List of pseudonyms

This is a list of pseudonyms, in various categories.

A pseudonym is a name adopted by a person for a particular purpose, which differs from his or her true name. A pseudonym may be used by social activists or politicians for political purposes or by others for religious purposes. It may be a soldier's noms de guerre, an author's pen name, a performer's stage name, or an alias used by visual artists, athletes, fashion designers, or criminals. Pseudonyms are occasionally used in fiction such as by superheroes or other fictional characters.

Social activists

• Aristides (William Lloyd Garrison)
• Frank Talk (Stephen Bantu Biko)
• H. Rap Brown (Hubert Gerold Brown)
• Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
• Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)
• Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
• VaGla (Piotr Waglowski)
• WhoIsParadise (Marcus Dawes)

Visual arts

• ABOVE (Tavar Zawaki)
• W. Andresen (Christian Wilhelm Allers)
• Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola)
• Banksy (Robin Gunningham)
• Bramantino (Bartolomeo Suardi)
• Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canale)
• Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
• Cigoli (Lodovico Cardi)
• Coldmirror (Kathrin Fricke)
• Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
• DAIM (Mirko Reisser)
• Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi)
• Dosso Dossi (Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri)
• El Greco (Dominikos Theotokópulos)
• Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)
• Il Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi)
• Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco)
• Giottino (Maso di Stefano)
• Henriett Seth F. (on Hungarian pseudonym Seth F. Henriett; on birth name Fajcsák Henrietta)^[1]
• IceFrog (Unknown)
• Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
• Lee Krasner (Lena Krassner)
• Lo Spagna (Giovanni di Pietro)
• A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron)
• Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
• Marc Chagall (Moishe Shagal)
• Masaccio (Tommaso Cassai or, in some accounts Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone)
• Notch (Markus Persson)
• ουτις or OYTIΣ (István Orosz)
• Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
• Picasso (Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso)
• Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio Pisano or Antonio di Puccio da Cereto)
• Il Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis or Giovanni Antonio Licinio according to Vasari)
• Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
• Ricco (Erich Wassmer)
• ROJO (David Quiles Guilló)
• Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz)
• SAMO (Jean-Michel Basquiat)
• Spy (Leslie Ward)
• Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
• Titian (Tiziano Vecelli)
• Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen)
• Utisz (István Orosz)
• Vecchietta (Francesco di Giorgio e di Lorenzo)

Noms de guerre

• Abu Ammar (Yasir Arafat)
• 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 ("Spearhead" - 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.
• Legija ("Legion" – Milorad Ulemek)
• Monter ("Assembler" - Antoni Chruściel)
• 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)
• Strongbow - (Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke)
• The Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen)
• The Red Knight (Pseudonym created by British journalists for Manfred von Richthofen)
• Taras Chuprynka (Roman Shukhevych)
• Tito (Josip Broz)
• Francisco "Pancho" Villa (José Doroteo Arango Arámbula)
• Wilk ("Wolf" - Aleksander Krzyżanowski)
• Znicz ("Candle" - Tadeusz Komorowski)
• Zośka (Tadeusz Zawadzki)

Pornography names

Pen names

Politicians

• Abel Djassi (Amílcar Cabral)
• Amor De Cosmos (William (Bill) Alexander Smith )
• Anacharsis Cloots (Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots)
• Anthony Garotinho (Anthony William Matheus de Oliveira)
• Bob Denard (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
• Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus)
• Che Guevara (Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna)
• Chemical Ali (Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti)
• Comandante Gonzalo (Abimael Guzmán)
• Germain (Ernest Mandel)
• Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (Gheorghe Gheorghiu)
• Golda Meir (Golda Meyerson)
• Gracchus Babeuf (François-Noël Babeuf)
• Grigory Zinoviev (Ovsel Gershon Aronov Radomyslsky)
• Gus Hall (Arvo Kustaa Halberg)
• Ho Chi Minh (Nguyễn Sinh Cung)
• Houari Boumedienne (Mohamed Ben Brahim Boukharouba)
• János Kádár (János Csermanek)
• John Barron (Donald Trump)
• John Miller (Donald Trump)
• Joseph Estrada (Joseph Marcelo Ejército)
• Joseph Stalin (Ioseb Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili)
• Josip Tito (Josip Broz)
• J. Posadas (Homero Cristali)
• Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão (José Alexandre Gusmão)
• Kim Il Sung (Kim Song Ju)
• La Pasionaria (Dolores Ibárruri)
• Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)
• Lev Kamenev (Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld)
• Lula (Luiz Inácio da Silva)
• Martin Thembisile Hani (Chris Hani)
• Michel Pablo (Michel Raptis)
• Mobutu Sese Seko (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu)
• Nahuel Moreno (Hugo Bressano)
• Pol Pot (Saloth Sar)
• Prachanda (Pushpa Kamal Dahal)
• Publius (Alexander Hamilton)^[2]
• Ronwaldo Reyes (Fernando Poe, Jr.)
• Saïd Moustapha Mahdjoub (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
• Tariq Aziz (Michael Yuhanna)
• Ted Grant (Isaac Blank)
• Tony Cliff (Ygael Gluckstein)
• Tristán Marof (Gustavo Navarro)
• Vyacheslav Molotov (Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Skryabin)
• Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov)
• William Rabbit (Katay Don Sasorith)
• Willy Brandt (Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm)

Religion

• Acharya S (D. M. Murdock)
• Allan Kardec (Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail )
• Brother Andre (Alfred Bessette)
• Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone)
• Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
• Joseph of Cupertino (Giuseppe Maria Desa)
• Lord Mahavira (Vardhamana)
• Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)
• Mata Amritanandamayi (Sudhamani)
• Mother Angelica (Rita Antoinette Rizzo)
• Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)
• Moses David (David Berg)
• His Divine Grace Abhay Charana-Aravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De)
• Osho (Rajneesh Chandra Mohan)
• Padre Pio (Francesco Forgione)
• Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
• Sathya Sai Baba (Sathya Narayana Raju)
• Sister Dora (Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison)
• Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Dutta)
• Thérèse of Lisieux (Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin)
• Yusuf Islam (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, formerly known as Cat Stevens)

Stage names

Matrinames

Sportspeople

• Abédi Pelé (Abédi Ayew)
• Akebono Taro (Chad Haaheo Rowan)
• Al "Bummy" Davis (Abraham Davidoff)
• Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth, Jr.)
• Barney Oldfield (Berna Eli Oldfield)
• Bebeto (José Roberto Gama de Oliveira)
• Bubba Watson (Gerry Lester Watson, Jr.)
• Buddy Baker (Elzie Wylie Baker, Jr.)
• Cafu (Marcos Evangelista de Moraes)
• Cale Yarborough (William Caleb Yarborough)
• Careca (Antonio de Oliveira Filho)
• Casey Stengel (Charles Dillon Stengel; originally named after the initials of his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, or "K.C.")
• Chad Ochocinco (Chad Javon Johnson)
• Chi Chi Rodriguez (Juan Antonio Rodriguez)
• Chipper Jones (Larry Wayne Jones, Jr.)
• Cristiano Ronaldo (Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro)
• Dabo Swinney (William Christopher Swinney)
• Deco (Anderson Luiz de Sousa)
• Dick Tiger (Richard Ihetu)
• Dida (Nélson de Jesus Silva)
• Duda (Sérgio Paulo Barbosa Valente)
• Fuzzy Zoeller (Frank Urban Zoeller, Jr.)
• Garrincha (Manuel Francisco dos Santos)
• Geki (Giacomo Russo)
• Gimax (Carlo Franchi)
• Goose Gossage (Richard Michael Gossage)
• Garry Kasparov (Garik Kimovich Weinstein)
• Raymond Kopa (Raymond Kopaszewski)
• He hate me (Rod Smart)
• Hellé Nice (Mariette Hélène Delangle)
• Henri Cornet (Henri Jaudry)
• Henry Arundel (Henry Fitzalan-Howard)
• Ickey Woods (Elbert L. Woods)
• Jim McKay (James Kenneth McManus)
• JJ Lehto (Jyrki Järvilehto)
• Joe Louis (Joseph Louis Barrow)
• John Winter (Louis Krages)
• Johnny Dumfries (John Crichton-Stuart)
• 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)
• Konishiki Yasokichi (Salevaa Atisanoe)
• Kuba (Jakub Błaszczykowski)
• Leon Duray (George Stewart)
• Lolo Jones (Lori Jones)
• Lucien Petit-Breton (Lucien Mazan)
• Míchel (José Miguel González Martín)
• Metta World Peace (Ronald William Artest, Jr.)
• Mercury Morris (Eugene Edward Morris)
• Mo Martin (Melissa Linda Martin)
• Muggsy Bogues (Tyrone Curtis Bogues)
• Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.)
• Musashimaru Koyo (Fiamalu Penitani)
• Nenê (Maybyner Rodney Hilário; this is now his legal name)
• Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
• Pierre Levegh (Pierre Bouillin)
• Razor Ruddock (Donovan Ruddock)
• Rivaldo (Vitor Borba Ferreira)
• Rocket Ismail (Raghib Ramadian Ismail)
• Rocky Marciano (Rocco Francis Marchegiano)
• Rollie Fingers (Roland Glen Fingers)
• Ronaldo (Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima)
• Ronaldinho (Ronaldo de Assis Moreira))
• Satchel Paige (Leroy Robert Paige)
• Spud Webb (Anthony Jerome Webb)
• Stanley Ketchel (Stanislaus Kiecal)
• Sugar Ray Leonard (Ray Charles Leonard)
• Sugar Ray Robinson (Walker Smith Jr.)
• Suso (Jesús Fernandez Sáez)
• Takanohana Koji (Koji Hanada)
• Tony Zale (Anthony Florian Zaleski)
• W Williams (William Grover-Williams)
• Wakanohana Masaru (Masaru Hanada)
• Whitey Ford (Edward Charles Ford)
• Yogi Berra (Lawrence Peter Berra)
• Zico (Arthur Antunes Coimbra)

Criminals

• Al Capone (Alphonse Gabriel Capone)
• Arkan (Željko Ražnatović)
• Baby Face Nelson (Lester Joseph Gillis; also used the alias George Nelson)
• The Barefoot Bandit (Colton Harris-Moore)
• Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney; born William Henry McCarty, Jr.)
• Black Bart (Charles Earl Bowles)
• BTK (Dennis Rader)
• Bugsy Siegel (Benjamin Siegelbaum)
• Bumpy Johnson (Ellsworth Raymond Johnson)
• Buster Edwards (Ronald Christopher Edwards)
• Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy Parker)
• Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramírez Sánchez)
• Dutch Schultz (Arthur Flegenheimer)
• Frank Costello (Francesco Castiglia)
• Green River Killer (Gary Leon Ridgway)
• The Happy Face Killer (Keith Hunter Jesperson)
• Hillside Strangler (collective pseudonym for two serial killers, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi)
• The Iceman (Richard Kuklinski)
• The I-5 Killer (Randall Woodfield)
• Jack the Ripper (Unknown)
• Legs Diamond (Jack Diamond)
• Kim Philby (Harold Adrian Russell Philby)
• Lucky Luciano (Salvatore Lucania)
• Machine Gun Kelly (George Celino Barnes)
• Meyer Lansky (Meyer Suchowljansky)
• Mickey Cohen (Meyer Harris Cohen)
• Murf the Surf (Jack Roland Murphy)
• Murray The Hump (Murray Humphreys)
• Ned Kelly (Edward Kelly)
• The Night Stalker (Richard Ramirez)
• Pretty Boy Floyd (Charles Arthur Floyd)
• Sara Jane Olson (Kathleen Soliah)
• Son of Sam (David Berkowitz)
• The Sundance Kid (Harry Alonzo Longabaugh)
• The Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski; pseudonym was an FBI acronym for UNiversities and Airline Bomber)
• Waxey Gordon (Irving Wexler)
• The Yorkshire Ripper (Peter Sutcliffe)
• The Zodiac Killer (Unknown)

Fashion and beauty

• Coco Chanel (Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel)
• Elizabeth Arden (Florence Nightingale Graham)
• Estée Lauder (Josephine Esther Mentzer)
• Halston (Roy Halston Frowick)
• Jil Sander (Heidemarie Jiline Sander)
• Jimmy Choo (Choo Yeang Keat)
• Karl Lagerfeld (Karl Otto Lagerfeldt)
• Manolo Blahnik (Manuel Blahnik Rodriguez)
• Marc Ecko (Marc Louis Milecofsky)
• Max Factor (Maksymilian Faktorowicz)
• Miu Miu (Miuccia Prada)
• Paco Rabanne (Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo)

Other real life pseudonyms

• Alexander Supertramp (Christopher McCandless)
• Bernard Shakey (Neil Young)
• Colonel Tom Parker (Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk)
• Divine Brown (Estella Marie Thompson)
• Emmanuel Goldstein (Eric Corley)
• John of God (João Teixeira de Faria)
• Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida "Grietje" Zelle MacLeod)
• Miss Cleo (Youree Dell Harris)
• Viktor Suvorov (Vladimir Rezun)

Pseudonyms used in fiction

Superhero genre

• The Hulk (Dr. Robert Bruce Banner) - Marvel Comics
• Spider-Man (Peter Benjamin Parker) - Marvel Comics
• Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) - Marvel Comics
• Wolverine (Logan, James Howlett) - Marvel Comics
• Captain America (Steven Grant "Steve" Rogers) - Marvel Comics
• Superman (Kal-El / Clark Kent) - DC Comics
• Wonder Woman (Princess Diana of Themyscira / Diana Prince) - DC comics
• Batman (Bruce Wayne) - DC Comics
• Catwoman (Selina Kyle) - DC Comics
  • Catwoman (Patience Phillips) - 2004 film
• Rorschach (Walter Joseph Kovacs) - Watchmen (Alan Moore graphic novel)
• Doctor Octopus (Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius) - Marvel Comics
• Huntress (Helena Wayne) - DC Comics
  • Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) - DC Comics
• Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) - DC Comics
  • Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) - DC Comics
• The Flash (Jay Garrick) - DC Comics
  • The Flash (Barry Allen) - DC Comics
  • The Flash (Wally West) - DC Comics
  • The Flash (Bart Allen) - DC Comics
• The Penguin (Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot) - DC Comics
• The Riddler (Dr. Edward Nigma) - DC Comics

Other fictional characters

• Lord Voldemort (Tom Marvolo Riddle) - Harry Potter Series
• Aramis (Henri d'Aramitz, le Chevalier d'Herblay) - The Three Musketeers
• Scarlet Pimpernel (Sir Percy Blakeney)
• Athos (Armand de Sillègue d'Athos d'Autevielle, Le Comte de La Fère) - The Three Musketeers
• Demosthenes (Valentine Wiggin)
• Chuck Finley (Sam Axe)
• d'Artagnan (Charles de Batz-Castelmore) - The Three Musketeers
• Dylan Sharp (Deryn Sharp - Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld)
• Jeff (Othello Jeffries from the comic strip Mutt and Jeff)
• Locke (Peter Wiggin)
• M (Sir Miles Messervy) - James Bond novels
• Q (Major Boothroyd) - James Bond Novels
• Regina Phalange (Phoebe Buffay) - Friends
• Porthos (Isaac de Porthau, Baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds) - The Three Musketeers
• Rusty Shackleford (Dale Gribble)
• Duke Silver (Ron Swanson)
• Speaker for the Dead (Ender Wiggin)
• Ken Adams (Joey Tribbiani) - Friends
• Art Vandelay (George Costanza) - Seinfeld
• La Volpe - Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
• Zorro (Don Diego de la Vega)
• Alucard (Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes)
• Mr. Underhill (Frodo Baggins) - Lord Of The Rings series
• The Shadow (Lamont Cranston)
• Clint Eastwood (Marty McFly) - Back To The Future Part III
• Heisenberg (Walter White) - Breaking Bad
• Saul Goodman (James "Jimmy" McGill) - Breaking Bad
• L (L Lawliet) - Death Note
• John Smith - Kyon
• The Doctor (Doctor Who) - Unknown

See also

• Literary initials
• List of people who adopted matrilineal surnames
• List of pseudonyms used in the American constitutional debates
• List of works published under a pseudonym
• Mononymous persons
• Nicknames of jazz musicians

References

1. Particular Educational Talents Support Council, 3rd annex http://www.tehetsegpont.hu/dokumentumok/eml_ntt_20110511.doc "Henriett Seth F. - The Rain Girl Artist" National Talents Support Council. Retrieved 2011-04-03
2. Entirety of Chapter Thirteen in Ron Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton"

External links

• FamousFolk - An extensive list of pseudonyms