Famous Persons and Their Given Names

Edie Adams:                     Elizabeth Edith Enke
Eddie Albert:                   Edward Albert Heimberger
Alan Alda:                      Alphonso D'Abruzzo
Jane Alexander:                 Jane Quigley
Fred Allen:                     John Sullivan
Woody Allen:                    Allen Konigsberg
Julie Andrews:                  Julia Wells
Eve Arden:                      Eunice Quedens
Beatrice Arthur:                Bernice Frankel
Jean Arthur:                    Gladys Greene
Fred Astaire:                   Frederick Austerlitz
Lauren Bacall:                  Betty Joan Perske
Anne Bancroft:                  Anna Maria Italiano
Brigitte Bardot:                Camille Javal
Gene Barry:                     Eugene Klass
Orson Bean:                     Dallas Burrows
Pat Benatar:                    Patricia Andrejewski
Robbie Benson:                  Robert Segal
Tony Bennett:                   Anthony Benedetto
Busby Berkeley:                 William Berkeley Enos
Jack Benny:                     Benjamin Kubelsky
Joey Bishop:                    Joseph Gottlieb
Robert Blake:                   Michael Gubitosi
Victor Borge:                   Borge Rosenbaum
David Bowie:                    David Robert Jones
Boy George:                     George Alan O'Dowd
Fanny Brice:                    Fanny Borach
Morgan Brittany:                Suzanne Cupito
Charles Bronson:                Charles Buchinski
Mel Brooks:                     Melvin Kaminsky
George Burns:                   Nathan Birnbaum
Ellen Burstyn:                  Edna Gilhooley
Richard Burton:                 Richard Jenkins
Red Buttons:                    Aaron Chwatt
Michael Caine:                  Maurice Micklewhite
Maria Callas:                   Maria Kalogeropoulos
Diahann Carroll:                Carol Diahann Johnson
Cyd Charisse:                   Tula Finklea
Ray Charles:                    Ray Charles Robinson
Cher:                           Cherilyn Sarkisian
Patsy Cline:                    Virginia Patterson Hensley
Lee J. Cobb:                    Leo Jacoby
Claudette Colbert:              Lily Chauchoin
Michael Connors:                Kreker Ohanian
Robert Conrad:                  Conrad Robert Falk
Alice Cooper:                   Vincent Furnier
Howard Cosell:                  Howard Cohen
Lou Costello:                   Louis Cristillo
Joan Crawford:                  Lucille Le Sueur
Tony Curtis:                    Bernard Schwartz
Vic Damone:                     Vito Farinola
Rodney Dangerfield:             Jacob Cohen
Bobby Darin:                    Walden Waldo Cassotto
Doris Day:                      Doris von Kappelhoff
Yvonne De Carlo:                Peggy Middleton
Sandra Dee:                     Alexandra Zuck
John Denver:                    Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
Bo Derek:                       Cathleen Collins
John Derek:                     Derek Harris
Angie Dickinson:                Angeline Brown
Phyllis Diller:                 Phyllis Driver
Diana Dors:                     Diana Fluck
Melvyn Douglas:                 Melvyn Hesselberg
Bob Dylan:                      Robert Zimmerman
Barbara Eden:                   Barbara Huffman
Ron Ely:                        Ronald Pierce
Chad Everett:                   Raymond Cramton
Tom Ewell:                      S. Yewell Tompkins
Douglas Fairbanks:              Douglas Ullman
Morgan Fairchild:               Patsy McClenny
Alice Faye:                     Ann Leppert
Stepin Fetchit:                 Lincoln Perry
W.C. Fields:                    William Claude Dukenfield
Peter Finch:                    William Mitchell
Barry Fitzgerald:               William Joseph Shields
Joan Fontaine:                  Joan de Havilland
John Ford:                      Sean O'Fearna
John Forsythe:                  John Freund
Redd Foxx :                     John Sanford
Anthony Franciosa:              Anthony Papaleo
Arlene Francis:                 Arlene Kazanjian
Connie Francis:                 Concetta Franconero
Greta Garbo:                    Greta Gustafsson
John Garfield:                  Julius Garfinkle
Judy Garland:                   Frances Gumm
James Garner:                   James Baumgardner
Crystal Gayle:                  Brenda Gayle Webb
Bobbie Gentry:                  Roberta Streeter
Eydie Gorme:                    Edith Gormezano
Stewart Granger:                James Stewart
Cary Grant:                     Archibald Leach
Joel Grey:                      Joe Katz
Buddy Hackett:                  Leonard Hacker
Jean Harlow:                    Harlean Carpentier
Rex Harrison:                   Reginald Carey
Lawrence Harvey:                Larushka Skikne
Susan Hayward:                  Edythe Marriner
Rita Hayworth:                  Margarita Cansino
Barbara Hershey:                Barbara Herzstine
William Holden:                 William Beedle
Judy Holliday:                  Judith Tuvim
Harry Houdini:                  Ehrich Weiss
Leslie Howard:                  Leslie Stainer
Rock Hudson:                    Roy Scherer Jr. (later Fitzgerald)
Engelbert Humperdinck:          Arnold Dorsey
Kim Hunter:                     Janet Cole
Mary Beth Hurt:                 Mary Supinger
Betty Hutton:                   Betty Thornberg
David Janssen:                  David Meyer
Elton John:                     Reginald Dwight
Don Johnson:                    Donald Wayne
Jennifer Jones:                 Phyllis Isley
Tom Jones:                      Thomas Woodward
Louis Jourdan:                  Louis Gendre
Boris Karloff:                  William Henry Pratt
Danny Kaye:                     David Kaminsky
Diane Keaton:                   Diane Hall
Michael Keaton:                 Michael Douglas
Howard Keel:                    Harold Leek
Chaka Khan:                     Yvette Stevens
Carole King:                    Carole Klein
Ben Kingsley:                   Krishna Banji
Nastassja Kinski:               Nastassja Naksyznyski
Ted Knight:                     Tadeus Wladyslaw Konopka
Cheryl Ladd:                    Cheryl Stoppelmoor
Veronica Lake:                  Constance Ockleman
Dorothy Lamour:                 Mary Kaumeyer
Michael Landon:                 Eugene Orowitz
Mario Lanza:                    Alfredo Cocozza
Stan Laurel:                    Arthur Jefferson
Steve Lawrence:                 Sidney Leibowitz
Brenda Lee:                     Brenda Mae Tarpley
Gypsy Rose Lee:                 Rose Louise Hovick
Michelle Lee:                   Michelle Dusiak
Peggy Lee:                      Norma Egstrom
Janet Leigh:                    Jeanette Morrison
Vivian Leigh:                   Vivien Hartley
Jerry Lewis:                    Joseph Levitch
Hal Linden:                     Harold Lipshitz
Carole Lombard:                 Jane Peters
Jack Lord:                      John Joseph Ryan
Sophia Loren:                   Sophia Scicoloni
Peter Lorre:                    Laszio Lowenstein
Myrna Loy:                      Myrna Williams
Bela Lugosi:                    Bela Ferenc Blasko
Madonna:                        Madonna Louise Ciccone
Lee Majors:                     Harvey Lee Yeary 2d
Karl Malden:                    Malden Sekulovich
Jayne Mansfield:                Vera Jane Palmer
Fredric March:                  Frederick Bickel
Peter Marshall:                 Pierre LaCock
Dean Martin:                    Dino Crocetti
Ethel Merman:                   Ethel Zimmerman
Ray Milland:                    Reginald Truscott-Jones
Ann Miller:                     Lucille Collier
Joni Mitchell:                  Roberta Joan Anderson
Marilyn Monroe:                 Norma Jean Mortenson, (later) Baker
Yves Montand:                   Ivo Levi
Ron Moody:                      Ronald Moodnick
Garry Moore:                    Thomas Garrison Morfit
Rita Moreno:                    Rosita Alverio
Harry Morgan:                   Harry Bratsburg
Paul Muni:                      Muni Weisenfreund
Mike Nichols:                   Michael Igor Peschowsky
Sheree North:                   Dawn Bethel
Hugh O'Brian:                   Hugh Krampke
Maureen O'Hara:                 Maureen Fitzsimmons
Patti Page:                     Clara Ann Fowler
Jack Palance:                   Walter Palanuik
Lilli Palmer:                   Lilli Peiser
Bert Parks:                     Bert Jacobson
Minnie Pearl:                   Sarah Ophelia Cannon
Bernadette Peters:              Bernadette Lazzaro
Edity Piaf:                     Edith Gassion
Slim Pickens:                   Louis Lindley
Mary Pickford:                  Gladys Smith
Stephanie Powers:               Stefania Federkiewcz
Paula Prentiss:                 Paula Ragusa
Robert Preston:                 Robert Preston Meservey
Prince:                         Prince Rogers Nelson
Tony Randall:                   Leonard Rosenberg
Martha Raye:                    Margaret O'Reed
Donna Reed:                     Donna Belle Mullenger
Della Reese:                    Delloreese Patricia Early
Joan Rivers:                    Joan Sandra Molinsky
Edward G. Robinson:             Emanual Goldenberg
Ginger Rogers:                  Virginia McMath
Roy Rogers:                     Leonard Slye
Mickey Rooney:                  Joe Yule Jr.
Lillian Russell:                Helen Leonard
Susan St. James:                Susan Miller
Soupy Sales:                    Milton Hines
Susan Sarandon:                 Susan Tomaling
Randolph Scott:                 George Randolph Crane
Omar Sharif:                    Michael Shalhoub
Martin Sheen:                   Ramon Estevez
Beverly Sills:                  Belle Silverman
Talia Shire:                    Talia Coppola
Phil Silvers:                   Philip Silversmith
Suzanne Somers:                 Suzanne Mahoney
Ann Sothern:                    Harriette Lake
Barbara Stanwyck:               Ruby Stevens
Jean Stapleton:                 Jeanne Murray
Ringo Starr:                    Richard Starkey
Connie Stevens:                 Concetta Ingolia
Donna Summers:                  LaDonna Gaines
Robert Taylor:                  Spangler Arlington Brugh
Danny Thomas:                   Amos Jacobs
Sophie Tucker:                  Sophia Kalish
Tina Turner:                    Annie Mae Bullock
Conway Twitty:                  Harold Lloyd Jenkins
Rudolph Valentino:              Rudolpho D'Antonguolla
Frankie Valli:                  Frank Castelluccio
Nancy Walker:                   Myrtle Swoyer
David Wayne:                    Wayne McMeekan
John Wayne:                     Marion Morrison
Clifton Webb:                   Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck
Raquel Welch:                   Raquel Tejada
Gene Wilder:                    Jerome Silberman
Shelly Winters:                 Shirley Schrift
Stevie Wonder:                  Stevland Morris
Natalie Wood:                   Natasha Gurdin
Jane Wyman:                     Sarah Jane Fulks
Gig Young:                      Byron Barr

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