborah Dyer
• Slash — Saul Hudson
• Christian Slater — Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins
• Sleek the Elite - Paul Nakad, a Lebanese-Australian hip hop artist
• Grace Slick — Grace Barnett Wing
• Slug — Sean Dailey
• Chas Smash — Cathal Smyth
• Pat Smear - Georg Ruthenberg
• Anna Nicole Smith — Vickie Lynn Hogan
• Elliott Smith — Steven Paul Smith
• Keely Smith — Dorothy Jaqueline Keely
• Snoop Dogg — Calvin Broadus
• Snow — Darrin O'Brien
• Phoebe Snow — Phoebe Laub
• Leigh Snowden - Martha Lee Estes
• Al Sobrante - John Kriftmeyer
• MC Solaar — Claude M'Barali
• Suzanne Somers — Suzanne Marie Mahoney
• Elke Sommer — Elke Schletz
• Jack Soo — Goro Suzuki
• P. C. Sorcar — Protul Chandra Sorcar
• Ann Sothern - Harriette Arlene Lake
• Talisa Soto — Miriam Soto
• Sissy Spacek — Mary Elizabeth Spacek
• Kevin Spacey — Kevin Spacey Fowler
• Bubba Sparxxx — Warren Anderson Mathis
• Zsa Zsa Speck — Perry Pandrea
• Ronnie Spector — Veronica Bennett
• Speech — Todd Thomas
• John Spencer (actor) — John Speshock
• Baby Spice - Emma Lee Bunton
• Ginger Spice - Geraldine Estelle Halliwell
• Posh Spice - Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams)
• Scary Spice - Melanie Janine Brown
• Sporty Spice - Melanie Jayne Chisholm
• Spindarella — Deidre Roper
• Joe Spinell - Joseph J. Spagnuolo
• Dusty Springfield — Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien
• Rick Springfield — Richard Lewis Springthorpe
• Squarepusher — Tom Jenkinson
• Robert Stack — Charles Langford Modini Stack
• Paul Stanley — Stanley Eisen
• Barbara Stanwyck — Ruby Katherine Stevens
• Jean Stapleton — Jeanne Murray
• Scott Stapp — Anthony Scott Flippen
• Belle Starr — Myra Maybelle Shirley
• Blaze Starr — Fannie Belle Fleming
• Edwin Starr — Charles Hatcher
• Ringo Starr — Richard Starkey
• Tommy Steele — Thomas Hicks
• Ford Sterling — George Ford Stich
• April Stevens — Carol LoTempio
• Cat Stevens — Stephen Demetri Georgiou
• Connie Stevens — Concetta Rosalie Ingolia
• Craig Stevens — Gail Shikles, Jr.
• Ray Stevens — Harold Ray Ragsdale
• Tabitha Stevens - Kelly Garrett
• Jennifer Stewart - Jennifer Noble
• Jon Stewart — Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz
• Vinnie Stigma - Vincent Cappucchio
• Sting — Gordon Matthew Sumner
• Angie Stone - Angela Laverne Brown
• Joss Stone — Joscelyn Eve Stocker
• Rose Stone - Rosemary Stewart
• Sly Stone — Sylvester Stewart
• Vet Stone - Vaetta Stewart
• Gale Storm — Josephine Owaissa Cottle
• Hannah Storm — Hannah Storen
• Lance Storm — Lance Timothy Evers
• Tempest Storm - Annie Blanche Banks
• Izzy Stradlin — Jeffrey Isbell
• Steve Strange — Steven Harrington
• Lee Strasberg - Israel Strassberg
• Trish Stratus — Patricia Anne Stratigias
• Meryl Streep — Mary Louise Streep
• Stringbean — David Akeman
• Samantha Strong - Samona Susan Shields
• Joe Strummer — John Graham Mellor
• Jeanne Stuart — Ivy Sweet
• Levi Stubbs — Levi Stubbles
• Patrick Stump - Patrick Stumph
• Poly Styrene — Marion Elliot (Singer with UK punk band X-Ray Spex)
• Sugar — Stephanie Beard
• Suggs — Graham McPherson
• Donna Summer — LaDonna Andrea Gaines
• Gwen Summers - Heather Jorgenson
• Jamie Summers - Denise Stafford
• Marc Summers — Marc Berkowitz
• Paige Summers - Nancy Coursey
• Maria Swan - Jana Defi
• Monica Sweet - Monica Nagy
• Stephanie Swift - Melody Clark
• Swift — Ondre Moore
• Devante Swing — Donald DeGrate, Jr.
• Sylvester — Sylvester James
• David Sylvian — David Batt

[edit] T

• Mr. T — Lawrence Tureaud, later Lawrence Tero
• T-Boz — Tionne Watkins
• Taboo (Black Eyed Peas) - Jaime Luis Gomez
• Kobe Tai — Carla Carter Scott
• Taj Mahal — Henry St. Clair Fredericks
• Mika Tan - Saraswati Miyoko Taetafa
• Tarkan - Tarkan Tevetoğlu
• Tatanka — Christopher Chavis
• Alex Taylor - Adriana Molinari
• Eva Taylor — Irene Joy Gibbons
• Kent Taylor - Louis William Weiss
• Rip Taylor - Charles Elmer, Jr.
• Robert Taylor — Spangler Arlington Brugh
• Teller — Raymond Joseph Teller
• Joey Tempest — Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson
• Nino Tempo — Antonino LoTempio
• David Tennant - David McDonald
• Jack Terricloth - Pete Ventantonio
• Alice Terry - Alice Frances Taaffe
• Danny Thomas — Amos Muzyad Jahoob
• Jay Thomas - John Thomas Terrell
• Jonathan Taylor Thomas — Jonathan Weiss
• Sunset Thomas - Diane Fowler
• Sue Thompson - Eva Sue McKee
• Richard Thorpe - Rollo Smolt Thorpe
• Johnny Thunders - John Anthony Genzale, Jr.
• Tiffany — Tiffany Renee Darwish
• Tila Tequila — Tila Nguyen
• Timea Margot — Tímea Vágvölgyi
• Tiny Tim — Herbert Buckingham Khaury
• Tone-Loc — Anthony Smith
• Torch — Frederick Hahn
• Peter Tork — Peter Halston Thorkelson
• Rip Torn — Elmore Rual Torn, Jr.
• Peter Tosh — Winston Hubert McIntosh
• Totò — Antonio Clemente de Curtis
• Maurice Tourneur — Maurice Thomas
• Tiffany Towers - Tiffany Amarziano
• Toyah - Toyah Ann Willcox
• Alex Trebek — Giorgi Suka-Alex Trebek, later George Alexander Trebek
• Randy Travis — Randy Bruce Traywick
• Claire Trevor - Claire Wemlinger
• Tricky — Adrian Thaws
• Triple H — Paul Michael Levesque
• Pastor Troy — Micah Levar Troy
• Trugoy the Dove — David Jude Jolicoeur
• Bianca Trump - Wendy Christine Iwanow
• King Tubby — Osborne Ruddock
• Sophie Tucker — Sophia Kalish
• Lana Turner — Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner
• Tina Turner — Annie Mae Bullock
• Shania Twain — Eilleen Regina Edwards, later Eilleen Regina Twain
• Tweet - Charlene Keys
• Twiggy — Leslie Hornby
• Twista — Carl Mitchell
• Conway Twitty — Harold Lloyd Jenkins
• Bonnie Tyler — Gaynor Hopkins
• Judy Tyler — Judith Mae Hess
• Steven Tyler - Stephen Victor Tallarico
• Hunter Tylo - Deborah Jo Hunter
• Rob Tyner - Robert Derminer

[edit] U

• U-God — Lamont Hawkins
• U-Roy — Ewart Beckford
• Ricky Ullman — Raviv Ullman
• The Ultimate Warrior - Brian James Hellwig
• The Undertaker — Mark Calaway
• The Unknown Comic - Murray Langston
• Usher — Usher Raymond IV
• Peter Ustinov — Sir Peter Alexander von Ustinow

[edit] V

• Big Van Vader — Leon White
• Roger Vadim — Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov
• Holly Valance — Holly Rachel Vukadinovic
• Ramón Valdés - Ramón Gomez Valdés de Castillo
• Jerry Vale — Genaro Louis Vitaliano
• Ritchie Valens — Ricardo Stephen Valenzuela
• Brooke Valentine - Kanesha Nichole Brooks
• Dickie Valentine — Richard Bryce
• Judy Valentine - Norma Baker
• Stacy Valentine - Stacy Baker
• Rudolph Valentino — Rudolpho D'Antonguolla
• Valda Valkyrien — Adele Eleonore Freed
• Alida Valli - Alida Maria Laura von Altenburger (Baroness of Marckenstein and Freuenberg)
• Frankie Valli — Frank Castellucio
• Rob Van Dam — Robert Szatkowski
• Mamie Van Doren — Joan Lucille Olander
• Dick Van Dyke - Richard Wayne Van Dyke
• Vangelis — Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou
• Dave Vanian — David Letts
• Vanilla Ice — Robert Van Winkle
• Vanity — Denise Katrina Matthews
• Steven Van Zandt - Steven Lento
• Frankie Vaughan — Frank Abelson
• Eddie Vedder — Edward Louis Seversen III
• Bobby Vee — Robert Velline
• Johnny Vegas - Michael Joseph Pennington
• Vinny Vella - Vincent Franco Vellacerra
• Jesse Ventura — James George Janos
• Tom Verlaine — Thomas Miller
• John Vernon — Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz
• Veronique — Veronique Béliveau, a French-Canadian actor and punk rock singer
• Chloe Vevrier - Andrea Irena Fischer
• Angela Vía - Angela Jolene Trullinger Villarreal
• Sid Vicious — John Simon Ritchie
• Charles Vidor - Vidor Károly
• Gene Vincent — Vincent Eugene Craddock
• Vinnie Vincent — Vincent Cusano
• Bobby Vinton — Stanley Robert Vintula, Jr.
• Vitamin C — Colleen Fitzpatrick
• Dita Von Teese — Heather Sweet

[edit] W

• Andrew W.K. — Andrew Wilkes-Krier
• Lindsay Wagner — Lindsay Jean Ball
• Christopher Walken — Ronald Walken
• Johnny Walker - Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi
• Junior Walker — Autry DeWalt, Jr.
• Beryl Wallace — Beryl Heischuber
• Bruno Walter - Bruno Schlesinger
• Jack Warden — John Lebzelter
• Dionne Warwick — Marie Dionne Warrick
• Don Was — Donald Fagenson
• Washboard Sam - Robert Brown
• Dinah Washington — Ruth Jones
• Gedde Watanabe — Gary Watanabe
• Muddy Waters — McKinley Morganfield
• Wavy Gravy — Hugh Romney
• John Wayne — Marion Robert Morrison, later Marion Michael Morrison
• Johnny Wayne — Louis Weingarten
• Letha Weapons - Stephanie Smith
• Sigourney Weaver — Susan Weaver
• Clifton Webb — Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck
• Dean Ween — Mickey Melchiondo
• Gene Ween — Aaron Freeman
• Raquel Welch — Jo Raquel Tejada
• Tuesday Weld — Susan Ker Weld
• Paul Weller — John Weller
• Holly Wellin - Lisa Christian
• Kelly Wells - Jessica Walls
• Kitty Wells — Muriel Deason
• Adam West — William West Anderson
• Eric West — Eric Rosa
• Mae West — Mary Jane West
• WestBam - Maximillian Lenz
• Kim Weston - Agatha Natalie Weston
• Paul Weston - Paul Wetstein
• Riley Weston — Kimberlee Kramer
• Jules White - Jules Weiss
• Kim Wilde — Kim Smith
• Marty Wilde — Reginald Leonard Smith
• Gene Wilder — Jerome Silberman
• will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas) — William James Adams, Jr.
• Warren William - Warren William Krech
• Anson Williams — Anson William Heimlich
• Hank Williams — Hiram Williams
• Roger Williams - Louis Weertz
• Paul Winchell - Pinkus Wilchinski
• Marie Windsor - Emily Bertelson
• Judy Winter - Beate Richard
• Shelley Winters — Shirley Schrift
• Nicky Wire — Nicholas Jones
• Ernie Wise — Ernest Wiseman
• Reese Witherspoon - Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon
• Wish Bone — Charles Scruggs
• Jah Wobble — John Wardle
• Wolfman Jack — Robert Smith
• Stevie Wonder — Steveland Hardaway Judkins (later Steveland Hardaway Morris)
• Fann Wong — Fann Woon Fong
• Lana Wood — Svetlana Gurdin
• Natalie Wood — Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
• Hawksley Workman — Ryan Corrigan
• Bill Wyman — William George Perks
• Jane Wyman — Sarah Jane Mayfield Fulks
• Tammy Wynette — Virginia Wynette Pugh

[edit] X

• Terminator X — Norman Lee Rogers
• Xzibit — Alvin Nathaniel Joiner

[edit] Y

• Yanni — Yanni Chrysomallis
• Yazz — Yasmin Evans
• DJ Yella — Antoine Carraby
• Michelle Yeoh - Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
• Yellowman — Winston Foster
• Yo-Yo — Yolanda Whitaker
• Michael York - Michael Hugh Johnson
• Ace Young - Brett Asa Young
• Gig Young - Byron Elsworth Barr
• Loretta Young - Gretchen Young
• Young Buck (of G-Unit) — David Darnell Brown
• Young Jeezy - Jay Jenkins
• Yukmouth — Jarold Ellis, Jr.

[edit] Z

• Pia Zadora — Pia Alfreda Schipani
• Zazie — Isabelle de Truchis de Varennes
• Ona Zee - Ona Zimmerman
• Rob Zombie — Robert Cummings
• Buckwheat Zydeco — Stanley Dural, Jr.
• Zim Zum — Timothy Michael Linton

[edit] 0–9

• 2Pac — Tupac Shakur (born Lesane Crooks)
• 50 Cent — Curtis Jackson

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