Real Names of Celebrities

[Elmore Furth]

Here come the bar bets.

Jamie Foxx -- Eric Marlon Bishop
Christopher Walken -- Ronald Walken
Jonathan Rhys Meyers -- Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keefe
Liv Tyler -- Liv Rundgren
Chevy Chase -- Cornelius Crane Chase
Stevie Nicks -- Stephanie Lynn Nicks.
Sir Ben Kingsley -- Krishna Bhanji
Julie Andrews -- Julia Elizabeth Wells
Antonio Banderas -- José Antonio Dominguez Bandera
Jenna Jameson -- Jenna Marie Massoli
Clay Aiken -- Clayton Grissom.
Jane Seymour -- Joyce Penelop Wilhelmia Frankenberg.
Demi Moore -- Demi Gene Guynes
Elle Macpherson -- Eleanor Nancy Gow
Ozzy Osbourne -- John Michael Osbourne.
Jodie Foster -- Alicia Christian Foster.
David Copperfield -- David Seth Kotkin.
Diane Keaton -- Diane Hall
Fergie -- Stacy Ann Ferguson
Bret Michaels -- Bret Michael Sychak.
Cher -- Cherilyn Sarksian.
Flavor Flav -- William Jonathan Drayton, Jr
Alicia Keys -- Alicia Augello Cook
Barry Manilo -- Barry Alan Pincus
Pink -- Alecia Beth Moore
Meg Ryan -- Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra
Lady Gaga -- Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Ice-T -- Tracy Morrow.
Bob Dylan -- Robert Allen Zimmerman,
Tina Turner -- Anna Mae Bullock
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Steve-O -- Stephen Gilchrist Glover,
Della Reese -- Delloreese Patricia Early
Alan Alda -- Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo
Courtney Love -- Courtney Michelle Harrison
Ashton Kutcher -- Christopher Ashton Kutcher.
Carmen Electra --Tara Leigh Patrick
Tom Cruise -- Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.
Reese Witherspoon -- Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon,
Charlie Sheen -- Carlos Irwin Estévez
Wynonna Judd -- Christina Claire Ciminella.
Nikki Sixx -- Frank Carlton Ferrana, Jr.
Natalie Portman -- Natalie Herschlag.
Marc Anthony -- Marco Antonio Muñiz.
Sigourney Weaver -- Susan Alexandra Weaver
Bono -- Paul David Hewson
Larry King -- Lawrence Harvey Zeiger.
Winona Ryder -- Winona Laura Horowitz
Bo Derek -- Mary Cathleen Collins
Jon Stewart -- Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz.
Miley Cyrus -- Destiny Hope Cyrus
Michael Caine -- Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
Nicolas Cage -- Nicolas Kim Coppola
Dido -- Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong
Tiger Woods -- Eldrick Tont Woods
Shania Twain -- Eileen Regina Edwards
Kirk Douglas -- Issur Danielovitch.
Ralph Lauren -- Ralph Rueben Lifshitz
Marilyn Manson -- Brian Hugh Warner
Lil Bow Wow -- Shad Gregory Moss

More Stars Real Names

[KamaAina]

1. John Wayne -- Marion Morrison.

Elvis Costello -- Declan Patrick McManus.
Boy George -- George O'Dowd.
Whoopi Goldberg -- Caryn Johnson.
Barack Obama -- Barry Soetoro. :sarcasm:

[hippywife]

2. The one that confuses me

is Liv Tyler. :shrug:

[mitchum]

5. "The Tyler name carries juice in showbiz" is what I recall her ridiculous father...

saying to her. Honest.
No wonder Todd Rundgren is just disgusted with the lot of them.

[jobycom]

9. Maybe, but Liv Tyler is just more memorable than Liv Rundgren.

Has a younger, sexier feel to it, no matter one's opinion of either of her fathers.

[Bucky]

11. I dunno. I can see Liv Rundgen being a very marketable, distinguished actor name

Not only bland, two syllable Anglo Saxon names are marketable these days. Some people actually go out to invent ethnicity, like going from O'Keefe to "Rhys Meyers" for a last name. That's just inventing ethnicity to get attention. On the other hand, if your dad is a super famous rock star, it's not a bad idea to take his name just to remind casting directors that you're around.

[Sebastian Doyle]

15. Steven Tyler is her biological father

But her mother (Bebe Buell) was married to Todd Rundgren at the time Liv was born (or shortly thereafter) and since mom wasn't on good terms with Steve at the time (drug problems, more than likely) she raised the kid as Todd's, not telling Liv about her real dad until she was a teenager.

Which happened to be about the time she launched her career. Could she have done so with the name "Liv Rundgren"??

I doubt the teenage boys (and probably some girls) who saw her strip teases in the AeroShit videos (along with Alicia Silverstone) really cared what her name was.

[underpants]

26. I thought that was an interesting story

she had absolutely no idea that Todd was not her father and that Steve was in the picture at all-the way I heard the story. They told her on her 18th birthday or something like that.

It is sort of like Goldie Hawn and one of the Hudson brothers (who later wrote songs with Aerosmith in their jail-bait video stage)

Small circles of celebrities revolving around each other

[hippywife]

32. Okay...that 'splains it.

I don't get into celeb gossip and never have so I didn't know the story there. Only knew that Steven Tyler couldn't ever deny paternity as much as she looks like him.

Thanx! :hi:

[Duer 157099]

3. Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz?!?

Heheheh, ok, I did *not* see that one coming!

:rofl:

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. I think he's actually mentioned his real name on the Daily Show once or twice

usually in the context of joking about something being "too Jewey"

[Dr Morbius]

22. Mr. Stewart jokes that Liebowitz was "too Hollywood."

I recall Cary Grant's real name was Archie Leach.

[Iggo]

40. I thought he said his name was Jewey McJewison.

[demtenjeep]

4. John Denver

had a really strange last name. Like Diffindorph or something

[blogslut]

6. Deutschendorf

:)

[blogslut]

7. My favorite is Stewart Granger

He had to change his name because another actor was already using it.

He was born James Stewart.

My second favorite is Engelbert Humperdinck. He had a perfectly decent name, Arnold George Dorsey, but deliberately changed it to the name of a German composer from the 1800s.

[Bucky]

12. Honestly, the last time I saw Engelbert Humperdinck...

I just assumed he was the same guy from the 19th Century.

[Sebastian Doyle]

17. Similar story with David Bowie

He really didn't want a stage name. But when he named his first band "Davy Jones and the Lower Third", people kept getting him confused with another English singer with the same name.

[jobycom]

8. Then there's Edward Kennedy.

Full name: Edward Kennedy Ellington. Goes by Duke.

[Bucky]

10. Some of these make sense, but why did Previous Slide change to "Next Slide"

These Hollywood marketing decisions just confuse me sometimes. Like if you were a musician and had a totally awesome birth name like "Darryl Dragon," wouldn't you use it professionally?

[mitchum]

14. "Previous Slide" was his jheri-curl rapper name and "Next Slide" became his gangsta name

[smokey nj]

23. He'll probably reinvent himself again as Water Slide.

[gmoney]

13. Michael Savage -- Michael Weiner

The degree of his self-hatred may have started with his name...

[XemaSab]

18. Looks like the Jews and the Italians are running neck and neck

:P

[Blue-Jay]

19. Andy Dick's real name is Andy Dick.

All kidding aside aside, I went to undergrad school with a girl named Anita Dick.

She insisted on being called by her middle name.

[sakabatou]

27. I wonder why...

[Sebastian Doyle]

20. And let's not forget the Rolling Stones former bass player

William George Perks (aka Bill Wyman - he actually "borrowed" the Wyman name from a friend he served with in the RAF)

[underpants]

25. I did not know that

thanks

[Sebastian Doyle]

21. Jeffery Hyman. Douglas Colvin. John Cummings. Thomas Erdelyi.

[underpants]

24. Dr. Frankenberg, Medicine woman

[mitchum]

33. Dr Frankenberg would have been a surgeon instead of a GP

[Alexander]

28. Chaim Witz. Stanley Harvey Eisen. Paul Daniel Frehley. George Peter John Criscoula.

[Sebastian Doyle]

29. Never knew Peter's first name was George.

Knew about the others' names though. Ironic that Ace had to make up his name because there was already a "Paul" in the band. Even though "Paul" was really Stanley.

[WolverineDG]

34. Except Ace & Peter aren't in that picture nt

[Alexander]

39. My mistake.

[Iggo]

41. Oops...error already addressed.

:toast:

[cemaphonic]

30. Sometimes it goes the other way too

I remember being surprised to learn that Prince wasn't a stage name.

[Kat45]

38. Same with Madonna. I was surprised about that one. n/t

[KamaAina]

31. Elton John -- Reginald Dwight.

Queen Latifah -- Dana Owens.

[mitchum]

35. I remember when Lester Bangs started the rumor that Lou Reed's real name was Lewis Firbank

it was actually a nice arch joke, but most people didn't get it.

[bikebloke]

36. Tony Curtis

Bernard Schwartz

[SoxFan]

37. John Martin Maher and Steven Patrick Morrisey

[old mark]

42. Guitarist Slash is Saul Hudson......Les Paul was Lester W. Polsfuss. nt

[old mark]

43. Oh, and Keith Richards' real name is Keith Richards, although he once

went under Keith Richard, he went back to Keith Richards in the late 1970's...


He really DID snort his dad's ashes, too....


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