Bruce Lee's real name is Bruce Lee. He was born in San Francisco and that is what's on his birth certificate. Lee Jun-fan was used in Hong Kong when his family went back after he was born.
Michael Landon = Eugene Orowitz Sigourney Weaver = Susan Alexandra Weaver David Bowie = David Robert Jones Jackson D. Kelley = DeForest Kelley Ulysses S. Grant = Hiram Ulysses Grant 😎👍
@SL92018 What X? If you mean the S, it was just a random letter Grant chose. Someone who was writing his biography thought that it stood for Simpson, his mother's maiden name. Since the President didn't want his initials to read as H.U.G., he never bothered to correct him. 🇺🇲😎👍
"To many Diddy friends"? So, you're saying that you dedicate this "to many Diddy friends"? Why would you dedicate this "to many Diddy friends"? That's TOO much! (English must not be your Native language)
Same here. I think I recognize maybe 25%. Ten years ago I was beach combing and met a woman and we talked for the three hours it took to hike the three miles of beach and back and when we approached the parking lot a bunch of people ran over to her, many in suits with ear pieces looking all secret service like and others it seems were her staff. I asked if she was famous and she said "you mean all this time you had no idea who I am?" I said "not a clue, I don't get out much and don't watch TV." She said "bless you" and planted a big kiss on my mouth and her security and staff gasped and she left with them and I still had no idea who she was except she had told me her first name. So after an exhaustive three weeks googling celebrities with her name I finally found out she was an actress with several blockbuster hits under her belt and some major awards. I had NEVER heard of her and had she at first told me her full name and profession I still wouldn't have had a clue. And no I'm not going to name her here though if you are like me you might not have heard of her anyways. Also I have met five people in this video, one I see regularly and is fairly well known. I dated the daughter of one of these people and didn't know her parents were famous even after I sat down to Christmas dinner with them. Her mom called me "adorable" for not having any idea who they were. And one of these people in this vide is currently dating my niece who is an actress though she has not had any significant roles yet. My niece has done some commercials and has had only two speaking rolls, one on a TV series and one in a movie but neither was more than five lines.
Where does it say that they are American? Quite a few on there are British. The title also states that they are actors and clearly most of them aren't.
@@hedgemist691 All of the photos carry a flag indicating the person’s nationality. The photo of Sting carries the Stars & Stripes. The last time I checked that is the national flag of the USA. Not the United Kingdom. Gordon Sumner is British.
A lot of these people use their real names in a shorter form. Like Christopher Rober Evans goes by as Chris Evans. I’d argue he uses his real name. Some, like Michael Keaton had to change his name because of Michael Douglas. I think it was the same for Emma Stone. She couldn’t get her SAG card using her real name, Emily Stone. When I see the real names of some of them I get why they changed them for something much easier to remember. And to be fair, a russian sounding name in the US in the 50’s wouldn’t get you hired.
Interesting, but the late great Kirk Douglas who lived to be 103 years old had the surname of Danielovitch and his ancestors were from Belarus, a small country west of Russia not far from the Ukraine and was of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry! That's people with blonde or red hair and blue eyes, most likely of Viking heritage since Kiev was founded by Vikings and they unearthed a Viking longship beneath that city several decades ago. They probably sailed down the Volga River through Russia into Ukraine where my husband's family was from, his paternal grandmother was born in Kiev and they both had red hair! Many Vikings invaded the UK, Scotland and England as well as northern France, Normandy, the land of the "Norseman" and Vikings also founded Dublin, Ireland. Leif Erikson, son of Eric, the Red, both Viking explorers discovered North America around New Foundland 500 years before Christopher Columbus and historians think they might have gotten as far south as Boston, MA. Today there's a statue of Leif Erikson in a park in Boston to honor him.
@@pedjatrninic Wrong! According to traditional Western scholars, the Vikings were Scandinavian traders and adventurers who were invited to bring order to the chaotic lands of eastern Europe. The semilegendary Viking leader Oleg is considered the founder of the Kievan Rus state! So suck it up!! Reality bites...hard!
@@brendadrew834 опять чушь. Киев был отбит у хазар Олегом, а не основан. Да и "викинги" это скорее всего славяне с Балтийского побережья, нынешних Польши и ФРГ, где до сих пор сохранилась славянская топонимика, которая хорошо перекрывает летописные истории. Однако Олег не один брал киев, а с книжеским войском, которое преимущественно состояло из северных славян, современных русских
@@brendadrew834кстати государства под названием "киевская Русь" никогда не существовало. Оно называлось просто Русь. Или Русская земля. Даже в византийских источниках писали о Русь, а не о "киевской Руси". А так как язык в Византии был греческий, то погуглить, как слово Русь будет на греческом)
- James LaBrie (Dream Theater lead vocalist) - Kevin James LaBrie - Geddy Lee - Gary Lee Weinrib - Alex Lifeson - Aleksandar Živojinović - Jeff Beck - Geoffrey Arnold Beck - Geoff Tate - Jeffrey Wayne Tate
Farouq bulsara aka Freddie Mercury was a musician not an actor rami malek who portrayed Freddie in bohemian rhapsody is an actor just thought I'd clear that up
William Henry Pratt was cremated at Guildford Crematorium, Surrey, England, where his ashes were interred. There is an easily-missed plaque to his memory which reads only: In Loving Memory of Boris Karloff. Died 2nd February 1969.
MAKE MORE SHORTER CLIPS, ONE WITH JUST VEEEERY FAMOUS ACTORS, ONE WITH MUSICIANS, ONE WITH REALITY STARS, SHOW HOSTS ETC AND ONE WITH LESS KNOWN ACTORS, MUSICIANS ETC. This way it is too mixed.
Brad Pitt is a ringer. He merely uses his middle name. This is an extremely common practice. John Calvin Coolidge, Walter Bruce Willis, Sir James Paul McCartney, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson.....Need I go on?
Missing: Doris Day (Doris Kappelhoff), Jerry Lewis (Jerzy Levich), Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti), Michael Douglas, Yul Brynner (Taidje Khan), Stewart Granger (James Stewart)...
She is Armenian and Native American. She graduated from Fresno High School in Fresno, CA. She attended Roosevelt High School in Fresno prior to attending Fresno High.
Just to bring back logic and common sense: When an artist is called COSTA REY and his real name is De COSTA Holobreiros Castanneta REY IV, he still uses his real name.
Generally good work, but too many people listed who simply uses there middle name or a shortened version. The swapped pic Beyonce for Erykah Badu is unforgiveable. These women cannot be mistaken for each other.
Cassius Clay? Religious name change. The name Muhammad Ali has been used by many people over history, Muhammad Ali was a well-known political leader in the 1800s, .de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848.
Religious name change, so it was his legitimate name, not an alias or stage name. Just like St Peter's real name is Peter even though it was given to him by Jesus as an adult.
This is why Paul Stanley made a joke about them , too - Paul Stanley's name is Paul Eisen - and he asked if you can imagine a band with Witz and Eisen ( which means Iron in German )
No, Jodie Foster’s name is not Alicia Christian. I knew Jodie’s parents, Lucius and Brandy Foster before they were married, when they were dating. I knew them when they took a weeks-long fencing class together with my parents in the vicinity of what is now Century City in LA, but Century City did not exist in those days. As an 8-yr-old child, I was fascinated by Lucius Foster’s ability to create tiny bubbles on his tongue and blow them. Check with Jodie; she will confirm what I’ve said.
We really needed Justin Bieber's middle name? I mean seriously, his name is Justin Bieber in both his personal and professional lives. You didn't need to pad the list like that just to make it to 200.
@@leecox6241I'm pretty sure a LOT of these people on here are using stage names and haven't actually changed their names legally to the names you see on the list above!
You forgot James Paul McCartney, Phillip Michael Jagger, Shirley MacLean Beaty, Simon John Ritchie, Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, Jerome Silberman, Richard Walter Jenkins Jr., Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo, and Jo Raquel Tejada!
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell is the coolest real name. She should use it. Sure it's much longer than her professional name but you will never forget it.
Demetria, Kathleen, Stacy or Celeste are lovely names and nobody should be afraid of using them as celebrity. Of course if they got unused due to concerns for privacy it's different story but still, great names and something to take pride in rather than to hide.
I knew some of the real names of famous people. Some radically changed their name. Others modified their real names. Using a Middle name,shorten the name etc
Ok, firstly, about 50 of them aren’t actors but rappers with idiotic stage names. That is a different list. Then probably half of the rest just go by their middle names as their first or last names, or just don’t use their last names. That counts, so it’s fine, but it’s pretty weak, since their real name is just longer, not different. Should be a different list. Then… a TON of the rest DO NOT count, at all, because they’re just nicknames. Like: Mila is a nickname for Milena (Kunis). Chuck is a nickname for Carlos (Norris). Woody is short for Woodrow (Harrelson). Cher is short for Cherilyn. Chris is short for Christopher (Evans). Kit is a nickname for Christopher (Harington). Johnny is a nickname for John (Depp). Will is sorry for Willard (Smith). Charlie is a nickname for Charles (Hunnam). Shay is at least being used as a nickname for Shannon (Mitchell). Teri is short for Theresa (Polo). Mandy is short for Amanda (Moore). Missy is a nickname for Melissa (Elliott). Demi is short for Demetria (Lovato). Liam is a nickname for (and different form of) William (Gallagher). (And Fergie is short for Ferguson.) And literally EVERYONE knows “Eminem” is “M and M” for Marshall Mathers. EVERYONE. And why is Leonardo DiCaprio on the list? Because he added a space after the i??? And Steven McQueen makes the list because he uses a different middle initial? And Justin Bieber? That’s literally exactly his name! Those are REALLY dumb additions to pad the list. So this list should maybe be 50 people. Tops.
I thought this would be a list full of people like Archibald Leech or Marion Morrison, not John Christopher Depp III. Half of these people use some form of their full name.
Cher is not an artistic name. Is the short form of the complet name. Is like to say that Pepe or Paco is the artistic names of José or Pablo (spanish names) or Zé is the artistic name of José (in portuguese we can use Zé or José, Zé is kindly familiar).
Please correct her name. She’s NOT Mar , but Mary Elizabeth Spacek please take this video clip down and correct the spelling error. Thank you. Also Anna Mae Bullock was Tina Turner’s real name though .
There are so many people who I don't have a clue as to who they are and what they do.
I think I transmogrified into an owl towards the end of this video... I've never said "Who?" so many times in my life 🦉
Lol 😂
Several of the pictures are not the right person too.
Ikr 😁 @@Craneman4100w
Bruce Lee's real name is Bruce Lee. He was born in San Francisco and that is what's on his birth certificate. Lee Jun-fan was used in Hong Kong when his family went back after he was born.
2/3 of these folks should be named nobody.
At least. Never heard of most of them.
if not for the entertainment industry they would be wiping down tables and washing dishes in some greasy spoon
That is actually a real job that pays real benefits, tell me what makes your situation more relevant and more better.
Most of you're conservative TH-camrs would do the exact same thing maybe even more worse.
Half a dozen real talents among 190 internet sensations.
Michael Landon = Eugene Orowitz
Sigourney Weaver = Susan Alexandra Weaver
David Bowie = David Robert Jones
Jackson D. Kelley = DeForest Kelley
Ulysses S. Grant = Hiram Ulysses Grant
😎👍
Bill Clinton = William Jefferson Blythe
What was the X for in Ulysses Grant? Did he believe himself to be a sex machine?
@SL92018 What X? If you mean the S, it was just a random letter Grant chose. Someone who was writing his biography thought that it stood for Simpson, his mother's maiden name. Since the President didn't want his initials to read as H.U.G., he never bothered to correct him. 🇺🇲😎👍
Sting is British, not American 😅
Right ! Sting is English
So are many people on this list.
Dort steht ja auch nicht explizit,dass es alles Amerikaner sein sollen
@andreapompea3534 Nö, aber es steht bei den Bildern dabei und bei Sting steht American singer.
@@andreapompea3534- That’s not the problem…Every photo has a description of the person, and Sting’s happened to say “American” in error.
Too many rappers. I'm sick of them.
Do you need your mom
Nobody cares shut up .
All rappers have different names...
Yes your right I've not heard of many of them 😮
Amen...
Who knew that Snoop Dog isn't his real name?
It isn't?
@@leecowell8165😂😂
Who are these people?
I'm completely surprised about that, would have never expected it.
Just check his wanted poster.
So, it turns out that the real Michael Douglas is Michael Keaton
😂
To many Diddy friends!!!
All garbage!
how many actors and celebs have changed their name to hide that they are jewish
"To many Diddy friends"? So, you're saying that you dedicate this "to many Diddy friends"? Why would you dedicate this "to many Diddy friends"? That's TOO much! (English must not be your Native language)
I will be glad never to hear of this again. I never gave him two thoughts before and don't ask me to now. Who cares?
Too many joews too.
I don't get out much. Most of these I never heard of...
Same! 🤷♀️
I've heard of about half
..and Esther's real name
Is Hadassah
Esther 2:7
@@kamily8288adeles real last nsme, is Atkins?
Like atkins diet?
Same here. I think I recognize maybe 25%. Ten years ago I was beach combing and met a woman and we talked for the three hours it took to hike the three miles of beach and back and when we approached the parking lot a bunch of people ran over to her, many in suits with ear pieces looking all secret service like and others it seems were her staff. I asked if she was famous and she said "you mean all this time you had no idea who I am?" I said "not a clue, I don't get out much and don't watch TV." She said "bless you" and planted a big kiss on my mouth and her security and staff gasped and she left with them and I still had no idea who she was except she had told me her first name. So after an exhaustive three weeks googling celebrities with her name I finally found out she was an actress with several blockbuster hits under her belt and some major awards. I had NEVER heard of her and had she at first told me her full name and profession I still wouldn't have had a clue. And no I'm not going to name her here though if you are like me you might not have heard of her anyways. Also I have met five people in this video, one I see regularly and is fairly well known. I dated the daughter of one of these people and didn't know her parents were famous even after I sat down to Christmas dinner with them. Her mom called me "adorable" for not having any idea who they were. And one of these people in this vide is currently dating my niece who is an actress though she has not had any significant roles yet. My niece has done some commercials and has had only two speaking rolls, one on a TV series and one in a movie but neither was more than five lines.
Sting is not American! He is about as British as it is possible to be. Who writes this crap?
The same person that put in 400 fifteen minutes of fame rappers
Where does it say that they are American? Quite a few on there are British. The title also states that they are actors and clearly most of them aren't.
@@hedgemist691 All of the photos carry a flag indicating the person’s nationality. The photo of Sting carries the Stars & Stripes. The last time I checked that is the national flag of the USA. Not the United Kingdom. Gordon Sumner is British.
He's English, a Geordie to be precise.
To be fair he did become an American ay some point, do it's not totally inaccurate.
Meryl Streep family's original surname was Messerschmitz.
So she is Jewish , too ?
Erika Badu you had a picture of Beyonce sheesh
A lot of these people use their real names in a shorter form. Like Christopher Rober Evans goes by as Chris Evans. I’d argue he uses his real name. Some, like Michael Keaton had to change his name because of Michael Douglas. I think it was the same for Emma Stone. She couldn’t get her SAG card using her real name, Emily Stone. When I see the real names of some of them I get why they changed them for something much easier to remember. And to be fair, a russian sounding name in the US in the 50’s wouldn’t get you hired.
I remember that Michael J. Fox added the J. because there was already a Michael Fox in whatever actors' association he applied for.
Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez are family.
If you are talking about Kirk Douglas, his name doesn't sound Russian at all because he was a Jew with a Jewish name and a Jewish last name.
Never heard of most of them
I was surprised at how many of them I recognized.
Interesting, but the late great Kirk Douglas who lived to be 103 years old had the surname of Danielovitch and his ancestors were from Belarus, a small country west of Russia not far from the Ukraine and was of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry! That's people with blonde or red hair and blue eyes, most likely of Viking heritage since Kiev was founded by Vikings and they unearthed a Viking longship beneath that city several decades ago. They probably sailed down the Volga River through Russia into Ukraine where my husband's family was from, his paternal grandmother was born in Kiev and they both had red hair! Many Vikings invaded the UK, Scotland and England as well as northern France, Normandy, the land of the "Norseman" and Vikings also founded Dublin, Ireland. Leif Erikson, son of Eric, the Red, both Viking explorers discovered North America around New Foundland 500 years before Christopher Columbus and historians think they might have gotten as far south as Boston, MA. Today there's a statue of Leif Erikson in a park in Boston to honor him.
Bullshit.Kiev was founded by Russians!
@@pedjatrninic Wrong! According to traditional Western scholars, the Vikings were Scandinavian traders and adventurers who were invited to bring order to the chaotic lands of eastern Europe. The semilegendary Viking leader Oleg is considered the founder of the Kievan Rus state! So suck it up!! Reality bites...hard!
@@brendadrew834 опять чушь. Киев был отбит у хазар Олегом, а не основан. Да и "викинги" это скорее всего славяне с Балтийского побережья, нынешних Польши и ФРГ, где до сих пор сохранилась славянская топонимика, которая хорошо перекрывает летописные истории. Однако Олег не один брал киев, а с книжеским войском, которое преимущественно состояло из северных славян, современных русских
@@brendadrew834кстати государства под названием "киевская Русь" никогда не существовало. Оно называлось просто Русь. Или Русская земля. Даже в византийских источниках писали о Русь, а не о "киевской Руси". А так как язык в Византии был греческий, то погуглить, как слово Русь будет на греческом)
ну ты фантаст!
- James LaBrie (Dream Theater lead vocalist) - Kevin James LaBrie
- Geddy Lee - Gary Lee Weinrib
- Alex Lifeson - Aleksandar Živojinović
- Jeff Beck - Geoffrey Arnold Beck
- Geoff Tate - Jeffrey Wayne Tate
So Beck and Tate traded spellings of their given names.
@@FVD Axl Rose William Rose
Farouq bulsara aka Freddie Mercury was a musician not an actor rami malek who portrayed Freddie in bohemian rhapsody is an actor just thought I'd clear that up
It said he was a British singer.🙄
@Barbara-lu2sj Freddie Mercury did become a British citizen but his country of birth was zanzibar
@@KevinDunne-zc4or OK.🙂
Clear up what? It says 'British singer'.
@@djo-dji6018look at the title of the video, it says 200 ACTORS
John Wayne was Marion Michael Morrison, not Robert.
No, it was Robert.
@@JuliafloMichael
He was born as Robert, but the family changed it to Michael when he was little.
Danny Kaye, American singer/actor/comedian and humanitarian real name: David Daniel Kaminsky
What about William Henry Pratt, a.k.a. Boris Karloff? Or Bela Blashko, a.k.a. Bela Lugosi?
William Henry Pratt was cremated at Guildford Crematorium, Surrey, England, where his ashes were interred. There is an easily-missed plaque to his memory which reads only: In Loving Memory of Boris Karloff. Died 2nd February 1969.
Marion Michael Morrison was born Marion Robert Morrison, May of 1907. He changed his middle name to, "Michael" following his brother, Robert's death.
Well, if it was a legal name change then the was his real name. This video purport to reveal their “real” names, not necessarily their birth names.
MAKE MORE SHORTER CLIPS, ONE WITH JUST VEEEERY FAMOUS ACTORS, ONE WITH MUSICIANS, ONE WITH REALITY STARS, SHOW HOSTS ETC AND ONE WITH LESS KNOWN ACTORS, MUSICIANS ETC. This way it is too mixed.
@@APOLON-bm7ym exactly
OMG! Who knew his real name wasn’t Bono!!!
Me actually. For a long time I assumed his first name was Sonny and people always referred to him by last name only.
Bjork=Bjork Gudmundsdottir
(Icelandic surnames are patronymic-taking the first name of the father and adding the gender of the offspring).
dottir = daughter
Sting is British!!
At 12:13 you got Beyonce there as ERYKAH BADU!!! Now I know you're just trying to get us to comment!🤣😂🤣
Billie ellish,,pirate?
Pleasantly surprised --- this was actually pretty good!
Christopher Evans is Chris Evans. . . Is it really necessary to include him in this video? what’s next Thomas Hanks?
Brad Pitt is a ringer. He merely uses his middle name. This is an extremely common practice. John Calvin Coolidge, Walter Bruce Willis, Sir James Paul McCartney, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson.....Need I go on?
@@AndalusianIrish exactly.
I knew about Ringo Starr being Richard Starkey because my mother is a distant relative
Also the internet
I do love Ringo!
@@bewmdogg Ita was widely known by many people long before the internet.
Missing:
Doris Day (Doris Kappelhoff), Jerry Lewis (Jerzy Levich), Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti), Michael Douglas, Yul Brynner (Taidje Khan), Stewart Granger (James Stewart)...
That picture of Beyoncé identified as Erykah Badu took me out. 😂
Now I know Cher really did have a last name.
She is Armenian and Native American. She graduated from Fresno High School in Fresno, CA. She attended Roosevelt High School in Fresno prior to attending Fresno High.
She still has, or did I miss the news that she's dead?
Some real names are identical to the artistic names?
Judy Garland was so pretty!
@@gogoyubari366 угу
Все еврейки красивые )))(
Just to bring back logic and common sense: When an artist is called COSTA REY and his real name is De COSTA Holobreiros Castanneta REY IV, he still uses his real name.
@@clapiotis exactly right. Tons like that.
Yeah you all right but I don't think it really means it's not their real name but rather, they are not using their full name.
Очень интересное видео😊
Generally good work, but too many people listed who simply uses there middle name or a shortened version. The swapped pic Beyonce for Erykah Badu is unforgiveable. These women cannot be mistaken for each other.
I can't see Tom Hardy being an Edward...😅
I didn’t see Muhammad Ali???🤔
Probably because he wasn't on the list
Cassius Clay? Religious name change. The name Muhammad Ali has been used by many people over history, Muhammad Ali was a well-known political leader in the 1800s, .de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848.
Religious name change, so it was his legitimate name, not an alias or stage name. Just like St Peter's real name is Peter even though it was given to him by Jesus as an adult.
Gene Simmons - Chaim Witz..In german Witz means joke.
@brittakriep2938
Yeah, and that's the perfect name for him, too. 🤣🤣🤣
This is why Paul Stanley made a joke about them , too - Paul Stanley's name is Paul Eisen - and he asked if you can imagine a band with Witz and Eisen ( which means Iron in German )
@@Taiyou536 His complete real name is Stanley Bert Eisen.
He possibly could have called the band Iron Joke.
@@eurovator4273 Lol - yes what an Idea :)
While on this topic, his wife Shannon is Canadian.
Surprised Axl Rose didn't make the list.
A lot of rappers and singers who must have been dropped on their heads. Not names I will bother to remember! Said hi to Richard Starkey!
A great deal of these are normal names. Why even put them on here?
Some of these really surprised me..
Liam Gallagher, who would have thought his real name was John Paul..
Emily Jean Stone sounds cooler than Emma Stone
Peter Gene Hernandez sounds effin better than fckn Bruno 😂😂😂
No, Jodie Foster’s name is not Alicia Christian. I knew Jodie’s parents, Lucius and Brandy Foster before they were married, when they were dating. I knew them when they took a weeks-long fencing class together with my parents in the vicinity of what is now Century City in LA, but Century City did not exist in those days. As an 8-yr-old child, I was fascinated by Lucius Foster’s ability to create tiny bubbles on his tongue and blow them. Check with Jodie; she will confirm what I’ve said.
What is it then?
Rap/Hip Hop has been around for 50 years, it’s only natural this list would have rappers, please stop the hate!
Paul Wesley is Pawel Tomasz Wasilewski, not Paul Tomas Wasilewski. He is Polish, born in Warsaw
We really needed Justin Bieber's middle name? I mean seriously, his name is Justin Bieber in both his personal and professional lives. You didn't need to pad the list like that just to make it to 200.
Same with Emily Jean Stone vs Emma Stone.
Nicknames and not being known by middle names shouldn't count.
somehow "marion" just doesnt fit the stereotype commonly assoc w/ john wayne...
It's an Irish name for men .
Very interesting. The name changes don’t surprise me at all.
Wow Chris Evans real name is Christopher Evans. Who knew!?
@@JFK-ir7yz earth-shattering info they’re giving us!
great video
Sigourney weaver was born Susan Alexandra Weaver she adopted the name Sigourney after an character in the great Gatsby
A long list of "Who's That"? in entertainment. Rappers are a dime a dozen.
you miss alice cooper!!!!
In this case, Alice Cooper was a stage name. Vincent Damon Fournier never changed his name.
@@leecox6241I'm pretty sure a LOT of these people on here are using stage names and haven't actually changed their names legally to the names you see on the list above!
Joan Fontaine : Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland.
Yes Milady.
I really think you should slow it down some.😮
You forgot James Paul McCartney, Phillip Michael Jagger, Shirley MacLean Beaty, Simon John Ritchie, Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, Jerome Silberman, Richard Walter Jenkins Jr., Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo, and Jo Raquel Tejada!
What about Prince Rodgers Nelson??!!
Well, Prince was his real name 😊. You are right though, they should do a second one with more people on it
Deveria ser mais devagar, very fast 😢
Preguiça de pausar o vídeo ? Não caem os dedos quando você pausa, sabia?
Is it just me but I don’t think I even knew who half of them are or care
What's with the photo of Beyonce at 12:12?! 😶
In the entertainment biz, everyone changes their names, no big deal.
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell is the coolest real name. She should use it. Sure it's much longer than her professional name but you will never forget it.
Actually, you WOULD.
Still, I agree that it's the coolest real name.🤔 Or just the weirdest.😏
A century ago, it was commonplace for famous performers to change their names, whether on their own accord or whether they were told to.
Genuine question - what's the purpose and value of stage names?
It just sounds better,its all about marketing.kirk douglas sounds better than Issur Danielovitch Demsky.
"SIR" Sean Connery !! "SIR" Anthony Hopkins !! "DAME"Helen Mirren !!
The name of former German Chancellor Willy Brandt is in reality Herbert Frahm. 😂
And he could act, & he could rap...😆
@@joerosen5464 yeah, right 😄 thats whats politics need more nowadays
As far as I know he changed it legally.
@@nebelland8355 he changed it himself when he was in Norway.
Chuck Norris can call himself whatever he wants 😂😂
Demetria, Kathleen, Stacy or Celeste are lovely names and nobody should be afraid of using them as celebrity. Of course if they got unused due to concerns for privacy it's different story but still, great names and something to take pride in rather than to hide.
50 cent isn't a real name? I'm in shock!
I love the Chuck Norris's real name is Carlos. I wonder who's got the balls to check his papers?
Bruce Lee
I knew some of the real names of famous people. Some radically changed their name. Others modified their real names. Using a Middle name,shorten the name etc
many ordinary people prefer to use their middle name. It is absolutely unremarkable
Ok, firstly, about 50 of them aren’t actors but rappers with idiotic stage names. That is a different list.
Then probably half of the rest just go by their middle names as their first or last names, or just don’t use their last names. That counts, so it’s fine, but it’s pretty weak, since their real name is just longer, not different. Should be a different list.
Then… a TON of the rest DO NOT count, at all, because they’re just nicknames. Like:
Mila is a nickname for Milena (Kunis).
Chuck is a nickname for Carlos (Norris).
Woody is short for Woodrow (Harrelson).
Cher is short for Cherilyn.
Chris is short for Christopher (Evans).
Kit is a nickname for Christopher (Harington).
Johnny is a nickname for John (Depp).
Will is sorry for Willard (Smith).
Charlie is a nickname for Charles (Hunnam).
Shay is at least being used as a nickname for Shannon (Mitchell).
Teri is short for Theresa (Polo).
Mandy is short for Amanda (Moore).
Missy is a nickname for Melissa (Elliott).
Demi is short for Demetria (Lovato).
Liam is a nickname for (and different form of) William (Gallagher).
(And Fergie is short for Ferguson.)
And literally EVERYONE knows “Eminem” is “M and M” for Marshall Mathers. EVERYONE.
And why is Leonardo DiCaprio on the list? Because he added a space after the i??? And Steven McQueen makes the list because he uses a different middle initial? And Justin Bieber? That’s literally exactly his name! Those are REALLY dumb additions to pad the list.
So this list should maybe be 50 people. Tops.
The ones you are calling nicknames actually do count, because they are using them now as first names.
@ yeah ok, go make a video announcing the shocking news to the world that Joe Biden’s REAL name is … JOSEPH!!!😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
The picture for Erykah Badu was Beyonce.
Video 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉top
That is not Erykah Badu. 😂
I've not heard of most of them
Most of these are not actors.
I thought this would be a list full of people like Archibald Leech or Marion Morrison, not John Christopher Depp III. Half of these people use some form of their full name.
A hundred years ago, I would've cared.
Where is Madonna?
Sting is British, not American.
Issur Danielovich the real name of Kirk Douglas.
Nice video
Cher is not an artistic name. Is the short form of the complet name. Is like to say that Pepe or Paco is the artistic names of José or Pablo (spanish names) or Zé is the artistic name of José (in portuguese we can use Zé or José, Zé is kindly familiar).
So
And some of them are not even that. Some just picked the second name and surname.
As Gumby would say, "Who gives a hell?"
It still counts and belongs on this list
Please correct her name. She’s NOT Mar , but Mary Elizabeth Spacek please take this video clip down and correct the spelling error. Thank you. Also Anna Mae Bullock was Tina Turner’s real name though .
13:55 that's not Erykah Badu that's Beyonce 😂
I have not watched this I only came on to ask why would want to know the real names of actors ?
More than I wanted to know.
George Michael 🥰😢
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George Michael was from Wham Boy George is
George Alan O’Dowd
@@commiesnzombiesgirl George more like, lol J/K. Badumdumtish
Norma Jean Baker?
This is so fun, but at 9:21, THAT'S NOT SHANIA TWAIN!🤣😂🤣