Advice | Top Baby Names | Baby Name Pseudonyms
Your name helps determine your fortune. Perhaps no one knows that better than the famous people listed below.
Name changing is a common practice among those in the entertainment industry, where a great-sounding name equals a great public image and star appeal.
What happens if you don't like your given name?
Change it!
That's just what these famous actors, actresses, musicians and athletes did. See how many of their real names you can guess correctly.
| Pseudonyms | Real Name |
| Muhammed Ali | Cassius Clay |
| Woody Allen | Allen Stewart Konigsberg |
| Julie Andrews | Julia Vernon |
| Fred Astaire | Frederick Austerlitz |
| Lauren Bacall | Betty Joan Perske |
| Lucille Ball | Diane Belmont |
| Tony Bennett | Anthony Dominick Benedetto |
| Jack Benny | Benjamin Kubelsky |
| Irving Berlin | Israel Baline |
| Yogi Berra | Lawrence Peter Berra |
| Bono | Paul Hewson |
| David Bowie | David Jones |
| Ellen Burstyn | Edna Rae Gillooly |
| Boy George | George Alan O'Dowd |
| Charles Bronson | Charles Buchinsky |
| Bugs Bunny | Happy Rabbit |
| George Burns | Nathan Birnbaum |
| Michael Caine | Maurice Joseph Micklewhite |
| Ray Charles | Ray Charles Robinson |
| Chevy Chase | Cornelius Crane Chase |
| Cher | Cherilyn La Pierre |
| Alice Cooper | Vincent Damon Furnier |
| Bing Crosby | Harry Lillis Crosby |
| Rodney Dangerfield | John Cohen |
| Doris Day | Doris Kappelhoff |
| John Denver | Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. |
| Bob Dylan | Robert Allen Zimmerman |
| The Edge | David Evans |
| W.C. Fields | William Claude Dukenfield |
| Alice Cooper | Vincent David Furnier |
| Greta Garbo | Greta Luisa Gustafson |
| Judy Garland | Frances Gumm |
| Cary Grant | Archibald Leach |
| Gary Hart | Gary Hartpence |
| Halston | Roy Halston Frowick |
| Bob Hope | Leslie Townes Hope |
| Englebert Humperdinck | Arnold Dorsey |
| Kareen Abdul-Jabbar | Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr. |
| Elton John | Reginald Kenneth Dwight |
| Ann Landers | Esther Eppie Pauline Friedman Lederer |
| Michael Landon | Eugene Maurice Orowitz |
| Jerry Lewis | Joseph Levitch |
| Liberace | Wladziu Valentino Liberace |
| Sophia Loren | Sophia Scicoloni |
| Madonna | Madonna Veronica Louise Ciccone |
| Dean Martin | Dino Crocetti |
| Paul McCartney | James Paul McCartney |
| Meatloaf | Marvin Lee Aday |
| Marilyn Monroe | Norma Jean Baker |
| Bernadette Peters | Bernadette Lazarra |
| Prince | Prince Rogers Nelson |
| Ginger Rogers | Virginia Katherine McMath |
| Mickey Rooney | Joe Yule, Jr. |
| Sting | Gordon Sumner |
| Sissy Spacek | Mary Elizabeth Spacek |
| Ringo Starr | Richard Starkey |
| Abigail Van Buren | Pauline Esther Popo Friedman Phillips |
| John Wayne | Marion Michael Morrison |
| Raquel Welch | Raquel Tejada |
| Gene Wilder | Jerome Silberman |
| Shelley Winters | Shirley Schrift |
| Stevie Wonder | Steveland Morris Hardaway |
