Real Names of Famous People

A list of the real names of famous and infamous people including writers, boxers, presidents and leaders.

OTHER PEOPLE

Celebrated Names (and Their Real Names)

Arden, Elizabeth (Florence N. Graham)

Billy the Kid (Henry McCarty)

Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Burke)

Carroll, Lewis (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)

Conrad, Joseph (Teodor J. K. Korzeniowski)

Diamond, "Legs" (John T. Nolan)

Father Divine (George Baker)

Ford, Gerald R. (Leslie L. King, Jr.)

France, Anatole (Anatole Thibault)

Gorki, Maxim (A. Max Peshkov)

Graziano, Rocky (Tom Barbelo)

Henry, O. (William Sidney Porter)

Hitler, Adolf (Adolf Schicklgruber)

Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss)

Lenin, Nikolai (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)

Loti, Pierre (Julien Viaud)

Marciano, Rocky (Rocco Marchegiano)

Maurois, Andre (Emile Herzog)

McCoy, Kid (Norman Selby)

Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)

Orwell, George (Eric Arthur Blair)

Robinson, Sugar Ray (Walker Smith)

Rohmer, Sax (Arthur S. Ward)

Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)

Schultz, Dutch (Arthur Flegenheimer)

Stalin, Joseph (Iosif V. Dzhugashvili)

Stendahl (Marie Henri Beyle)

Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

Trotsky, Leon (Lev D. Bronstein)

Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)

Walcott, Jersey Joe (Arnold Raymond Cream)

West, Rebecca (Cecily Isabel Fairfield)