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Posted: 4 years, 4 months 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: 4 years, 4 months ago at Jan 11 22:56

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

Posted: 4 years, 4 months 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: 4 years, 4 months ago at Jan 17 17:07

Samuel Wilder

Posted: 4 years, 1 month 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: 3 years, 10 months ago at Jun 30 17:50

Norma Jean Mortensen ;)

Posted: 3 years, 10 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? Personally I think you should 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.

Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago at Dec 11 11:08

Whoopi Goldberg. Who the hell would voluntarily pick Whoopi as her own first name? I always figured she had a kooky parent to blame.

Posted: 2 years, 11 months ago at Jun 5 19:03

I should have gone in show biz . thanks for such a comprehensive list

Posted: 2 years, 10 months ago at Jul 11 17:51

How About Robert Zimmerman ........Bob Dylan?

Posted: 2 years, 9 months ago at Aug 4 12:53

Sofia Villani Scicolone

Posted: 2 years, 5 months ago at Dec 15 4:50

Finally updated this list with suggestions! Also finally added Dido and Rip Torn.

I may or may not add Madonna at some later point, but I'm not going to justify anything I do or do not add. As I stated, this is just a list of people and their name changes that I find interesting, so its totally up to my whims and fancies what I do or don't add. Some names bore me, others I find amusing, so people just have to deal with that. :P

Posted: 2 years, 3 months ago at Feb 13 10:51

Paul Wesley -Paweł Tomasz Wasilewsk

Posted: 2 years ago at May 7 16:52

some real names i cant even pronounce, thank god they changed them:)

Posted: 1 year, 10 months ago at Jul 12 12:37

Cary Grant - Archibald (Archie) Alexander Leach

Posted: 1 year, 9 months ago at Aug 26 7:10

Why?... Why?

Posted: 1 year, 6 months ago at Nov 15 0:11

Tony Curtis - Bernie Schwartz

Danny Kaye - David Daniel Kaminsky

John Wayne - Born Marion Robert Morrison, but his middle name was soon changed from Robert to Mitchell when his parents decided to name their next son Robert.

David Bowie changed his name to avoid being confused with Davey Jones of the Monkees, who were popular at that time.

Posted: 1 year, 3 months ago at Feb 21 6:54

Hahaha Jennifer Aniston is soooo Greek. I love it.

Posted: 1 year, 2 months ago at Mar 22 19:53

Janet Leigh, born Jeanette Helen Morrison
Vera Miles, born Vera June Ralston

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Posted: 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Sep 13 11:23

Lucy Lawless didn't change her name. She married a man who's last name was "Lawless."

Posted: 3 weeks, 5 days ago at Apr 28 15:50

Walt Disney?