List of pseudonyms

This article gives a list of pseudonyms, in various categories. Pseudonyms are similar to, but distinct from, secret identities.

See also: List of real-life characters

Artists, Sculptors, Architects

* Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)
* Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
* Giovanni Barbbaro (Arthur Dudley)
* A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron)
* Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen)

Nom de guerre, War code names

* Borelowski (Michał Grażyński)
* Bór ("Forest" - Tadeusz Komorowski)
* Dassault ("For assault" - Darius Paul Bloch)
* Grabica (name of mountain - Stefan Rowecki)
* Grot ("Arrowhead" - Stefan Rowecki)
* Grzegorz ("Gregory", a name - Tadeusz Pełczyński)
* Hubal (Henryk Dobrzański)
* Kalina ("Cranberry" - Stefan Rowecki)
* Korczak (surname or coat of arms name - Tadeusz Komorowski)
* J. Krzemień (Florian Marciniak)
* Lawina ("Avalanche" - Tadeusz Komorowski)
* Monter ("Assembler" - Antoni Chruściel)
* Niedźwiadek ("Bear cub" - Leopold Okulicki)
* Nil ("Nile river " - August Emil Fieldorf)
* Orsza (Stanisław Broniewski)
* Ponury ("Gloomy" - Jan Piwnik)
* Radosław (a name - Jan Mazurkiewicz)
* Rakoń (name of mountain - Stefan Rowecki)
* The Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen)
* Taras Chuprynka (Roman Shukhevych)
* Wilk ("Wolf" - Aleksander Krzyżanowski)
* Znicz ("Candle" - Tadeusz Komorowski)
* Zośka (Tadeusz Zawadzki)

Pen names

Note: List of Urdu language poets provides pen names for a range of Urdu poets.
* Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Annu)
* Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
* Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky)
* Acton Bell (Anne Brontë)
* Æ (George William Russell)
* Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier)
* Alan Smithee (name used by American film directors under certain circumstances)
* Alberto Moravia (Alberto Pincherle)
* Ann Landers (Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer)
* Alcofribas Nasier (François Rabelais)
* Alexander Barks (Charlie Christensen)
* Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault)
* Anne Rice (Howard Allen O'Brien)
* Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)
* Arkon Daraul (likely Idries Shah)
* Ashida Kim (Radford William Davis)
* Seiko Legru (Janwillem van de Wetering)
* Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
* Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Louis Sauser)
* Bob Hart (Al Trace|Albert J. Trace)
* Boris Akunin (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili)
* Boz (Charles Dickens)
* Branislav Nušić (Ben Akiba)
* Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm)
* Cherubina de Gabriak (Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva)
* Christopher Hunter (Radford William Davis)
* Clem Watts ([Albert J. Trace)
* Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
* Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë)
* Curzio Malaparte (Kurt Erich Suckert)
* Daniel Defoe (Daniel Foe)
* Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev)
* David Axton (Dean Koontz)
* David Michaels (Raymond Benson)
* Dazai Osamu (Shuji Tsushima)
* Dear Abby (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
* Douglas Spaulding ([Ray Bradbury])
* Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
* Edith Van Dyne (L. Frank Baum)
* Edogawa Rampo (Hirai Tarō)
* Edward Pygge (Ian Hamilton, Clive James, Russell Davies)
* Edwin Caskoden (Charles Major)
* Elia (Charles Lamb)
* Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz)
* Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)
* Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
* Elsa Triolet (Elsa Kagan)
* Emanuel Morgan (Witter Bynner)
* Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark)
* Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan)
* Françoise Sagan (Françoise Quoirez)
* George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
* George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
* George Sand (Amandine Dupin)
* Georges Courteline (Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux
* Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Lippincott)
* Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky)
* H.N. Turtletaub (Harry Turtledove)
* Hard Pan (Geraldine Bonner)
* Harold Robbins (Harold Rubin)
* Havank (Hans van der Kallen)
* Hergé (Georges Remi)
* Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus)
* Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg)
* Irwin Shaw (Irwin Shamforoff)
* Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz)
* J. K. Rowling (Joanne Rowling)
* James Tiptree, Jr (Alice Sheldon)
* Jay Livingston (Jacob Harold Levison)
* Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)
* Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert)
* Johann Joachim Sautscheck (Roman Turovsky-Savchuk)
* John Beynon (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
* John Christopher (Samuel Youd)
* John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
* Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski)
* Korney Chukovsky (Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov)
* Keno (Eric Killinger)
* Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
* Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
* Lorenzo da Ponte (Emmanuele Conegliano )
* Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches)
* Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
* Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
* Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian)
* Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart)
* Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
* Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
* Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins)
* Nancy Boyd (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
* Natsume Soseki (Natsume Kinnosuke)
* Nisa (Nicola Salerno), Italian lyricist
* Nicolas Bourbaki (a group of 20th-century mathematicians)
* Novalis (Friedrich Leopold)
* O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
* Ogdred Weary (Edward Gorey)
* Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
* Paul Annixter (Howard Allison Sturtzel)
* Paul Celan (Paul Antschel)
* Jean Ray (Jean Raymond Marie de Kremer)
* Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos)
* Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud)
* Piers Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)
* Phillip Guston (Phillip Goldstein)
* Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers)
* Q (Arthur Quiller-Couch)
* Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
* Richard Leander (Richard von Volkmann)
* Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
* Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis)
* Romain Gary (Romain Kacew)
* Rosemary Edghill (eluki bes shahar)
* Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger)
* Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
* Sapper (H. C. McNeile)
* Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin)
* Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble)
* Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis)
* Student (William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics)
* Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
* The Fredman (Karl Mikael Bellman)
* Thoinot Arbeau (Jehan Tabourot)
* TM Maple (Jim Burke)
* Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford)
* Vercors (Jean Bruller)
* Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian)
* Umberto Saba (Umberto Poli)
* Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
* Walter (Henry Spencer Ashbee)
* Willibald Alexis (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring)
* Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
* Yevegny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev)
* Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka)

Politicians

* Abel Djassi (Amílcar Cabral)
* Anacharsis Cloots (Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots)
* An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (Douglas Hyde)
* Anthony Garotinho (Anthony William Matheus de Oliveira)
* Bob Denard (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
* Che Guevara (Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna)
* Comandante Gonzalo (Abimael Guzmán)
* Germain (Ernest Mandel)
* Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej [Gheorghe Gheorghiu)
* Gracchus Babeuf (François-Noël Babeuf)
* Grigory Zinoviev (Ovsel Gershon Aronov Radomyslsky)
* Gus Hall (Arvo Kusta Halberg)
* Ho Chi Minh (Nguyễn Sinh Cung)
* Houari Boumedienne (Mohamed Ben Brahim Boukharouba)
* H. Rap Brown (Hubert Gerold Brown)
* Iñaki de Rentería (Ignacio Gracia Arregui)
* János Kádár (János Csermanek)
* Joseph Estrada (Joseph Marcelo Ejército)
* Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili)
* Josip Tito (Josip Broz)
* J. Posadas (Homero Cristali)
* J.R. Johnson (Cyril Lionel Robert James)
* Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão (José Alexandre Gusmão)
* Kim Il Sung (Kim Song Ju)
* Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
* La Pasionaria (Dolores Ibárruri)
* Léon José de Ramírez Reina (Léon Degrelle)
* Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)
* Lev Kamenev (Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld)
* Loulou (Enver Hoxha)
* Lula (Luiz Inácio da Silva)
* Martin Thembisile Hani (Chris Hani)
* Michel Pablo (Michel Raptis)
* Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu)
* Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
* Nahuel Moreno (Hugo Bressano)
* Pol Pot (Saloth Sar)
* Prachanda (Pushpa Kamal Dahal)
* Ronwaldo Reyes (Fernando Poe, Jr.)
* Saïd Moustapha Mahdjoub (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
* Sara Jane Olson (Kathleen Soliah)
* Tariq Aziz (Michael Yuhanna)
* Ted Grant (Isaac Blank)
* Tony Cliff (Ygael Gluckstein)
* Tristán Marof (Gustavo Navarro)
* Vyacheslav Molotov (Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Skryabin)
* Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)
* William Rabbit (Katay Don Sasorith)

Abu "name" is not a false name, but means father of "name", therefore should not be listed here.

Religion

* Acharya S (D. Murdock)
* Mata Amritanandamayi (Sudhamani)
* His Divine Grace Abhay Charana-Aravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De)
* Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
* Yusuf Islam (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, formerly known as Cat Stevens)
* Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaj (Nrsimha Chakravarti)
* Lord Mahavira (Vardhamana)
* Osho (Rajneesh Chandra Mohan)
* Sathya Sai Baba (Sathya Narayana Raju)
* Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)
* Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Dutta)

Stage names

Main article (with full list): Stage name
* Adrock (Adam Horowitz)
* Alan Dale (Aldo Sigismondi)
* Albert Brooks (Albert Lawrence Einstein)
* Alex Lifeson (Alexander Zivojinovich)
* Alice Cooper (Vincent Damon Furnier)
* Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook)
* Alla Nazimova (Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon)
* Alpha Blondy (Seydou Koné)
* André 3000 (André Benjamin)
* Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Italiano)
* Aphex Twin (Richard David James)
* Ashok Kumar (Kumudlal Kanjilal Ganguly)
* Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds)
* Barbara (Monique Serf)
* Beck (Bek David Campbell)
* Bela Lugosi (Be'la Ferenc Dezso Blasko)
* Betty Hutton (Elizabeth June Thornburg)
* Big Boi (Antwan André Patton )
* The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.)
* Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan Gough)
* Billy Idol (William Michael Albert Broad)
* Billy Ocean (Leslie Charles)
* Bobby Darin (Walden Robert Cassotto)
* Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman)
* Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope)
* Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins)
* Bono (Paul Hewson)
* Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt)
* Buddy Clark (Samuel Goldberg)
* Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
* Burning Spear (Winston Rodney)
* Burt Holiday (Bonaldo Bonaldi)
* Cantinflas (Mario Moreno)
* Capucine (Germaine Lefebvre)
* Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters)
* Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach)
* Cat Stevens (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, later Yusuf Islam)
* Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Dorléac)
* Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez)
* Charlton Heston (John Charles Carter)
* Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian)
* Chespirito (Roberto Gómez Bolanos)
* Cilla Black (Priscilla White)
* Conway Twitty (Harold Jenkins)
* Tré Cool (Frank Edwin Wright III)
* Coolio (Artis Ivey, Jr.)
* Cozy Powell (Colin Flooks)
* Damia (Marie-Louise Damien)
* D'Angelo (Michael Archer, Sr.)
* Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminski)
* David Bowie (David Robert Jones)
* David Copperfield (David Seth Kotkin)
* David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian)
* Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti)
* Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo)
* Del Shannon (Charles Weedon Westover)
* Dharmendra (Dharam Singh Deol)
* Diane Keaton (Diane Hall)
* Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan)
* Dirk Bogarde (Derek van den Bogaerde)
* Donna Summer (LaDonna Andrea Gaines)
* Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff)
* Duane Allman (Howard Duange Allman)
* Dusty Springfield (Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien)
* The Edge (David Evans)
* Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight)
* Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus)
* Eminem (Marshall Mathers III)
* Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold Dorsey)
* Eric Clapton (Eric Clapp)
* Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholemew)
* Ernest Borgnine (Ermes Effron Borgnino)
* Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman)
* Fatboy Slim (Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook)
* Flea (Michael Balzary)
* Frankie Valli (Francis Castelluccio)
* Frank Zappa (Francis Zappa)
* Franz Welser-Möst (Franz Möst)
* Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz)
* Fredric March (Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel)
* Freddie Mercury (Faroukh Bulsara)
* Gale Storm (Josephine Owaissa Cottle)
* Garry Moore (Thomas Garrison Morfit)
* Gary Glitter (Paul Francis Gadd)
* Geddy Lee (Gary Lee Weinrib)
* Gene Simmons (Chaim Witz)
* Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman)
* Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman)
* Georgious (Georges Guibourg)
* Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath)
* Gogi Grant (Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg)
* Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson)
* Gribouille (Marie-France Gaîté)
* Groucho Marx (Julius Henry Marx)
* Guitar Slim (Guitar Slim|Eddie Jones)
* Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss)
* Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)
* Heino (Heinz Georg Kramm)
* Howlin' Wolf (Chester Arthur Burnett)
* Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson)
* Ice T (Tracy Morrow)
* Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.)
* Jaël (Rahel Krebs)
* Jamie Foxx (Eric Bishop)
* Janet Leigh (Jeanette Helen Morrison)
* Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer)
* Jem (Jemma Grifftis)
* Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpentier)
* Jean-Claude Van Damme (Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg)
* Jennifer Jones (Phyllis Lee Isley)
* Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
* Jacques Lu Cont (Stuart Price)
* Jill Corey (Norma Jean Speranza)
* J.J. Cale (Johnny Cale)
* Joan Crawford (Lucille Fay LeSueur)
* Joan Fontaine (Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland)
* John Ford (Sean Aloysius O'Fearna)
* John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.)
* John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison)
* Johnny Desmond (Giovanni Alfredo De Simone)
* Johnny Rotten (John Joseph Lydon)
* Jon Stewart (Jonathon Leibowitz)
* Joni James (Joan Carmella Babbo|Joan (or Giovanna) Carmella Babbo)
* Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson)
* José José (José Sosa)
* Judy Garland (Frances Gumm)
* Judy Holliday (Judith Tuvim)
* Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch Demsky)
* Kishore Kumar (Abhas Ganguly)
* Kitty Kallen (Genevieve Agostinello)
* Lale Andersen (Liese-Lotte Helene Berta Bunnenberg)
* Lauren Bacall (Betty Joan Perske)
* Les Paul (Lester Polfuss)
* Lionel Barrymore (Lionel Herbert Blythe)
* Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman)
* LL Cool J (James Todd Smith)
* Louis Armstrong (Daniel Louis Armstrong)
* Lulu (singer) (Marie Lawrie)
* Mariah Carey (Maria Nuñez)
* Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner)
* Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker)
* Marion Hutton (Marion Thornburg)
* Marni Nixon (Marni McEathron)
* Martin Sheen ([Ramón Estévez)
* Mary Astor (Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke)
* Mary Ford (Colleen Summers)
* Mary Pickford (Gladys Smith)
* MCA (Adam Yauch)
* Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday)
* Meena Kumari (Mahjabeen Bano)
* Meg Ryan (Margaret Mary Emily Ann Hyra)
* Mel Brooks (Melvin Kaminsky)
* Michael Keaton (Michael John Douglas)
* Michael Caine (Maurice Micklewhite)
* Mike D (Mike Diamond)
* Mike Dirnt (Michael Pritchard)
* Moby (Richard Melville Hall)
* Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield)
* Musidora (Jeanne Roques)
* Natalie Portman (Natalie Hershlag)
* Natalie Wood (Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko)
* Nico (Christa Päffgen)
* Nina Simone (Eunice Kathleen Waymon)
* Ozzy Osbourne (John Osbourne)
* Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler)
* Paul McCartney (James Paul McCartney)
* Paul Muni (Meshilem Meier Weisenfreud)
* Paul Stanley (Stanley Harvey Eisen)
* Pink (Alecia Moore)
* Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson)
* Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland Byrd)
* Queen Latifah (Dana Owens)
* Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson)
* Richard Clapton (Terry Gonk)
* Rikki (Nakano Ritsuki)
* Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
* Ritchie Valens (Ricardo Valenzuela)
* Robert Gant (Robert Gonzalez)
* The Rock (Dwayne Douglas Johnson)
* Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer Jr.)
* Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov)
* Ronnie Gaylord (Ronald L. Fredianelli)
* Ronnie James Dio (Ronald Padavona)
* Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich)
* Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow (David Edward Sutch)
* Seal (Sealhenry Samuel)
* Serge Gainsbourg (Lucien Ginzburg)
* Shania Twain (Eileen Regina Edwards, later Eileen Regina Twain)
* Shirley Strachan (Graeme Strachan)
* Sid Vicious (John Simon Ritche; Later John Beverly)
* Simone Signoret (Simone Kaminker)
* Slash (Saul Hudson)
* Slim Harpo (James Moore)
* Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
* Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone)
* Stanley Donwood (Dan Rickwood)
* Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris)
* Stewart Granger (Stewart Granger|James Stewart)
* Sting (Gordon Sumner)
* Sugar (Stephanie Beard)
* Susan Hayward (Edythe Marrenner)
* Susan Sarandon (Susan Abigail Tomalin)
* T-Bone Walker (Aaron Thibeaux Walker)
* Tchock, Tchocky, Dr Tchock, The White Chocolate Farm (Thom Yorke)
* The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace)
* Timea Margot (Tímea Vágvölgyi)
* Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock)
* Tiny Tim (Herbert Buckingham Khaury)
* Tom Cruise (Thomas Cruise Mapother IV)
* Toni Arden (Antoinette Ardizzone)
* Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
* Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz)
* Tony Martin (Alvin Morris)
* Tori Amos (Myra Ellen Amos)
* Totò (Antonio de Curtis Gagliardi Griffo Focas Comneno)
* Tré Cool (Frank Edwin Wright III)
* Twiggy (Leslie Hornby)
* Vangelis (Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou)
* Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle)
* Vic Reeves (Jim Moir)
* Victor Borge (Borge Rosenbaum)
* Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley)
* William Holden (William Franklin Beedle Jr.)
* Wilhelm Fink (Billie Joe Armstrong)
* Willy DeVille [William Borsay)
* Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz)
* Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
* Ziggy Marley (David Nesta Marley)

Sportspeople

*Abédi Pelé (Abédi Ayew)
*Akebono Taro (Chad Haaheo Rowan)
*Al Bummy Davis (Abraham Davidoff)
*Bebeto (José Roberto Gama de Oliveira)
*Cafú (Marcos Evangelista de Moraes)
*Careca (Antonio de Oliveira Filho)
*Deco (Anderson Luiz de Sousa)
*Dick Tiger (Richard Ihetu)
*Eduardo Golding (David Edward Michael Gordon Copleston)
*Garrincha (Manuel Francisco dos Santos)
*Garry Kasparov (Gari Weinstein)
*Raymond Kopa (Raymond Kopaszewski)
*He hate me (Rod Smart)
*Henri Cornet (Henri Jaudry)
*Joe Louis (Joseph Louis Barrow)
*Kaká (Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite)
*Khaosai Galaxy (Sura Saenkham)
*Kid McCoy (Norman Selby)
*Konishiki Yasokichi (Salevaa Atisanoe)
*Lucien Petit-Breton (Lucien Mazan)
*Michel (José Miguel González Martín)
*Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.)
*Musashimaru Koyo (Fiamalu Penitani)
*Nenê (Maybyner Rodney Hilario; this is now his legal name)
*Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
*Rivaldo (Vitor Borba Ferreira)
*Rocky Marciano (Rocco Francis Marchegiano)
*Ronaldinho (Ronaldo de Assis Moreira)
*Stanley Ketchel (Stanislaus Kiecal)
*Sugar Ray Robinson (Walker Smith Jr.)
*Takanohana Koji (Koji Hanada)
*Tony Zale (Anthony Florian Zaleski)
*Wakanohana Masaru (Masaru Hanada)
*Zico (Arthur Antunes Coimbra)

Other

* Aramis (Chevalier d'Herblay)
* Art Vandelay (George Costanza)
* Athos (Le Comte de La Fère)
* Bernard Shakey (Neil Young)
* Colonel Parker (Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk)
* Emmanuel Goldstein (Eric Corley)
* Manoj (Mayank)
* Maxwell Nerdstrom Administrator of the Dustin Diamond Love Forum
* Porthos (Monsieur du Vallon)
* Viktor Suvorov (Vladimir Rezun)

External links

*FamousFolk - An extensive list of pseudonyms

See also:
* Literary initials