List of pseudonyms
Pseudonyms fall into various categories:
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2 Pen Names 3 Politicians 4 Stage Names 5 Other |
Artists, Sculptors, Architects
- Canaletto -- Giovanni Antonio Canal or Bernardo Belotto
- El Greco -- Domenico Theotocopoulos
- Le Corbusier -- Charles Edouard Jeanneret
- Il Sodoma -- Giovanni Antonio Bazzi
Pen Names
- Woody Allen -- Allen Stewart Konigsberg
- Piers Anthony -- Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
- Michael Arlen -- Dikran Kuyumjian
- Richard Bachman -- Stephen King
- Acton Bell -- Anne Bronte
- Nicolas Bourbaki -- a group of 20th-century mathematicians.
- Boz -- Charles Dickens
- Currer Bell -- Charlotte Bronte
- Ellis Bell -- Emily Bronte
- John Beynon -- John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
- Lewis Carroll -- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
- George Eliot -- Mary Ann Evans
- Michael Innes -- J. I. M. Stewart
- Anne Knish -- Arthur Davison Ficke
- Barbara Michaels -- Barbara Mertz
- Emanuel Morgan -- Witter Bynner
- Flann O'Brien -- Brian O'Nolan
- George Orwell -- Eric Arthur Blair
- Elizabeth Peters -- Barbara Mertz
- Ellis Peters -- Edith Pargeter
- Jean Plaidy -- Eleanor Hibbert
- George Sand -- Amandine Dupin
- Cordwainer Smith -- Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
- Lemony Snicket -- Daniel Handler
- Student -- William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics.
- Italo Svevo -- Ettore Schmitz
- Mark Twain -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- Voltaire -- François-Marie Arouet
- John Wyndham -- John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
Politicians
- Abu Mazen -- Mahmoud Abbas
- Abu Ammar and Yasser Arafat -- Muhammad Abd ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husayni
- Abu Ala -- Ahmad Qurei
Stage Names
- Cilla Black -- Priscilla White
- Bono -- Paul Hewson
- Michael Caine -- Maurice Micklewhite
- Coolio -- Artis Ivey, Jr.
- Tom Cruise -- Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
- Doris Day -- Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff
- Bob Dylan -- Robert Zimmerman
- The Edge -- David Evans
- Eminem -- Marshall Mathers III
- Fatboy Slim -- Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook
- Judy Garland -- Frances Gumm
- Cary Grant -- Archibald Leach
- Billie Holiday -- Eleanora Fagan
- Judy Holliday -- Judith Tuvim
- Engelbert Humperdinck -- Gerry Dorsey
- Ice Cube -- O'Shea Jackson
- Ice T -- Tracy Marrow
- Elton John -- Reginald Kenneth Dwight
- Danny Kaye -- David Daniel Kaminski
- Jerry Lewis -- Joseph Levitch
- LL Cool J -- James Todd Smith
- Little Richard -- Richard Wayne Penniman
- Lulu (singer) -- Marie Lawrie
- Dean Martin -- Dino Crocetti
- Meat Loaf -- Marvin Lee Aday
- Freddie Mercury -- Faroukh Bulsara
- Moby -- Richard Melville Hall
- Marilyn Monroe -- Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker
- Eric Morecambe -- John Eric Bartholemew
- Mary Pickford -- Gladys Smith
- Queen Latifah -- Dana Owens
- Vic Reeves -- Jim Moir
- The Rock -- Dwayne Douglas Johnson
- Seal -- Sealhenry Samuel
- Sandie Shaw -- Sandra Goodrich
- Snoop Dogg -- Calvin Broadus
- Ringo Starr -- Richard Starkey
- Sting -- Gordon Sumner
- Sugar -- Stephanie Beard
- Ritchie Valens -- Ricardo Valenzuela
- John Wayne -- Marion Michael Morrison
- Ernie Wise -- Ernest Wiseman
- Stevie Wonder -- Steveland Morris
Other
- Kid Gavilan -- Gerardo Gonzalez (world champion boxer)
- Sugar Ray Leonard -- Ray Charles Leonard (world champion boxer)
- Joe Louis -- Joseph Louis Barrow (world champion boxer, Louis was his middle name)
- Pelé -- Edson Arantes do Nascimento (soccer legend)
- Hermann Noordung - Herman Potočnik (pioneer of astronautics)
- Sugar Ray Robinson -- Walker Smith, Jr. (world champion boxer)
- Jersey Joe Walcott -- Arnold Raymond Cream (world champion boxer)
- Peter Warlock -- Philip Heseltine (composer)