Stage name
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A stage name is a name an entertainer like an movie star or a musican takes in the place of their real or birth name, they might like this name better than their real one or it's easier for people to remember.
Famous examples:
- 2Pac - Tupac Shakur
- 50 Cent - Curtis Jackson Brown
- Alan Alda-Alfonso Joseph D'Abruzzo
- David Bowie- David Robert Jones
- Elvis Costello - Declan Patrick McManus
- Dalida- Yolande Christina Gigliotti
- Doris Day-Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff
- Bob Dylan- Robert Allen Zimmerman
- Paco de Lucía- Francisco Sanchez Gomez
- Eminem- Marshall Mathers III
- Jamie Farr-Jameel Joseph Farah
- WC Fields-William Claude Dukenfield
- Elton John-Reginald Kenneth Dwight
- Tom Jones-Thomas John Woodward
- Marilyn Manson- Brian Warner
- Prince (artist) - Prince Rogers Nelson
- Rick Springfield-Richard Springthorpe
- Ringo Starr- Richard Starkey
- Tiny Tim- Hubert Korey
- Peter Tork-Peter Halsten Thorkelson
- Peter Tosh-Winston McIntosh
- Stevie Wonder - Steveland Hardaway Judkins/Morris
