A Change of Names

1. Woody Allen

2. Jennifer Aniston

3. Fred Astaire

4. Mary Astor

5. Cilla Black

6. Bono

7. David Bowie

8. Mel Brooks

9. Michael Caine

10. Chevy Chase

11. Patsy Cline

12. Alice Cooper

13. Elvis Costello

14. Rodney Dangerfield

15. Yvonne De Carlo

16. Morgan Fairchild

17. Mia Farrow

18. Peter Finch

19. Edward Furlong

20. Judy Garland

21. Mitzi Gaynor

22. Whoopi Goldberg

23. Hulk Hogan

24. Billie Holiday

25. Buddy Holly

26. Elton John

27. Johnny Knoxville

28. Lucy Lawless

29. Anna Lee

30. Spike Lee

31. Stan Lee

32. Lemmy

33. Peter Lorre

34. Lulu

35. Marilyn Manson

36. Freddie Mercury

37. Meat Loaf

38. Demi Moore

39. Patsy Palmer

40. Natalie Portman

41. Freddie Prinze

42. Suzi Quatro

43. Sally Rand

44. Vic Reeves

45. Cliff Richard

46. Joan Rivers

47. W. Axl Rose

48. Meg Ryan

49. Winona Ryder

50. Shakira

Posted : 10 months, 2 weeks ago at Jan 5 7:10

Even though I risk sounding anti-Semitic in this comment, it has always seemed to me the jewish actors with the most jewish-sounding names are usually the ones changing their professional names. Gene Wilder is a perfect example.

Posted : 10 months, 1 week ago at Jan 11 22:56

Where's Madonna? She's been in films.

Posted : 10 months, 1 week ago at Jan 12 11:59

Madonna is her name, just omitting her middle and last name(s), which I didn't think was very interesting, tbh.

Posted : 10 months, 1 week ago at Jan 17 17:07

Kirk Douglas -> Issur Danielovitch Demsky
Billy Wilder -> Samuel Wilder

Posted : 7 months, 1 week ago at Apr 15 17:51

Judy Garland's real last name was Gumm. not Cumm.
and some of these are just abbreviations of their real names and/or names they got from previous marriages that they were in when they got married. if you're not going to include Madonna, then you should probably take down Suzi Quatro, Mia Farrow, and a few other people.

Posted : 4 months, 3 weeks ago at Jun 30 17:50

There's also Marilyn Monroe -> Norma Jean Mortensen ;)

Posted : 4 months ago at Jul 18 20:15

"Bono Vox" the guy calls himself 'good voice', some ego...
"Axl Rose", 'let's make an anagram for oral sex'
And who would like to be named "Whoopi"?
I really don't understand some names some people take xD
Mia Farrow is not a name change - Mia is short for Maria, and Farrow was already her last name. And there are other similar cases on the list...
Hum... Shakira changed her name to Shakira? I think you should really take her off the list.
Well some singers on there are just..band names...
Here's one to add: Christopher Walken - birth name Ronald Walken.