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A '''Pen Name''' (also known as a pseudonym) is a made-up name a writer or artist (in the case of performers, this is called a [[Stage Names|Stage Name]]) produces works under for whatever reason. ([[Rule of Cool]], mostly, or in the case of famous actors / people, it's also a way to find out whether or not they'd be succesful even without their star power attached to it.)
Supertrope of [[Moustache De Plume]] and [[Same Face, Different Name]], so please don't repeat those examples here.
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* Apollo C. Vermouth ([[Paul McCartney]])
* Andrew Clements (Hanne Turk)
* [[The Wotch|Anne Onymous]] (not yet revealed)
* B. Traven (not yet revealed, assumed to have been Ret Marut or Otto Feige)
* [[Bill Bailey]] (Mark Bailey; he named himself after the wartime song "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey")
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* George Orwell (Eric Blair)
* Gerald Wiley (Ronnie Barker)
* Gryphon of [[Eyrie Productions, Unlimited]] (Ben Hutchins; "Gryphon" was his login on the WPI computer system, a variation on a favorite RPG character named "Griffon", which spelling was already in use there)
* Hergé (Georges Remi)
* [[Isaac Asimov]] is actually an [[Inverted Trope|inversion]]. Many assumed it was an exotic pen name for a sci-fi author, but it was his actual name.
* [[Jack Kirby]] (Jacob Kurtzberg)
* Jack Yeovil ([[Kim Newman]])
* Jean Paul (Jean Paul Friedrich Richter)
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* John Twelve Hawks (as of yet unknown)
* [[Joseph Conrad]] (Józef Teodor Nalecz Konrad Korzeniowski)
* [[Kenny Everett]] (Maurice Cole)
* Kim Harrison (Dawn Cook)
* [[A Series of Unfortunate Events|Lemony Snicket]] (Daniel Handler)
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* Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin)
* [[Stendhal]] (Henri Beyle)
* S. W.
* Vic Reeves (Jim Moir)
* [[Voltaire (
* Possibly [[William Shakespeare]], according to several (unproven) theories.
* Wolfman Jack (Bob Smith)
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* Ampe R. Sand / Dave Ahl Jr. / Zarf (Andrew Plotkin)
* Anne Rice, Anne Rampling, A.N. Roquelaure (Howard Allen O'Brien) <ref>No transgendering involved - she was just ''named after her father'' (her mother thought it was a nice idea). Nobody has called her "Howard" since her first day at school, when she decided to call herself "Anne". BTW, she could claim the surname "Rice" from her late husband Stanley Rice.</ref>
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* Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, Simon York ([[Robert A. Heinlein]])
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* [[Ellery Queen]] (Daniel Nathan
* [[Warrior Cats|Erin Hunter]] (Victoria Holmes, Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Tui Sutherland, and Gillian Philip)
* Grant Naylor (Rob Grant and Doug Naylor)
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* Lawrence O'Donnell, C. H. Liddell, Lewis Padgett ([[Henry Kuttner]] and [[C. L. Moore]])
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* Tim McGee in ''[[NCIS]]'' writes thrillers under the pen name "Thom E. Gemcity," which is of course an anagram of his real name.▼
=== Anime and Manga ===
* Strong Bad from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' once claimed that he writes an advice column for a girls' magazine under the "pseudoname" Cara Carabowditbowdit.▼
* [[Monster (manga)|Monster]]: Franz Bonaparta, Klaus Poppe, Emil Sebe, and Jakub Farobek. All one person.
* [[Mahou Sensei Negima]]: Haruna Saotome (no relation to that other [[Ranma ½|Saotome]]) uses the moniker "Paru".
* ''The X-Files''--Fox Mulder wrote an ''[[Omni]]'' article under the name "M.F. Luder."▼
▲* [[Mahou Sensei Negima]]: Haruna Saotome (no relation to that other [[Ranma ½|Saotome]]) uses the moniker "Paru".
* Kenji Harima from ''[[School Rumble]]'' draws manga under the pen name Harima Hario.
=== Live-Action TV ===
▲* Tim McGee in ''[[NCIS]]'' writes thrillers under the pen name "Thom E. Gemcity," which is of course an anagram of his real name.
=== Web Original ===
▲* Strong Bad from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' once claimed that he writes an advice column for a girls' magazine under the "pseudoname" Cara Carabowditbowdit.
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