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Paul Hewson ("BONO" from U2) and other REAL NAMES you didn't know!
Published on 3/13/2006

The real name of the following people or characters is not generally used when referring to them, and by consequence is not well-known:

Acharya S (D. Murdock)

Adrock (Adam Horowitz)

Alan Dale (Aldo Sigismondi)

Albert Brooks (Albert Lawrence Einstein)

Alice Cooper (Vincent Damon Furnier)

Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook)

Alla Nazimova (Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon)

Alpha Blondy (Seydou Koné)

André 3000 (André Benjamin)

Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Italiano)

Ashok Kumar (Kumudlal Kanjilal Ganguly)

Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds)

Barbara (Monique Serf)

Bela Lugosi (Be'la Ferenc Dezso Blasko)

Betty Hutton (Elizabeth June Thornburg)

Big Boi (Antwan André Patton)

Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan)

Billy Idol (William Michael Albert Broad)

Billy Ocean (Leslie Charles)

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)

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

Buddy Clark (Samuel Goldberg)

Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)

Burning Spear (Winston Rodney)

Burt Holiday (Bonaldo Bonaldi)

Cantinflas (Mario Moreno)

Capucine (Germaine Lefebvre)

Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters)

Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach)

Cat Stevens (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, later Yusuf Islam)

Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Dorléac)

Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez)



Charlton Heston (John Charles Carter)

Che Guevara (Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna)

Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian)

Chespirito (Roberto Gómez Bolanos)

Cilla Black (Priscilla White)

Conway Twitty (Harold Jenkins)

Coolio (Artis Ivey, Jr.)

Damia (Marie-Louise Damien)

D'Angelo (Michael Archer, Sr.)

Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminski)

David Bowie (David Robert Jones)

David Copperfield (David Seth Kotkin)

David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian)

Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti)

Del Shannon (Charles Weedon Westover)

Dharmendra (Dharam Singh Deol)

Diane Keaton (Diane Hall)

Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan)

Dirk Bogarde (Derek van den Bogaerde)

Donna Summer (LaDonna Andrea Gaines)

Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff)

Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien)

Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight)

Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus)

Eminem (Marshall Mathers III)

Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold Dorsey)

Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholemew)

Ernest Borgnine (Ermes Effron Borgnino)

Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman)

Fatboy Slim (Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook)



Frankie Valli (Francis Castelluccio)

Franz Welser-Möst (Franz Möst)

Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz)

Freddie Mercury (Faroukh Bulsara)

Fredric March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel)

Gale Storm (Josephine Owaissa Cottle)

Garry Kasparov (Gari Weinstein)

Garry Moore (Thomas Garrison Morfit)

Gary Glitter (Paul Francis Gadd)

Gene Simmons (Chaim Witz)


Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman)

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)

Georgious (Georges Guibourg)

Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath)

Gogi Grant (Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg)

Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson)

Gribouille (Marie-France Gaîté)

Groucho Marx (Julius Henry Marx)

Guitar Slim (Guitar Slim|Eddie Jones)

Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss)

Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)

Heino (Heinz Georg Kramm)

Howlin' Wolf (Chester Arthur Burnett)

Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson)

Ice T (Tracy Morrow)

Jamie Foxx (Eric Bishop)

Janet Leigh (Jeanette Helen Morrison)

Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer)

Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpentier)

Jean-Claude Van Damme (Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg)

Jem (Jemma Grifftis)

Jennifer Jones (Phyllis Lee Isley)

Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)

Jill Corey (Norma Jean Speranza)

Joan Crawford (Lucille Fay LeSueur)

Joan Fontaine (Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland)

John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.)

John Ford (Sean Aloysius O'Fearna)

John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison)

Johnny Desmond (Giovanni Alfredo De Simone)

Johnny Rotten (John Joseph Lydon)

Jon Stewart (Jonathon Leibowitz)

Joni James (Joan Carmella Babbo|Joan (or Giovanna)

Carmella Babbo)

Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson)

José José (José Sosa)

Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili)

Judy Garland (Frances Gumm)

Judy Holliday (Judith Tuvim)

Kim Il Sung (Kim Song Ju)

Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch Demsky)

Kishore Kumar (Abhas Ganguly)

Kitty Kallen (Genevieve Agostinello)

Lale Andersen (Liese-Lotte Helene Berta Bunnenberg)

Lauren Bacall (Betty Joan Perske)

Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)

Les Paul (Lester Polfuss)

Lionel Barrymore (Lionel Herbert Blythe)

Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman)

LL Cool J (James Todd Smith)

Lord Mahavira (Vardhamana)

Lula (Luiz Inácio da Silva)

Lulu (singer)

(Marie Lawrie)

Mariah Carey (Maria Nuñez)

Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner)

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker)

Marion Hutton (Marion Thornburg)

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Marni Nixon (Marni McEathron)

Martin Sheen (Ramón Estévez)

Mary Astor (Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke)

Mary Ford (Colleen Summers)

Mary Pickford (Gladys Smith)

Mata Amritanandamayi (Sudhamani)

MCA (Adam Yauch)

Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday)

Meena Kumari (Mahjabeen Bano)

Meg Ryan (Margaret Mary Emily Ann Hyra)

Mel Brooks (Melvin Kaminsky)

Michael Caine (Maurice Micklewhite)

Michael Keaton (Michael John Douglas)

Mike D (Mike Diamond)

Mike Dirnt (Michael Pritchard)

Moby (Richard Melville Hall)

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)

Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield)

Natalie Portman (Natalie Hershlag)

Natalie Wood (Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko)

Novalis (Friedrich Leopold)

Osho (Rajneesh Chandra Mohan)

Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler)

Paul Muni (Meshilem Meier Weisenfreud)

Paul Stanley (Stanley Harvey Eisen)

Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)

Pink (Alecia Moore)

Pol Pot (Saloth Sar)

Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson)

Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland Byrd)

Queen Latifah (Dana Owens)

Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson)

Rikki (Nakano Ritsuki)

Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)

Ritchie Valens (Ricardo Valenzuela)

Robert Gant (Robert Gonzalez)

Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer Jr.)

Rocky Marciano (Rocco Francis Marchegiano)

Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov)

Ronnie Gaylord (Ronald L. Fredianelli)

Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich)

Sathya Sai Baba (Sathya Narayana Raju)

Seal (Sealhenry Samuel)

Serge Gainsbourg (Lucien Ginzburg)

Shania Twain (Eileen Regina Edwards, later Eileen Regina Twain)

Simone Signoret (Simone Kaminker)

Slash (Saul Hudson)

Slim Harpo (James Moore)

Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus)

Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone)

Stanley Donwood (Dan Rickwood)

Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris)

Stewart Granger (Stewart Granger|James Stewart)

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)

Tchock, Tchocky, Dr Tchock, The White Chocolate Farm (Thom Yorke)

The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.)

The Edge (David Evans)

The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace)

The Rock (Dwayne Douglas Johnson)

Timea Margot (Timea Vagvoelgyi)

Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock)

Tom Cruise (Thomas Cruise Mapother IV)

Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz)

Tony Martin (Alvin Morris)

Totò (Antonio de Curtis Gagliardi Griffo Focas Comneno)

Tré Cool (Frank Edwin Wright III)

Vangelis (Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou)

Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle)

Vic Reeves (Jim Moir)

Viktor Suvorov (Vladimir Rezun)

Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley)

Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

Wilhelm Fink (Billie Joe Armstrong)

William Holden (William Franklin Beedle Jr.)

Willy DeVille [William Borsay)

Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz)

Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)




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