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Here are the original names of celebs and other famous people. Most changed their name to make a more “user friendly†name for people to remember. Many were foreign names changed to sound more American. Others just wanted a more memorable hook… here is a list of the original, first names of celebrities who have changed their name:
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Alan Alda – Alphonso D’Abruzzo
Albert Brooks – Albert Lawrence Einstein
Alice Cooper – Vincent Damon Furnier
Alicia Keys – Alicia Augello Cook
André 3000 – André Benjamin
Anne Bancroft – Anna Maria Italiano
Ashok Kumar – Kumudlal Kanjilal Ganguly
abyface – Kenneth Edmonds
Barry Manilow – Barry Alan Pincus
Bela Lugosi – Be’la Ferenc Dezso Blasko
Big Boi – Antwan André Patton
Billie Holiday – Eleanora Fagan
Billy Idol – William Michael Albert Broad
Billy Ocean – Leslie Charles
Bo Diddley – Elias Bates
Bob Dylan – Robert Zimmerman
Bob Hope – Leslie Townes Hope
Bobby Darin – Walden Robert Cassotto
Bonnie Tyler – Gaynor Hopkins
Bono – Paul Hewson
Boris Karloff – William Henry Pratt
Boy George – George Alan O’Dowd
Buddy Holly – Charles Hardin Holley
Burt Holiday – Bonaldo Bonaldi
Cary Grant – Archibald Alexander Leach
Cat Stevens – Stephen Demetre Georgiou. He later changed his name to Yusuf Islam
Chaka Khan – Yvette Stevens
Charlie Sheen – Carlos Irwin Estevez
Charlton Heston – John Charles Carter
Che Guevara – Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna
Cher – Cherilyn Sarkisian
Chuck Norris – Carlos Ray
Cilla Black – Priscilla White
Conway Twitty – Harold Jenkins
Coolio – Artis Ivey, Jr.
Danny Kaye – David Daniel Kaminski
David Bowie – David Robert Jones
David Copperfield – David Seth Kotkin
Dean Martin – Dino Crocetti
Demi Moore – Demetria Guynes
Diane Keaton – Diane Hall
Donna Summer – Ladonna Andrea Gaines
Doris Day – Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff
Dr. Dre – Andre Young.
Dusty Springfield – Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien
Elton John – Reginald Kenneth Dwight
Elvis Costello – Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus
Engelbert Humperdinck – Arnold Dorsey (why the hell would he change it to THAT????)
Ernest Borgnine – Ermes Effron Borgnino
Ernie Wise – Ernest Wiseman
Frankie Valli – Francis Castelluccio
Fred Astaire – Frederick Austerlitz
Freddie Mercury – Faroukh Bulsara
Gale Storm – Josephine Owaissa Cottle
Gary Glitter – Paul Francis Gadd
Gene Simmons – Chaim Witz
Gene Wilder – Jerome Silberman
George Michael – Georgios Panayiotou
George Orwell – Eric Arthur Blair
Ginger Rogers – Virginia Katherine McMath
Greta Garbo – Greta Lovisa Gustafsson
Groucho Marx – Julius Henry Marx
Harry Houdini – Ehrich Weiss
Hulk Hogan – Terry Jean Bollette
Ice Cube – O’Shea Jackson
Ice T – Tracy Morrow
Jamie Foxx – Eric Bishop
Jean-Claude Van Damme – Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg
Jerry Lewis – Joseph Levitch
Joan Crawford – Lucille Fay LeSueur
Jodie Foster – Alicia Christian Foster.
John Denver – Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.
John Ford – Sean Aloysius O’Fearna
John Wayne – Marion Michael Morrison
Johnny Rotten – John Joseph Lydon
Jon Stewart – Jonathon Leibowitz
Joni Mitchell – Roberta Joan Anderson
Joseph Stalin – Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili
Judy Garland – Frances Gumm
Judy Holliday – Judith Tuvim
Kirk Douglas – Issur Danielovitch Demsky
Lauren Bacall – Betty Joan Perske
Leon Trotsky – Lev Davidovich Bronstein
Les Paul – Lester Polfuss
Little Richard – Richard Wayne Penniman
LL Cool J – James Todd Smith
Madonna – Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone.
Mariah Carey – Maria Nuñez
Marilyn Manson – Brian Warner
Marilyn Monroe – Norma Jean Mortenson. Then Norma Jean Baker
Mark Twain – Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Martin Sheen – Ramón Estévez
Meat Loaf – Marvin Lee Aday
Meg Ryan – Margaret Mary Emily Ann Hyra
Mel Brooks – Melvin Kaminsky
Michael Caine – Maurice Micklewhite
Michael Keaton – Michael John Douglas
Moby – Richard Melville Hall
Mother Teresa – Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Mr. T – Lawrence Tero
Muddy Waters – McKinley Morganfield
Natalie Portman – Natalie Hershlag
Natalie Wood – Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
Jack Palance – Volodymyr Palahniuk in Ukraine.
Patti Page – Clara Ann Fowler
Pelé – Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Pink – Alecia Moore
Prince – Prince Rogers Nelson. (According to reliable internet sources, he later changed it a record 743 times, including “the artist formally known as the artist formally known as Princeâ€. Some sources indicate he is in the process of changing it to “Bobâ€.)
Queen Latifah – Dana Owens
Ray Charles – Ray Charles Robinson
Ringo Starr – Richard Starkey
Ritchie Valens – Ricardo Valenzuela
Rock Hudson – Roy Harold Scherer Jr.
Seal – Sealhenry Samuel
Shania Twain – Eileen Regina Edwards
Snoop Dogg – Calvin Broadus
Sophia Loren – Sofia Villani Scicolone
Stevie Wonder – Steveland Morris
Sting – Gordon Sumner
Sugar – Stephanie Beard
Sugar Ray Robinson – Walker Smith Jr.
Susan Hayward – Edythe Marrenner
Susan Sarandon – Susan Abigail Tomalin
T-Bone Walker – Aaron Thibeaux Walker
The Edge – David Evans
The Notorious B.I.G. – Christopher Wallace
The Rock – Dwayne Douglas Johnson
Tina Turner – Anna Mae Bullock
Tom Cruise – Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Tony Curtis – Bernard Schwartz
Totò – Antonio de Curtis Gagliardi Griffo Focas Comneno
Vangelis – Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou
Vanilla Ice – Robert Van Winkle
Vivien Leigh – Vivian Mary Hartley
Voltaire – François-Marie Arouet
William Holden – William Franklin Beedle Jr.
Winona Ryder – Winona Laura Horowitz
Whoopie Goldberg – Caryn Johnson
Woody Allen – Allen Stewart Konigsberg
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