You forgot Queen Latifah. Her name is Dana Elaine Owens, plus Paul Stanley who was born Stanley Bert Eisen and Gene Simmons who was born Chaim Witz. Trivia, the comedian Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein... Also, Woody Harrelson is correct...Woody is short for Woodrow. Also, Sting's real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner.
@rabbit_scribe Yes, that counts. Total name change. We know her as Moore, when she is really Guynes. Unless she is legally Moore... but even then. Whereas,say, Bob instead of Robert, or Madonna instead of Madonna Louise Ciccone is not a change.
If you ask any member of the British royal family what their last name is... they will say Mountbatten-Windsor. If I'm not mistaken, Prince William even signed a document in France (it was a legal proceeding) using his last name. They usually sign using their noble titles within the United Kingdom because it is a tradition of the nobility... but when they need to sign something outside the United Kingdom they use their surnames.
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Rihanna apparently gets tired of hearing "Rihanna, Rihanna, Rihanna" over and over again, and so she goes by Robyn among her family and close friends. I imagine, though, that if I were to call her Robyn, she'd probably say something along the lines of "You address me by my proper title, you little bollocks!" (For the record, yes, I was quoting from Father Ted there.)
@@gloriabarberi1292 Sure did. I believe two of Prince Phillip's sisters named their sons Adolf after Hitler. They were most definitely nazis. No real mystery why the name change.
The German family name of Prince Philip of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II and grandfather of Harry, was Battenberg and translated in English became Mountbatten. British Royal Family has now both family names Windsor and Mountbatten. Effectively also Windsor family has strong German roots, by Queen Victoria & Prince Albert. 🇬🇧
Why Jean-Claude Camille Francois Van Varenberg specified as Jean-Claude Camille when it is known as Jean-Claude Van Dame? And one more celebrity Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone - no thanks!
Cage is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, the Hollywood Tycoon and legend who made The Godfather franchise. I'm sure that is one reason he will always have funds to make new films 😂
I understand Sophia Loren changing (shorting) her name. 0:29 But why didn’t she have her last name, sound Italian? (which would sound more romantic than “Loren”) It’s not like, Tony Bennett, & Dean Martin, who were Americans, and needed the Anglo-nize their last names. Sophia had a European-Italian accent that was obvious, and nothing that she could hide, by changing her last name to sound more wasp.
It was suggested to her by Italian producers in her early days when she was only known in Italy, to make her more marketable by sounding foreign. She changed the spelling of her first name from Sofia to Sophia and chose Loren after a Swedish actress named Marta Toren. International fame came later.
@@dammar117 Thanks for your reply. You mean to tell me that she was suggested she changed her name, and Italians couldn’t figure out she was of Italian descent? I could see if she was born in America like Tony Bennett & Dean Martin, who spoke perfect American English. Who changed their last names to sound Anglo. (in fact I think it was Bob Hope who told Tony Benedito to change his last name to Bennett) But Sophia spoke English, with an Italian accent. & based on her looks, I don’t think she could hide that he was of Italian descent.
@@MikeCee7 She didn't speak English at the time she took this name, nor was she acquainted with Hollywood yet, so it wasn't for the purpose of hiding her origins, which she is immensely proud of anyway. In fact, when she changed her first name to Sophia, her family wondered why she wanted to be called "Sopia" as the "ph" doesn't exist in Italian, so it would be pronounced with a silent h. The name change was just Italian producers wanting something fancy. I read her autobiography "Living and Loving" decades ago, among other readings on her. I am quite versed in her life, as she was an icon admired by my mother, who resembled her a lot. Some people even used to say I resembled her.😁
@@dammar117 oh wow. Thanks for that information. I was assuming from your first reply, that you were either Italian or somehow very knowledgeable on Italian cinema. Now I understand why.
@@dammar117 I remember the joke my older brother told me when I was really young. that “Italy’s famous for 3 things & and Sophia Loren had two of them😂”
You have it the other way around =) Milena Markovna Kunis. Where the first name is, then the "middle name", and the last name. But in our Slavic countries there is usually no middle name and we write the last name first, then the first name, and then the derivative of the father's name. Mila's father's name is Mark. If she stayed in Ukraine, in all official documents she would be Kunis Milena Markovna. The same with Nina Dobrev. Her father's name is Kamen, so her "middle name" is Kamenova.
I remember reading that she used the name Norma Jean Baker, but in her birth certificate her name was given as Norma Jean Mortensen. She didn't find that out herself until she was an adult. It is not known which one of the two men really was her father.
I think Vivian Hartley 2:00, Destiny Cyrus 2:14, Kelly, Parsons 3:48, Alisha Cook 4:11 would still be just as famous, if they didn’t change their names. I can certainly see why Tim Allen Dick change his name 2:58
i was just remembering Spike Lees brilliant performance in Silence of the Lambs.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Strange, I never knew Spike Lee morphed into Jodie Foster 😂😂😂😂
I wondered about that too. Jodie Foster's real first name is Alicia.
Thought the same thing😂
I thought that too, it makes you laugh doesn't it.
😂
😂
5:31 I swear, Spike Lee is looking more and more like Jodie Foster every day.
🤣
5:36 Spike Lee bares a striking resemblance to Clarice Starling
Spike Lee looks really different with long blonde hair
Jean Claude Camille ?😂😂😂😂😂
He looks like Jean Claude Van Damme, it is not ? 🤔
@@valeriaquartero2686yes, they must be related! 😂
unless he changed his name, I certain it's Jean Claude Van Dam
2.50 Imagine Olivia Cockburn 🤣
You forgot Queen Latifah. Her name is Dana Elaine Owens, plus Paul Stanley who was born Stanley Bert Eisen and Gene Simmons who was born Chaim Witz.
Trivia, the comedian Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein...
Also, Woody Harrelson is correct...Woody is short for Woodrow.
Also, Sting's real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner.
Using your middle name, a diminutive, or your first name as a mononym doesn't count as a name change.
But you can take your middle name, then the street you grew up, and thete's your porn name.
Or your married name, like Demi Moore (the last name of her first husband).
@rabbit_scribe Yes, that counts. Total name change. We know her as Moore, when she is really Guynes. Unless she is legally Moore... but even then.
Whereas,say, Bob instead of Robert, or Madonna instead of Madonna Louise Ciccone is not a change.
Doctors did great job on Spike Lee. Jodie Foster should sue him :)
My name is Giovanni Giorgio but everybody calls me Giorgio. 😎
Hannibal lecter to spike lee...."you know what you look like to me?.... You look like a rube...."
Why was Spike Lee’s name places with Jodie Foster’s picture? (BTW- her real name is Alicia Christian Foster.)
Alicia Christian "Spike Lee" Foster
Almost everyone in the old Hollywood had a “stage name”
Spike Lee : him/her
Joaquin Phoenix name is Leaf.
His birth name is Joaquin, but as a young actor he chose the name Leaf for himself, then went back to Joaquin as he became better known.
Well, I can see why some wanted to change their names 😳
Olivia Wilde have a wild surname.😂
Chan is the adopted name for Jackie Chan. His father's last name is Fong.
Prince Harry's last name is "Windsor", not "David".
These are his four given names! 😉
They are only saying the principal names, the first name who are four. They didn't put the surname or surnames
actually its Mount Batten-Windsor
If you ask any member of the British royal family what their last name is... they will say Mountbatten-Windsor. If I'm not mistaken, Prince William even signed a document in France (it was a legal proceeding) using his last name.
They usually sign using their noble titles within the United Kingdom because it is a tradition of the nobility... but when they need to sign something outside the United Kingdom they use their surnames.
I hope Sean Carter joins Sean combs
Terence Hill (Mario Girotti) and Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli)
I just knew Prince Harry's first name wasn't Prince.
his actual name is Har-Har Binks, they just call him Harry for convenience
I was today years old when I found out that Ice Cube has a real name. 😂
"He hop in the benz and said: Dre I was spekin' to your beach O'Shea"
Where was Jon BonGiovanni, & Carlos Estevez (Charlie Sheen)? Also, Jerry Lewis,?Dean Martin, and Tony Benedito. & Jon Stewart.
Jodie Foster and Spike Lee are the same person apparently
Tom Cruz 👉 Mapother 😂😂. I would have also changed.
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Marion is a female Name, is it not Mario?
Cockburn and Dick are already cool last names! 😂
Rihanna apparently gets tired of hearing "Rihanna, Rihanna, Rihanna" over and over again, and so she goes by Robyn among her family and close friends.
I imagine, though, that if I were to call her Robyn, she'd probably say something along the lines of "You address me by my proper title, you little bollocks!"
(For the record, yes, I was quoting from Father Ted there.)
And Michael Douglas real name is Michael Keaton.
Princess Harry is really Henry Battenberg , he wouldn’t like that to be widely known .
Yep yep.
Yes, but during WWII they changed the name to Windsor
@@gloriabarberi1292 Sure did. I believe two of Prince Phillip's sisters named their sons Adolf after Hitler. They were most definitely nazis. No real mystery why the name change.
Harry is a male, so he is a prince, not a princess
The German family name of Prince Philip of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II and grandfather of Harry, was Battenberg and translated in English became Mountbatten. British Royal Family has now both family names Windsor and Mountbatten. Effectively also Windsor family has strong German roots, by Queen Victoria & Prince Albert. 🇬🇧
Prince actual gave Tara her name Carmen Electra
Norma Jean Baker
It was thought to be Baker for years, until a birth certificate was discovered that had the name Mortenson on it.
that was her married name, she was born Mortenson
30 years and I just realized snoop dogg’s real name 😂
Why Jean-Claude Camille Francois Van Varenberg specified as Jean-Claude Camille when it is known as Jean-Claude Van Dame?
And one more celebrity Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone - no thanks!
My, Spike Lee has changed...
I first saw Spike Lee in Freaky Friday back in the 70s........
Cage is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, the Hollywood Tycoon and legend who made The Godfather franchise. I'm sure that is one reason he will always have funds to make new films 😂
I understand Sophia Loren changing (shorting) her name. 0:29 But why didn’t she have her last name, sound Italian? (which would sound more romantic than “Loren”) It’s not like, Tony Bennett, & Dean Martin, who were Americans, and needed the Anglo-nize their last names. Sophia had a European-Italian accent that was obvious, and nothing that she could hide, by changing her last name to sound more wasp.
It was suggested to her by Italian producers in her early days when she was only known in Italy, to make her more marketable by sounding foreign. She changed the spelling of her first name from Sofia to Sophia and chose Loren after a Swedish actress named Marta Toren. International fame came later.
@@dammar117 Thanks for your reply. You mean to tell me that she was suggested she changed her name, and Italians couldn’t figure out she was of Italian descent?
I could see if she was born in America like Tony Bennett & Dean Martin, who spoke perfect American English. Who changed their last names to sound Anglo. (in fact I think it was Bob Hope who told Tony Benedito to change his last name to Bennett)
But Sophia spoke English, with an Italian accent. & based on her looks, I don’t think she could hide that he was of Italian descent.
@@MikeCee7 She didn't speak English at the time she took this name, nor was she acquainted with Hollywood yet, so it wasn't for the purpose of hiding her origins, which she is immensely proud of anyway. In fact, when she changed her first name to Sophia, her family wondered why she wanted to be called "Sopia" as the "ph" doesn't exist in Italian, so it would be pronounced with a silent h. The name change was just Italian producers wanting something fancy.
I read her autobiography "Living and Loving" decades ago, among other readings on her. I am quite versed in her life, as she was an icon admired by my mother, who resembled her a lot. Some people even used to say I resembled her.😁
@@dammar117 oh wow. Thanks for that information. I was assuming from your first reply, that you were either Italian or somehow very knowledgeable on Italian cinema. Now I understand why.
@@dammar117 I remember the joke my older brother told me when I was really young. that “Italy’s famous for 3 things & and Sophia Loren had two of them😂”
I still don't know who is more versatile Jodie Foster ir Shelton Jackson
5:06 Pirate really?!
Why does Rhianna look white in the thumbnail?
You called Jodi foster, spike Lee lmfao
Eminem Marshall Bruce Mathers III Eminem's stage name literally comes from his name as an old stage name M&M
Yeah I can see why Joaquin Phoenix changed his name.
You have it the other way around =) Milena Markovna Kunis. Where the first name is, then the "middle name", and the last name. But in our Slavic countries there is usually no middle name and we write the last name first, then the first name, and then the derivative of the father's name. Mila's father's name is Mark. If she stayed in Ukraine, in all official documents she would be Kunis Milena Markovna. The same with Nina Dobrev. Her father's name is Kamen, so her "middle name" is Kamenova.
Spike Lee done changed more than his name 🤣
Spike Lee is a man , director.
Not Jodie Foster!
Wow! Their talent agents are perfect! Are they the ones that give them their stage names?
JCVD aka Jean-Claude Camille?! c‘mon!
Pour Jodie😂😂😂😂
Tim Allen😂😂😂
Olivia Wilde and Tim Allen did the right thing
...with Marshall Bruce Mathers...as the Beaver.
Joaquin Bottom 😂
Eminem😂😂😂 Marshall
Billie Eilish has fun parents.
Jean-Claude Camille looks similar to Jean-Claude Van Dam.
This explains why celebrities have weird names
Seems to me like alot of them had weird names before too.
Wait! Prince Harry's name is not Prince?
Spike Lee looks a lot like Jodie Foster.
Must be the hairstyle.
too "two ❤❤
Helen Mirren's name looks wrong...
Pretty sure Marilyn Monre 's real mame was Norma Jean Baker. Not Mortensen.
I remember reading that she used the name Norma Jean Baker, but in her birth certificate her name was given as Norma Jean Mortensen. She didn't find that out herself until she was an adult. It is not known which one of the two men really was her father.
@@nelltheretrogamer Wow! Didn't know that. Thank You!
Domínguez le parece poco artístico a Antonio (Banderas).
Some of them don't count because they are just shortend versions of the name. Those people would have been called so if they were "normal" people.
I thought Miley Cyrus was Hannah Montana. 😂
Cool video
Who’d have guessed Helen Mirren is a Russian spy? 😱
attach attachments for the butterflies
I have no idea who Jean-Claude Camille is and why he looks so much like Jean-Claude Van Damme
What's wrong Spike Lee duplicated rsrs. And also Elvis Costelo (Declan MacManus) and Anitta (Larissa Macedo Miranda)
You forgot Mel Werble
Ben Kingsley is Indian 😮?
Never knew Spike Lee was a white woman😂😂
Ники минаж то таня, вот это поворот🤣
Танюха
With their real name they wouldn't have gotten far - how important the name is for the image!
I don’t thinks it about the image per say, but keeping it short sweet and catchy helps people remember
I wonder what name I would be given.
I think Vivian Hartley 2:00, Destiny Cyrus 2:14, Kelly, Parsons 3:48, Alisha Cook 4:11 would still be just as famous, if they didn’t change their names.
I can certainly see why Tim Allen Dick change his name 2:58
When did Spike Lee become Jodie Foster? HELLO!
people who look down it's a submission
Irving Rhines
Thomas Mapother?? X-D
Come on, bro!
You have Spike Lee's name under a photo of Jodie Foster! WTF!
Depois deste vídeo, passei a amar o meu nome. 😂
I saw at least three mistakes...
Wait, Ice Cube is not a real name? 😯
she do as well
Look we all know their real name is Stephen Yaxley- Lennon ......
Only true Nikki fans know of her Indian side.
Why “just Harry” he is no celebrity and is an insult to everybody else on the list at least they all have done something in their lives
about Helen Mirren - maybe you mean Vasilievna? There is no such name - Vadiliy😂
Her birth name is Helen Lydia Mironoff. Her name was changed for Helen Mirren by her farther in 1950s.
Jean claude camille aka van dammme
smile on 😊
look you don't touch 🤫👀
ROCCO SIFFREDI 🇮🇹
Real Name
Rocco Antonio Tano 😂
clever people observe 🤫👀
Sooo, Ed Hardy?
They all want 33
Destiny hope really ? No hope
Spike Lee real name, Jodie Foster?