List of pseudonyms
Pseudonyms fall into various categories:
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
- Acton Bell -- Anne Brontë
- Anne Rice -- Howard Allen O'Brien
- Barbara Michaels -- Barbara Mertz
- Boz -- Charles Dickens
- Cherry Wilder -- Cherry Barbara Grimm
- Cordwainer Smith -- Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
- Currer Bell -- Charlotte Brontë
- Elizabeth Peters -- Barbara Mertz
- Ellis Bell -- Emily Brontë
- Ellis Peters -- Edith Pargeter
- Flann O'Brien -- Brian O'Nolan
- George Eliot -- Mary Ann Evans
- George Orwell -- Eric Arthur Blair
- George Sand -- Amandine Dupin
- Harold Robbins -- Harold Rubin
- Italo Svevo -- Ettore Schmitz
- Jean Plaidy -- Eleanor Hibbert
- John Beynon -- John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
- John Wyndham -- John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
- Joseph Conrad -- Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski
- Lemony Snicket -- Daniel Handler
- Lewis Carroll -- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
- Mark Twain -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- Michael Arlen -- Dikran Kuyumjian
- Michael Innes -- J. I. M. Stewart
- Mirza Ghalib - Asadullah Beg Khan
- Murray Leinster -- Will F. Jenkins
- Nicolas Bourbaki -- a group of 20th-century mathematicians.
- Onoto Watanna -- Winnifred Eaton
- Piers Anthony -- Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
- Publius -- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers
- Richard Bachman -- Stephen King
- Saki -- Herbert Hugh Munro
- Anne Knish -- Arthur Davison Ficke
- Emanuel Morgan -- Witter Bynner
- Student -- William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics
- Sui Sin Far -- Edith Maude Eaton
- Voltaire -- François-Marie Arouet
- Walter -- Henry Spencer Ashbee
- Woody Allen -- Allen Stewart Konigsberg
- Branislav Nusic -- Ben Akiba
Politicians
- Abu Mazen -- Mahmoud Abbas
- Abu Ammar and Yasser Arafat -- Muhammad Abd ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husayni
- Abu Ala -- Ahmad Qurei
Religion
- Mata Amritanandamayi – Sudhamani
- His Divine Grace Abhay Charana-Aravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – Abhay Charan De
- Buddha Gautama
- Lord Mahavira – Vardhamana
- Osho – Rajneesh Chandra Mohan
- Sathya Sai Baba – Sathya Narayana Raju
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta – Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
- Swami Vivekananda – Narendranath Dutta
Stage Names
- Albert Brooks –- Albert Lawrence Einstein
- Anne Bancroft –- Anna Maria Italiano
- Alice Cooper -- Vincent Damon Furnier
- Ashok Kumar -- Kumudlal Kanjilal Ganguly
- Babyface -- Kenneth Edmonds
- Barbara -- Monique Serf
- Bela Lugosi -- Be'la Ferenc Dezso Blasko
- Billie Holiday -- Eleanora Fagan
- Bob Dylan -- Robert Zimmerman
- Bob Hope -- Leslie Townes Hope
- Bobby Darin -- Walden Robert Cassotto
- Bono -- Paul Hewson
- Bonnie Tyler -- Gaynor Hopkins
- Cantinflas -- Mario Moreno
- Capucine -- Germaine Lefebvre
- Carole Lombard -- Jane Alice Peters
- Cary Grant -- Archibald Leach
- Catherine Deneuve -- Catherine Dorléac
- Charlie Sheen -- Carlos Irwin Estevez
- Chespirito -- Roberto Gómez Bolanos
- Cilla Black -- Priscilla White
- Coolio -- Artis Ivey, Jr.
- Conway Twitty – Harold Jenkins
- Damia -- Marie-Louise Damien
- D'Angelo -- Michael Archer, Sr.
- Danny Kaye -- David Daniel Kaminski
- David Seville -- Ross Bagdasarian
- Dean Martin -- Dino Crocetti
- Del Shannon – Charles Weedon Westover
- Dharmendra -- Dharam Singh Deol
- Dilip Kumar -- Yusuf Khan
- Dirk Bogarde -– Derek van den Bogaerde
- Doris Day -- Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff
- Dusty Springfield -– Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien
- Jamie Fox -- Eric Bishop
- Elton John -- Reginald Kenneth Dwight
- Elvis Costello -– Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus
- Eminem -- Marshall Mathers III
- Engelbert Humperdinck -- Gerry Dorsey
- Eric Morecambe -- John Eric Bartholemew
- Ernie Wise -- Ernest Wiseman
- Fatboy Slim -- Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook
- Fred Astaire -- Frederick Austerlitz
- Freddie Mercury -- Faroukh Bulsara
- Gale Storm -- Josephine Owaissa Cottle
- Garry Moore -- Thomas Garrison Morfit
- Gene Wilder -– Jerome Silberman
- 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
- Ice Cube -- O'Shea Jackson
- Ice T -- Tracy Morrow
- Jayne Mansfield -– Vera Jayne Palmer
- Jean Harlow – Harlean Carpentier
- Jerry Lewis -- Joseph Levitch
- Joan Crawford – Lucille Fay LeSueur
- Joëlle -- Joëlle Mogensen
- 'John Denver -- Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.
- John Wayne -- Marion Michael Morrison
- Joni James -- Joan (or Giovanna) Carmella Babbo
- Joni Mitchell -– Roberta Joan Anderson
- José José -- José Sosa
- Judy Garland -- Frances Gumm
- Judy Holliday -- Judith Tuvim
- Kirk Douglas -- Issur Danielovitch Demsky
- Kishore Kumar -- Abhas Ganguly
- Kitty Kallen -- Genevieve Agostinello
- Les Paul -- Lester Polfuss
- Lionel Barrymore -- Lionel Herbert Blythe
- Little Richard -- Richard Wayne Penniman
- LL Cool J -- James Todd Smith
- Lulu (singer) -- Marie Lawrie
- Maeda Naoki -- real name unknown -- creator of most in-house music from Dance Dance Revolution
- Marilyn Monroe -- Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker
- Martin Sheen -- Ramon Estevez
- Mary Astor -- Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
- Mary Ford -- Colleen Summers
- Mary Pickford -- Gladys Smith
- Meat Loaf -- Marvin Lee Aday
- Meena Kumari -- Mahjabeen Bano
- Meg Ryan -- Margaret Mary Emily Ann Hyra
- Mel Brooks -- Melvin Kaminsky
- Michael Caine -- Maurice Micklewhite
- Mireille -- Mireille Hartuch
- Moby -- Richard Melville Hall
- Natalie Wood -- Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
- Patti Page -- Clara Ann Fowler
- Queen Latifah -- Dana Owens
- Ray Charles -– Ray Charles Robinson
- Rikki -- Nakano Ritsuki
- Ringo Starr -- Richard Starkey
- Ritchie Valens -- Ricardo Valenzuela
- The Rock -- Dwayne Douglas Johnson
- Rock Hudson -– Roy Harold Scherer Jr.
- Roger Vadim -– Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov
- Sandie Shaw -- Sandra Goodrich
- Seal -- Sealhenry Samuel
- Shania Twain -- Eileen Regina Edwards, later Eileen Regina Twain
- Simone Signoret -– Simone Kaminker
- Sinbad -- David Adkins Sinbad
- Slash -- Saul Hudson
- Snoop Dogg -- Calvin Broadus
- Sophia Loren -– Sofia Villani Scicolone
- Sugar -- Stephanie Beard
- Stevie Wonder -- Steveland Morris
- Sting -- Gordon Sumner
- The Edge -- David Evans
- Tina Turner -– Anna Mae Bullock
- Tom Cruise -- Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
- Tony Curtis -- Bernard Schwartz
- Tony Martin -- Alvin Morris
- Vangelis — Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou
- Vic Reeves -- Jim Moir
- Vivien Leigh -- Vivian Mary Hartley
Other
- Hermann Noordung - Herman Potočnik (pioneer of astronautics)
- Jersey Joe Walcott -- Arnold Raymond Cream (world champion boxer)
- Joe Louis -- Joseph Louis Barrow (world champion boxer)
- Kid Gavilan -- Gerardo Gonzalez (world champion boxer)
- Pelé -- Edson Arantes do Nascimento (soccer legend)
- Peter Warlock -- Philip Heseltine (composer)
- Ras-I-Bramble, Abuja Bramble (Livingstone Bramble, world champion boxer)
- Sugar Ray Leonard -- Ray Charles Leonard (world champion boxer)
- Sugar Ray Robinson -- Walker Smith, Jr. (world champion boxer)
- Tommy Burns -- Noah Brusso (world champion boxer)