List of pseudonyms - Definition and Overview

This article gives a list of pseudonyms, in various categories.

See also: List of real-life characters

Artists, Sculptors, Architects

• Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal or Bernardo Bellotto)
• El Greco (Domenico Theotocopoulos)
• Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
• Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
• Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
• Il Riccio (Andrea Briosco)
• Giovanni Barbbaro (Arthur Dudley)
• A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron)
• Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen)

Pen names

Note: List of Urdu language poets provides pen names for a range of Urdu poets.

• Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Annu)
• Acton Bell (Anne Brontë)
• Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier)
• Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)
• Seiko Legru (Janwillem van de Wetering)
• Anne Rice (Howard Allen O'Brien)
• Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
• Boz (Charles Dickens)
• Branislav Nusic (Ben Akiba)
• Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm)
• Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
• Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë)
• David Michaels (Raymond Benson)
• Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz)
• Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)
• Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
• Emanuel Morgan (Witter Bynner)
• 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)
• Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
• Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins)
• Nisa (Nicola Salerno), Italian lyricist
• 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)
• Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
• Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis)
• Saki (Herbert Hugh Munro)
• Sapper (H. C. McNeile)
• Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis)
• 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)
• Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka)

Politicians

• Abu Ala (Ahmad Qurei)
• Abu Ammar and Yasser Arafat (Muhammad Abd ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husayni)
• Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas)
• Abu Nidal (Sabri Khalil al-Banna)
• Anacharsis Cloots (Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots)
• Anthony Garotinho (Anthony William Matheus de Oliveira)
• Bob Denard (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
• Che Guevara (Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna)
• Comandante Gonzalo (Abimael Guzmán)
• Germain (Ernest Mandel)
• Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (Gheorghe Gheorghiu)
• Gracchus Babeuf (François-Noël Babeuf)
• Gus Hall (Arvo Kusta Halberg)
• Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Tat Thành)
• Houari Boumedienne (Mohamed Ben Brahim Boukharouba)
• H. Rap Brown (Hubert Gerold Brown)
• Iñaki de Rentería (Ignacio Gracia Arregui)
• János Kádár (János Csermanek)
• Joseph Estrada (Joseph Marcelo Ejército)
• Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili)
• Josip Tito (Josip Broz)
• J. Posadas (Homero Cristali)
• Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão (José Alexandre Gusmão)
• Kim Il Sung (Kim Song Ju)
• Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
• La Pasionaria (Dolores Ibárruri)
• Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)
• Loulou (Enver Hoxha)
• Martin Thembisile Hani (Chris Hani)
• Michel Pablo (Michel Raptis)
• Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu)
• Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
• Nahuel Moreno (Hugo Bressano)
• Pol Pot (Saloth Sar)
• Prachanda (Pushpa Kamal Dahal)
• Ronwaldo Reyes (Fernando Poe, Jr.)
• Saïd Moustapha Mahdjoub (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
• Sara Jane Olson (Kathleen Soliah)
• Tariq Aziz (Michael Yuhanna)
• Ted Grant (Isaac Blank)
• Tony Cliff (Ygael Gluckstein)
• Tristán Marof (Gustavo Navarro)
• Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)
• William Rabbit (Katay Don Sasorith)

Religion

• Mata Amritanandamayi (Sudhamani)
• His Divine Grace Abhay Charana-Aravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De)
• Buddha Gautama
• Yusuf Islam (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, formerly known as Cat Stevens)
• Pope John-Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła)
• 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

Main article (with full list): Stage name

• Albert Brooks (Albert Lawrence Einstein)
• Alice Cooper (Vincent Damon Furnier)
• 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)
• Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan)
• Bobby Darin (Walden Robert Cassotto)
• Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman)
• Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope)
• Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins)
• Bono (Paul Hewson)
• 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)
• 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.)
• David Bowie (David Robert Jones)
• 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)
• The Edge (David Evans)
• Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight)
• Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus)
• Eminem (Marshall Mathers III)
• Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold Dorsey)
• Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholemew)
• Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman)
• Fatboy Slim (Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook)
• Frankie Valli (Francis Castelluccio)
• 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)
• Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss)
• Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson)
• Ice T (Tracy Morrow)
• Jamie Fox (Eric Bishop)
• Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer)
• Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpentier)
• Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
• Jill Corey (Norma Jean Speranza)
• Joan Crawford (Lucille Fay LeSueur)
• 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)
• Mariah Carey (Maria Nuñez)
• Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker)
• Marion Hutton (Marion Thornburg)
• Marni Nixon (Marni McEathron)
• 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)
• 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)
• Ronnie Gaylord (Ronald L. Fredianelli)
• Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich)
• Seal (Sealhenry Samuel)
• Shania Twain (Eileen Regina Edwards, later Eileen Regina Twain)
• Simone Signoret (Simone Kaminker)
• Slash (Saul Hudson)
• Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
• Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone)
• Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris)
• Sting (Gordon Sumner)
• Sugar (Stephanie Beard)
• 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)

Sportspeople

• Lucien Petit-Breton (Lucien Mazan)

Other

• Manoj (Mayank)

External links

• FamousFolk - An extensive list of pseudonyms (http://www.famousfolk.com/)