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'''Authors''' have their own equivalent of this, the [[Pen Name]], which is treated as a separate trope. See also [[Nom De Guerre]].
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== [[Actors]] ==
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* Don Knotts' full name was Jesse Donald Knotts.
* As revealed in ''Ray'', Ray Charles was born Ray Charles Robinson, but dropped his surname due to the famous boxer "Sugar" Ray Robinson.
* [[Tom
* Nicolas Coppola didn't want to ride on [[Francis Ford Coppola|his director uncle]]'s fame, so he took the last name of [[Superhero]] [[Luke Cage]] to become [[Nicolas Cage]].
** Later [[Professional Wrestling|Jason Reso]] would combine this surname with Christian Slater's first name to become [[Christian|Christian Cage.]]
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* Laurence Tureaud’s birth name didn’t really suit a tough guy, so he became Mr. T.
== [[Fiction]]al Examples ==
* The classic fictional example comes from the film ''A Star Is Born'', where Esther Blodgett becomes Vicki Lester.
* Henry Jones, Jr. only goes by [[Indiana Jones]], after the family dog. In reality, his nickname actually came from [[George Lucas]]' dog.
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* In the ''[[Friends]]'' episode "The One with the Fake Monica", Joey Tribbiani wants to change his name to something less ethnic. Chandler jokingly suggests [[Joseph Stalin]]; Joey, being [[The Ditz]], doesn't know how infamous this name is, and tries to use it.
* Delysia Lafosse from ''[[Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day]]'', a glamourous American club singer and aspiring actress, whose real name is Sarah Grubb, of the Pittsburg Grubbs.
* Victor Tugelbend and Theda "Ginger" Withel, better known to the [[Discworld]]'s [[
** Also from the [[Discworld]]
* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' gives us Maximillian Galactica, magician extraordinare!... whose real name is Billy Bob Johns. He even has the accent to go with it when he gets nervous. (In Japan, his real name is Kohei Yamada; in both cases, the name intentionally screams "country boy".)
* In [[Watchmen]] Sally Jupiter, the first Silk Spectre, changed her name from Juspeczyk so people wouldn't know she was Polish.
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Most [[Professional Wrestling|Pro Wrestlers]] operate under a stage name. Some are easy to pick out, while others are subtle.
** [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] did a rather fun storyline on this, with ''Tough Enough'' season 3 winner John Hennigan being completely unable to decide on a stage name, and thus changing his name each and every week. He went through Johnny Blaze, Johnny Spade, Johnny Onyx, and Johnny Superstar before finally settling on Johnny Nitro—which was intended to be a kissass maneuver towards Eric Bischoff, the former architect of ''[[WCW]] Monday Nitro'' and then-current general manager of the Raw brand. Now, in his new gimmick as the second coming of Jim Morrison (lead singer of the Doors, who Hennigan looks remarkably like), he's taken the name John Morrison.
** "Hulk Hogan" was born Terrence Eugene Bollea. (What, not intimidating enough...?)
*** He started out wrestling as Terry Boulder, than added "Hulk" as a nickname to that, before dropping the first name and changing the last name to Hogan.
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** Ditto for another wrestler famously spiraling out of control, Chyna (born Joanie Marie Laurer.)
** Ask a non-[[Smark]] if they've ever heard of James Janos. More likely than not you'll get a "huh?" or somesuch in reply. Until you mention that he's more famous as Jesse Ventura, a name he adopted to shield his family from [[Fan Dumb|nutcase fans]].
** Brian Lawler went by Brian Christopher when he entered wrestling, to distance himself from his famous father, Memphis wrestling legend and current [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler. It didn't work very well for a number of reasons (not the least of which is an extremely strong family resemblance), and Brian Christopher's lineage soon became the single worst-kept secret in wrestling history (and keep in mind, this is the "sport" that spent the better part of a century badly hiding the fact that it was all a show).
** Virgil Riley Runnels? Not a wrestling name. Dusty Rhodes? Better.
*** His sons have continued the tradition. Dustin Runnels, better known as "Goldust", wrestled as "Dustin Rhodes" in the early part of his career, and Cody Runnels also uses the "Rhodes" surname.
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*** Stage name adopted by David Hayter for the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' dub, "Sean Barker", comes from the character he played in the live-action ''[[Guyver]]'' movie.
* A few other voice actors with multiple stage names:
** Steven Jay Blum (who has performed under the names Daniel Andrews, Roger Canfield, Richard Cardona, Steven Jay, David Lucas and Andrew Watto)
** Melissa Charles (Tina Dixon, Melissa Fahn and Heather Lee Joelson).
** Dorothy Elias-Fahn (Dorothy Elias, Dorothy Fahn, Midge Mayes, Dorothy Melendez, Dorothy Melendrez, Jacky Morris and Annie Pastrano).
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** Both [[Dan Green]] and [[Wayne Grayson]] appear in ''[[Slayers|SlayersNEXT]]'' (among other anime) as James Snider and Vinnie Penna, respectively.
*** This is a common practice for SAG members, because most voice work is actually non-SAG... but they still want paychecks.
* It's more-or-less standard in the dubs of [[Hentai]] anime for ''everyone'' to use an assumed name—usually the funniest [[
** The ghost of the school librarian in ''[[Ghost Hunter]]'' is voiced by an ''actual'' pornstar using a pseudonym.
* In ''Sonic and the Secret Rings'', ''Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl'', [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'s voice actor, Jason Anthony Griffith, used "Adam Caroleson", even though his real name is used in every other game. The dubs of ''[[Sonic X]]'', ''[[One Piece]]'' and ''[[Pokémon]]'' also credit him as "J. Griff".
* In [[Douglas Adams]]'s video game ''Starship Titanic'', John Cleese voiced the "Mega Scuttler" (a bomb) under the name "Kim Bread". The role mostly consisted of counting down from 1000 to zero. As a meta addendum, John's family name was actually "Cheese" - his father changed it when he joined the army, 25 years before John was born.
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** Stanley Harvey Eisen = Paul Stanley. George Peter John Criscuola = Peter Criss.Also: Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley.
* In the world of music, David Jones adopted the name [[David Bowie]] to distinguish himself from Davy Jones of [[The Monkees]].
** And in an interesting reversal, his son "Zowie Bowie" reverted to his ''real'' name when he entered the film industry; as Duncan Jones, he's become a successful commercial director and recently{{when}} released his first feature film.
* [[Elton John]] is something of an exception, as he legally changed his name to Elton John before he became famous.
** Parodied on an episode of ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'' where a man named Reg Dwight (Elton John's birth name) is hired to appear at the village fair in the mistaken belief that he's the real Elton John.
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* [[Avenged Sevenfold]] is a very notable example.
** M. Shadows= Matthew Charles Sanders, Zacky Vengeance= Zachary James Baker, The Reverend Tholomew Plague(The Rev)= James Owen Sullivan, Synyster Gates= Brian Elwin Haner Jr, Jonny Christ= Jonathan Lewis Seward.
* Steven Georgiou went by the stage name Cat Stevens, apparently inspired by a girlfriend telling him he had eyes like a cat. After converting to Islam he legally changed his name to Yusuf Islam ("Yusuf" being the Arabic form of "Joseph", a name he'd always liked) -- he has recently{{when}} begun recording music under the single name "Yusuf", in his words "because 'Islam' doesn't have to be sloganised".
* The difficulty of howling Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck through 45000 watts of Marshall-amps gave us Yngwie Malmsteen.
* [[Running Wild (band)|Running Wild]]: Rolf Kasparek a.k.a. Rock'N'Rolf.
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* Like Elton John and Tori Amos, Edward Louis Severson III became [[Pearl Jam|Eddie Vedder]] before he got famous (Vedder is his mother's maiden name).
* [[Guns N' Roses]]: William Rose Bailey = W. Axl Rose, Saul Hudson = Slash, Michael Andrew "Duff" [[Mc Kagan]], Jeffrey Dean Isbell = Izzy Stradlin', Darren Arthur "Dizzy" Reed. (in [[Aerith and Bob]] style, the drummers and Stradlin's replacement Gilby Clarke went at most with a contraction on their name) The only ones of the current band are Axl, Dizzy, Ronald Jay Blumenthal = Ron Thal and Daren Jay "DJ" Ashba.
* Onika Tanya Maraj became [[Nicki Minaj]] when she pursued her musical career.
* Daryl Frank Dragon, dubbed "Captain Keyboard" when he played with the [[Beach Boys]], and now better known as The Captain - one half of
[[The Captain and Tenille|the well-known duo]] with (ex-)wife Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille.
* Mario Lanza was born Alfred Arnold Cocozza. He adopted a masculine form of ''Maria'' Lanza, his mother's maiden name.
* Canadian singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell was born Roberta Joan Anderson.
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