Pseudonyms fall into various categories:
Artists, Sculptors, Architects Canaletto -- Giovanni Antonio Canal or Bernardo Belotto El Greco -- Domenico Theotocopoulos Le Corbusier -- Charles Edouard Jeanneret Il Sodoma -- Giovanni Antonio Bazzi Pen Names Woody Allen -- Allen Stewart Konigsberg Piers Anthony -- Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob Michael Arlen -- Dikran Kuyumjian Richard Bachman -- Stephen King Acton Bell -- Anne Bronte Nicolas Bourbaki -- a group of 20th-century mathematicians. Boz -- Charles Dickens Currer Bell -- Charlotte Bronte Ellis Bell -- Emily Bronte John Beynon -- John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris Lewis Carroll -- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson George Eliot -- Mary Ann Evans Michael Innes -- J. I. M. Stewart Anne Knish -- Arthur Davison Ficke Barbara Michaels -- Barbara Mertz Emanuel Morgan -- Witter Bynner Flann O'Brien -- Brian O'Nolan George Orwell -- Eric Arthur Blair Elizabeth Peters -- Barbara Mertz Ellis Peters -- Edith Pargeter Jean Plaidy -- Eleanor Hibbert George Sand -- Amandine Dupin Cordwainer Smith -- Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger Lemony Snicket -- Daniel Handler Student -- William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics. Italo Svevo -- Ettore Schmitz Mark Twain -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens Voltaire -- François-Marie Arouet Cherry Wilder -- Cherry Barbara Grimm John Wyndham -- John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris Publius -- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers Politicians Abu Mazen -- Mahmoud Abbas Abu Ammar and Yasser Arafat -- Muhammad Abd ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husayni Abu Ala -- Ahmad Qurei Stage Names Cantinflas -- Mario Moreno Cilla Black -- Priscilla White Bono -- Paul Hewson Michael Caine -- Maurice Micklewhite Chespirito -- Roberto Gómez Bolanos Coolio -- Artis Ivey, Jr. Tom Cruise -- Thomas Cruise Mapother IV Doris Day -- Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff Bob Dylan -- Robert Zimmerman The Edge -- David Evans Eminem -- Marshall Mathers III Fatboy Slim -- Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook Judy Garland -- Frances Gumm Cary Grant -- Archibald Leach Billie Holiday -- Eleanora Fagan Judy Holliday -- Judith Tuvim Engelbert Humperdinck -- Gerry Dorsey Ice Cube -- O'Shea Jackson Ice T -- Tracy Marrow Elton John -- Reginald Kenneth Dwight José José -- José Sosa Danny Kaye -- David Daniel Kaminski Jerry Lewis -- Joseph Levitch LL Cool J -- James Todd Smith Little Richard -- Richard Wayne Penniman Lulu (singer) -- Marie Lawrie Dean Martin -- Dino Crocetti Meat Loaf -- Marvin Lee Aday Freddie Mercury -- Faroukh Bulsara Moby -- Richard Melville Hall Marilyn Monroe -- Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker Eric Morecambe -- John Eric Bartholemew Mary Pickford -- Gladys Smith Queen Latifah -- Dana Owens Vic Reeves -- Jim Moir The Rock -- Dwayne Douglas Johnson Seal -- Sealhenry Samuel Sandie Shaw -- Sandra Goodrich Charlie Sheen -- Carlos Irwin Estevez Martin Sheen -- Ramon Estevez Shania Twain -- Eileen Regina Edwards, later Eileen Regina Twain Slash -- Saul Hudson Snoop Dogg -- Calvin Broadus Ringo Starr -- Richard Starkey Sting -- Gordon Sumner Sugar -- Stephanie Beard Ritchie Valens -- Ricardo Valenzuela John Wayne -- Marion Michael Morrison Ernie Wise -- Ernest Wiseman Stevie Wonder -- Steveland Morris Other Ras-I-Bramble, Abuja Bramble (Livingstone Bramble, world champion boxer) Kid Gavilan -- Gerardo Gonzalez (world champion boxer) Sugar Ray Leonard -- Ray Charles Leonard (world champion boxer) Joe Louis -- Joseph Louis Barrow (world champion boxer) Pelé -- Edson Arantes do Nascimento (soccer legend) Hermann Noordung - Herman Potočnik (pioneer of astronautics) Sugar Ray Robinson -- Walker Smith, Jr. (world champion boxer) Jersey Joe Walcott -- Arnold Raymond Cream (world champion boxer) Peter Warlock -- Philip Heseltine (composer)
