List of celebrities who have changed their name

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This is a list of famous or notable people who have changed their names. The following list contains individuals who have legally changed their names. This list does not include individuals who are merely known by nicknames, one name, stage names, or women who may have changed surnames after marriage.

A

• Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, American basketball player - birth name: Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr.
• Abdul-Rauf, Mahmoud, American basketball player - birth name: Chris Wayne Jackson
• Abdul-Wahad, Tariq, French basketball player - birth name: Olivier Michael St. Jean
• Adams, Maud, Swedish actress - birth name: Maud Solveig Christina Wikström
• Adams, Nick, American actor - birth name: Nicholas Aloysius Adamschock
• Adorée, Renée, French actress - birth name: Jeanne de La Fonte
• Aiken, Clay, American singer - birth name: Clayton Holmes Grissom
• Albert, Eddie, American actor - birth name: Edward Albert Heimberger
• Alexander, Jason, American actor - birth name: Jason Scott Greenspan
• Alda, Alan, American actor - birth name: Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo
• Alda, Robert, American actor - birth name: Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo
• Ali, Muhammad, American boxer - birth name: Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
• Allen, Mel, American sportscaster - birth name: Melvin Allen Israel
• Allen, Tim, American actor - birth name: Timothy Allen Dick
• Allen, Woody, American filmmaker/actor - birth name: Allen Stewart Konigsberg
• Allin, Kevin Michael, American singer - birth name: Jesus Christ Allin
• Allyson, June, American actress - birth name: Eleanor Geisman
• Alvarado, Don, American actress - birth name: José Paige
• Amos, Tori, American singer/songwriter - birth name: Myra Ellen Amos
• Andre, Gwili, Danish-born American actress - birth name: Gurli Andresen
• Andrews, Dana, American actor - birth name: Carver Dana Andrews
• Arlen, Richard, American actor - birth name: Cornelius Richard Van Mattimore
• Arliss, George, English actor - birth name: George Augustus Andrews
• Arthur, Bea, American actress - birth name: Bernice Frankel
• Astaire, Fred, American actor/dancer - birth name: Frederick Austerlitz
• Astor, Mary, American actress - birth name: Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
• Aubert, Jeanne, French singer/actress - birth name: Marguerite Perrinot
• Avalon, Frankie, American singer - birth name: Francis Thomas Avallone

B

• Baarová Lída, Czech actress - birth name: Ludmila Babková
• Bacall, Lauren, American actress - birth name: Betty Joan Perske
• Baker, Josephine, American-born French singer/dancer/actress - birth name: Freda Josephine McDonald
• Bancroft, Anne, American actress - birth name: Anna Maria Louisa Italiano
• Bara, Theda, American actress - birth name: Theodosia Burr Goodman
• Barrett, Syd, English musician - birth name: Roger Keith Barrett
• Barry, Jeff, American singer/songwriter/music producer - birth name: Joel Adelberg
• Barrymore, Ethel, American actress - birth name: Ethel Mae Blythe
• Barrymore, John, American actor - birth name: John Sidney Blythe
• Barrymore, Lionel, American actor - birth name: Lionel Herbert Blythe
• Basquette, Lina, American actress - birth name: Lena Copeland Baskette
• Batcheff, Pierre, French actor - birth name: Piotr Bacev
• Beatty, Warren, American actors - birth name: Warren Beaty
• Bennett, Tony, American singer - birth name: Anthony Dominick Benedetto
• Benny, Jack, American actor/television and radio personality - birth name: Benjamin Kubelsky
• Benton, Barbi, American model/actress - birth name: Barbara Klein
• Berle, Milton, American comedian/actor - birth name: Mendel Berlinger
• Berlin, Irving, Russian-born American composer - birth name: Israel Isidore Beilin
• Bernhardt, Sarah, French actress - birth name: Henriette Rosine Bernard
• Bishop, Joey, American comedian/actor - birth name: Joseph Abraham Gottlieb
• Black, Cilla, English singer - birth name: Priscilla White
• Black, Karen, American actress - birth name: Karen Blanche Ziegler
• Blake, Amanda, American actress - birth name: Beverly Louise Neill
• Blake, Robert, American actor - birth name: Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi
• Blane, Sally, American actress - birth name: Elizabeth Jane Young
• Bolan, Marc, English singer/musician (T. Rex) - birth name: Mark Feld
• Bono, Sonny, American composer/singer/actor - birth name: Salvatore Philip Bono
• Bowie, David, English singer - birth name: David Robert Jones
• Brewer, Teresa, American singer - birth name: Theresa Breuer
• Brittany, Morgan, American actress - birth name: Suzanne Cupito
• Brolin, James, American actor - birth name: James Bruderlin
• Bronson. Charles, American actor - birth name: Charles Buchinsky
• Brooks, Albert, American actor - birth name: Albert Lawrence Einstein
• Brooks, Mel, American film director - birth name: Melvin Kaminsky
• Bruce, Lenny, American comedian - birth name: Leonard Alfred Schneider
• Burns, George, American actor/comedian - birth name: Nathan Birnbaum
• Burstyn, Ellen, American actress - birth name: Edna Rae Gillooly
• Burton, Richard, Welsh actor - birth name: Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr.

C

• Caesar, Sid, American actor - birth name: Isaac Sidney Caesar
• Cage, Nicolas, American actor - birth name: Nicholas Kim Coppola
• Cain, Dean, American actor - birth name: Dean George Tanaka
• Caine, Michael, English actor - birth name: Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
• Calhoun, Rory, American actor - birth name: Francis Timothy McCown Durgin
• Callas, Maria, American-born Greek opera singer - birth name: Maria Anna Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulos
• Cannon, Dyann, American actress - birth name: Samile Diane Friesen
• Capote, Truman, American author - birth name: Truman Streckfus Persons
• Capshaw, Kate, American actress - birth name: Kathy Sue Nail
• Carey, Harry, American actor - birth name: Henry DeWitt Carey II
• Cara, Irene, American singer/actress - birth name: Irene Escalera
• Carradine, David, American actor - birth name: John Arthur Carradine
• Carroll, Diahann, American actress/singer - birth name: Carol Diahann Johnson
• Cates, Georgina, English actress - birth name: Clare Woodgate
• Chandler, Lane, American actor - birth name: Robert Chandler Oakes
• Charisse, Cyd, American dancer/actress - birth name: Tula Ellice Finklea
• Charles, Ray, American singer/musician - birth name: Ray Charles Robinson
• Chase, Chevy, American actor/comedian - birth name: Cornelius Crane Chase
• Cher, American actress/singer - birth name: Cheryl Sarkisian LaPiere
• Chopin, Frédéric François, Polish-born French pianist/composer - birth name: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
• Clary, Robert, French-born American actor/author/lecturer - birth name: Robert Max Widerman
• Clay, Andrew "Dice", American comedian/actor - birth name: Andrew Silverstein
• Cline, Patsy, American singer/musician - birth name: Virginia Patterson Hensley
• Clinton, Bill, Former American president - birth name: William Jefferson Blythe III
• Cobb, Lee J., American actor - birth name: Leo Jacoby
• Colbert, Claudette, French actress - birth name: Lily Chauchoin
• Cole, Nat King, American singer - birth name: Nathaniel Adams Coles
• Colter, Jessi, American singer/songwriter - birth name: Mirriam Johnson
• Conaway, Jeff, American actor - birth name: Jeffery Charles William Michael
• Conrad, Robert, American actor - birth name: Conrad Robert Falk
• Conrad, William, American actor - birth name: William Cann
• Como, Perry, American singer - birth name: Pierino Roland Como
• Connors, Carol, American singer - birth name: Annette Kleinbard
• Connors, Chuck, American actor - birth name: Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors
• Connors, Mike, American actor - birth name: Krekor Ohanian
• Cooper, Alice, American singer - birth name: Vincent Damon Furnier
• Cooper, Gary, American actor - birth name: Frank James Cooper
• Copperfield, David, American illusionist - birth name: David Kotkin
• Cortez, Ricardo, American actor - birth name: Jacob Krantz
• Costello, Elvis, English singer - birth name: Declan Patrick MacManus
• Coyote, Peter, American actor - birth name: Robert Peter Cohon
• Crawford, Joan, American actress - birth name: Lucille LeSeur
• Cruise, Tom, American actor - birth name: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
• Cummings, Constance, American-born British actress - birth name: Constance Halverstadt
• Curtis, Tony, American actor - birth name: Bernard Schwartz

D

• Dalle, Brody, American singer/musician - birth name: Bree Leslie Pucilowski
• Damita, Lili, French actress - birth name: Liliane Marie-Madeleine Carré
• Dana, Viola, American actress - birth name: Virginia Flugrath
• Dane, Karl, Danish-born American actor - birth name: Rasmus Karl Therkelsen Gottlieb
• Daniels, Bebe, American actress - birth name: Phyllis Daniels
• Dangerfield, Rodney, American comedian/actor - birth name: Jacob Cohen
• Dante, Ron, American singer (The Archies) - birth name: Carmine Granito
• Darin, Bobby, American singer/musician - birth name: Walden Robert Cassotto
• Davies, Marion, American actress - birth name: Marion Cecilia Douras
• Dawson, Richard, English-born American actor/television personality - birth name: Colin Emm
• Day, Alice, American actress - birth name: Jacquiline Alice Newlin
• Day, Doris, American actress/singer - birth name: Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff
• Day, Marceline, American actress - birth name: Marceline Newlin
• Dayne, Taylor, American singer/actress - birth name: Leslie Wunderman
• De Carlo, Yvonne, Canadian-born American actress - birth name: Margaret Yvonne Middleton
• De Mornay, Rebecca, American actress - birth name: Rebecca George
• Deneuve, Catherine, French actress - birth name: Catherine Dorléac
• Denver, John, American singer/musician - birth name: Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.
• Derek, Bo, American actress - birth name: Mary Kathleen Collins
• Dickinson, Angie, American actress - birth name: Angeline Brown
• Diesel, Vin, American actor - birth name: Mark Sinclair Vincent
• Dix, Richard, American actor - birth name: Ernest Carlton Brimmer
• Dolby, Thomas, English musician/singer - birth name: Thomas Morgan Robertson
• Doro, Marie, American actress - birth name: Marie Katherine Steward
• Dors, Diana, English actress - birth name: Diana Mary Fluck
• Douglas, Kirk, American actor - birth name: Issur Danielovitch Demsky
• Durbin, Deanna, Canadian actress - birth name: Edna Mae Durbin
• Dylan, Bob, American singer/musician - birth name: Robert Allen Zimmerman

E

• Electra, Carmen, American actress - birth name: Tara Leigh Patrick
• Elliot, Cass, American singer (The Mamas and the Papas), birth name: Ellen Naomi Cohen
• Essex, David, English actor/singer - birth name: David Albert Cook
• Evans, Linda, American actress - birth name: Linda Evanstad
• Ewell, Tom, American actor - birth name: Samuel Yewell Tompkins

F

• Fairbanks, Douglas, American actor - birth name: Julius Ullman
• Fairchild, Morgan, American actress - birth name: Patsy Anne McClenny
• Farr, Jamie, American actor - birth name: Jameel Joseph Farah
• Fields, W. C., American actor/comedian - birth name: William Claude Dukenfield
• Fleming, Rhonda, American actress - birth name: Marilyn Louis
• Fontaine, Joan, English actress - birth name: Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland
• Forman, Miloš, Czech-born film director - birth name: Jan Tomáš Forman
• Foster, Jodie, American actress - birth name: Alicia Christian Foster
• Francis, Arlene, American actress/television personality - birth name: Arline Francis Kazanjian
• Francis, Connie, American singer - birth name: Concetta Maria Franconero
• Fritsch, Willy, German actor - birth name: Wilhelm Anton Frohs
• Ford, Gerald, Former American president - birth name: Leslie Lynch King
• Ford, Glenn, Canadian-born American actor - birth name: Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford
• Ford, John, American film director - birth name: John Martin Feeney
• Forsythe, John, American actor - birth name: John Lincoln Freund
• Foxx, Jamie, American actor - birth name: Eric Morlon Bishop
• Fulton, Eileen, American actress - birth name: Margaret Elizabeth McLarty

G

• Gabin, Jean, French actor/war hero - birth name: Jean-Alexis Moncorgé
• Gainsbourg, Serge, French singer - birth name: Lucien Ginsburg
• Garbo, Greta, Swedish actress - birth name: Greta Lovisa Gustafsson
• Garfield, John, American actor - birth name: Jacob Julius Garfinkle
• Garland, Beverly, American actress - birth name: Beverly Lucy Fessenden
• Garland, Judy, American singer/actress - birth name: Frances Ethel Gumm
• Garner, James, American actor - birth name: James Scott Baumgarner
• Gayle, Crystal, American singer - birth name: Brenda Gayle Webb
• Gaynor, Janet, American actress - birth name: Laura Gainor
• Gentry, Bobbie, American singer - birth name: Roberta Streeter
• Gershwin, George, American composer - birth name: Jacob Gershowitz
• Gershwin, Ira, American lyricist - birth name: Israel Gershowitz
• Gilbert, John, American actor - birth name: John Cecil Pringle
• Gish, Dorothy, American actress - birth name: Dorothy Elizabeth de Guiche
• Gish, Lillian, American actress - birth name: Lillian Diana de Guiche
• Goldberg, Whoopi, American actress/comedienne - birth name: Caryn Elaine Johnson
• Gore, Leslie, American singer - birth name: Lesley Sue Goldstein
• Gould, Elliott, American actor - birth name: Elliott Goldstein
• Granger, Stewart, English actor - birth name: James Lablanche Stewart
• Grant, Cary, American actor - birth name: Archibald Alexander Leach
• Grant, Ulysses S., Former American president - birth name: Hiram Ulysses Grant
• Graziano, Rocky, American boxer - birth name: Thomas Rocco Barbella
• Greene, Shecky, American comedian/actor - birth name: Sheldon Greenfield
• Guillaume, Robert, American actor - birth name: Robert Peter Williams

H

• Hall, Monty, American television personality - birth name: Monte Halparin
• Hackett, Buddy, American actor/comedian - birth name: Leonard Hacker
• Hagman, Larry, American actor - birth name: Larry Martin Hageman
• Harlow, Jean, American actress - birth name: Harlean Carpentier
• Hart, Gary, American politician - birth name: Gary Warren Hartpence
• Havoc, June, American actress - birth name: Ellen Hovick
• Hayakawa, Sessue, Japanese-born American actor - birth name: Hayakawa Kintaro
• Hayward, Susan, American actress - birth name: Edythe Marrener
• Hayworth, Rita, American actress - birth name: Margarita Cansino
• Helm, Brigitte, German actress - birth name: Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm
• Heston, Charlton, American actor - birth name: John Charles Carter
• Holden, William, American actor - birth name: William Franklin Beedle, Jr.
• Holliday, Billie, American blues singer - birth name: Eleanora Fagan Gough
• Hollander, Xaviera, Dutch call girl/author - birth name: Vera de Vries
• Hope, Bob, American actor/comedian - birth name: Leslie Townes Hope
• Houdini, Harry, Hungarian-born American illusionist - birth name: Ehrich Weiss
• Hudson, Rock, American actor - birth name: Roy Scherer
• Humperdinck, Engelbert, English-American singer - birth name: Arnold George Dorsey

I

• Ian, Janis, American singer/songwriter - birth name: Janis Eddy Fink

J

• James, Rick, American singer/musician - birth name: James Ambrose Johnson, Jr.
• Jameson, Jenna, American adult film actress - birth name: Jennifer Marie Massoli
• Jannings, Emil, Swiss-born American actor - birth name: Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz
• Jillian, Ann, American actress - birth name: Ann Jura Nauseda
• John, Elton, English singer - birth name: Reginald Kenneth Dwight
• Jolson, Al, Lithuanian-born American singer/actor - birth name: Asa Yoelson
• Jones, Carolyn, American actress - birth name: Carolyn Sue Baker
• Jones, Grace, Jamaican model/singer/actress - birth name: Grace Mendoza
• Jones, Jennifer, American actress - birth name: Phylis Lee Isley
• Jones, Jenny, American television personality - birth name: Janina Stranski
• Joy, Leatrice, American actress - birth name: Leatrice Joy Zeidler
• Judd, Ashley, American actress - birth name: Ashley Tyler Ciminella
• Judd, Wynonna, American singer (The Judds) - birth name: Christina Claire Ciminella

K

• Kahn, Madeline, American actress - birth name: Madeline Gail Wolfson
• Karloff, Boris, British actor - birth name: William Henry Pratt
• Kasem, Casey, American radio personality and voice actor - birth name: Kemal Amin Kasem
• Kaye, Danny, American actor/singer - birth name: David Daniel Kaminsky
• Keaton, Michael, American actor - birth name: Michael John Douglas
• Kerry, Norman, American actor - birth name: Arnold Kaiser
• Ketchel, Stanley, American boxer - birth name: Stanisław Kiecal
• Kier, Udo, German actor - birth name: Udo Kierspe
• King, Larry, American television personality - birth name: Lawrence Harvey Zeiger
• Kingsley, Ben, English actor - birth name: Krishna Bhanji
• Kinski, Klaus, German actor - birth name: Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszyński
• Kinski, Nastassja, German actress - birth name: Nastassja Aglaia Nakszyński
• Knight, Ted, American actor - birth name: Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka
• Koidula, Lydia, Estonian poet - birth name: Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen

L

• Lake, Veronica, American actress - birth name: Constance Frances Marie Ockleman
• Lamarr, Hedy, Austrian-born American actress - birth name: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
• Landon, Michael, American actor - birth name: Eugene Maurice Orowitz
• La Rocque, Rod, American actor - birth name: Rodrique la Rocque de la Rour
• Laurel, Stan, English-born American comedian/actor - birth name: Arthur Stanley Jefferson
• Lauren, Ralph, American fashion designer - birth name: Ralph Lifschitz
• Lawrence, Steve, American singer - birth name: Sidney Leibowitz
• Lee, Gypsy Rose, American actress and burlesque performer - birth name: Rose Louise Hovick
• Lee, Lila, American actress - birth name: Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel
• Lee, Peggy, American singer - birth name: Norma Deloris Egstrom
• Leigh, Janet, American actress - birth name: Jeanette Helen Morrison
• Leigh, Jennifer Jason, American actress - birth name: Jennifer Lee Morrow
• Leigh, Vivien, English actress - birth name: Vivian Mary Hartley
• Lewis, Jerry, American actor/comedian - birth name: Joseph Levitch
• Linder, Max, French actor - birth name: Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle
• Liotta, Ray, American actor - birth name: Raymond Julian Vicimarli
• Little, Ann, American actress - birth name: Mary Brooks
• Loren, Sophia, Italian actress - birth name: Sofia Villani Scicolone
• Lombard, Carole, American actress - birth name: Jane Alice Peters
• Lords, Traci, American actress - birth name: Nora Louise Kuzma
• Lorre, Peter, Slovakian-born American actor - birth name: Ladislav Löwenstein
• Love, Bessie, American actress - birth name: Juanita Horton
• Love, Courtney, American singer/musician(Hole)/actress - birth name: Courtney Michelle Harrison
• Lovich, Lene, American singer - birth name: Lili-Marlene Premilovich
• Loy, Myrna, American actress - birth name: Myrna Adele Williams
• Lugosi, Bela, Hungarian-born American actor - birth name: Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó
• Lunch, Lydia, American singer - birth name: Lydia Koch
• Lwin, Annabella, Engish singer (Bow Wow Wow) - birth name: Myint Myint Aye Lwin

M

• Mac, Bernie, American comedian/actor - birth name: Bernard Jeffery McCullough
• MacLaine, Shirley, American actress - birth name: Shirley MacLean Beaty
• Macpherson, Elle, Australian model/actress - birth name: Eleanor Nancy Gow
• Majors, Lee, American actor - birth name: Lee Harvey Yeary
• Manilow, Barry, American singer-songwriter - birth name: Barry Alan Pinkus
• Manson, Marilyn, American singer - birth name: Brian Warner
• March, Fredric, American actor - birth name: Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel
• Marlowe, June, American actress - birth name: Gisela Goetten
• Martin, Dean, American singer/actor - birth name: Dino Paul Crocetti
• Matthau, Walter, American actor - birth name: Walter John Matthow
• McGuinn, Roger, American singer/guitarist - birth name: Jim McGuinn
• McManus, Rove, Australian TV show host - birth name: John McManus
• Mercier, Michèle, French film actress - birth name: Jocelyne Yvonne Renée Mercier
• Mercury, Freddie, English singer - birth name: Faroukh Bulsara
• Michael, George, English singer - birth name: Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou
• Mills, Donna, American actress - birth name: Donna Jean Miller
• Minter, Mary Miles, American actress - birth name: Juliet Reilly
• Mitchell, Joni, Canadian singer/songwriter - birth name: Roberta Joan Anderson
• Monroe, Marilyn, American actress - birth name: Norma Jean Mortenson
• Moore, Colleen, American actress - birth name: Kathleen Morrison
• Moore, Demi, American actress - birth name: Demetria Gene Guynes
• Moreno, Antonio, Spanish-born American actor - birth name: Antonio Garride Monteagudo
• Moreno, Rita, Puerto Rican-born American actress - birth name: Rosita Dolores Alverío
• Morgan, Harry, American actor - birth name: Henry Bratsburg
• Morrissey, English singer - birth name: Steven Patrick Morrissey
• Muni, Paul, Austro-Hungarian-born American actor - birth name: Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund
• Murray, Mae, American actress - birth name: Marie Adrienne Koenig

N

• Naldi, Nita, American actress - birth name: Anita Donna Dooley
• Nazimova, Alla, Ukrainian-born American actress - birth name: Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon
• Negri, Pola, Polish-born American film actress - birth name: Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec
• Nenê, Brazilian basketball player - birth name: Maybyner Rodney Hilario
• Newmar, Julie, American actress - birth name: Julia Charlene Newmeyer
• Nichole, Nichelle, American actress - birth name: Grace Nichols
• Norris, Chuck, American actor - birth name: Carlos Ray
• Novarro, Ramón, Mexican-born American actor - birth name: José Ramón Gil Samaniego
• Novello, Ivor, Welsh singer/lyricist/actor - birth name: David Ivor Davies
• Numan, Gary, English singer - birth name: Gary Anthony James Webb

O

• Oberon, Merle, Indian-born American actress - birth name: Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson
• O'Hara, George, American actor/screenwriter - birth name: George Bolger
• Oland, Warner, Swedish-born American actor - birth name: Johan Verner Ölund
• Ondra, Anny, Czech film actress - birth name: Anna Sophie Ondráková

P

• Palance, Jack, American actor - birth name: Vladimir Palaniuk
• Palusalu, Kristjan, Estonian wrestler/Olympian - birth name: Kristjan Trossmann
• Petrova, Olga, English actress - birth name: Muriel Harding
• Petrovich, Iván, Serbian-born German actor - birth name: Swetislaw Petrovic
• Pickford, Jack, Canadian-born American actor - birth name: John Charles Smith
• Pickford, Lottie, Canadian-born American actress - birth name: Charlotte Smith
• Pickford, Mary, Canadian-born American actress - birth name: Gladys Louise Smith
• Preer, Evelyn, American actress/blues singer - birth name: Evelyn Jarvis
• Prevost, Marie, Canadian-born American actress - birth name: Mary Bickford Dunn
• Prinze, Freddie, American actor - birth name: Frederick Karl Pruetzel

Q

• Qualen, John, American actor - birth name: Johan Mandt Kvalen
• Quinn, Anthony, Mexican-born American actor - birth name: Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn

R

• Rambova, Natacha, American costume designer/actress - birth name: Winifred Shaughnessy
• Rand, Ayn, Russian-born novelist/philosopher - birth name: Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (Russian: Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум)
• Rand, Sally, American dancer/actress - birth name: Harriet Helen Gould Beck
• Randall, Tony, American actor - birth name: Arthur Leonard Rosenberg
• Rashad, Ahmad, American football player/sportscaster - birth name: Robert Moore
• Rayburn, Gene, American television personality - birth name: Eugene Rubessa
• Reed, Donna, American actress - birth name: Donnabelle Mullenger
• Reeves, George, American actor - birth name: George Keefer Brewer
• Reynolds, Debbie, American actress/singer - birth name: Mary Frances Reynolds
• Reubens, Paul, American actor/comedian - birth name: Paul Rubenfeld
• Rhodes, Nick, English musician - birth name: Nicholas James Bates
• Richard, Cliff, English singer - birth name: Harry Rodger Webb
• Rivers, Joan, American comedienne/actress - birth name: Joan Alexandra Molinsky
• Roberts, Ben, English professional poker player - birth name: Mehdi Jadvani
• Robinson, Edward G., American actor - birth name: Emanuel Goldenberg
• Rogers, Ginger, American actress/dancer - birth name: Virginia Katherine McMath
• Roland, Gilbert, Mexican-born American actor - birth name: Luis Antonio Damaso de Alonso
• Rooney, Mickey, American actor - birth name: Joseph Yule, Jr.
• Roth, Tim, English actor - birth name: Timothy Simon Smith
• Rothko, Mark, Latvian-born American painter - birth name: Marcus Rothkowitz
• Ryan, Meg, American actress - birth name: Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra
• Ryder, Winona, American actress - birth name: Winona Laura Horowitz

S

• Samms, Emma, English actress - birth name: Emma Samuelson
• Scala, Gia, English actress - birth name: Giovanna Scoglio
• Seymour, Jane, English-born American actress, birth name: Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg
• Sharif, Omar, Egyptian actor - birth name: Michel Demitri Shalhoub
• Sheen, Charlie, American actor - birth name: Carlos Irwin Estévez
• Sheen, Martin, American actor - birth name: Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez
• Shepherd, Kenny Wayne, American musician - birth name: Kenny Wayne Brobst, Jr.
• Sidney, Sylvia, American actress - birth name: Sophia Kosow
• Sills, Beverly, American opera singer - birth name: Belle Miriam Silverman
• Simmons, Gene, American singer (KISS) - birth name: Chaim Klein Witz
• Simone, Nina, American singer - birth name: Eunice Kathleen Waymon
• Somers, Brett, Canadian-born American television personality/actress - birth name: Audrey Sommers
• Sondergaard, Gale, American actress - birth name: Edith Holm Sondergaard
• Soo, Jack, American actor - birth name: Goro Suzuki
• Sothern, Ann, American actress - birth name: Harriette Arlene Lake
• Springfield, Dusty, English singer - birth name: Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien
• Stanwyck, Barbara, American actress - birth name: Ruby Katherine Stevens
• Starr, Ringo, English drummer - birth name: Richard Starkey
• Stewart, Jon, American comedian/actor - birth name: Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz
• Stone, Harold J., American actor - birth name: Harold Hochstein
• Súmac, Yma, Peruvian singer - birth name: Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo
• Summer, Donna, American singer - birth name: LaDonna Adrian Gaines
• Supervía, Conchita, Spanish opera singer - birth name: Concepcion Supervía Pascual

T

• Taylor, Robert, American actor - birth name: Spangler Arlington Brough
• Teller, American comedian/magician - birth name: Raymond Joseph Teller
• Terrell, Tammi, American singer - birth name: Thomasina Montgomery
• Thomas, Olive, American actress - birth name: Oliveretta Elaine Duffy
• Thomas, Danny, American comedian/actor - birth name: Amos Yakhoob
• Trevor, Claire, American actress - birth name: Claire Wemlinger
• Turner, Lana, American actress - birth name: Julia Jean Turner
• Turner, Tina, American singer/actress - birth name: Anna Mae Bullock
• Twain, Shania, Canadian/American singer - birth name: Eileen Regina Edwards
• Tyler, Bonnie, Welsh singer - birth name: Gaynor Hopkins

U

V

• Vadim, Roger - French director/actor/producer - birth name: Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov
• Valentino, Rudolph, Italian actor - birth name: Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antoguolla
• Valli, Frankie, American singer (The Four Seasons) - birth name: Francis Stephen Castelluccio
• Valli, Virginia, American actress - birth name: Virginia McSweeney
• Van Doren, Mamie, American actress - birth name: Joan Lucille Olander
• Varconi, Victor, Hungarian-born American actor - birth name: Mihály Várkonyi
• Vedder, Eddie, American singer/guitarist (Pearl Jam) - birth name: Edward Louis Seversen III
• Vee, Bobby, American singer - birth name: Robert Thomas Velline
• Veidt, Conrad - German actor - birth name: Hans Walter Conrad Weidt
• Ventura, Jesse American wrestler, former Governor of Minnesota - birth name: James George Janos
• Vinton, Bobby, American singer - birth name: Stanley Robert Vintula, Jr.

W

• Wagner, Lindsay, American actress - birth name: Lindsay Jean Ball
• Wallace, Beryl, American actress - birth name: Beryl Heischuber
• Warhol, Andy, American artist - birth name: Andrew Warhola
• Warrior, American professional wrestler - birth name: Brian James Hellwig
• Warwick, Dionne, American singer - birth name: Marie Dionne Warrick
• Wayne, John, American actor - birth name: Marion Robert Morrison
• Weaver, Sigourney, American actress - birth name: Susan Alexandra Weaver
• Webb, Clifton, American actor - birth name: Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck
• Webb, Morgan, American TV personality - birth name: Michelle Michaels
• Weissmuller, Johnny, Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer/actor - birth name: János Weißmüller
• West, Adam, American actor - birth name: William West Anderson
• West, Eric, American singer/model - birth name: Eric Rosa
• White, Jack, American musician (White Stripes, The Raconteurs) - birth name: John Anthony Gillis
• White, Vanna, American television personality - birth name: Vanna Marie Rosich
• Wilder, Gene, American actor - birth name: Jerome Silberman
• Winchell, Walter, American columnist, radio personality - birth name: Walter Winschel
• Windsor, Claire - American actress: birth name: Clara Viola Cronk
• Winters, Shelley, American actress - birth name: Shirley Schrift
• Wong, Anna May, American actress - birth name: Wong Liu Tsong
• Wood, Natalie, American actress - birth name: Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
• Wyman, Jane, American actress - birth name: Sarah Jane Mayfield
• Wynette, Tammy, American singer - birth name: Virginia Wynette Pugh

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• Young, Burt, American actor - birth name: Jerry De Louise
• Young, Loretta, American actress - birth name: Gretchen Michaela Young
• Yuro, Timi, American singer - birth name: Rosemarie Timotea Aurro

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• Zadora, Pia, American actress/singer - birth name: Pia Alfreda Schipani

See also

• Stage name
• Ring name, a similar concept in professional wrestling
• List of pseudonyms

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