Entertainers Real Names

[-DEADLY SUSHI-]

Hi folks! I havent been around lately. I have a new job and Ive been pooped.

Anyhow, here are well know entertainers.... and their REAL names!!!

Billy Idol - William Broad
Bobby Darin - Walden Robert Cassotto
Buddy Holly- Charles Hardin Holley
Fiona Apple - Fiona Apple Maggart
Garth Brooks - Troyal Garth Brooks
George Michael - Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou
Huey Lewis - Hugh Cregg
Patti LaBelle - Patricia Louise Holte
Belinda Carlisle- Belinda Jo Kerzcheski
Chubby Checker- Ernest Evans
Enya- Eithne ní Bhraonáin
Ginuwine- Elgin Lumpkin *giggle*
John Denver- Henry John Deutschendorf
Pat Benatar- Patricia Andrzejewski
Bono - Paul Hewson
Charo - Maria Rosario Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza
Cher-Cherilyn Sarkisian
Fred Astaire-Frederick Austerlitz
Judy Garland-Frances Gumm (who KNEW??)
Julie Andrews-Julia Wells
Mickey Rooney-Joe Yule Jr.
Ringo Starr-Richard Starkey (was Lennon actually Hutch?? )
Tina Turner - Annie Mae Bullock
Barry Manilow -- Barry Alan Pincus
Elton John - Reginald Kenneth Dwight
Elvis Costello -- Declan Patrick McManus
Freddy Mercury - Farouk Bulsara
Jamie Foxx - Eric Bishop
Shania Twain - Eileen Regina Edwards
Sting -- Gordon Matthew Sumner
Wynonna Judd - Christina Claire Ciminella
Jerry Lewis- Jerome Levitch
Bill Clinton- William Jefferson Blythe IV
Gerald R. Ford- Leslie Lynch King
Tony Curtis- Bernard Schwartz
Charles Bronson-Charles Buchinski
Winona Ryder -- Winona Horowitz
Jack Benny-Benjamin Kubelsky
Alan Alda -- Alphonso d'Abruzzo
Michael Caine-Maurice Mickelwhite
Whoopi Goldberg-Caryn Johnson
Robert Blake -- Michael Gubitosi
Meg Ryan - Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra
Martin Sheen -- Ramon Estevez
Kirk Douglas -- Issur Danielovitch Demsky
John Wayne - Marion Michael Morrison
Jennifer Aniston - Jennifer Linn Anastassakis
Cary Grant -- Archibald Alexander Leach
Anne Bancroft -- Anna Maria Louisa Italiano

 

[middie]

And I can see why some of them have been changed... too hard to pronounce lol. Good luck and congratulations on the new job Sush
* Huge Hug *

 

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Conway Twitty- Harold Jenkins
Pasty Cline- Virgina Hemsley


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[urmaniac13]

A few more that came to my mind..

Eminem - Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Cordozar Calvin Broadus
Ricky Martin - Enrique Martin Morales

 

[pdswife]

Sushi got a job??? YIPPPPEEEEE!!!!!!!

 

[mudbug]

congrats on the new job, sush.

Bob Dylan - Robert Zimmerman

 

[-DEADLY SUSHI-]

Thanks for the congrats folks!

I couldnt believe some of the people that changed thier names! And I was shocked to find out their REAL names!!

 

[Michelemarie]

Sushi, good luck at work! Hope all is going well!

 

[urmaniac13]

Not of the entertainers but for some of the pen names of the authors...

James Herriot - Alf Wight
Lewis Carroll - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
George Orwell - Eric Arthur Blair
George Eliot - Mary Ann Evans
Saki - Hector Hugh Munro
George Sand - Armandine Lucie Aurore Dupin
O Henry - Willam Sidney Porter
John Le Carrè - David Cornwell
Mary Westmacott - Agatha Christie wrote some lesser known romance novels under this pen name.

 

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Richie Valens-Ricardo Valenzula (sp)
Freddie Fender- Balderma Huerta

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