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The Ultimate Baby Name Book


Famous Names


     All new parents hope to come up with a name that their child will use and
enjoy throughout his or her life, but for various reasons many people choose
to change their names.  Here are the names of some well-known people and their
original names:

Famous Names                     Original Names

Muhammad Ali                     Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
Woody Allen                      Allen Stewart Konigsberg
Lauren Bacall                    Betty Joan Perski
Anne Bancroft                    Annemarie Italiano
Brigitte Bardot                  Camille Javal
Jack Benny                       Benjamin Kubelsky
George Burns                     Nathan Birnbaum
Richard Burton                   Richard Walter Jenkins
Red Buttons                      Aaron Chwatt
Michael Caine                    Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
Chubby Checker                   Ernest Evans
Cher                             Cherilyn La Pierre
Alice Cooper                     Vincent Damon Furnier
Joan Crawford                    Lucille Le Sueur
Rodney Dangerfield               John Cohen
Bobby Darin                      Walden Robert Cassotto
Kirk Douglas                     Issur Danielovitch
Bob Dylan                        Robert Allen Zimmerman
Douglas Fairbanks                Julius Ullman
W.C. Fields                      William Claude Dukenfield
Judy Garland                     Frances Gumm
Cary Grant                       Alexander Archibald Leach
Harry Houdini                    Ehrich Weiss
Elton John                       Reginald Kenneth Dwight
Boris Karloff                    William Henry Pratt
Marilyn Monroe                   Norma Jean Baker
Mike Nichols                     Michael Igor Peschowsky
Roy Rogers                       Leonard Slye
Mickey Rooney                    Joe Yule, Jr.
Danny Thomas                     Amos Jacobs
John Wayne                       Marion Michael Morrison
Stevie Wonder                    Steveland Morris Hardaway