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Did you know that Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany and Alan Arkin's is Wolf?
Why would anyone change their name to Englebert Humperdink?
Do you think Cary Grant would have become a movie icon if we knew him as Archie Leach?

It's a long-standing tradition for aspiring actors and actresses, models, musicians and other star-seekers to change their names to better suit their public profile.

Here's a comprehensive list of celebrities and their manipulated monikers.

50 Cent = Curtis Jackson

Adam Ant = Stuart Leslie Goddard
Adam West = William West Anderson
Alan Alda = Allphonso D'Abruzzo Jr
Alan Arkin = Alan Wolf Arkin
Alan Thicke = Alan Willis Jeffrey
Albert Brooks = Albert Einstein
Alice Cooper = Vincent Damon Furnier
Alicia Keys = Alicia Augello Cook
Andrew Dice Clay = Andrew Clay Silverstein
Angie Dickinson = Angeline Brown
Anna Nicole Smith = VIckIe Lynn Hogan
Anne Bancroft = Anna Maria Louisa Italiano
Ashley Judd = Ashley Tyler Ciminella
Asia Carrera = Jessica Andrea Steinhauser
Audrey Hepburn = Audrey Kathleen Ruston

Barbara Bach = Barbara Goldbach
Barbara Eden = Barbara Jean Moorhead
Barbara Hershey = Barbara Herzstein
Barbara Stanwyck = Ruby Stevens
Barry Manilow = Barry Alan Pincus
Bela Lugosi = Bela Ferenc Dezso Blask?
Ben Kingsley = Krishna Banji
Bernadette Peters = Bernadette lazzara
Bernie Mac = Bernard Jeffery McCullough
Billie Holliday = Eleanora Fagan
Billy Idol = William Michael Albert Broad
Bo Derek = Mary Cathleen Collins
Bo Diddley = Otha Ellas Bates
Bob Dylan = Robert Allen Zimmerman
Bono = Paul David Hewson
Boy George = George Ala O'Dowd
Brad Garrett = Brad H Gerstenfeld
Brian Keith = Robert Keith Richey Jr
Brigitte Bardot = Camille Javal
Bruno Kirby = Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Jr
Buck Henry = Buck Henry Zuckerman
Burt Ward = Burt Gervis

Captain Kangaroo = Robert Keeshan
Carmen Electra = Tara Leigh Patrick
Carmen Miranda = Maria do Carmo Miranda Da Cunha
Carrot Top = Scott Thompson
Cary Grant = Archibald Alexander Leach
Ch Khan = Yvette Marie Stevens
Charlton Heston = John Charles Carter
Charo = Maria Rosario Martinez Molina Baeza
Cher = Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre
Cheryl Ladd = Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor
Chingy = Howard Bailey, Jr
Christian Slater = Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins
Colonel Tom Parker = Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk
Coolio = Artis Leon Ivey Jr
Courtney Love = Love Michelle Harrison

David Bowie = David Robert Hayward-Jones
David Copperfield = David Seth Kotkin
David Crosby = David Van Cortlandt
Dean Cain = Dean Tan

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