50 Celebrities’ Real Names

A couple of surprises in here. Very good list!

You should boldface ‘David Bowie’, and not his real name, as you’ve boldfaced all the celebrity names. Of course, he had to change it to avoid being mistaken for the Monkee.

In response to Sigourney Weaver: “In 1963, she changed her name to ‘Sigourney’, after the character ‘Sigourney Howard’ in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ (her own birth name, Susan, was in honor of her mother’s best friend, explorer Susan Pretzlik).”

Also, do you know who Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko was?
Natalie Wood.
(both found at imdb.com)

Chuck Norris’ name is actually Carlos Ray Norris. Not much of a stretch to change Carlos to Chuck.

those acute last letters (?) are specific to eastern european nations, we could put question mark beside X or Y for instance coz those letters dont exist in our languages. for us its normal to have surname ending with “i?” and its not quite obvius why he shortened it to Bana, unless you are American and ignorant to other parts of the world.

In 9, 10, 11 and 12, stage names are not boldfaced, as in the others. Hey, and Walter Matthau is difficult to pronounce even in his stage name.

Hi, the surname Banderas and no Banderes

Chuck it’s going for you now!!!

Rita Hayworth = Margarita Carmen Cansino

The reason why Antonio Banderas changed his name is because Jose (his first name) and Dominguez (his first last name , in spain it’s common to use both parents last name) are very common names in Spain, and, therefor, not the best way to be recognized fron the majority.

Antonio Banderas didn’t change it’s name. It’s just than in Spain people has two surnames and, sometimes, a compound name (like Antonio Banderas), but it’s unusual to refer to a person by all it’s surnames and names, just like I would be usually called “Juanjo Alvarez” instead of my real full name “Juan Jose Alvarez Martinez”

Rita Hayworth = Margarita Carmen Cansino !!

Antonio Banderas’ real name is José Antonio Dominguez Bandera – That’s a hell of mouthful.
Here in Spain, we have one or two names, our father’s lastname and our mother’s lastname.

I don’t think omitting one or more of your many given names counts. Most people use only one name, usually the first, in everyday life. Same for nicknames- Geena Davis, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Reese Witherspoon – we should speak about ‘full’ name, rather than ‘real’ name.
(About Antonio Banderas: In Spain people use both their father’s and their mother’s surnames. It is not unusual for people who have a very common first surname, like Domínguez, to use the second, if it’s less common, like Banderas, in their profession.)(There must be a gazillion José Domínguez in Spain, and they’re probably plumbers LOL…)

John Footpenis – John Handcock.

Julianne Moores’ real name is Julie Smith. She chose Moore as there was another Julie Smith in Hollywood.
I was for a long time friends with Julianne Moore’s cousins.
I met Julianne’s parents at her uncle’s funeral in Manasquan,NJ.

Eric Bana is Eric Banadinovi?. He surname does not contain a “h” at the end, like many American-Croats. Croats whose surname does end in “vich” have changed their from “vic” to “vich”. This has mainly been restricted to Croats in U.S.A and Western Australia. Croats that have the added “h” usually indicates that they are Yugoslavs.

I think that Michael Keaton (real name Michael John Douglas) and Albert Brooks (Albert Lawrence Einstein) are also interesting examples.
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