List of pseudonyms

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Pseudonyms fall into various categories:

Woody Allen -- Allen Stewart Konigsberg
Piers Anthony -- Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
Michael Arlen -- Dikran Kuyumjian
Richard Bachman -- Stephen King
Acton Bell -- Anne Bronte
Nicolas Bourbaki -- a group of 20th-century mathematicians.
Boz -- Charles Dickens
Currer Bell -- Charlotte Bronte
Ellis Bell -- Emily Bronte
John Beynon -- John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
Lewis Carroll -- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
George Eliot -- Mary Ann Evans
Michael Innes -- J. I. M. Stewart
Anne Knish -- Arthur Davison Ficke
Barbara Michaels -- Barbara Mertz
Emanuel Morgan -- Witter Bynner
Flann O'Brien -- Brian O'Nolan
George Orwell -- Eric Arthur Blair
Elizabeth Peters -- Barbara Mertz
Ellis Peters -- Edith Pargeter
Jean Plaidy -- Eleanor Hibbert
George Sand -- Amandine Dupin
Cordwainer Smith -- Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
Lemony Snicket -- Daniel Handler
Student -- William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics.
Italo Svevo -- Ettore Schmitz
Mark Twain -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Voltaire -- Fran�ois-Marie Arouet
John Wyndham -- John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
Publius -- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers

Politicians

Abu Mazen -- Mahmoud Abbas
Abu Ammar and Yasser Arafat -- Muhammad Abd ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husayni
Abu Ala -- Ahmad Qurei

Stage Names

Cantinflas -- Mario Moreno
Cilla Black -- Priscilla White
Bono -- Paul Hewson
Michael Caine -- Maurice Micklewhite
Chespirito -- Roberto Gómez Bolanos
Coolio -- Artis Ivey, Jr.
Tom Cruise -- Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Doris Day -- Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff
Bob Dylan -- Robert Zimmerman
The Edge -- David Evans
Eminem -- Marshall Mathers III
Fatboy Slim -- Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook
Judy Garland -- Frances Gumm
Cary Grant -- Archibald Leach
Billie Holiday -- Eleanora Fagan
Judy Holliday -- Judith Tuvim
Engelbert Humperdinck -- Gerry Dorsey
Ice Cube -- O'Shea Jackson
Ice T -- Tracy Marrow
Elton John -- Reginald Kenneth Dwight
José José -- José Sosa
Danny Kaye -- David Daniel Kaminski
Jerry Lewis -- Joseph Levitch
LL Cool J -- James Todd Smith
Little Richard -- Richard Wayne Penniman
Lulu (singer) -- Marie Lawrie
Dean Martin -- Dino Crocetti
Meat Loaf -- Marvin Lee Aday
Freddie Mercury -- Faroukh Bulsara
Moby -- Richard Melville Hall
Marilyn Monroe -- Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker
Eric Morecambe -- John Eric Bartholemew
Mary Pickford -- Gladys Smith
Queen Latifah -- Dana Owens
Vic Reeves -- Jim Moir
The Rock -- Dwayne Douglas Johnson
Seal -- Sealhenry Samuel
Sandie Shaw -- Sandra Goodrich
Charlie Sheen -- Carlos Irwin Estevez
Martin Sheen -- Ramon Estevez
Shania Twain -- Eileen Regina Edwards
Slash -- Saul Hudson
Snoop Dogg -- Calvin Broadus
Ringo Starr -- Richard Starkey
Sting -- Gordon Sumner
Sugar -- Stephanie Beard
Ritchie Valens -- Ricardo Valenzuela
John Wayne -- Marion Michael Morrison
Ernie Wise -- Ernest Wiseman
Stevie Wonder -- Steveland Morris

Other

Ras-I-Bramble, Abuja Bramble (Livingstone Bramble, world champion boxer)
Kid Gavilan -- Gerardo Gonzalez (world champion boxer)
Sugar Ray Leonard -- Ray Charles Leonard (world champion boxer)
Joe Louis -- Joseph Louis Barrow (world champion boxer)
[[Pel�]] -- Edson Arantes do Nascimento (soccer legend)
Hermann Noordung - Herman Potočnik (pioneer of astronautics)
Sugar Ray Robinson -- Walker Smith, Jr. (world champion boxer)
Jersey Joe Walcott -- Arnold Raymond Cream (world champion boxer)
Peter Warlock -- Philip Heseltine (composer)