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AKA Screen Names. When someone goes into the public sphere image becomes everything, and even how you pronounce your name becomes important. You want to go by Jim, Jimmy, Jamie or James? A stage name is when someone chooses a public name that is technically not their legal or original name. The reasons vary, but the common examples are: |
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The ghost of the school librarian in Ghosthunter is voiced by an actual pornstar using a pseudonym. | |
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When Jason Geiger came to a talent agency in California, they thought his name wasn't strong enough for an actor and created with him another inspired by Steve Austin: Austin St. John. And the rationale became Hilarious in Hindsight given the breakout role St. John got was Red Ranger Jason Lee Scott. Especially since the character was originally named Victor and changed to Jason inspired by him. The stage name also helped avoid confusion with Jason David Frank, who played Tommy the Green Ranger. | |
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Jeremy Shada's first name is actually Jaden. | |
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Cass Elliot, AKA Mama Cass, born Ellen Naomi Cohen. She adopted the "Cass" in high school, apparently, after actress Peggy Cass, and the "Elliot" came some time later, after a friend who had died. The "Mama" part, however, is a straight example — she picked it while the newly-formed band were trying to find a suitable name, and ended up naming the band. | |
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Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck became Yngwie Malmsteen. The name change partially came about when he was a boy. When his parents divorced, his mother resumed her maiden name of Malmsteen and gave the same surname to their children. | |
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In Watchmen, Sally Jupiter, the first Silk Spectre, changed her name from Juspeczyk so people wouldn't know she was Polish. | |
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Kevin James LaBrie of Dream Theater dropped his first name because there were already two Johns in the band (John Petrucci on guitars and John Myung on bass) and they didn't want another name match with keyboardist Kevin Moore. | |
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Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock. Her marriage to Ike Turner doesn't really subvert this — she had already been performing with him under her stage name for around two years before they actually got hitched. | |
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Everyone in The Dwarves uses a stage name while they're part of the band. Of the two primary members, Blag Dahlia uses his real name (Paul Carafo) when offstage, but HeWhoCannotBeNamed (who performs under a lucha mask) has kept his secret. | |
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Beatallica has stage names combining the Fab Four, Metallica and Xtreme Kool Letterz: Jaymz Lennfield, Krk McBurtney, Grg Hammetson, and Ringo Larz. | |
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Ethel Cain is spearheaded by Hayden Silas Anhedonia. Also a case of Alter-Ego Acting, since Ethel is a character separate from Hayden. | |
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Battle Cry (1955) featured actor Justus McQueen in his film debut as Pvt. L.Q. Jones. As it turned out, McQueen liked the character's name, and adopted L.Q. Jones as his stage name from there on out. | |
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The late Guillermo Romano's (who voiced Batman, Inspector Gadget, Rayearth, among others) real name was Carlos Stevenson, who also used that name in few other works, causing some confusion at first among his fans when trying to identify his previous early roles. | |
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In Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 80's action star Lou Jitsu turns out to be have been using an alias. His real name? Hamato Yoshi... better known as Splinter. | |
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Shawn Michaels was born Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, a name which just doesn't fit a man who was billed as the "Sexiest Man Alive". Referenced on a 2009 Raw, when Michaels worked as a chef and tried to avoid recognition by using the "fake name" Hickenbottom. |
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Barry: Barry Berkman uses Barry Block as his stage name as he pursues a career in acting. | |
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In Some Like It Hot, singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe) says that her original name is Sugar Kowalczyk. | |
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The singer-songwriter who wrote "Suspicious Minds", among other songs, had the arguably awesome name Francis Rodney Zambon at birth, but changed it to the more humdrum Mark James in his performing career. | |
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Ditto for another wrestler who famously spiraled out of control, Chyna (born Joanie Marie Laurer). Until WWE's trademark on the name expired she got around it by being billed as 'Chynna Doll'. | |
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Christian Camargo, better known as the Ice Truck Killer from Dexter, was born Christian Minnick, but he changed his surname to his maternal grandfather's out of pride in his Mexican-American heritage. Ironically, his grandfather—Ralph (born Rafael) Camargo, who was also an actor—urged his daughters to change their last name to something more Anglicized to avoid being locked out of roles in the acting world because of their heritage. | |
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Paige has an especially interesting story; her legal name Saraya—which she now uses as her AEW ring name—is actually her mother's ring name (and her legal name is Julia), and she only got it from mishearing 'Slayer' at a concert in the 80s while high. On the indies, she went by Britani Knight, which her mother also picked, as Britani was an anagram of Britain. She herself hated it though, and was happy to change it to Paige in WWE, naming herself after Rose McGowan's character in Charmed. Notably the film Fighting with My Family never mentions her Britani Knight indies name. | |
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In The Simpsons, when Apu Nahasapeemapetilon was in Homer's barbershop quartet the B Sharps, he was told his last name would never fit on a marquee. He became known as Apu Du Beaumarchais. | |
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Sally Donovan was initially credited under the alias "Elizabeth Mann" for her work in the third episode of Superjail!, though later episodes began crediting her under her actual name. | |
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The titular zombies of Zombieland Saga go by names that translate as Number One, Number Two, etc. Lily (Number Six) is an interesting case in that Lily Hoshikawa was originally a Stage Name too, before she changed it from her birth name, Masao Go. | |
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Howlin' Wolf's real name was Chester Arthur Burnett. | |
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In the Harry O episode "Double Jeopardy", Kurt Russell played Todd Conway, an actor accused of murder who hired Harry to clear him. At the end of the episode, he reveals his real name to Harry...Theodore Kleinschmidt. | |
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Murray Langston has acted under his real name, but is better known as The Unknown Comic, who regularly appeared on The Gong Show with a paper bag over his head. | |
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Angel (1984): Kit Carson is a stage name, taken from the famous frontiersman. The lawyer for his estate addresses him by his original name once, but Kit no longer answers to it. | |
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Brittney Slayes, frontwoman of metal band Unleash the Archers. Her real last name is Hayes. | |
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Gus G, one of Firewind's guitarists and formerly of Ozzy Osbourne's band, was born Kostas Karamitroudis. | |
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In Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Sonic the Hedgehog's then voice actor, Jason Griffith, used "Adam Caroleson", even though his real name is used in every other game. The dubs of Sonic X, One Piece, and Pokémon: The Series also credit him as "J. Griff". | |
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John Legend’s name is actually John Stephens. It was a nickname a friend from high school called him that grew into his stage name. He felt like his real name wasn’t marketable because both “John� and “Stephens� are very common names. | |
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Interestingly enough, Connors played a private detective named Krekor Ohanian a year after Mannix went off the air, in the unsold pilot The Killer That Wouldn't Die. | |
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In Shall We Dance? (1937), "Petrov" and "Linda Keene" are actually Peter P. Peters and Linda Thompson. This becomes useful when they want to marry secretly so that they can have an immediate public divorce. | |
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Hans Gudegast acted for several years under his real name, including a regular role on The Rat Patrol. Over a year later, he was cast by Universal in Colossus: The Forbin Project, but was ordered by the studio to change his name, which he did...to Eric Braeden. | |
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Kanjani8 member, You Yokoyama, was born as Kimitaka Yokoyama. His jimusho felt the kanji used in Kimitaka (侯隆) was far too complicated to catch on so changed it to the much easier to say and spell "You". Fans usually just call him Yoko anyway. | |
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Dragon Ball: Several fighters have used stage names or aliases for themselves: Mister Satan is a name he has earned after becoming world champion, now being named after his dojo Satan Castle. His real name is Mark, which is a pun of "akuma" ("devil"). Piccolo uses the alias Ma Junior whenever he enters the Tenkaichi Budokai to hide his true identity as the reincarnation of the Great Demon King Piccolo. The "Ma" (マ) in "Ma Junior" is a pun of "Ma" (é”) which means "demon", making it sound like "Demon Junior". While it is unknown whether the name of human God possessed to enter the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai is actually named Shen or not, the name does serve as an alias for God. "Shen" (シェン) is a pun of "Shen" (神) from Shenlong, which uses the same kanji for "god". That alias serves as a hint for Son Goku to figure out who Shen really is. Subverted with Shin. When he enters the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai, he uses the name Shin (シン). Like in the case of Shen, it's a pun on "Shin" (神), which is part of the title called "Kaioshin". However, it is revealed much later during the run Super (over 20 years after his debut) that "Shin" (シン) is in fact his real name. |
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Rush: Geddy Lee was born Gershon Eliezer Weinrib, but originally went by an anglicized version: Gary Lee Weinrib. "Geddy" comes from his mother's heavy accent. He later legally changed his first name to Geddy. Alex Lifeson is really Aleksandar Živojinović ("Lifeson" is a literal English translation). Neil Peart was really Neil Peart. | |
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Stray Cats have one aversion and two straight examples. Frontman Brian Setzer uses his real name, but double bassist Leon Drucker is Lee Rocker and drummer James McDonnell is Slim Jim Phantom. | |
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In the We Bare Bears episode "The Audition", Ice Bear chooses Alsono Tigerheart as his stage name. | |
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In Date A Live Miku Izayoi used to use the stage name "Tsukino Yoimachi" in her previous stint as an Idol Singer. In the present, she uses her real name instead. | |
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Motörhead: Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilminster got his nickname (as did a number of people) in Hawkwind, note itself named after saxophonist Nik Turner's habits of farting and clearing his throat loudly his first band, note where he was a volunteer roadie and hanger-on until someone told him he was playing bass where he was known for borrowing money from everyone: "Lem'me (lend me) a quid..." etc. His last bandmates prior to his 2015 death were Micael Kiriakos Delaoglou aka "Mikkey Dee", and Philip "Phil" Campbell, aka "Wizzö". (The best known formation was Lemmy, "Fast Eddie"note not OURS, if you're asking that Clarke, and Phil "Philty Animal" Taylor. Also, from 1984 to 1995, the band had two guitarists, with Campbell joined by Michael Burston, who performed as "Würzel".) | |
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Brian Jones billed himself as "Elmo Lewis" prior to forming the band. | |
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Assassination Classroom has a spoilerrific couple of examples: Akari Yukimura used the stage name "Haruna Mase" as an actress, in order to avoid getting too much unwarranted attention. When she went on her misguided vendetta against Koro-sensei, she instead used another stage name from a character she played in the past: Kaede Kayano. She infiltrated Class 3-E under that name for the better part of the school year so she could get close enough to kill Koro-sensei, but when the truth was cleared, she insisted her friends continue calling her Kayano as a nickname, since she came to like it. | |
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William Reynolds, best-known as the co-star of The F.B.I., was born William Regnolds, of Norwegian descent. The 'gn' sounded close enough to a 'y' sound, so it was fairly easy for him to change his name to Reynolds. | |
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Voice actor Jan Rabson used the name Stanley Gurd Jr. when dubbing for anime. Ironically, these are pretty much the only times he plays major characters aside from Leisure Suit Larry. Most notably, he voiced Tetsuo in the original dub of AKIRA and Yang Su in Street Fighter II V under this name. | |
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The Alarm's original guitarist Dave Sharp (David Kitchingman) and original drummer Nigel Twist (Nigel Buckle). | |
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In Dude, That's My Ghost!, deceased rockstar Billy Joe Cobra's birth name was Baruch Cohen. | |
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Diana Ellen Judd took the opportunity to revert to her maiden name following a divorce to change her given name to a biblical one, Naomi. Daughter Christina Claire Ciminella followed her, dropping the stepfather surname for hers (hence both being The Judds) and a name based on the city of Winona - taken from "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" - to become Wynonna Judd. Her other daughter, an actress, also dropped the Ciminella of her father for Naomi's surname and is Ashley Judd. | |
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In The Wrestler, Robin Ramzinski is the real name of wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke). | |
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Rose Louise Hovick was a vaudeville performer, movie actress, and novelist. She's better known as Gypsy Rose Lee. Her sister appeared in Broadway shows under the name June Havoc. | |
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Discworld: Victor Tugelbend and Theda "Ginger" Withel, better known to Moving Pictures fans as Victor Maraschino and Dolores De Syn. In the same book, the troll actor Galena considers the name Flint before deciding on Rock. In Maskerade, everyone loves to hear opera singer "Enrico Basilica" ... but no one would pay to listen to Henry Slugg. Agnes Nitt also chooses the stage name Perdita X. Nitt, where Perdita is the name of someone who's exciting, dark, moody, and most importantly thin. The X stands for 'a mysterious name which is all the cooler because it doesn't stand for anything.' Names have meaning on the Disc, though, so she still winds up stuck with the Nitt. In Soul Music, Imp y Celyn and Lias Bluestone (another troll) decide that their names aren't "right" for the new music and become Buddy and Cliff. |
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In the dub of Puni Puni☆Poemi, one of the Aasu sisters (Mutsumi) was voiced by an unknown voice actress under the pseudonym, "Yu Haul", a pun on U-Haul and related to the character's enormous bosom. | |
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An aversion when you consider the few who go by their real names, oftentimes second- or third-generation stars like brothers Bret and Owen Hart, Jeff Jarrett, and father-and-son "Cowboy" Bob and Randy Orton. Another second-generation star, Curt Hennig, was commonly known by his real name even if he mostly wrestled as Mr. Perfect. | |
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His sons have continued the tradition. Dustin Runnels, better known as "Goldust", wrestled as "Dustin Rhodes" in the early part of his career, and Cody Runnels also uses the "Rhodes" surname. In fact, Cody hasn't legally been "Cody Runnels" since his late teens—he's Cody Runnels Rhodes. | |
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Guns N' Roses: William Rose Bailey = W. Axl Rose, Saul Hudson = Slash, Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan, Jeffrey Dean Isbell = Izzy Stradlin', Darren Arthur "Dizzy" Reed. (In Aerith and Bob style, the drummers and Stradlin's replacement Gilby Clarke went at most with a contraction on their name.) In the years before Slash and Duff returned, only a few also fit the trope, such as Ronald Jay Blumenthal = Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (though he's also simply referred to as "Bumblefoot") and Daren Jay "DJ" Ashba. The funny thing is that one of the bands William Bailey (born William Bruce Rose Jr., before his mom remarried) was in before GNR was called A.X.L. That band broke up and William Bailey used the name for himself. |
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In Maskerade, everyone loves to hear opera singer "Enrico Basilica" ... but no one would pay to listen to Henry Slugg. Agnes Nitt also chooses the stage name Perdita X. Nitt, where Perdita is the name of someone who's exciting, dark, moody, and most importantly thin. The X stands for 'a mysterious name which is all the cooler because it doesn't stand for anything.' Names have meaning on the Disc, though, so she still winds up stuck with the Nitt. |
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Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Sesshoumaru) is either credited under his first name, or under his middle name. This caused many fans to think both names referred to two unrelated voice actors with the same last name. | |
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Another great, late game show host, Jim Perry, known for Card Sharks and Sale of the Century, was born James Edward Dooley in Camden, NJ in 1933. | |
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Ronnie James Dio was actually Ronald James Padavona, but he assumed a stage name modeled after Mafia boss Johnny Dio. Though he'd already adopted his stage name at this point, the Self-Titled Album by Elf credits him as Ronald Padavona — he wanted his parents to see the family name printed on an album sleeve at least once. | |
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Russian independent heavy metal artist Oleg Abramov began releasing Russian-language covers of Western rock and metal songs under the name Radio Tapok in the late 2010s. | |
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WASP frontman Blackie Lawless is a good example. Everyone knows him as Blackie, mainly because Stephen Duren is a somewhat boring name for someone that wore a circular saw codpiece. | |
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Becky Lynch has always competed under her first name (or a nickname derived from it) but has rotated through differing surnames. In fact, her first ring name was just Becky. She achieved fame on the indies as Rebecca Knox but changed to Lynch when she was signed to WWE. She also considered Daly for wordplay potential. And as for her birth name? Rebecca Quin. | |
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Legendary nutcase The Ultimate Warrior legally changed his name to "Warrior" ("Ultimate Warrior" is trademarked by the WWE). His birth name? Jim Hellwig. | |
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The Who Framed Roger Rabbit one-shot Elsie Mae has Jessica's original name having been Elsie Mae Crumholtz. Jessica ended up taking her mother's maiden name as her given name because her original name wasn't flashy enough. | |
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In My Favorite Year, actor Alan Swann's real name is Clarence Duffy. | |
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In his book I Am America (And So Can You!), Stephen Colbert claims that Joan Crawford was born as Shprintzel Anatevkawitz and Cary Grant was born as Balgok-Uth, Devourer of Souls. | |
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As revealed in Ray, Ray Charles was born Ray Charles Robinson, but dropped his surname due to the famous boxer "Sugar" Ray Robinson (which itself was the Stage Name of Walker Smith Jr.). | |
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Tár has the reveal that protagonist Lydia Tár is actually Linda Tarr. | |
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In Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly, Rachel goes by "Nekochel" as her stage name for her experimental music collaboration with Aremy Jendrew. | |
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Queens: Brianna Robinson as "Prof. Sex". Naomi Harris-Jones as "Xplicit Lyrics". Jill Sumpter as "Da Thriller". Valeria Mendez as "Butter Pecan". |
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FKA twigs' name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett. She'd already earned the name "twigs" due to her skinny physique, then added the FKA when there was someone else already called "twigs." | |
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Brian Lawler went by Brian Christopher when he entered wrestling, to distance himself from his famous father, Memphis wrestling legend and longtime WWE commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler. It didn't work very well for a number of reasons (not the least of which is an extremely strong family resemblance), and Brian Christopher's lineage soon became the single worst-kept secret in wrestling history (and keep in mind, this is the "sport" that spent the better part of a century badly hiding the fact that it was all a show). | |
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John Mellencamp had this forced on him when he was starting out. He was looking at some promotional material for one of his concerts and was shocked to discover his manager had dubbed him Johnny Cougar without his knowledge or approval. As his career went on, he changed it to John Cougar, John Cougar Mellencamp, and eventually back to John Mellencamp. | |
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The 1970s duo England Dan and John Ford Coley were also examples. After the duo split, the former went on to an even more successful career as a country solo artist under his real name of Dan Seals. The latter was a downplayed example, having been born John Edward Colley (notice the extra "L"). | |
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Jem and the Holograms: Raya is the only Hologram who goes by a Stage Name. Her name is Carmen Alonso but "Raya" is a childhood nickname from her father. Jem uses a full-on Secret Identity—she's secretly Jerrica Benton, the manager of the band, but no one knows this outside of a few select individuals (mostly the band itself). The Misfits are made up of: Phyllis Gabor, aka "Pizzazz". Roxanne Pellegrini, aka "Roxy". Mary Phillips, aka "Stormer". Sheila Burns, aka "Jetta". Pizzazz absolutely detests anyone but her father using her real name and Roxy also doesn't seem to like her full name. Both Jetta and Stormer don't let their family use their given names around band-members. Constance Montgomery, aka "Clash", is The Misfits' resident groupie who wishes she could join the band (despite having no musical abilities and being Hollywood Tone-Deaf). The comic reboot introduces Clash's best friend Leah Dwyer, aka "Blaze", who like Clash uses a nickname despite not needing to. She's a Misfits fangirl who ends up joining the band. The Stingers consists of: Rory Llewelyn as "Riot", Phoebe Ashe as "Rapture", and Ingrid Kruger as "Minx". Unlike The Misfits, they don't complain about their names, but then again Riot is the only name mentioned in the actual cartoon (and only his parents call him that). Several non-musicians have stage names too. Vivien Montgomery, an up-and-coming director, goes by "Video". The ballerina Danse's real name is "Giselle Dvorak". Musical journalist Lindsey Pierce goes by "Lin-Z". The magician Maeve Eldritch goes by "Astral". |
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Fashion designer Dyna Cuff of Heroine Chic is really named Dyan Rosenzweig. Even Dyna's husband calls her Dyna (when they're not using sickeningly sweet pet names for each other). Her rival/ frenemy Umbra Langoustine is the only person to ever call her "Dyan." | |
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In The Radiators (US), Ed Volker often adopts the name (and persona) of Professor Zeke. He also does solo projects under the name Zeke Fishhead. | |
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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin was born Steve Anderson and later known as Steve Williams, but changed it to differentiate himself from already-established wrestler "Dr. Death" Steve Williams. He would later legally adopt Steve Austin (without the "Stone Cold" part). | |
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In Spirit Hunter: NG, Akira pegs immediately that "Rosé Mulan" is too exotic to be her real name, and she clarifies that it's her stage name for her performances as a magician. | |
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In Going My Way, Father O'Malley's old girlfriend Jenny Tuffel has hit it big as an opera singer under the name Genevieve Linden. | |
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Mac DeMarco's full name is MacBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco, shortened to just Mac DeMarco. He was born Vernor Winfield Mac Briare Smith IV, but his mother changed his name after his father left their family. | |
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Iggy Azalea, born Amethyst Amelia Kelly, took "Iggy" from her childhood dog and "Azalea" from the street she grew up on, where her family lives to this day. | |
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Azul Valadez (Tatsumaki and Sabrina Spellman): Her real name is Azucena Valadez. She goes with that name because "Azul" (blue) is her favorite color. | |
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Avenged Sevenfold: M. Shadows= Matthew Charles Sanders, Zacky Vengeance= Zachary James Baker, The Reverend Tholomew Plague(The Rev)= James Owen Sullivan, Synyster Gates= Brian Elwin Haner Jr, Jonny Christ= Jonathan Lewis Seward. After The Rev died, the replacement drummers have gone by their real names. The band often has appearances of a "Papa Gates" — Synyster Gates' real-life dad Brian Elwin Haner Sr. |
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Also, the star of The Streets of San Francisco, Karl Malden, was born in Chicago in 1912 as Mladen George Sekulovich, changing it at 22 (in 1934) to Karl Malden. This page about Malden explains how he did it, among other things. | |
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Steve "Fuzz" Kmak, former bass player for Disturbed. No one ever asked him what "Fuzz" meant. | |
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Wiseguy. Record company owner Winston Newquay was born Samuel Fishbein. One of his performers hired a private eye to dig into Newquay's past; on finding out this fact, 'Newquay' was willing to pay anything to keep it quiet. | |
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Aliyah is interesting because she went by her indies ring name while in developmental before getting her official WWE name. Talent usually just go by their legal name in that interim process, but she (legal name Nhooph Al-Areebi) went by Jasmin, part of the name she went by on the indies (Jasmin Areebi). | |
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In Each Little Universe, aspiring rockstar Benjamin Miles Parekh goes exclusively by stage name Marty Rook, and the rest of his band the Inciting Incident have all taken stage names too. Marty even insists that his parents go by Rook so as to keep up the illusion. | |
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Esther Blodgett is given the stage name "Vicki Lester" in A Star Is Born (1937) and A Star Is Born (1954) because the executives don't think her real name sounds good for an actress. She doesn't like it at first but quickly takes to it. In the 1937 film, Norman Maine's real name is Alfred Hinkle; in the 1954 one it's Ernest Gubbins. | |
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WordWorld: Notable Muppet performers Tyler Bunch and Peter Linz were credited as "HD Quinn" and "George Bailey" when voicing on the show. The show was recorded in NYC (as shown by the 4kids talent who were on the show, as 4kids anime dubs were also recorded in NYC), where there is no union. | |
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From the band X, we have Exene Cervenka, nee Christine Lee Cervenka. (She replaced the "Christ" in her name with "X", just like with "Xmas." X-ene. Get it?) Guitarist Billy Zoom was born Tyson Kindell; John Doe's real name is John Nommensen Duchac. Drummer D.J. Bonebrake, meanwhile, was born...Donald J. Bonebrake. Yes, he's the only one in the band without a stage name. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice reveals there was once a fifth Gramarye member called the Great Mr. Reus, whose real name is Manov Mistree. He's the second person to play the role; the original Reus's real name was Roger Retinz, and Mistree was a fan who took on the stage name after being trained by the first Mr. Reus. Later on, it is revealed that Apollo's biological father had the stage name of "Jangly Justice". This caused problems in the investigation of his death, as the locals of Khura'in only knew him by his stage name, and their spirit mediums need the victim's true name in order to call his spirit. |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: One of the female students is very persistent on telling everyone that her real name is Celestia Ludenberg and that she prefers to be adressed as "Celeste" ("Celes" in the original Japanese), to the point where even the game's interface simply uses "Celeste" where it would otherwise display a character's full name. Some of the students have their doubts about this given her nature as a skilled liar due to her title as the Ultimate Gambler, and that she absolutely hates being questioned about whether or not that is actually her true name. It is later revealed that her real name is Taeko Yasuhiro. Two Danganronpa fanfics actually see "Celeste" resume being Taeko: The Ultimate Hope sees her do so willingly vis having learned to be herself so her and Hifumi's daughter could become the new Celestia while Never Say Never forces her to do so as punishment for what she did during the events of Act 3 (everything that made her Celestia is destroyed before her eyes, particularly by a vengeful Aoi Asahina following Taeko's betrayal). |
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Nozomi Sasaki, who voiced Patricia Martin, has an interesting twist on this: Both her real and stage name are the same, but her stage one is always written in hiragana, while her real name is written in kanji. This was done to avoid confusion because her real name in kanji shares the same characters with her fellow veteran voice actor Nozomu Sasaki. | |
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The LaCock show business family, originally from West Virginia, achieved no fame under that name. However, two of its members did eventually achieve major success. Joan Letitia became noted actress Creator/Joanne Dru, and Ralph Pierre went on to even greater fame as "the master of The Hollywood Squares", Peter Marshall (he was also "the master of the Blitz Board" in the 1985 ABC game show All-Star Blitz).note Peter, however, legally remains a LaCock to this day; he had a son who played in Major League Baseball for nearly a decade under the name Pete LaCock. | |
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Vocalist and lyricist Carlos Solari: "Indio" | |
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In BanG Dream!, the members of Raise A Suilen are known onstage as LAYER (Rei Wakana), LOCK (Rokka Asahi), MASKING (Masuki Satou), PAREO (Reona Nyubara), and CHU2 (Chiyu Tamade). The stage names were all created by CHU2, and Rokka gaining hers is symbolic of her finally becoming a full-fledged member of the band. | |
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Steven Universe: Steven's dad Greg wasn't always called "Greg Universe", it was "Greg DeMayo". He changed his name when he tried to become a rock star. He never told extended family of his name change; his cousin didn't know until the episode "Gem Harvest". | |
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Also Beatles-inspired: Buster Bloodvessel (Douglas William Trendle), the hefty, skinheaded frontman of UK ska group Bad Manners. Buster Bloodvessel was the name of Ivor Cutler's character in the Magical Mystery Tour film. | |
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B.B. (Blues Boy) King was born Riley B. King. | |
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Avicii: Tim Bergling | |
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Aubrey Graham did use his real first name when he played Jimmy on Degrassi, but he is far more famous as a rap superstar under his real middle name of Drake than he ever was for his acting career. | |
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In Castle Town Dandelion, Hikari becomes an Idol Singer under the stage name of "Light Sakuraba." This is justified as she's royalty and underage. (She uses her Royalty Superpower to perform an Overnight Age-Up for this purpose.) | |
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Inverted by a girl who used the ring name Alexis Laree in TNA and on the independent circuit. When she was signed to WWE, she competed under her real name - Mickie James. Thus making her one of the few WWE female performers to become a star using her real name. | |
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Pendulum and Knife Party: Rob Swire's actual name is is Robert Swire Thompson. The reason he goes by his middle name is because Robert Thompson is also the name of a high profile murderer in the UK. | |
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No Straight Roads: The semi-final boss Eve whose real name is Nadia, Zuke's ex-girlfriend. And later on, it has the final boss, Tatiana Qwartz. Turns out that she used to be a musician, using the name "Kul Fyra". |
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Scream 3: Maureen Roberts (later Prescott) worked as an actress in Hollywood under the name "Rina Reynolds". | |
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Darude: Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen | |
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Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online has Elza Kanzaki, a famous singer, also known as Pitohui in Gun Gale Online, whose name turns out to be a stage name. Her real name is never disclosed. | |
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Batman: Bruce Wayne's original Love Interest was actress Julie Madison. When it became obvious that she was going to become a star, a studio publicist changed her name to the more exotic 'Portia Storme'. | |
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France had the Suprême NTM members, Bruno Lopes aka Kool Shen and Didier Morville aka JoeyStarr. | |
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Jay Goede voiced Mewtwo in the original movie but is credited as Philip Bartlett. | |
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Apollo Smile (who was a dancer/musician and then got roles in voice acting - most notably, Ulala - and as a "live action Anime Girl") was born Paula Anne Scharf, before legally changing to her stage name in 1991. Someone misheard her saying "Hi, I'm Paula" and went on a diatribe about the Classical Mythology name, she took "Apollo". Then a producer felt she needed a surname to complete the Awesome Mc Cool Name, and so her oft-complimented smile it was. | |
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In Chicago Matron Mama Morton mentions that Velma Kelly is actually her stage name (and presumably the same goes fort her sister Veronica). Nonetheless, she never goes by any other name in the show. | |
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Doki Doki! PreCure: Makoto Kenzaki is more known by her stage name "MakoPi" than by her actual human name. This is not present in Glitter Force Doki Doki, where she is consistently called Mackenzie Mack by everyone, implying that it is indeed her real name. | |
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Aaron Johnson and Samantha Taylor-Wood, after working in Nowhere Boy, became a couple and decided to share a surname. Now they're Aaron and Sam Taylor-Johnson. | |
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Halsey was born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane. She chose "Halsey" both because it's an anagram of "Ashley" and because she lived on Halsey Street for much of her childhood. | |
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Bride of the Rat God, set in The Silent Age of Hollywood, features Chrysanda Flamande — real name Christine Flint. | |
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Muddy Waters was born McKinley Morganfield. | |
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George Michael was born Georgios Kyriakos Panayiotou. | |
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The Rolling Stones: "Bill Wyman" was originally William George Perks, and he went by Lee Wyman for a period before joining the Stones. The surname came from a friend and comrade in the RAF during his national service. Brian Jones billed himself as "Elmo Lewis" prior to forming the band. For several years Keith Richards dropped the "s" from his name and billed himself as "Keith Richard" at the suggestion of band manager Andrew Loog Oldham (who felt the shortened surname looked and sounded more appropriate for a pop star... perhaps by analogy with Cliff Richard?). Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have produced all their albums since the mid-'70s using the name "The Glimmer Twins". The band also credit the stage name Nanker Phelge for songs they've written collectively. |
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Tige Andrews, best-known as Captain Adam Greer on The Mod Squad, was born Tiger Andraous. | |
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Indiana Jones: Henry Jones, Jr., only goes by Indiana, after the family dog. In reality, his nickname actually came from George Lucas' dog. | |
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Armenian pop star Sirusho's real name is Siranush Harutyunyan. | |
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In the Law & Order episode "Blue Bamboo", the detectives are investigating the murder of a nightclub owner and sifting through the singers he was planning to meet with that day. They have to go back over the entire list when they realize that nearly all of the names given are examples of this trope. | |
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In Doctor in Distress (1963), movie magnate Mr. "Luther" Heilbronn's real first name is "Harry". | |
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Mitski's full name is Mitsuki Laycock. | |
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Miyavi (formerly of Dué le Quartz, now a solo artist) doesn't seem to much care — it's pretty widely known that his real name is Takamasa Ishihara. Things like his Facebook page are generally under the name Miyavi Ishihara, however, because it entertains him more. | |
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Russell Porter, who is best known for playing Tim Whistler in The Brittas Empire, was actually born Russell Deathridge, but adopted the surname of “Porter� for his acting roles upon getting his Equity card. | |
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Skid Row's Sebastian Bach is actually Sebastian Bierk. You've also got bassist Rachel Bolan, who is male — his birth name is James Richard Southworth, and his stage name partly a tribute to T-Rex singer Marc Bolan. | |
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney introduces the magicians Trope Gramarye. While their founder Magnifi Gramarye and his daughter Thalassa presumably go by their real names, the rest use stage names: Zak Gramarye is actually named Shadi Enigmar, and Valant Gramarye's real name is unknown. | |
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Gabriela Schietter Castañon goes credited as Gaby Willer or Gabriela Willert (Li Meiling and Motoko Kusanagi). Her mother, Liza Willert, was born as Elizabeth Margot Schreiter Castañón. | |
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Most pro wrestlers operate under a stage name. Some are easy to pick out, while others are subtle. An aversion when you consider the few who go by their real names, oftentimes second- or third-generation stars like brothers Bret and Owen Hart, Jeff Jarrett, and father-and-son "Cowboy" Bob and Randy Orton. Another second-generation star, Curt Hennig, was commonly known by his real name even if he mostly wrestled as Mr. Perfect. |
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One of the earliest and greatest bluesmen, Lead Belly (an orthography he repeatedly insisted upon to no avail, as "Leadbelly" still remains more common) Huddie Ledbetter spent much of his life in prison yet changed American music forever. His most recognizable song today is "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" because of the Nirvana cover on MTV Unplugged. Kurt Cobain asked David Geffen if he'd buy him an old guitar played by Lead Belly. Presumably Geffen decided he'd already sufficiently compensated Cobain for Nevermind's 25 million copies, and declined to spend $500,000 on the proposed gift. | |
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Ichigo Moesaki from Seiyu's Life! always goes by her stage name. The only reason we know that isn't her real name is because of supplementary material (which doesn't give her real name anyway). | |
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Common with online personalities, as sharing your full (especially last) name on the Internet isn't recommended for privacy reasons. For instance, Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg is better known as PewDiePie. | |
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Prior to becoming famous, the musician Declan MacManus changed his name to Elvis Costello. However, in the mid-80s, Costello legally changed his name back to Declan MacManus. Although he continued to record and perform as Elvis Costello, his songs started being credited to MacManus. This began around the same time he co-wrote several songs with Paul McCartney, and he's said that part of the reason for the change back was just because he thought "McCartney / MacManus" would look cool. | |
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Almost all of the boxers in Punch-Out!! use stage names, though some such as Glass Joe reference their real names while others like Bob Charlie seem to literally be their names. | |
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Paul Revere and the Raiders: The band's founder and namesake, born Paul Revere Dick, dropped his last name. | |
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David S. Cohen was credited as David X. Cohen in the opening credits of Futurama because the WGA already had a completely different David S. Cohen on the books. He chose X because it sounded "sci-fi-ish". | |
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The Dangers in My Heart: Anna Yamada is "Anna Akino" for her part-time modeling and acting career. | |
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Recurring eco-goth band "The Hex Girls" from Scooby-Doo goes entirely by stage names. They are Thorn, Dusk, and Luna. We only currently know Thorn's name, which is Sally McKnight. | |
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Several of the characters in Skip Beat! have stage names. Being a series about show business, this is bound to happen: Most notably we see this with Ren Tsuruga, who uses a stage name both to distance himself from his famous parents and to avoid facing his Dark and Troubled Past until he's ready. Kuu Hiizuri apparently takes this very seriously, a trait Ren probably inherited from him, going so far as to have had an elaborate funeral for his stage name after he went back to using his real one. To a lesser extent, Kyoko goes the Only One Name route with her stage name, not wanting to let Sho know who she was right off the bat. |
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Stage name adopted by David Hayter for the Metal Gear Solid dub, "Sean Barker", comes from the character he played in the live-action Guyver movie. | |
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Greg Pead changed his name in 1980 to Yahoo Serious (of Young Einstein fame). | |
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Stranger Than Fanfiction: While everyone is revealing there deepest secrets around a fire in High Tydes, Cash Carter reveals that his real name is actually Thomas Anthony Hanks. He had to go with a stage name for obvious reasons. His stage name is a Portmanteau of Johnny Cash and June Carter. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All gives us Maximillian Galactica, magician extraordinaire!... whose real name is Billy Bob Johns. He even has the accent to go with it when he gets nervous. (In Japanese, his real name is Kohei Yamada; in both cases, the name intentionally screams "country boy".) Also in the Berry Big Circus are the clown Lawrence Curls, who goes by Moe (Matsu Tomida, alias Tommy, in Japan - Tommy and Matsu were a famous Japanese comedy duo, so it's a similar implication), and the acrobat brothers Ken and Sean Dingling, who go by Acro and Bat. | |
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Some Things Never Change reveals that Squilliam Fancyson III’s real name was Otto Mantelmeyer and that like many real-life celebrities, he adopted a more sensational name after his big break. | |
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Peter "Vance Joy" Keogh has a story behind his: "I was going through a Peter Carey phase and reading a lot of his books. There's a book called Bliss. The main character's name is Harry Joy and his grandfather is Vance Joy. He's the storyteller and a crazy old man. Plus, I thought it was a cool name." | |
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Manfred Mann, keyboardist of the band of the same name and later on, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, was born Manfred Lubowitz. And while record executives did like how distinctive his stage name sounded, hence his eponymous '60s band, Mann actually chose his stage name as a tribute to American jazz drummer Shelly Manne. | |
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Rock of Ages: Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise) was born Steven Jackson. Drew Boley (Diego Boneta) briefly adopts the stage name Wolfgang von Colt. |
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Eugene Rubessa was best known as Match Game host Gene Rayburn. | |
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Spaghetti Western actor Giuliano Gemma is credited in some movies with anglophone name "Montgomery Wood". | |
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When starting out as a singer in the late 1940s, Delloreese Patricia Early decided to convert her first name into a stage name—Della Reese. She would go on to significant success in music and even greater success as an actress, most notably in Touched by an Angel. | |
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Charli XCX's real name is Charlotte Aitchison, though she does go by the nickname Charli in real life. Charli XCX was her name of MSN messenger when she was a kid. | |
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Fall: Becky's best friend Hunter is an influencer who goes by the name "Danger D." Becky prefers her as Hunter. | |
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In Rags, Charlie goes by "Rags" while performing at the Masquerade Ball. It was chosen by Diego and Martha, so that when Charlie got big, he'd always "remember where he came from". | |
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Lou Gramm, lead singer on most of Foreigner's hits, was born as, and still legally is, Louis Andrew Grammatico. | |
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Similarly, the late Bon Scott of AC/DC was born Ronald Scott (his mother still refers to him as "Ron" in the VH1 Behind the Music episode featuring AC/DC), but, as he was from Scotland, his classmates nicknamed him "The Bon Scott", or Bon for short. | |
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Mexican singer MarÃa de Jesús Terán, famous for performing many songs for anime series, is better known in the fandom by her stage name Jade. | |
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Korn has Brian "Head" Welch (for his big head), Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu (for his big cheeks, he was "gopher", then Garfield, then the current, short for "Fieldy Snuts") and James "Munky" Shaffer (for his ability to grip things with his toes like a monkey). | |
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Sarah Bonito of Kero Kero Bonito's name is Sarah Midori Perry—her sideproject and DJ name is "Cryalot." | |
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Almost every member of Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota. Note that no one of them actually calls themselves Patricio Rey: Vocalist and lyricist Carlos Solari: "Indio" Guitarist Eduardo Beilinson: "Skay" (nicknamed that way by his friend, plastic artist Marta Minujin) Bassist Daniel Bucciarelli: "Semilla" Cover artist Ricardo Cohen: "Rocambole" Manager Carmen Policastro: "La Negra Poly" Former drummer Daniel �valos: "Piojo" Former guitarist Gabriel Jolivet: "Conejo" |
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Caroline Polachek released an album under the name "Ramona Lisa" and as "CEP" before going by her birth name. | |
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Ember from Danny Phantom is a ghost musician. Her real name is never given, though fanon usually has her as "Amber". | |
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Freddie Mercury of the band Queen was born Farrokh Bulsara. Although he had been nicknamed Freddie since he was a schoolboy. | |
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If the Playbills for the premiere performance for the play M. Butterfly had listed one of its stars' names as "Brad Wong", it would have spoiled the show's big twist — so he became "B.D. Wong". | |
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One of the child actresses who played Anne of Green Gables in the 1930s, Dawn Evelyeen Paris, adopted her character's name (Anne Shirley) as her stage moniker; previously she was billed as "Dawn O'Day". | |
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Jack Hues, lead vocalist and guitarist for Wang Chung, was born (and legally remains) Jeremy Allan Ryder. | |
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In the English-language version of Animal Crossing, the villager Totakeke had his name changed to K.K. Slider. What keeps this from being a straight Dub Name Change is that, if you talk to him, he'll sometimes admit that his real name is Totakeke and K.K. Slider is just the name he goes by professionally. | |
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Alexa Bliss was renamed from Lexi Kauffman. According to her, the runner-up name was Lexie Kaye but she opted for Alexa Bliss because the former was too similar to her real name. | |
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Black Veil Brides' guitarist, Jinxx (whose real name is Jeremy Ferguson). The singer started out with the stage name of Andy Sixx, shortened it to Andy Six, then scrapped the stage name altogether for his real name, Andy Biersack. | |
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Hulk Hogan was born Terrence Eugene Bollea. (What, not intimidating enough...?) He started out wrestling as Terry Boulder, then added "Hulk" as a nickname to that, before dropping the first name and changing the last name to Hogan. The name "Hulk Hogan" was suggested by Vince McMahon Sr., and Hogan went along, despite feeling that the idea of an orange-skinned blonde-haired Irishman was kind of silly (Vince Sr. wanted him to dye his hair red, but Hogan was already going bald and felt the dye would make his hair fall out even faster). He got way more over under the new name than anybody expected, but there was a slight hitch — Vince's penchant for billing him as "The Incredible" Hulk Hogan caught the attention of Marvel Comics, and they sued and won, taking the trademark for the name until Hogan bought it back more than two decades later. He started out under a mask as Super Destroyer. Also went by Sterling Golden before Hulk. |
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Patricia Andrejewski became Pat Benatar before she started recording. However, this was for more traditional reasons: she got married to a man named Dennis Benatar, but they divorced before her music career started. She had already established herself by the time she married her guitarist/manager Neil Giraldo, so no professional name change there. | |
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In The Caine Mutiny, singer Marie Minotti uses the stage name May Wynn. Donna Lee Hickey, the actress who played her in the film also used this stage name. | |
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Considering that Doctor Who has been on for over 50 years, many of the cast members have chosen stage names for a variety of reasons. David Tennant is actually David MacDonald, but Equity already had someone with that name, so he named himself after Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. Peter Davison is actually Peter Moffett, this name change being to avoid confusion with director Peter Moffat (who worked with him on Doctor Who). This doesn't extend to the rest of his family, as his daughter Georgia Moffett used her birth name up until marrying David Tennant. Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith took the stage name "Sylveste McCoy" while touring with Ken Campbell, and later added an R to the first name. According to one account, it was originally a joke about stage names — "Sylveste McCoy is only my stage name, of course, my real name is... Sylvester McCoy" — that he decided to run with after a theatre critic failed to get it and thought Sylvester McCoy actually was his real name. Jon Pertwee's real name was Jean Roland Devon de Perthuis (he was of French and Austrian descent). People in his family use Pertwee as a phonetic spelling. He also went by the anglicised John, before a playbill misspelt his name. It extends to companions too. Lalla Ward's real first name is Sarah, Lalla being a childhood nickname. Billie Piper's real name is Leian Piper, but chose the stage name "Billie" for her music career. When she switched to acting she then changed it again to Billie Piper. The original Master, Roger Delgado, was born Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto. He just used the "Delgado" for his acting work. |
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Victor Tugelbend and Theda "Ginger" Withel, better known to Moving Pictures fans as Victor Maraschino and Dolores De Syn. In the same book, the troll actor Galena considers the name Flint before deciding on Rock. | |
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Two Irish actresses in the same class at drama school discovered they were both called Rebecca Flynn, and so added in their middle names to create stage names; Rebecca Rose Flynn (of The Gumdrops and Spears), and Rebecca Christina Flynn - who on YouTube also goes by Sassy Rebecca. | |
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Trish Stratus was born Patricia Anne Stratigeas and adopted 'Stratus' when she became a model. She did, however, keep the name intact when she became a wrestler - probably because she had something of a pre-existing fanbase with it. | |
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A bit of a convoluted case happened with Battle of the Planets: The voice actor Alan Dinehart was actually the son of an elder Alan Dinehart, but opted to drop any "Junior" title. His own son, the third Dinehart in line, was instead credited with "Jr.", causing much confusion for a time. | |
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Twisted Sister: Daniel "Dee" Snider, John "Jay Jay" French Segall, Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda, Mark Glickman = Mark "The Animal" Mendoza and Anthony Jude "A. J." Pero. In Pero's case, he usually went by Tony, but partly due to the One-Steve Limit, had to go by his initials since the band had just recently had another drummer named Tony. His new nickname stuck till his death in 2015. | |
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Another "the name was taken": when Joseph Lane went to register for Actors Equity, he discovered there was already a member by that name. So he took the first name of Guys and Dolls character Nathan Detroit, becoming Nathan Lane. (Appropriately enough, it was a turn as Nathan Detroit in a Broadway revival of the show that proved to be his star-making role.) | |
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After forming the band Japan, David Alan Batt borrowed a new last name from a David Bowie song: "Drive-In Saturday" from Aladdin Sane, with the line, "He's crashing out with Sylvian." He's long since given up his most-obvious vocal resemblances to Bowie (and Bryan Ferry, which could be regarded as indirectly ripping off Bowie, anyway). But David Sylvian continues to record and perform with the name most recognizable to his audience, however increasingly alienated—or unable to recognize what he's doing—they might have become: particularly from the release of Blemish onward. | |
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Black Sabbath's first lineup was a subversion of this. "Ozzy" and "Geezer" are actually the substantially less cool John and Terry, but they were given the nicknames in school and they stuck. | |
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The Criminal Minds episode "Magnificent Light" featured Harold Kerwin, a motivational speaker better known under his stage name Barry Flynn. | |
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Melissa Jefferson is better known as Lizzo: in early performances she went by Lissa, which quickly changed to Lizzo as a play on the Jay-Z song "Izzo". | |
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Spanish-speaking voice actors have an interesting twist on this: Unless stated otherwise, most of them use their second first name and their first (maternal) or second (paternal) name of their last name. As an example, Mexican voice actor Luis Eduardo Garza Escudero (Krillin and Ichigo) goes credited as only Eduardo Garza. Unlike Japanese and American voice actors, they rarely use stage names for hiding their identities in non-union or risky works (as it's considered a rather stupid thing there, since everyone will end up recognizing your voice anyways)note Just to get an idea how much this trope doesn't always apply when dubbing erotic or outright porn stuff, Mexican and many Latin American voice actors had no problem on dubbing stuff on their real names, or stage ones when applicable, that would put an American or Japanese voice actor into serious problems with either their fans, their agencies or their own unions, like The Qwaser of Stigmata, Bible Black and Eternity: Shin'ya no Nure Koi-chan Neru, the latter two are both outright Hentai, and by first one is a TV series which no voice acting studio in either the States or any western country wants to touch. and and when they do, it's mostly because they like to use that name for other reasons unrelated with their work or maybe because their fans and friends prefer to call them by those names instead: Gabriela Schietter Castañon goes credited as Gaby Willer or Gabriela Willert (Li Meiling and Motoko Kusanagi). Her mother, Liza Willert, was born as Elizabeth Margot Schreiter Castañón. Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Sesshoumaru) is either credited under his first name, or under his middle name. This caused many fans to think both names referred to two unrelated voice actors with the same last name. The late Maria Hiromi Hayakawa Salas (Draculaura) went only as Hiromi Hayakawa, causing many fans to think she is a native Japanese voice actress (She was Japanese-Mexican born in Japan, but raised in Mexico). Later she went with the name of Hiromi exclusively, especially when working outside of the voice acting industry. Another Japanese-Mexican voice actress, whose real name is Noriko Takaya Satori, goes with the more simpler name of Noriko as her stage name. The late Guillermo Romano's (who voiced Batman, Inspector Gadget, Rayearth, among others) real name was Carlos Stevenson, who also used that name in few other works, causing some confusion at first among his fans when trying to identify his previous early roles. Azul Valadez (Tatsumaki and Sabrina Spellman): Her real name is Azucena Valadez. She goes with that name because "Azul" (blue) is her favorite color. |
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Virgil Riley Runnels? Not a wrestling name. Dusty Rhodes? Better. His sons have continued the tradition. Dustin Runnels, better known as "Goldust", wrestled as "Dustin Rhodes" in the early part of his career, and Cody Runnels also uses the "Rhodes" surname. In fact, Cody hasn't legally been "Cody Runnels" since his late teens—he's Cody Runnels Rhodes. It's actually quite common for second-generation wrestlers to use their fathers' kayfabe surname, such as the Von Erich Family, whose real last name was and is Adkisson. The three third-generation Adkissons who went into the business (Kerry's daughter Lacey, now retired, and Kevin's sons Marshall and Ross) also use the Von Erich name. |
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Guitarist Eduardo Beilinson: "Skay" (nicknamed that way by his friend, plastic artist Marta Minujin) | |
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Steven Tallarico made his name less foreign with Steven Tyler. | |
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Two Danganronpa fanfics actually see "Celeste" resume being Taeko: The Ultimate Hope sees her do so willingly vis having learned to be herself so her and Hifumi's daughter could become the new Celestia while Never Say Never forces her to do so as punishment for what she did during the events of Act 3 (everything that made her Celestia is destroyed before her eyes, particularly by a vengeful Aoi Asahina following Taeko's betrayal). | |
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Before adopting the name of Lexis King in WWE NXT, Brian Pillman Jr. wasn't a 100% aversion. While he used his real name, the "Jr." part is kayfabed—his late father was Brian William, while he's Brian Zachary. Wrestlers who were stars in other sports often use their real names in pro wrestling, such as MMA fighters Ken Shamrock, Dan Severn and Ronda Rousey, Olympic powerlifter Mark Henry, and Olympic wrestler Kurt Angle. Because WWE regularly trademarks its performers' ring names, it's not unheard of for former WWE performers to use their real names in other promotions. For example, Edge uses his real name of Adam Copeland in AEW. Even the co-Trope Namer for Do Not Call Me "Paul", Big Show, goes by his real name of Paul Wight as an AEW commentator and occasional wrestler. (The other co-Trope Namer has mostly been going by Paul "Triple H" Levesque since taking over WWE's creative in 2022.) WWE did a rather fun storyline on this, with Tough Enough season 3 winner John Hennigan being completely unable to decide on a stage name, and thus changing his name each and every week. He went through Johnny Blaze, Johnny Spade, Johnny Onyx, and Johnny Superstar before finally settling on Johnny Nitro — which was intended to be a kiss-ass maneuver towards Eric Bischoff, the former architect of WCW Monday Nitro and then-current general manager of the Raw brand. Now, in his new gimmick as the second coming of Jim Morrison (lead singer of The Doors, whom Hennigan looks remarkably like), he's taken the name John Morrison. Hulk Hogan was born Terrence Eugene Bollea. (What, not intimidating enough...?) He started out wrestling as Terry Boulder, then added "Hulk" as a nickname to that, before dropping the first name and changing the last name to Hogan. The name "Hulk Hogan" was suggested by Vince McMahon Sr., and Hogan went along, despite feeling that the idea of an orange-skinned blonde-haired Irishman was kind of silly (Vince Sr. wanted him to dye his hair red, but Hogan was already going bald and felt the dye would make his hair fall out even faster). He got way more over under the new name than anybody expected, but there was a slight hitch — Vince's penchant for billing him as "The Incredible" Hulk Hogan caught the attention of Marvel Comics, and they sued and won, taking the trademark for the name until Hogan bought it back more than two decades later. He started out under a mask as Super Destroyer. Also went by Sterling Golden before Hulk. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin was born Steve Anderson and later known as Steve Williams, but changed it to differentiate himself from already-established wrestler "Dr. Death" Steve Williams. He would later legally adopt Steve Austin (without the "Stone Cold" part). Shawn Michaels was born Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, a name which just doesn't fit a man who was billed as the "Sexiest Man Alive". Referenced on a 2009 Raw, when Michaels worked as a chef and tried to avoid recognition by using the "fake name" Hickenbottom. As he transitioned the wrestling world to Hollywood, The Rock gradually dropped his stage name, going from "The Rock" to "Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson", and is now making films under his given name, Dwayne Johnson. "The Rock" is trademarked by the WWE, so he had to stop using it when he stopped wrestling. Or when they felt like saying "no". Of course, Johnson's original ring name, "Rocky Maivia", was taken from his father Rocky Johnson and his maternal grandfather Peter Maivia. Rocky Johnson was born Wayde Douglas Bowles but legally changed his name to his ring moniker in 1964. Legendary nutcase The Ultimate Warrior legally changed his name to "Warrior" ("Ultimate Warrior" is trademarked by the WWE). His birth name? Jim Hellwig. Ditto for another wrestler who famously spiraled out of control, Chyna (born Joanie Marie Laurer). Until WWE's trademark on the name expired she got around it by being billed as 'Chynna Doll'. Ask a non-smark if they've ever heard of James Janos. More likely than not you'll get a "huh?" or somesuch in reply. Until you mention that he's more famous as Jesse Ventura, a name he adopted to shield his family from nutcase fans. Brian Lawler went by Brian Christopher when he entered wrestling, to distance himself from his famous father, Memphis wrestling legend and longtime WWE commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler. It didn't work very well for a number of reasons (not the least of which is an extremely strong family resemblance), and Brian Christopher's lineage soon became the single worst-kept secret in wrestling history (and keep in mind, this is the "sport" that spent the better part of a century badly hiding the fact that it was all a show). Virgil Riley Runnels? Not a wrestling name. Dusty Rhodes? Better. His sons have continued the tradition. Dustin Runnels, better known as "Goldust", wrestled as "Dustin Rhodes" in the early part of his career, and Cody Runnels also uses the "Rhodes" surname. In fact, Cody hasn't legally been "Cody Runnels" since his late teens—he's Cody Runnels Rhodes. It's actually quite common for second-generation wrestlers to use their fathers' kayfabe surname, such as the Von Erich Family, whose real last name was and is Adkisson. The three third-generation Adkissons who went into the business (Kerry's daughter Lacey, now retired, and Kevin's sons Marshall and Ross) also use the Von Erich name. |
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Sting was born Gordon Matthew Sumner and got his nickname from a yellow and black striped sweater that he liked to wear on stage. Even his family call him Sting today. Lampshaded in Bee Movie numerous times, with Barry mentioning his real name in front of everyone (to their surprise) and deriding his alias as a "prance-about stage name". |
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Sum 41 Deryck Whibley- Bizzy D (although he goes by his real name now) Jason McCaslin- Cone Dave Baksh- Brownsound Steve Jocz- Stevo32 Tom Thacker- BrownTom |
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Hannah Diamond's real name is Hannah Amond, which makes her stage name only two letters away from her real name. | |
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Iron Maiden: Michael Henry "Nicko" McBrain. "Nicky" was one of his favourite puppets, and once a bandmate drunkenly introduced him as "Neeko", he liked the sound of it. Lead singer Bruce Dickinson's proper first name is Paul. And, back when he was with Samson, he went by the name Bruce Bruce, which he took from Monty Python's Bruces sketch. | |
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In the first season of ER, Ming-Na Wen played medical student Deb Chen. She quit med school after nearly killing a patient, but is later revealed to have resumed her studies. When the character returned as a full doctor five years later, she had begun going by her original, non-Anglicized name Jing-Mei (though Carter still often called her "Deb" early on). | |
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Pokémon: The Series had a few cases of actors that initially used aliases: Erica Schroeder was usually credited as "Bella Hudson" (along with her work in other 4kids dubs), although her later roles were credited under her birth name. Roxanne Beck originally went by "Annie Pondel"/"Annie Pandel" for the first two seasons. Jay Goede voiced Mewtwo in the original movie but is credited as Philip Bartlett. |
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Pica Pica: Belén Guijarro, Emiliano Müller, and Ignacio Repetto respectively become Belén Pelo de Oro (Belén Goldilocks), Emi Bombón (Emi Bonbon), and Nacho BombÃn (Nacho Bowler Hat)—clownish personas crafted to entertain and educate children. | |
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His Wild Wild West sidekick, Ross Martin, was born Martin Rosenblatt. | |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian began his music career performing under his real name, but after realizing that people had trouble pronouncing his Armenian surname, he decided to start crediting himself as David Seville, "Seville" coming from his favorite city from when he was stationed in Spain during his years in the US Army, and "David" just being a name he liked. | |
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Yeule's birth name is Natasha Yelin Chang, though they go by the name Nat Cmiel in real life. They're named after a Final Fantasy character. | |
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Because WWE regularly trademarks its performers' ring names, it's not unheard of for former WWE performers to use their real names in other promotions. For example, Edge uses his real name of Adam Copeland in AEW. Even the co-Trope Namer for Do Not Call Me "Paul", Big Show, goes by his real name of Paul Wight as an AEW commentator and occasional wrestler. (The other co-Trope Namer has mostly been going by Paul "Triple H" Levesque since taking over WWE's creative in 2022.) | |
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In Chapter 3 of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Mario is given the stage name "The Great Gonzales" by the manager of the Glitz Pit. The Yoshi who hatches from an egg and joins Mario's party halfway through the chapter calls him "Gonzales" for the rest of the game. | |
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From Einstürzende Neubauten: Blixa Bargeld (birth name Christian Emmerich) F.M. Eineit (Frank-Martin Strauß) Alexander Hacke (Alexander von Borsig) N.U. Unruh (Andrew Chudy) Godrun Gut (Gudrun Bredemann) |
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In Soul Music, Imp y Celyn and Lias Bluestone (another troll) decide that their names aren't "right" for the new music and become Buddy and Cliff. | |
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Redd Foxx was also a stage name for John Elroy Sanford. His iconic role as Fred G. Sanford in Sanford and Son was named and modeled after his real-life brother. | |
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At the end of the Astro City "Dark Age" story arc, it is revealed that "Charles and Royal Williams" are not the characters' real names; instead, they're picked by an author who is writing a book based on their experiences, and he is using aliases to protect their real identities. | |
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Sabrina Bryan, one of The Cheetah Girls, is best known by her full name of Reba Sabrina Hinojos (as director Oz Scott puts her on one of his made for TV feature films on the Disney Channel in 2003). | |
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The TV Series Tracker (2001) had Troy Montana, the actor Cole took his human appearance from. He was originally Percy Greenstein apparently. | |
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Pantera: "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott - He was credited as "Diamond" Darrell on their Canon Discontinuity eighties albums, in keeping with the band's more Glam Metal image of the time. Also Vince "Vinnie Paul" Abbott, his brother. | |
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The real name of Eric Lévi, Era's founder and composer for the films L'Opération Corned-Beef, Les Visiteurs and Guardian Angels, is Éric Jacques Levisalles. He is not Jewish, he simply shortened his surname and added the acute accent. | |
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Several of the seventeen main cast members of A Chorus Line have changed their names for professional reasons, while others either claim to have stage names as a joke or acknowledge that they may need to adopt them (which contrasts with Diana Morales saying she kept her real name because "I figured ethnic was 'in'"): Mike Costafalone has trimmed his name down to the more manageable Mike Costa. Sidney Kenneth Beckenstein, or, to use his Hebrew name, Rochmel Lev ben Yokov Meyer Beckenstein, goes by the more marquee-friendly Gregory Gardner. Judy Turner jokes that she changed her name from Lana Turner, but then admits that her name has always been Judy Turner. Sara Rosemary Bryant hates her given name, so she goes by Sheila Bryant instead. Bebe Benzenheimer says she knows she'll need to change her name to something shorter if her career gets going. Margaret Mary Houlihan may have been so named by her mother, but she loathes the name and instead goes by Valerie Clark. The newly-married Kristine DeLuca still goes by her maiden name of Kristine Urich professionally. Mark Philip Lawrence Tabori goes by the more attention-grabbing Mark Anthony. Ephrain Ramirez, after a lifetime of being told he didn't look Puerto Rican, has chosen the Italian-flavoured stage name Paul San Marco. |
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Of course, Johnson's original ring name, "Rocky Maivia", was taken from his father Rocky Johnson and his maternal grandfather Peter Maivia. Rocky Johnson was born Wayde Douglas Bowles but legally changed his name to his ring moniker in 1964. | |
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Louis Feinberg, Moses Harry Horwitz and Jerome Lester Horwitz — a/k/a Larry Fine and Moe & Curly Howard. | |
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Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All gives us Maximillian Galactica, magician extraordinaire!... whose real name is Billy Bob Johns. He even has the accent to go with it when he gets nervous. (In Japanese, his real name is Kohei Yamada; in both cases, the name intentionally screams "country boy".) Also in the Berry Big Circus are the clown Lawrence Curls, who goes by Moe (Matsu Tomida, alias Tommy, in Japan - Tommy and Matsu were a famous Japanese comedy duo, so it's a similar implication), and the acrobat brothers Ken and Sean Dingling, who go by Acro and Bat. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney introduces the magicians Trope Gramarye. While their founder Magnifi Gramarye and his daughter Thalassa presumably go by their real names, the rest use stage names: Zak Gramarye is actually named Shadi Enigmar, and Valant Gramarye's real name is unknown. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice reveals there was once a fifth Gramarye member called the Great Mr. Reus, whose real name is Manov Mistree. He's the second person to play the role; the original Reus's real name was Roger Retinz, and Mistree was a fan who took on the stage name after being trained by the first Mr. Reus. Later on, it is revealed that Apollo's biological father had the stage name of "Jangly Justice". This caused problems in the investigation of his death, as the locals of Khura'in only knew him by his stage name, and their spirit mediums need the victim's true name in order to call his spirit. |
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Star Wars Legends: Syal Antilles, famous actress, went by the name Wynissa Starflare. "Antilles" is said to be a very common name, but she's the sister and only surviving kin of the very prominent Rebel and Ace Pilot Wedge Antilles, and she doesn't want people finding out. | |
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French singer, songwriter, actress and cultural icon Édith Piaf was born Édith Giovanna Gassion. Piaf is a colloquial French term for "sparrow". | |
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Wrestlers who were stars in other sports often use their real names in pro wrestling, such as MMA fighters Ken Shamrock, Dan Severn and Ronda Rousey, Olympic powerlifter Mark Henry, and Olympic wrestler Kurt Angle. | |
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As he transitioned the wrestling world to Hollywood, The Rock gradually dropped his stage name, going from "The Rock" to "Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson", and is now making films under his given name, Dwayne Johnson. "The Rock" is trademarked by the WWE, so he had to stop using it when he stopped wrestling. Or when they felt like saying "no". Of course, Johnson's original ring name, "Rocky Maivia", was taken from his father Rocky Johnson and his maternal grandfather Peter Maivia. Rocky Johnson was born Wayde Douglas Bowles but legally changed his name to his ring moniker in 1964. |
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Delysia Lafosse from Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, a glamourous American club singer and aspiring actress, whose real name is Sarah Grubb, of the Pittsburg Grubbs. | |
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Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-: The Eight Offering Bodhisattvas, being styled as a performing troupe, are all known as their stage names instead of their overly long real names. | |
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Was (Not Was) is two of those, David Was (Weiss) and Don Was (Fagenson), the latter of whom also became a prolific producer. | |
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Anime example: The original North American dubs of Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki were all done outside union agreements, every cast member uses an assumed name aside from Jay Hopper, who used his real name for playing Katsuhito and Nobuyuki Masaki. These are very specific to the show and sometimes in-jokes as well, such as Debi Derryberry's use of "Marie Cabbit" for her work voicing the hybrid cat-rabbit critter Ryo-Ohki. This is a fairly common practice in voiceover acting. The cast of Metal Gear Solid all appeared under their standard pseudonyms because of uncertainty over the union situation. Of the main cast, only Doug Stone and (production staff member) Scott Dolph used their real names from the outset, while David Hayter was able to get the all-clear from the union between the printing of the game's manual and production of the disks. Later games ditched the pseudonyms completely. Stage name adopted by David Hayter for the Metal Gear Solid dub, "Sean Barker", comes from the character he played in the live-action Guyver movie. Cam Clarke's alias, "Jimmy Flinders", was taken from the name of a character he played in the '70s Mormon musical "Saturday's Warrior". He had also used the name for his work in Robotech, as well as other '80s dubs of anime. |
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Sid Vicious (John Simon Ritchie) eventually joined the The Sex Pistols, performing alongside Johnny Rotten (John Lydon). They would sometimes be joined on stage by punk model and general hanger-on Jordan (Pamela Rooke). | |
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In No. 6 one of the main characters goes by "Nezumi" ("Rat" in English). The other protagonist, Shion, doesn't know if this is his real name or not so when they meet someone who calls him "Eve" he asks if this is his real name. In fact, no, Eve is his stage name. Shion later finds out that the reason he goes by "Eve" is because he plays women on stage. | |
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The majority of characters in the webcomic Band vs. Band go by stage names that have some relation to their real names — for instance, Turpentine's civilian name is Clementine. | |
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Adam and the Ants founder Adam Ant (Stuart Leslie Goddard). | |
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Show People: When Peggy Pepper escapes the Comedy Ghetto and hits it big as a dramatic actress, she changes her name to Patricia Pepoire. | |
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The Cat Who... Series: In book #12 (The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal), Hilary VanBrook goes by this name for professional purposes. After his death, his real name is revealed as William Smurple. Regular character Joe Bunker is Moose County's local weatherman, who goes by Weatherby Goode on-air and to pretty much everyone but his close friends. |
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Robert Lansing, who starred in 12 O'Clock High and later co-starred in Automan, was born Robert Brown, but had to change his name due to the Scottish actor of the same name. He blindfolded himself, pointed to a map of the United States, and he pointed to Lansing, Michigan... hence Robert Lansing. | |
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Junkie XL, who in his film composing career often goes by birth name Tom Holkenborg. The stage name is occasionally bowdlerised to JXL, which is how he was credited for a remix of Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation". | |
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The main character of Heart-Shaped Box is a heavy metal singer who is introduced as Judas Coyne - it turns out his real name is Justin Cowzynski, with Judas Coyne being a pun on the coins Judas was given to betray Jesus in The Bible. Interestingly, this ends up being a Meaningful Name for him instead of just the sacrilegious Punny Name it initially comes off as. | |
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David Harvard Lawrence wanted to make himself stand out from the other David Lawrences in the SAG database. Seeing he was the seventeenth guy with that name on IMDb (which differentiates people with Roman algarisms), he became David H. Lawrence XVII. | |
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In the Friends episode "The One with the Fake Monica", Joey Tribbiani wants to change his name to something less ethnic. Chandler jokingly suggests Joseph Stalin; Joey, being The Ditz, doesn't know how infamous this name is, and tries to use it. In the final scene of the episode he goes to a casting to use the name Holden McGroin. The gang eventually discover that Phoebe's twin sister Ursula has been starring in porn movies using Phoebe's name instead of her own. Phoebe gets revenge by going to the production company and giving them the "correct" address to send "Phoebe's" paychecks to. |
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Steven Georgiou went by the stage name Cat Stevens, apparently inspired by a girlfriend telling him he had eyes like a cat. After converting to Islam he legally changed his name to Yusuf Islam ("Yusuf" being the Arabic form of "Joseph", a name he'd always liked). Following a long hiatus he began recording music again, under the single name "Yusuf" – in his words, "because 'Islam' doesn't have to be sloganised". His very latest solo albums credit him as "Yusuf/Cat Stevens". | |
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Angel Olsen's real name is Angelina Marie Carroll. | |
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Renzo Jiménez, a Venezuelan voice actor best known for dubbing Squidward, is legally Alberto Figeroa. | |
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Cradle of Filth has several examples across different lineups - Dani Filth (Daniel Davey), Robin Graves (Robin Eaglestone), Gian Pyres (Gianpiero Piras), Damien Gregori (Gregory Moffitt), Ashley Ellyllon (Ashley Jurgenmeyer), Sarah Jezebel Deva (Sarah Jane Ferridge), and several men who used the stage name Jared Demeter, none of whom were actually named Jared. Additionally, ex-members Martin Powell, Dave Pybus, and James McIlroy normally used their real names, but were, on occasion, known as "Martin Foul," "Dave Pubis," and "James McKillboy," keeping with what was then the trend of gory-sounding plays on the members' actual names. | |
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Six Half has Shiori decide to use a stage name when she decides to do some modelling on the side. Her agency gives her the name 'Ayumu Kurata'. | |
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While reading the original cast list of The Phantom of the Opera, it's easy to assume no one is actually born with a name as pretty as Sarah Brightman. However, that is her real name - but her costar Michael Crawford was born Michael Dumble-Smith. | |
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Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu has Yotaro Yurakutei, which is the name he received as a rakugo student (and symbolically important, as he used to be in prison) and his stage name, as his real name is Kyoji. | |
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Pinocchio (2022, Disney): When Honest John convinces Pinocchio to become an actor but has trouble spelling his name, he plays around with a few wood-based stage names like Slab Oakley, Chad Log and Chris Pine, before saying it'll never work. | |
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Anette Olzon, real last name Olsson, who went to Xtreme Kool Letterz to avoid confusion with a former bandmate with the same surname. | |
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Babylon (2022): Actress Nellie LaRoy's real name is Nellie Roy, but she adds the La for an extra bit of French class. | |
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