PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THEIR NAME
The name by which we know them is given on the left followed by their original name. Then the year they were born and finally their place of birth.
Spiro AGNEW Spiro Anagnostopoulos
Dave ALLEN David O'Mahoney
Julie ANDREWS Julia Elizabeth Wells
Fred ASTAIRE Fredrick Austerlitz
Charles AZNAVOUR Charles Aznavurgan
Gene BARRY Eugene Klass
Lionel BART Lionel Begleiter
Dirk BOGARDE Derek Van den Bogaerde
Marc BOLAN Mark Feld
David BOWIE David Hayward-Jones
Katie BOYLE Caterina di Francavilla
Charles BRONSON Charles Buchinsky
Mel BROOKS Melvin Kaminsky
Richard BURTON Richard Walter Jenkins
Martie CAINE Lynda Crapper
Michael CAINE Maurice Micklewhite
Maria CALLAS Cecelia Kalegeropoulos
Lewis CARROLL Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Joseph CONRAD Theodore Korzeniowski
Elvis COSTELLO Declan McManus
Joan CRAWFORD Lucille Le Sueur
Michael CRAWFORD Michael Dumble-Smith
Doris DAY Doris Kappelhoff
Diana DORS Diana Fluck
Kirk DOUGLAS Issur Demsky
Bob DYLAN Robert Zimmerman
George ELIOT Mary Ann Evans
David ESSEX David Cook
Kenny EVERETT Maurice Cole
Adam FAITH Terence Nelhams
Georgie FAME Clive Powell
Gracie FIELDS Grace Stansfield
W C FIELDS William Claude Dukinfield
Margot FONTEYN Margarey Hookham
Connie FRANCIS Constance Franconero
Greta GARBO Greta Gustafsson
Ava GARDNER Lucy Johnson
Judy GARLAND Frances Ethel Gumm
George GERSHWIN Jacob Gershvin
Gary GLITTER Paul Gadd
Samuel GOLDWYN Samuel Goldfish
Cary GRANT Archibald Leach
Larry GRAYSON William White
David HAMILTON David Pilditch
Lawrence HARVEY Larushka Skikne
O HENRY William Sydney Porter
Audrey HEPBURN Edda Hepburnvan Heemstra
Bob HOPE Leslie Hope
Frankie HOWERD Francis Howard
Rock HUDSON Roy Fitzgerald
Engelbert HUMPERDINCK Arnold George Dorsey
Betty HUTTON Elizabeth Thornburg
Elton JOHN Reginald Dwight
Al JOLSON Asa Yoelson
Boris KARLOFF William Pratt
Danny KAYE David Kaminsky
Alexander KORDA Sandro Kellner
Frankie LAINE Frank Lo Vecchio
Michael LANDON Eugene Orowitz
Cleo LAINE Clementine Campbell
Mario LANZA Alfredo Cococozza
Danny Le RUE Daniel Carroll
John Le CARRÉ David Cornwell
Bruce LEE Lee Yuen Kam
LENIN Vladimir Ilyich Ulanov
Rula LENSKA Roza-Maria Lubienska
LULU Marie Lawrie
Vera LYNN Vera Welch
Hugh MacDIARMID Christopher Grieve
Karl MALDEN Malden Sekulovitch
Jayne MANSFIELD Vera Jayne Palmer
Dean MARTIN Dino Crocetti
Marx BROTHERS Julius, Leonard, Arthur, Milton
and Herbert Marx
Walter MATTHAU Walter Matuschanskayassky
Robert MAXWELL Jan Hoch
Dame Nellie MELBA Helen Armstrong
Guy MITCHELL Al Cernick
Marilyn MONROE Norma Jean Baker
Eric MORECAMBE Eric Bartholomew
Muhammad ALI Cassius Marcellus Clay
Anna NEAGLE Marjorie Robinson
Ivor NOCELLO Ifor Davies
Maurine O'HARA Maureen Fitzimons
George ORWELL Eric Arthur Blair
Gilbert O'SULLIVAN Raymond O'Sullivan
PELÉ Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Edith PIAF Edith Gassion
P J PROBY James Smith
Ellery QUEEN Two cousins, Frederic Dannay and
Manfred Lee, used this name
Debbie REYNOLDS Mary Frances Reynolds
Cliff RICHARD Harold Webb
Sugar Ray ROBINSON Walker Smith
Ginger ROGERS Virginia McMath
Roy ROGERS Leonard Slye
Mickey ROONEY Michael McGuire
Leo SAYER Gerald Sayer
Omar SHARIF Michael Shalhoub
Martin SHEEN Ramon Estevez
Beverly SILLS Beverley Silvermann
Nina SIMONE Eunice Waymon
Penny SINGLETON Dorothy McNulty
Alvin STARDUST Bernard Jewry
Ringo STARR Richard Starkey
Tommy STEELE Thomas Hicks
Terry THOMAS Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens
Mark TWAIN Samuel Clemens
TWIGGY Leslie Hornby
Conway TWITTY Harold Jenkins
Frankie VAUGHAN Frank Abelsohn
Sid VICIOUS John Beverley
Max WALL Maxwell Lorimer
Edgar WALLACE Richard Edgar
Andy WARHOL Andy Warhola
John WAYNE Marion Morrison
Rebecca WEST Cicily Isabel Fairfield
Barbara WINDSOR Barbara Deeks
Ernie WISE Ernest Wiseman
Stevie WONDER Steven Judkins
Natalie WOOD Natasha Gurdin
Tammy WYNETTE Wynette Pugh
Malcolm X Malcolm Little
Michael X Michael de Freitas