List of pseudonyms

List of pseudonyms

Here is a list of pseudonyms, in various categories. Pseudonyms are similar to, but distinct from, secret identities.

Artists, sculptors, architects

* Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola)
* Banksy (Unknown)

* Bramantino (Bartolomeo Suardi)
* Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canale)
* Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
* Cigoli (Lodovico Cardi)
* Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)
* Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
* Dosso Dossi (Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri)
* El Greco (Dominikos Theotokópulos)
* Il Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi)
* Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco)
* Giottino (Maso di Stefano)
* Giovanni Barbbaro (Arthur Dudley)
* Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
* Lo Spagna (Giovanni di Pietro)
* A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron)
* Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
* Masaccio (Tommaso Cassai or, in some accounts Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone)
* ουτις or OYTIΣ (István Orosz)
* Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
* Phelgo (Unknown)
* Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio Pisano "or" Antonio di Puccio da Cereto)
* Il Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis "or" Giovanni Antonio Licinio according to Vasari)
* Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
* Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen)
* Utisz (István Orosz)
* Vecchietta (Francesco di Giorgio e di Lorenzo)
* Pandalf Vulkanski (Nikola Gelevski)

Noms de guerre, war code names

* Borelowski (Michał Grażyński)
* Bór ("Forest" - Tadeusz Komorowski)
* Carcassonne (name of a city) - Marc Bloch
* Dassault ("For assault" - Darius Paul Bloch)
* Grabica (name of mountain - Stefan Rowecki)
* Grot ("Arrowhead" - Stefan Rowecki)
* Grzegorz ("Gregory", a name - Tadeusz Pełczyński)
* Hubal (Henryk Dobrzański)
* Jean Jérome - Michel Feintuch
* Kalina ("Cranberry" - Stefan Rowecki)
* Korczak (surname or coat of arms name - Tadeusz Komorowski)
* J. Krzemień (Florian Marciniak)
* Lawina ("Avalanche" - Tadeusz Komorowski)
* Leclerc - Philippe François Marie, comte de Hauteclocque, later his legal name.
* Monter ("Assembler" - Antoni Chruściel)
* M'zée Fula-Ngenge (André A. Jackson)
* Niedźwiadek ("Bear cub" - Leopold Okulicki)
* Nil ("Nile river " - August Emil Fieldorf)
* Orsza (Stanisław Broniewski)
* Ponury ("Gloomy" - Jan Piwnik)
* Radosław (a name - Jan Mazurkiewicz)
* Rakoń (name of mountain - Stefan Rowecki)
* The Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen)
* Taras Chuprynka (Roman Shukhevych)
* Tito (Josip Broz)
* Wilk ("Wolf" - Aleksander Krzyżanowski)
* Znicz ("Candle" - Tadeusz Komorowski)
* Zośka (Tadeusz Zawadzki)

Pen names

:"Note: List of Urdu language poets provides pen names for a range of Urdu poets".
* A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner, one of several he published under)
* Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Annu)
* Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
* Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky)
* Acton Bell (Anne Brontë)
* Æ (George William Russell)
* Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier)
* Alan Gould (Victor Canning)
* Alan Smithee (name used by American film directors under certain circumstances)
* Alberto Moravia (Alberto Pincherle)
* Ann Landers (Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer)
* Alcofribas Nasier (François Rabelais)
* Alexander Barks (Charlie Christensen)
* Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault)
* Andrew MacDonald (William Luther Pierce)
* Anne Rice (Howard Allen O'Brien)
* Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)
* Arkon Daraul (likely Idries Shah)
* Ashida Kim (Radford William Davis)
* Azorín (José Martínez Ruiz)
* Banaphool (Balāi Chānd Mukhopādhyāy)
* Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
* Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Louis Sauser)
* Bob Hart (Al Trace|Albert J. Trace)
* Boris Akunin (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili)
* Boz (Charles Dickens)
* Boz (Raymond "Boz" Burrell)
* Branislav Nušić (Ben Akiba)
* Bruno Traven
* Brynjolf Bjarme (Henrik Ibsen)
* Carter Dickson (also "Carr Dickson": John Dickson Carr)
* Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm)
* Cherubina de Gabriak (Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva)
* Christopher Hunter (Radford William Davis)
* Clem Watts ( [Albert J. Trace)
* Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
* Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë)
* Curzio Malaparte (Kurt Erich Suckert)
* Daniel Defoe (Daniel Foe)
* Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev)
* Danuta de Rhodes (Dan Rhodes)
* David Axton (Dean Koontz)
* David Michaels (Raymond Benson)
* Dazai Osamu (Shuji Tsushima)
* Dear Abby (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
* Diedrich Knickerbocker (Washington Irving)
* Douglas Spaulding (Ray Bradbury)
* Doctor A (Isaac Asimov)
* Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
* Ed McBain (Evan Hunter, born as Salvatore A. Lombino)
* Edith Van Dyne (L. Frank Baum)
* Edogawa Rampo (Hirai Tarō)
* Edward Pygge (Ian Hamilton, Clive James, Russell Davies)
* Edwin Caskoden (Charles Major)
* Elia (Charles Lamb)
* Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz)
* Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)
* Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
* Elsa Triolet (Elsa Kagan)
* Elsie J. Oxenham (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley)
* Emanuel Morgan (Witter Bynner)
* Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark)
* Euphrosyne (Julia Nyberg)
* Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan)
* Francis Bennett (Edwin Keppel Bennett)
* Françoise Sagan (Françoise Quoirez)
* Geoffrey Crayon (Washington Irving)
* George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
* George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
* George Sand (Amandine Dupin)
* Georges Courteline (Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux
* Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Lippincott)
* Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky)
* Guy d'Obonner (Marion D. Farell)
* H.N. Turtletaub (Harry Turtledove)
* Hard Pan (Geraldine Bonner)
* Harold Robbins (Harold Rubin)
* Havank (Hans van der Kallen)
* Hergé (Georges Remi)
* Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus)
* Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg)
* Irwin Shaw (Irwin Shamforoff)
* Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
* Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz)
* J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts)
* James Dillinger (James Robert Baker)
* James Tiptree, Jr (Alice Sheldon)
* Jay Livingston (Jacob Harold Levison)
* Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)
* Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert)
* Johann Joachim Sautscheck (Roman Turovsky-Savchuk)
* John Beynon (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
* John Christopher (Samuel Youd)
* John le Carre (David John Moore Cornwell)
* John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
* Jonathan Oldstyle (Washington Irving)
* Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski)
* Julia Quinn (Julia Pottinger)
* Korney Chukovsky (Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov)
* Keno (Eric Killinger)
* Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
* Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol)
* Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
* Lorenzo da Ponte (Emmanuele Conegliano )
* Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches)
* Lu Lung (Alicia Garcia)
* M. Barnard Eldershaw (Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw)
* Maironis (Jonas Mačiulis)
* Mark Brandis (Nikolai von Michalewsky)
* Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
* Martin Roberts (Ralph de Vore)
* Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
* Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian)
* Michael Serafian (Malachi Martin)
* Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart)
* Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
* Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
* Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins)
* Nancy Boyd (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
* Natsume Sōseki (Natsume Kinnosuke)
* Nisa (Nicola Salerno), Italian lyricist
* Nicolas Bourbaki (a group of 20th-century mathematicians)
* Novalis (Friedrich Leopold)
* O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
* Ogdred Weary (Edward Gorey)
* Onceler Lorax (Zachary Bass)
* Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
* Pablo Neruda (Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto)
* Paul Annixter (Howard Allison Sturtzel)
* Paul Celan (Paul Antschel)
* Paul French Isaac Asimov
* Jean Ray (Jean Raymond Marie de Kremer)
* Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos)
* Peter Gast (Heinrich Köselitz)
* Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud)
* Piers Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)
* Phillip Guston (Phillip Goldstein)
* Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers)
* Q (Arthur Quiller-Couch)
* Rafael Lefort, anagram of "a real effort", Idries Shah
* Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
* Richard Leander (Richard von Volkmann)
* Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
* Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis)
* Roger Fairbairn (John Dickson Carr)
* Romain Gary (Romain Kacew)
* Rosemary Edghill (eluki bes shahar)
* Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger)
* Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
* Salomėja Nėris (Salomėja Bučinskaitė-Bučienė)
* Sapper (H. C. McNeile)
* Seiko Legru (Janwillem van de Wetering)
* Sierra Needle (Emily Axford)
* Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin)
* Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble)
* Stash Cairo (Craig Hamilton)
* Stefan Brockhoff (Dieter Cunz, Richard Plant, Oskar Seidlin)
* Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis)
* Stein Riverton (Sven Elvestad, born as Kristoffer Elvestad Svendsen)
* Student (William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics)
* Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
* Ted L. Nancy (Currently unknown, possibly Jerry Seinfeld. Creator of the "Letters from a Nut.")
* The Fredman (Karl Mikael Bellman)
* Thoinot Arbeau (Jehan Tabourot)
* Tite Kubo (Noriaki Kubo)
* TM Maple (Jim Burke)
* Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford)
* Trevanian (Rodney William Whitaker)
* Tristan Tzara (Sami Rosenstock)
* Uanhenga Xitu (Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho)
* Umberto Saba (Umberto Poli)
* Vera Haij (Tove Jansson)
* Vercors (Jean Bruller)
* Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian)
* Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
* Walter (Henry Spencer Ashbee)
* Willibald Alexis (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring)
* Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
* Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev)
* Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka)

Politicians

* Abel Djassi (Amílcar Cabral)
* Anacharsis Cloots (Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots)
* An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (Douglas Hyde)
* Anthony Garotinho (Anthony William Matheus de Oliveira)
* Bob Denard (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
* Che Guevara (Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna)
* Comandante Gonzalo (Abimael Guzmán)
* Germain (Ernest Mandel)
* Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej [Gheorghe Gheorghiu)
* Gracchus Babeuf (François-Noël Babeuf)
* Grigory Zinoviev (Ovsel Gershon Aronov Radomyslsky)
* Gus Hall (Arvo Kusta Halberg)
* Ho Chi Minh (Nguyễn Sinh Cung)
* Houari Boumedienne (Mohamed Ben Brahim Boukharouba)
* H. Rap Brown (Hubert Gerold Brown)
* Iñaki de Rentería (Ignacio Gracia Arregui)
* János Kádár (János Csermanek)
* Joseph Estrada (Joseph Marcelo Ejército)
* Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili)
* Josip Tito (Josip Broz)
* J. Posadas (Homero Cristali)
* J.R. Johnson (Cyril Lionel Robert James)
* Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão (José Alexandre Gusmão)
* Kim Il Sung (Kim Song Ju)
* Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
* La Pasionaria (Dolores Ibárruri)
* Léon José de Ramírez Reina (Léon Degrelle)
* Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)
* Lev Kamenev (Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld)
* Loulou (Enver Hoxha)
* Lula (Luiz Inácio da Silva)
* Martin Thembisile Hani (Chris Hani)
* Michel Pablo (Michel Raptis)
* Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu)
* Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
* Nahuel Moreno (Hugo Bressano)
* Pol Pot (Saloth Sar)
* Prachanda (Pushpa Kamal Dahal)
* Ronwaldo Reyes (Fernando Poe, Jr.)
* Saïd Moustapha Mahdjoub (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
* Sara Jane Olson (Kathleen Soliah)
* Tariq Aziz (Michael Yuhanna)
* Ted Grant (Isaac Blank)
* Tetsuzo Fuwa (Kenjiro Ueda; named after N. I. Bukharin)
* Tony Cliff (Ygael Gluckstein)
* Tristán Marof (Gustavo Navarro)
* Vyacheslav Molotov (Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Skryabin)
* Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)
* William Rabbit (Katay Don Sasorith)
* Willy Brandt (Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm)
* X (George F. Kennan)

Religion

* Acharya S (D. Murdock)
* Allan Kardec (Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail )
* Mata Amritanandamayi (Sudhamani)
* His Divine Grace Abhay Charana-Aravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De)
* Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
* Yusuf Islam (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, formerly known as Cat Stevens)
* Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaj (Nrsimha Chakravarti)
* Lord Mahavira (Vardhamana)
* Osho (Rajneesh Chandra Mohan)
* Sathya Sai Baba (Sathya Narayana Raju)
* Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)
* Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Dutta)

tage names

See List of stage names.

portspeople

*Abédi Pelé (Abédi Ayew)
*Action Jackson (André Action Diakité Jackson)
*Akebono Taro (Chad Haaheo Rowan)
*Al Bummy Davis (Abraham Davidoff)
*Bebeto (José Roberto Gama de Oliveira)
*Cafu (Marcos Evangelista de Moraes)
*Careca (Antonio de Oliveira Filho)
*Deco (Anderson Luiz de Sousa)
*Dick Tiger (Richard Ihetu)
*Dida (Nélson de Jesus Silva)
*Eduardo Golding (David Edward Michael Gordon Copleston)
*Garrincha (Manuel Francisco dos Santos)
*Garry Kasparov (Gari Weinstein)
*Raymond Kopa (Raymond Kopaszewski)
*He hate me (Rod Smart)
*Henri Cornet (Henri Jaudry)
*Jim McKay (James Kenneth McManus)
*Joe Louis (Joseph Louis Barrow)
*Kaká (Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite)
*Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr.; legally changed name after conversion to Islam)
*Karim Abdul-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah)
*Khaosai Galaxy (Sura Saenkham)
*Kid McCoy (Norman Selby)
*Kline (Roland Lam)
*Konishiki Yasokichi (Salevaa Atisanoe)
*Lucien Petit-Breton (Lucien Mazan)
*Míchel (José Miguel González Martín)
*Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.)
*Musashimaru Koyo (Fiamalu Penitani)
*Nenê (Maybyner Rodney Hilario; this is now his legal name)
*Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
*Rivaldo (Vitor Borba Ferreira)
*Rocky Marciano (Rocco Francis Marchegiano)
*Ronaldinho (Ronaldo de Assis Moreira)
*Smush Parker (William Henry Parker)
*Stanley Ketchel (Stanislaus Kiecal)
*The Stig (Unknown)
*Sugar Ray Robinson (Walker Smith Jr.)
*Takanohana Koji (Koji Hanada)
*Tony Zale (Anthony Florian Zaleski)
*Wakanohana Masaru (Masaru Hanada)
*Zico (Arthur Antunes Coimbra)

Fictional

*Rusty Shackleford (Dale Gribble)
*Demosthenes (Valentine Wiggin)
*Locke (Peter Wiggin)

Other

* Aramis (Chevalier d'Herblay)
* Art Vandelay (George Costanza)
* Athos (Le Comte de La Fère)
* The Big Deal (Brice Jordan Foutch)
* Bernard Shakey (Neil Young)
* Colonel Tom Parker (Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk)
* Emmanuel Goldstein (Eric Corley)
* Manoj (Mayank)
* Maxwell Nerdstrom
* Porthos (Monsieur du Vallon)
* Viktor Suvorov (Vladimir Rezun)

ee also

* Literary initials
* List of notable pen names
* List of pseudonyms used in the American constitutional debates
* List of works published under a pseudonym
* Mononymous persons
* Nicknames of jazz musicians

References

External links

* [http://www.famousfolk.com/ FamousFolk - An extensive list of pseudonyms]


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