Here is a
list of pseudonymA pseudonym is a fictitious name used by a person, or sometimes, a group.Pseudonyms are often used to hide an individual's real identity, as with writers' pen names, graffiti artists, resistance fighters' or terrorists' noms de guerre and computer hackers' handles. Actors, musicians, and other...
s, in various categories. Pseudonyms are similar to, but distinct from,
secret identitiesA secret identity is an element of fiction wherein a character develops a separate persona , while keeping their true identity hidden. The character also may wear a disguise...
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Visual arts
- Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola , best known as Balthus, was an esteemed but controversial Polish-French modern artist....
(Balthazar Klossowski de Rola)
- Banksy
Banksy is a quasi-anonymous English graffiti artist. He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol and to have been born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details. According to Tristan Manco, Banksy...
(Unknown)
- Bramantino
Bartolomeo Suardi, best known as Bramantino , was an Italian painter and architect, mainly active in his native Milan.-Biography:...
(Bartolomeo Suardi)
- Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.- Early career :...
(Giovanni Antonio Canale)
- Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610...
(Michelangelo Merisi)
- Cigoli
Lodovico Cardi, also known as Cigoli , was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in Florence, and spending the last nine years of his life in Rome....
(Lodovico Cardi)
- Erté (Romain de Tirtoff
Romain de Tirtoff was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, the French pronunciation of his initials, R.T.-Life:...
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- Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also painter, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International Style...
(Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
- Dosso Dossi
Dosso Dossi , real name Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri, was an Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting.-Biography:Dossi was born in San Giovanni del Dosso Mantova - Mantua...
(Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri)
- El Greco
El Greco was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος .El Greco was born in Crete, which was at that...
(Dominikos Theotokópulos)
- Il Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi
Benvenuto Tisi or Il Garofalo was a Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara. Garofalo's career began attached to the court of the Duke d'Este...
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- Giorgione
Giorgione was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work...
(Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco)
- Giottino
Giottino was an early Italian painter from Florence. His real name was Maso di Stefano or Tommaso di Stefano....
(Maso di Stefano)
- Giovanni Barbbaro (Arthur Dudley)
- Il Sodoma
Il Sodoma was the name given to the Italian Mannerist painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of the provincial Sienese school; he spent the bulk of his professional life in Siena, with...
(Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
- Lo Spagna
Lo Spagna , was a painter of the High-Renaissance, active in central Italy. His name was Giovanni di Pietro, but known as Lo spagno because he was born in Spain....
(Giovanni di Pietro)
- A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron)
- Man Ray
Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky , was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...
(Emmanuel Radnitzky)
- Masaccio
Masaccio , was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance...
(Tommaso Cassai or, in some accounts Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone)
- ουτις or OYTIΣ (István Orosz
István Orosz Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director, is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphoses. The geometric art of István Orosz, with forced perspectives and optical...
)
- Parmigianino
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola , also known as Francesco Mazzola or more commonly as Parmigianino or sometimes "Parmigiano", was a prominent Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma...
(Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
- Phelgo
Phelgo is a Portuguese activist, novelist and street artist. He is mainly known for the satirical and political stencils he made in Oporto. In the beginning of 2007, he made a website and a series of stencils denouncing the illegal business surrounding Oporto's theatre, Rivoli, which was a national...
(Unknown)
- Pisanello
Pisanello , known professionally as Antonio di Puccio Pisano or Antonio di Puccio da Cereto, also erroneously called Vittore Pisano by Giorgio Vasari, was one of the most distinguished painters of the early Italian Renaissance and Quattrocento...
(Antonio di Puccio Pisano or Antonio di Puccio da Cereto)
- Il Pordenone
Il Pordenone, byname of Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis , was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, active during the Renaissance. Vasari, his main biographer, identifies him as Giovanni Antonio Licinio.-Biography:...
(Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis or Giovanni Antonio Licinio according to Vasari)
- Tintoretto
Tintoretto was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance...
(Jacopo Robusti)
- Tom of Finland
Touko Laaksonen, best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland was a Finnish artist notable for his stylized homoerotic and fetish art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W...
(Touko Laaksonen)
- Utisz
Outis or Utis or Utisz or ουτις or OYTIΣ – means Nobody is an often used pseudonym. Artists, writers and others in public life use this pseudonym in order to hide their identity.- Origin of the name :...
(István Orosz)
- Vecchietta
Francesco di Giorgio e di Lorenzo , known as Vecchietta or Lorenzo di Pietro, was an Italian Sienese School painter, sculptor, goldsmith and architect of the Renaissance...
(Francesco di Giorgio e di Lorenzo)
Noms de guerre
- Borelowski (Michał Grażyński)
- Bór ("Forest" - Tadeusz Komorowski)
- Carcassonne
Carcassonne is a fortified French town in the Aude département, of which it is the prefecture, in the former province of Languedoc.It is separated into the fortified Cité de Carcassonne and the more expansive lower city, the ville basse...
(name of a city) - Marc BlochMarc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a medieval historian, University Professor and French Army officer...
- Dassault ("For assault" - Darius Paul Bloch)
- Grabica (name of mountain - Stefan Rowecki
Stefan Paweł Rowecki was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murdered by the Gestapo in prison, probably on the direct order of Heinrich Himmler.-Life:Rowecki was born in Piotrków Trybunalski...
)
- Grot ("Spearhead" - Stefan Rowecki
Stefan Paweł Rowecki was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murdered by the Gestapo in prison, probably on the direct order of Heinrich Himmler.-Life:Rowecki was born in Piotrków Trybunalski...
)
- Grzegorz ("Gregory", a name - Tadeusz Pełczyński)
- Hubal (Henryk Dobrzański
Major Henryk Dobrzański aka "Hubal" was a Polish soldier, sportsman and partisan, first guerrilla commander in the Second World War in Europe.-Early life and career:...
)
- Jean Jérome - Michel Feintuch
- Kalina ("Cranberry" - Stefan Rowecki
Stefan Paweł Rowecki was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murdered by the Gestapo in prison, probably on the direct order of Heinrich Himmler.-Life:Rowecki was born in Piotrków Trybunalski...
)
- Korczak (surname or coat of arms name - Tadeusz Komorowski)
- J. Krzemień (Florian Marciniak
Florian Marciniak codename: Jerzy Nowak, Nowak, J.Krzemień, Szary, Flo was a Polish Scoutmaster , first Naczelnik of the Szare Szeregi during the Second World War. He was also the graduate of St...
)
- Lawina ("Avalanche" - Tadeusz Komorowski)
- Leclerc - Philippe François Marie, comte de Hauteclocque
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque , was a French general during World War II; he became Marshal of France posthumously, in 1952....
, later his legal name.
- Monter ("Assembler" - Antoni Chruściel
Gen. Antoni Chruściel was a Polish military officer and a general of the Polish Army. He is best known as the de facto commander of all the armed forces of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, as well as Home Army's chief of staff.-Early life:Antoni Chruściel was born 16 July 1895 in the village of...
)
- M'zée Fula-Ngenge (André A. Jackson
Dr. André Action Diakité Jackson , , more commonly known by his African clan name "M’Zée Fula-Ngenge" , is a diamond executive and head of JFPI Corporation, Africa's largest holding company....
)
- Niedźwiadek ("Bear cub" - Leopold Okulicki
General Leopold Okulicki was a General of the Polish Army and the last commander of the anti-German underground Home Army during World War II. He was murdered after the war by the Soviet NKVD.-Early life:...
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- Nil ("Nile River " - August Emil Fieldorf)
- Orsza (Stanisław Broniewski)
- Ponury ("Gloomy" - Jan Piwnik
Jan Piwnik was a Polish World War II soldier, a cichociemny and a notable leader of the Home Army in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. He used the noms de guerre Ponury and Donat.-Biography:...
)
- Radosław (a name - Jan Mazurkiewicz
Jan Mazurkiewicz , codename Radosław, was a colonel of Armia Krajowa, general in Ludowe Wojsko Polskie, vice-president of ZBoWiD....
)
- Rakoń (name of mountain - Stefan Rowecki
Stefan Paweł Rowecki was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murdered by the Gestapo in prison, probably on the direct order of Heinrich Himmler.-Life:Rowecki was born in Piotrków Trybunalski...
)
- The Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen was a German fighter pilot known as the "Red Baron". He was the most successful flying ace of the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I, being officially credited with 80 confirmed air combat victories.Richthofen was a member of an...
)
- Taras Chuprynka (Roman Shukhevych
Roman Shukhevych was a Ukrainian politician and military leader, the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In 2007, he was posthumously awarded the title "Hero of Ukraine", the country's highest honor.-Childhood:Roman Shukhevych was born in the city of Lviv...
)
- Tito (Josip Broz)
- Wilk ("Wolf" - Aleksander Krzyżanowski
Aleksander "Wilk" Krzyżanowski – was a Polish officer, major, member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and Commandant of the Armia Krajowa in the Vilnius Region.- Biography :...
)
- Znicz ("Candle" - Tadeusz Komorowski)
- Zośka (Tadeusz Zawadzki
Tadeusz Zawadzki codename: Zośka, Kajman, Kotwicki, Lech Pomarańczowy, Tadeusz was a Polish Scoutmaster , Polish scouting resistance activist and second lieutenant of the Armia Krajowa during the Second World War...
)
Noms du porn
With very few exceptions,
porn starsPorn Stars is the second studio album by the band Pretty Boy Floyd. It features re-recordings of five tracks from their debut album Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz, a re-recording of one track from Tonight Belongs To The Young, and a re-recording of one track from their EP A Tale of Sex, Designer...
use pseudonyms, which are often suggestive or humorous (e.g.
Felix ViciousFelix Vicious is an American former pornographic actress from Denver, Colorado.Vicious relocated to California when she turned 18; while Bisexual Britni and Shay Sweet were signing autographs at an adult store, they invited Vicious to experience the adult industry...
or
Dick NastyDick Nasty is an English pornographic actor.He is moderately well known for briefly appearing in the investigative documentary Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, in the 'Porn Stars' episode, where he can be seen filming a scene for controversial pornographer Rob Black.-Awards and nominations:*2006...
)
See a list of prominent porn stars.
Pen names
- Note: List of Urdu language poets provides pen names for a range of Urdu
Urdu is a Central Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It is one of the two official languages of Pakistan. It is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of five Indian states...
poets.
- A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author of detective stories, who also published under the pseudonyms A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J...
, 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
Not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell .George William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym Æ , was an Irish nationalist, writer, editor, critic, poet, and painter...
(George William Russell)
- Alan Gould (Victor Canning
Victor Canning was a prolific writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, but whose reputation has faded since his death in 1986...
)
- Alan Smithee
Alan Smithee is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, coined in 1968. Until its use was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America when a director dissatisfied with the final product proved to...
(name used by American film directorA film director, or filmmaker is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Some also consider a film producer to be a filmmaker....
s under certain circumstances)
- Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italian novelists of the 20th century...
(Alberto Pincherle)
- Alexander Kent
Alexander Kent may refer to:* Alexander Kent, a Cartographer* a pseudonym of British writer Douglas Reeman*Alex Kent, a bass guitarist...
(Douglas ReemanDouglas Edward Reeman is a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars....
) (Author of Richard Bolitho-Overview:Richard Bolitho is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the main character in a series of novels written by Douglas Reeman . Bolitho was born in 1756 in Falmouth, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, the second son of a prestigious naval family. He joined the navy in 1768. He served in the...
Novels and Others)
- Andrej Zivor (Andrej Tisma
Andrej Tisma was born in 1952 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1976. He has had solo exhibitions since 1972 , and since 1969 has taken part in some 600 collective exhibitions in Yugoslavia and about 40 other countries.Concerned...
)
- Ann Landers (Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer)
- Alcofribas Nasier
François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and Renaissance humanist. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, and both bawdy jokes and songs.- Biography :...
(François Rabelais)
- Alexander Barks (Charlie Christensen)
- Anatole France
Anatole France , born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters...
(Jacques Anatole François Thibault)
- Andrew MacDonald (William Luther Pierce
William Luther Pierce III , was the leader of the white separatist National Alliance organization, and a principal ideologue of the white nationalist movement. First educated as a physicist, he later worked with George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party...
)
- Anne Rice
Anne Rice is a best-selling American author of gothic and religious-themed books from New Orleans, Louisiana. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years until his death from cancer in 2002...
(Howard Allen O'Brien)
- Anne Knish
Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments was a small volume of poetry published in 1916 by American writers Witter Bynner, who wrote under the pseudonym "Emanuel Morgan", and Arthur Davison Ficke, who wrote as "Anne Knish."...
(Arthur Davison Ficke)
- Arkon Daraul (likely Idries Shah
Idries Shah , also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi , was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen critically acclaimed books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.Born in India, the descendant...
)
- Ashida Kim (Radford William Davis)
- Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand , was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism....
(Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum)
- Azorín (José Martínez Ruiz
José Augusto Trinidad Martínez Ruíz was a Spanish poet and writer.He used the pseudonym of Azorín for his literary works. Ruiz attended the University of Valencia to study law in the 1880s. He lived in Madrid and worked as a journalist. He was born in Monovar, Alicante in 1873...
)
- Banaphool
Banaphool is the pen name of the Bengali author, playwright and poet, Balāi Chānd Mukhopādhyāy ....
(Balāi Chānd Mukhopādhyāy)
- Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
- Blaise Cendrars
Frédéric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement.-Early years:...
(Frédéric Louis Sauser)
- Bob Hart or Clem Watts (Al Trace
Albert J. Trace was a prolific American songwriter and orchestra leader of the 1930s, 40s and 50s whose peak of popularity was reached in the Chicago area during the height of the Big Band era....
)
- Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chxartishvili , a Georgian author, working in Russian. He is an essayist, literary translator and writer of detective fiction....
(Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili)
- Boz
- People :* Boz, an early pen name of Charles Dickens* Sketches by Boz, Dickens's first work* Brian Bosworth, a former American Football player and actor* Boz Boorer, a guitarist and songwriter* Boz Burrell, a singer and bass guitarist...
(Charles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens FRSA , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most memorable characters. His novels and short stories have never gone out of print...
)
- Boz
- People :* Boz, an early pen name of Charles Dickens* Sketches by Boz, Dickens's first work* Brian Bosworth, a former American Football player and actor* Boz Boorer, a guitarist and songwriter* Boz Burrell, a singer and bass guitarist...
(Raymond "Boz" Burrell)
- Branislav Nušić
Branislav Nušić was a Serbian novelist of Aromanian descent, playwright, satirist, essayist and founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia...
(Ben Akiba)
- Bruno Traven
- Brynjolf Bjarme (Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when Victorian values of family...
)
- Carter Dickson (also Carr Dickson: John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr was an American author of detective stories, who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of so-called "Golden Age" mysteries, complex, plot-driven stories in which the puzzle is...
)
- Cherry Wilder
Cherry Wilder was the pseudonym of science fiction and fantasy writer Cherry Barbara Grimm née Lockett....
(Cherry Barbara Grimm)
- Cherubina de Gabriak
Cherubina de Gabriak was a literary pseudonym of Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva possibly together with Maximilian Voloshin.-Mysterious poet:...
(Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva)
- Christopher Hunter (Radford William Davis)
- Clem Watts ([Albert J. Trace)
- Cordwainer Smith
Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger for his science fiction works...
(Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
- Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë)
- Curzio Malaparte
Curzio Malaparte , born Kurt Erich Suckert, was an Italian journalist, dramatist, short-story writer, novelist and diplomat...
(Kurt Erich Suckert)
- Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is even referred to by some as one...
(Daniel Foe)
- Daniil Kharms
Daniil Kharms was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.- Life :Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachov was born in St. Petersburg, into the family of Ivan Yuvachev, a well known member of the revolutionary group, The People's Will...
(Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev)
- Danuta de Rhodes (Dan Rhodes
Dan Rhodes is a British author living in Scotland who was born in 1972.He is probably best known for the novel Timoleon Vieta Come Home, a subversion of the popular Lassie Come Home movie, but first published Anthropology, a collection of 101 stories, each consisting of 101 carefully-chosen...
)
- David Axton (Dean Koontz)
- David Agnew
"David Agnew" was a particular kind of pen name, employed exclusively on BBC television drama programmes of the 1970s. It was used only as a scriptwriting credit.-Conditions of use:...
(Doctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor" who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box...
producers and script editors)
- David Michaels
David Michaels is a pseudonym for the authors of novels in the Splinter Cell, EndWar, and Ghost Recon series, all of which were created by Ubisoft Entertainment and developed under Ubisoft's Tom Clancy license...
(Raymond Benson)
- Dazai Osamu (Shuji Tsushima)
- Dear Abby
Dear Abby is the name of the notable advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name Abigail Van Buren and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name....
(Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
- Diedrich Knickerbocker (Washington Irving)
- Douglas Spaulding (Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American mainstream, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer.Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury is widely considered one of the greatest and most popular American writers of speculative fiction of the...
)
- Doctor A
Isaac Asimov , was an American author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books...
(Isaac Asimov)
- Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen name Dr. Seuss. He published over 60 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter...
(Theodor Seuss Geisel)
- Ed McBain (Evan Hunter
Evan Hunter was a prolific American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952...
, born as Salvatore A. Lombino)
- Edith Van Dyne (L. Frank Baum)
- Edogawa Rampo
, better known by the pseudonym , was a Japanese author and critic. He wrote many works of detective fiction. Kogoro Akechi was the primary detective of these novels....
(Hirai Tarō)
- Edward Pygge
Edward Pygge was a pseudonym used by Ian Hamilton, John Fuller, Clive James, Russell Davies and Julian Barnes.Hamilton invented the name, and he and James used it...
(Ian HamiltonRobert Ian Hamilton was a British literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher....
, Clive JamesClive James AM is an expatriate Australian author, poet, critic, memoirist, talk show host, television presenter, travel writer and cultural commentator.-Biography:...
, Russell DaviesRobert Russell Davies , known as Russell Davies, is a British journalist and broadcaster.He was born in Barmouth, North Wales and currently presents a Sunday radio programme on BBC Radio 2 which spotlights popular song...
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- Edwin Caskoden (Charles Major)
- Elia (Charles Lamb)
- Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz)
- Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)
- Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
- Elsa Triolet
Elsa Yur'evna Triolet was a French writer.-Biography:Born Elsa Kagan into a Jewish family of a lawyer and a music teacher in Moscow, she and her sister, Lilya Brik received excellent education and were able to speak fluent German and French and play the piano...
(Elsa Kagan)
- Elsie J. Oxenham
Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley , was an English girls’ story writer, who took the name Oxenham as her pseudonym when her first book, Goblin Island, was published in 1907. Her Abbey Series of 38 titles are her best-known and best-loved books...
(Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley)
- Emanuel Morgan
Spectra are conditions or values that vary over a continuum.Spectra may also refer to:* Sally Spectra, a fictional character on The Bold and the Beautiful* Kia Spectra, a car developed by Kia Motors from 2000-present...
(Witter Bynner)
- Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque was a German author, most famous today for his anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front.-Life:...
(Erich Paul Remark)
- Erin Hunter
Erin Hunter is a pseudonym of the authors Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Victoria Holmes and Tui Sutherland. They are the authors of many different books, the Warriors series being the most famous. Recently the authors have created a new series called Seekers...
(Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Tui Sutherland, and Victoria Holmes)
- Euphrosyne
Euphrosyne is a Greek female name; Phroso or Froso is its more common derivative. Euphrosyne may refer to:* 31 Euphrosyne, one of the largest main belt asteroids* Boloria euphrosyne, a butterfly* Euphrosyne , Greek goddess...
(Julia NybergJulia Kristina Nyberg , was a Swedish poet and songwriter. Nyberg grew up as the adoptive daughter of a mill owner, named Adlerwald, in the parish of Skultuna in Västmanland County...
)
- Flann O'Brien
Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist and satirist, best known for his novels At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman written under the nom de plume Flann O'Brien. He also wrote the novel An Béal Bocht as well as many satirical columns in the Irish Times under the name Myles na gCopaleen...
(Brian O'Nolan)
- Francis Bennett (Edwin Keppel Bennett)
- Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan , real name Françoise Quoirez, was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter...
(Françoise Quoirez)
- Gerald Wiley (Ronnie Barker)
- Geoffrey Crayon
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essaysand short stories written by Washington Irving...
(Washington Irving)
- George Eliot
Mary Anne Evans , better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era...
(Mary Ann Evans)
- George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist...
(Eric Arthur Blair)
- George Sand
Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist. She is considered by some a feminist although she refused to join this movement...
(Amandine Dupin)
- Georges Courteline
Georges Courteline was a French dramatist and novelist.Born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux, in Tours in the Indre-et-Loire département, his family moved to Paris shortly after his birth...
(Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux
- Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Lippincott
Sara Jane Lippincott was better known by the pseudonym Grace Greenwood. She was an American author, poet and lecturer. One of the first women to gain access into the Congressional press galleries, she used her questions to advocate for social reform and women's rights.-Biography:thumb|left|Sara...
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- Guillaume Apollinaire
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, writer and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
(Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky)
- Guy d'Obonner
Guy d'Obonner or O'Bonner is the pen-name of Marion D. Farell Irish journalist, essayist, art critic who currently lives and works in Central Europe . Guy d'Obonner studied painting, photo and graphic design in London than moved to Bratislava in 1989, in the time of "nežná revolúcia"...
(Marion D. Farell)
- H.N. Turtletaub
Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.- Life :...
(Harry Turtledove)
- Hard Pan (Geraldine Bonner)
- Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins was an American author.Robbins, born Harold Rubin in New York City, claimed to be a Jewish orphan raised in a Catholic boys home; actually, he was the son of well-educated Russian and Polish immigrants. He was reared by his pharmacist father and stepmother in Brooklyn...
(Harold Rubin)
- Havank
Havank, was a Dutch writer, journalist and translator.Born in Leeuwarden as H. F. van der Kallen, he took the pen-name of Havank and published 30 popular crime-novels and stories, featuring French police officers Bruno Silvère and Charles C.M...
(Hans van der Kallen)
- Hergé
Georges Prosper Remi , better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. "Hergé" is the French pronunciation of "RG", his initials reversed...
(Georges Remi)
- Hugh Conway
Hugh Conway the nom-de-plume of Frederick John Fargus was an English novelist, born in Bristol, the son of an auctioneer. He was intended for his father's business, but at the age of thirteen joined the training-ship Conway in the Mersey...
(Frederick John Fargus)
- Ilya Ilf
Ilya Ilf was an extremely popular Soviet author of the 1920s and 1930s, who worked in collaboration with Yevgeni Petrov. See Ilf and Petrov for more info....
(Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg)
- Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author.-Life:Shaw was born Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff in the South Bronx, New York City, to Russian Jewish immigrants. His parents were Rose and Will. His younger brother, David Shaw , became a noted Hollywood producer...
(Irwin Shamforoff)
- Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen
Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke , née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen wrote works both in Danish and in English...
)
- Italo Svevo
Aron Ettore Schmitz , better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian businessman and author of novels, plays, and short stories.- Biography :...
(Ettore Schmitz)
- J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts)
- James Dillinger (James Robert Baker
James Robert Baker was an American author of sharply satirical, predominantly gay-themed transgressional fiction. A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern California. After graduating from UCLA, he began his career as a screenwriter, but became disillusioned and started...
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- James Tiptree, Jr
James Tiptree, Jr. was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death. She also occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Raccoona Sheldon...
(Alice Sheldon)
- Jay Livingston
Jay Livingston was a partner with Ray Evans in a composing and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
(Jacob Harold Levison)
- Jean Paul
Jean Paul , born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.-Life and work:...
(Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)
- Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert)
- Johann Joachim Sautscheck
Sautscheck may refer to:*One of several pseudonyms of lutenist-composer Roman Turovsky-Savchuk*Nicolas von Sautscheck, a German lutenist-composer, active in the Limburg area of the Southern Netherlands in the last decade of the 18th century...
(Roman Turovsky-SavchukRoman Turovsky-Savchuk is a painter and lutenist-composer.-Biography:Turovsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1961, and emigrated to New York City in 1979. He studied art from an early age under Mikhail Turovsky, his father...
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- John Beynon
John Beynon may refer to:*Sir John Wyndham Beynon , Welsh industrialist*A pseudonym of the British novelist John Wyndham *John Beynon Principal of King's College London...
(John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
- John Christopher
Samuel Youd is a British science fiction author.Youd has written under the pseudonyms John Christopher, Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye.He is best known for his novel The Death of Grass and the The Tripods trilogy,...
(Samuel Youd)
- John le Carré
John le Carré is an English author of espionage novels, several of which have been adapted for film and television...
(David John Moore Cornwell)
- John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
- Jonathan Oldstyle
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(Washington Irving)
- Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born British novelist, who in 1886 became a British subject....
(Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski)
- Julia Quinn
Julia Quinn is the pseudonym used by Julie Pottinger , a best-selling American historical romance author, who says she chose her pseudonym so her Regency romances would be on bookshelves next to those of the successful romance writer Amanda Quick...
(Julia Pottinger)
- Korney Chukovsky
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His poems, Doctor Aybolit , The Giant Roach , The Crocodile , and Wash'em'clean have been favourites with many generations of Russophone children...
(Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov)
- Keno
Keno is a lottery-like or bingo-like gambling game often played at modern casinos, and is also offered as a game in some state lotteries. A traditional live casino keno game uses a circular glass enclosure called a "bubble" containing 80 ping pong-like balls which determine the balldraw result. ...
(Eric Killinger)
- Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket is a pseudonym used by author Daniel Handler in his A Series of Unfortunate Events, as well as a character in that series. An autobiography was published, entitled Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography with an introduction from Handler as himself...
(Daniel Handler)
- Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol
Abel Meeropol was an American writer and inadvertent song-writer, best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan and as the adoptive father of the young sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.-Biography:...
)
- Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer...
(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
- Lorenzo da Ponte
Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Venetian librettist and poet.- Life :...
(Emmanuele Conegliano )
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and doctor Louis-Ferdinand Destouches . The name "Céline" was chosen after his grandmother's first name. Céline is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both...
(Louis-Ferdinand Destouches)
- Lu Lung (Alicia Garcia)
- M. Barnard Eldershaw
M. Barnard Eldershaw was the pseudonym used by the twentieth century Australian literary collaborators Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw...
(Marjorie BarnardMarjorie Faith Barnard AO was an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian - and librarian. She went to school and university in Sydney, and then trained as a librarian. She was employed as a librarian for two periods in her life , but her main passion was writing...
and Flora EldershawFlora Sydney Patricia Eldershaw was an Australian novelist, critic, and historian. With Marjorie Barnard she formed the writing collaboration known as M. Barnard Eldershaw...
)
- Maironis
Maironis is one of the most famous Lithuanian romantic poets. He was born in Pasandravys, Raseiniai district municipality, Lithuania. Maironis graduated from Kaunas high school and went on to study Literature at Kiev University...
(Jonas Mačiulis)
- Man Without a Spleen (Anton Chekhov)
- Mark Brandis
Nikolai von Michalewsky was a German writer and journalist best known for a series of science fiction novels published between 1970 and 1987.-Biography:...
(Nikolai von Michalewsky)
- Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted...
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
- Martin Roberts
Martin Roberts is a Welsh rugby union footballer who currently plays at for the Scarlets in the Magners League.After playing in a half back combination with James Hook at Neath College, the pair played together at Neath RFC and then the Ospreys.signing for the Scarlets from the Ospreys on 27...
(Ralph de Vore)
- Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
- Michael Arlen
Michael Arlen , original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England...
(Dikran Kuyumjian)
- Michael Serafian (Malachi Martin)
- Michael Innes
John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well-known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the crime fiction published under the pseudonym of Michael Innes...
(J. I. M. Stewart)
- Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, mostly known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
(Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
- Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker , better known by his pen name Multatuli , was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar in which he denounced the abuses of colonialism in the colony of the Dutch East Indies .-Biography:Dekker was born in Amsterdam...
(Eduard Douwes Dekker)
- Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history...
(Will F. Jenkins)
- Nancy Boyd (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- Natsume Sōseki
', born ', is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era . He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, Chinese-style poetry, and fairy tales...
(Natsume Kinnosuke)
- Nisa
Nicola Salerno, also known as Nisa was an Italian lyricist. He formed a famous songwriting duo with Renato Carosone.-Career:Nicola Salerno was born in Naples....
(Nicola Salerno), Italian lyricist
- Nicolas Bourbaki
Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935. With the goal of founding all of mathematics on set theory, the group strove for rigour and generality...
(a group of 20th-century mathematicians)
- Novalis
Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg , an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.-Biography:...
(Friedrich Leopold)
- O. Henry
O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter . O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.-Early life:...
(William Sydney Porter)
- Ogdred Weary (Edward Gorey)
- Onceler Lorax (Zachary Bass)
- Onoto Watanna
Winnifred Eaton, was a Canadian author. Although she was of Chinese-British ancestry, she published under the Japanese pseudonym, Onoto Watanna.- Biography :...
(Winnifred Eaton)
- Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda assumed his pen name as a teenager, partly because it was in vogue, partly to hide his poetry from his father, a rigid man who wanted his son to have a "practical"...
(Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto)
- Paul Annixter (Howard Allison Sturtzel)
- Paul Celan
Paul Celan was a pseudonym of the poet and translator Paul Antschel. Born into a Jewish family in Romania, Celan became one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era....
(Paul Antschel)
- Paul French
Isaac Asimov , was an American author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books...
Isaac Asimov
- Jean Ray
Jean Ray is the best-known pseudonym among the many used by Raymundus Joannes de Kremer , a prolific Belgian French language writer...
(Jean Raymond Marie de Kremer)
- Pauline Réage
Anne Desclos was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage.-Early life:...
(Anne Desclos)
- Peter Gast
Johann Heinrich Köselitz was a German author and composer. He is known for his longtime friendship with Friedrich Nietzsche, who gave him the pseudonym Peter Gast.- Life :...
(Heinrich Köselitz)
- Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti , born January 14, 1850 in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime and died June 10, 1923 in Hendaye, was a French novelist and naval officer.-Biography:...
(Louis Marie Julien Viaud)
- Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best...
(Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)
- Phillip Guston (Phillip Goldstein)
- Publius (Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher...
, James MadisonJames Madison was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States , and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States....
and John JayJohn Jay was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, President of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779 and, from 1789 to 1795, the first Chief Justice of the United States...
, when writing The Federalist PapersThe Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788...
)
- Q (Arthur Quiller-Couch
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He is primarily remembered for the monumental "Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900" , and for his literary criticism...
)
- Rafael Lefort, anagram of "a real effort", Idries Shah
Idries Shah , also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi , was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen critically acclaimed books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.Born in India, the descendant...
- Richard Bachman
Richard Bachman is a pseudonym used by horror fiction author Stephen King.-Origin:At the beginning of Stephen King's career, the general view among publishers was such that an author was limited to a book every year at the utmost; publishing more would not be acceptable to the public...
(Stephen King)
- Richard Leander (Richard von Volkmann)
- Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. , under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also wrote under the names Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly.-Biography:Jordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina...
(James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
- Robert Markham
Robert Markham is a pseudonym created by Glidrose Publications in the mid-1960s. By 1967, Glidrose, the publishers of the James Bond novel series created by Ian Fleming, had exhausted all available material written by Fleming before his death in 1964...
(Kingsley Amis)
- Roger Fairbairn (John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr was an American author of detective stories, who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of so-called "Golden Age" mysteries, complex, plot-driven stories in which the puzzle is...
)
- Romain Gary
Romain Gary was a French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat.- Biography :Born Roman Kacew , Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in World...
(Romain Kacew)
- Rosemary Edghill
Rosemary Edghill is an American writer and editor, who has often used that pseudonym in place of her legal name, eluki bes shahar. Her primary genres are science fiction and...
(eluki bes shahar)
- Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse was a French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."-Biography:Alexis Léger was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe...
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger)
- Saki
Hector Hugh Munro , better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn...
(Hector Hugh Munro)
- Salomėja Nėris
Salomėja Nėris is one of the best known Lithuanian female poets.- Biography :Nėris was born in Kiršai, in the current district of Vilkaviškis...
(Salomėja Bučinskaitė-Bučienė)
- Sapper
A sapper or combat engineer is an individual soldier who performs a variety of combat engineering duties. Such tasks typically include bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, demolitions, field defences, and building, road and airfield construction and repair...
(H. C. McNeile)
- Silence Dogood
Silence Dogood was a false persona used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published.As a teenager, Franklin worked as an apprentice in his older brother 's printing shop in Boston, where The New-England Courant was printed....
(Benjamin Franklin)
- Sister Nivedita
Sister Nivedita , born Margaret Elizabeth Noble was an Anglo-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She met Vivekananda in 1895 in London and travelled to India in 1898...
(Margaret Elizabeth Noble)
- Stash Cairo
The Shopping Channel is a Canadian English language cable television home shopping channel. The Shopping Channel is a division of Rogers Media. The channel is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. It showcases various products throughout the day of which viewers can purchase either by telephone or...
(Craig Hamilton)
- Stan Lee
Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics....
(Stanley Martin Lieber)
- Stefan Brockhoff
Stefan Brockhoff is a pseudonym that was used collectively by a group of three German co-authors of several detective novels, all of them having certain characteristics in common: they were all born in Germany at or about the beginning of the second decade of the twentieth century; at one point or...
(Dieter CunzDieter Cunz , German-born American historian, writer, educationist, and occasional journalist. He is also said to have co‑authored several detective novels or Kriminalromane in collaboration with Oskar Seidlin and Richard Plant under the collective pen‑name of Stefan Brockhoff .Cunz was born in...
, Richard PlantRichard Plant was a German-American writer. He is said to have written, in addition to the works published under his own name, several detective novels or Kriminalromane, on which he collaborated with Dieter Cunz and Oskar Seidlin, and which were published under the collective pen-name of Stefan...
, Oskar SeidlinOskar Seidlin ; German-born American literary scholar, poet, and writer of children’s stories. He is also said to have co‑authored several detective novels or Kriminalromane in collaboration with Dieter Cunz and Richard Plant under the collective pen‑name of Stefan Brockhoff.Born Oskar Koplowitz...
)
- Steele Rudd
Steele Rudd was the pseudonym of Arthur Hoey Davis an Australian author, best known for On Our Selection.-Early life:...
(Arthur Hoey Davis)
- Stein Riverton (Sven Elvestad
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, born as Kristoffer Elvestad Svendsen)
- Student
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(William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distributionIn probability and statistics, Student's t-distribution is a probability distribution that arises in the problem of estimating the mean of a normally distributed population when the sample size is small...
in statisticsStatistics is a branch of mathematics concerned with collecting and interpreting data. According to other definitions, it is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. Statisticians improve the quality of data with the...
)
- Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
- Ted L. Nancy
Ted L. Nancy is the name used by the author of a number of prank letters which have been published in a series of bestselling books under the titles Letters from a Nut, More Letters from a Nut and Extra Nutty!: Even More Letters from a Nut....
(Currently unknown, possibly Jerry Seinfeld. Creator of the "Letters from a Nut.")
- The Fredman (Karl Mikael Bellman)
- Thoinot Arbeau
Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot . Tabourot is most famous for his Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance....
(Jehan Tabourot)
- Tite Kubo
, known by his pen name , is a Japanese manga artist. His most significant work is the manga series Bleach.-Biography:The son of a town council member in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima, Kubo graduated from the local high school...
(Noriaki Kubo)
- TM Maple
T.M. Maple was the pseudonym of Jim Burke, a Canadian who wrote more than 3,000 letters to comic book letter columns between 1977 and 1994....
(Jim Burke)
- Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters...
(Chloe Anthony Wofford)
- Trevanian
"Trevanian" was the pen name of American author Dr. Rodney William Whitaker . He wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved best-seller status, and published under several names, but was best known as Trevanian. Between 1972 to 1983, five of his novels sold more than a million copies each...
(Rodney William Whitaker)
- Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist...
(Sami Rosenstock)
- Uanhenga Xitu (Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho)
- Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba was the pseudonym of Italian poet and novelist Umberto Poli. His creative work was hampered by a life-long struggle with mental illness.-Early years:...
(Umberto Poli)
- Vazha-Pshavela
Vazha-Pshavela is the pen-name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka P. Razikashvili, a classic of the new Georgian literature....
(Luka Razikashvili)
- Vera Haij (Tove Jansson)
- Vercors
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(Jean Bruller)
- Vernon Sullivan
Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their...
(Boris Vian)
- Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and his defense of civil liberties, including both freedom of religion and free trade.Voltaire was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every...
(François-Marie Arouet)
- Walter
Walter is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Old High German elements "wald" - "rule" and "heri" - "army, warrior". Walter may refer to:-People:* Walter Cronkite , American journalist* Walter Crucce, Argentine boxer...
(Henry Spencer Ashbee)
- Willibald Alexis
Willibald Alexis, the pseudonym of Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring , was a German historical novelist.-Life:...
(Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring)
- Woody Allen
Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright....
(Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
- Yevgeni Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev)
- Yukio Mishima
was the pen name of , a Japanese author, poet and playwright, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku.- Early life :Mishima was born in the Yotsuya district of Tokyo . His father was Azusa Hiraoka, a government official, and his mother, Shizue, was the daughter of a school principal in...
(Kimitake Hiraoka)
Politicians
- Abel Djassi (Amílcar Cabral)
- Amor De Cosmos
Amor De Cosmos was a Canadian journalist and politician. He served as the second Premier of British Columbia.-Early life:...
(William (Bill) Alexander Smith )
- Anacharsis Cloots (Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots)
- An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (Douglas Hyde)
- Anthony Garotinho
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(Anthony William Matheus de Oliveira)
- Bob Denard
"Colonel" Bob Denard , born Gilbert Bourgeaud, was a French soldier and mercenary. He was known for having done various jobs in Françafrique for Jacques Foccart, in charge of French president Charles de Gaulle's policy in Africa...
(Gilbert Bourgeaud)
- Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban Revolution...
(Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna)
- Comandante Gonzalo (Abimael Guzmán)
- Frank Talk
Frank Talk was a political journal founded in 1984 in South Africa, and arising out of the student-led anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and 80s...
(Stephen Bantu Biko)
- Germain
Germain, the French variant of the name Germanus, may refer to:----People*Sophie Germain, French mathematician----*Paul Germain, American animation producer----...
(Ernest Mandel)
- Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej was the Communist leader of Romania from 1948 until his death in 1965.-Early life:...
[Gheorghe Gheorghiu)
- Gracchus Babeuf (François-Noël Babeuf)
- Grigory Zinoviev
Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician.-Before the 1917 Revolution :Gregory Zinoviev was born in Yelizavetgrad , Ukraine,...
(Ovsel Gershon Aronov Radomyslsky)
- Gus Hall
Gus Hall was a leader of the Communist Party USA and its four-time U.S. presidential candidate. As a labor leader, Hall was closely associated with the so-called "Little Steel" Strike of 1937, an effort to unionize the nation's smaller, regional steel manufacturers.-Background:Hall was born Arvo...
(Arvo Kusta Halberg)
- Ho Chi Minh
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(Nguyễn Sinh Cung)
- Houari Boumedienne
Houari Boumediène served as Algeria's Chairman of the Revolutionary Council from 19 June 1965 until 12 December 1976, and from then on as President of Algeria to his death on 27 December 1978.- Background :Mohamed Ben Brahim Boukharouba was born near...
(Mohamed Ben Brahim Boukharouba)
- H. Rap Brown
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin , also known as H. Rap Brown, came to prominence in the 1960s as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Justice Minister of the Black Panther Party...
(Hubert Gerold Brown)
- Iñaki de Rentería (Ignacio Gracia Arregui)
- János Kádár
János Kádár , was a Hungarian politician, the communist leader of Hungary from 1956 to 1988, and twice served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, from 1956 to 1958 and again from 1961 to 1965...
(János Csermanek)
- Joseph Estrada
Joseph Ejercito Estrada was the 13th President of the Philippines, serving from 1998 until his ouster in the 2001 EDSA Revolution....
(Joseph Marcelo Ejército)
- Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953...
(Ioseb Bessarionis dze Djugashvili)
- Josip Tito (Josip Broz)
- J. Posadas
J. Posadas , was the pseudonym of Homero Rómulo Cristalli Frasnelli, an Argentine Trotskyist whose personal vision is usually described as Posadism.-Early life:...
(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
Leon Trotsky , born Leyba Davidov Bronstein , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin...
(Lev Davidovich Bronstein)
- Lev Kamenev
Lev Borisovich Kamenev was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet state in 1917 and a founding member and later chairman of the ruling Politburo.-Background:Kamenev was born in Moscow, the son of a Jewish railway worker...
(Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld)
- Loulou
Loulou was a pseudonym used by:*Enver Hoxha, Communist dictator of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985*Louise Leveque de Vilmorin-Other uses:*Loulou - 1980 French film directed by Maurice Pialat...
(Enver Hoxha, bastardization of his real pseudonym, Lulo Malessori)
- Lula (Luiz Inácio da Silva)
- Martin Thembisile Hani (Chris Hani)
- Michel Pablo
Michel Pablo was the pseudonym of Michalis N. Raptis , a Trotskyist leader of Greek origin.- Leadership of the Fourth International :...
(Michel Raptis)
- Mobutu Sese Seko
Mobutu Sésé Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga , commonly known as Mobutu or Mobutu Sésé Seko , born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, became the President of Zaire after deposing Joseph Kasavubu. He remained in office for 31.5 years...
Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu)
- Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
- Nahuel Moreno
Nahuel Moreno was a Trotskyist leader from Argentina. Moreno was active in the Trotskyist movement from before World War II until his death....
(Hugo Bressano)
- Pol Pot
Saloth Sar or Minh Hai, , widely known as Pol Pot, , was the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge and was Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976–1979....
(Saloth Sar)
- Prachanda
Prachanda is a Nepalese politician. He was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 18 August 2008, to 25 May 2009...
(Pushpa Kamal Dahal)
- Ronwaldo Reyes (Fernando Poe, Jr.)
- Saïd Moustapha Mahdjoub (Gilbert Bourgeaud)
- Sara Jane Olson (Kathleen Soliah)
- Tariq Aziz
Mikhail Yuhanna, later and more popularly known as Tariq Aziz or Tareq Aziz, was the Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, and a close advisor of former President Saddam Hussein for decades...
(Michael Yuhanna)
- Ted Grant
Edward Grant was a South African Trotskyist political theorist who spent most of his adult life in Britain.-Main ideas:Ted Grant described himself as a Marxist, a Leninist and a Trotskyist...
(Isaac Blank)
- Tetsuzo Fuwa (Kenjiro Ueda; named after N. I. Bukharin)
- Tony Cliff
Tony Cliff was a Trotskyist revolutionary activist. Born Yigael Gluckstein to a Jewish Zionist family in Palestine, Cliff moved to Britain, becoming a Trotskyist and rejecting Zionism from a Marxist perspective...
(Ygael Gluckstein)
- Tristán Marof
Tristán Marof was a Bolivian diplomat, writer, essayist, and journalist. He was Consul of Bolivia in Europe, where he was linked to the labor movement and Marxist-Leninist organizations....
(Gustavo Navarro)
- Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat, a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev...
(Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Skryabin)
- Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov , was the Bolshevik Leader of the 1917 October Revolution, and the first Head of State of the Soviet Union; in the course of his political career, he used the pseudonyms Lenin, V. I. Lenin, Nikolai Lenin, and N. Lenin...
(Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)
- William Rabbit (Katay Don Sasorith)
- Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm , was a German politician, Chancellor of West Germany 1969–1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 1964–1987....
(Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm)
- X (George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard histories of the relations between Russia and the Western powers.In the late 1940s, his...
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Religion
- Acharya S (D. Murdock)
- Allan Kardec
Allan Kardec is the pseudonym of the French teacher and educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail , who is known today as the systematizer of Spiritism.-Early life:Rivail was born in Lyon in 1804...
(Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail )
- Buddha
Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher in the north eastern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is regarded by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c...
(Siddhartha Gautama)
- Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaj (Nrsimha Chakravarti)
- John Woodmorappe
John Woodmorappe is the pen name of an author who has published several articles and books with the creation science groups Answers in Genesis and the Institute for Creation Research. His main works are Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study and the The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods...
(unknown)
- Lord Mahavira
Mahavira is the name most commonly used to refer to the Indian sage Vardhamana who established what are today considered to be the central tenets of Jainism. According to Jain tradition, he was the 24
th and the last Tirthankara...
(Vardhamana)
- Mata Amritanandamayi
Mātā Amritanandamayī Devi is a Hindu spiritual leader revered as a saint by her followers, who also know her as "Amma", "Ammachi" or "Mother"...
(Sudhamani)
- Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa , born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu , was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata , India in 1950...
(Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu)
- Moses David David Berg
- His Divine Grace Abhay Charana-Aravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan De)* Osho
Oshō is the Japanese reading of the Chinese he shang , meaning a high-ranking Buddhist monk or highly virtuous Buddhist monk. It is also a respectful designation for Buddhist monks in general and may be used with the suffix -san...
(Rajneesh Chandra Mohan)
- Sathya Sai Baba
Sathya Sai Baba , is a South Indian guru, religious figure, and educator. He is described by his devotees as an avatar, godman, spiritual teacher, and miracle worker...
(Sathya Narayana Raju)
- Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda , born Narendranath Dutta is the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission...
(Narendranath Dutta)
- Yusuf Islam (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, formerly known as Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam , best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam....
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Sportspeople
- Abédi Pelé
Abédi Ayew, also known as Abédi "Pelé" is a former Ghana International football player and captain. He was named African Footballer of the Year in 1991, 1992 and 1993...
(Abédi Ayew)
- Action Jackson
Dr. André Action Diakité Jackson , , more commonly known by his African clan name "M’Zée Fula-Ngenge" , is a diamond executive and head of JFPI Corporation, Africa's largest holding company....
(André Action Diakité Jackson)
- Akebono Taro
is a retired sumo wrestler from Waimānalo, Hawaii. Joining the professional sport in Japan in 1988, he was trained by pioneering Hawaiian sumo wrestler Takamiyama and rose swiftly up the rankings, reaching the top division in 1990...
(Chad Haaheo Rowan)
- Al Bummy Davis
Al Davis , born Albert Abraham Davidoff, was an American lightweight and welterweight boxer who fought from 1937 to 1945.-Childhood:...
(Abraham Davidoff)
- Bebeto
José Roberto Gama de Oliveira, known as 'Bebeto', is a former football forward, a World Champion for Brazil in the 1994 World Cup.-Career:...
(José Roberto Gama de Oliveira)
- Cafu
Marcos Evangelista de Moraes , better known as Cafu, is a retired two-time FIFA World Cup winning Brazilian footballer. He was given this nickname due to his speed up and down the right flank which was reminiscent of Cafuringa, a legendary Brazilian forward from the 1970s.Cafu was named by Pelé as...
(Marcos Evangelista de Moraes)
- Careca
Antônio de Oliveira Filho known commonly as Careca is a former football player. During his career Careca played for several clubs, he is most famous for his time with Italian side Napoli and also his contributions to the Brazilian national football team.-Club career:Careca began his footballing...
(Antonio de Oliveira Filho)
- Deco
Anderson Luís de Souza,
OIH , commonly known as Deco, is a Brazilian-born Portuguese professional footballer who currently plays for England side Chelsea and internationally for Portugal...
(Anderson Luiz de Sousa)
- Dick Tiger
Dick Tiger CBE was a boxer from Umuduruoha village, Amaigbo, Nigeria, who emigrated to Liverpool and later to the United States of America). Tiger was a member of the Igbo ethnic group. Tiger was a talented boxer, commercial venturer, and Biafran rebel. Dick Tiger was one of the greatest fighters...
(Richard Ihetu)
- Dida (Nélson de Jesus Silva)
- Drift Samurai (Takahiro Imamura)
- Eduardo Golding (David Edward Michael Gordon Copleston)
- Garrincha
Manuel Francisco dos Santos , known by the nickname "Garrincha" , was a Brazilian football right winger and forward who helped the Brazil national team win the World Cups of 1958 and 1962. He played the majority of his professional career for Brazilian club Botafogo.The word garrincha itself means...
(Manuel Francisco dos Santos)
- Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is a Russian former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider the greatest chess player of all time.Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985...
(Gari Weinstein)
- Raymond Kopa
Raymond Kopa , is a former French football striker, integral to the French national team of the 1950s...
(Raymond Kopaszewski)
- He hate me (Rod Smart)
- Henri Cornet
Henri Cornet was a French cyclist who won the 1904 Tour de France. He is its youngest winner, just short of his 20th birthday.-Background:...
(Henri Jaudry)
- Henry Arundel (Henry Fitzalan-Howard)
- Jim McKay
James Kenneth McManus , better known by his professional name of Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist....
(James Kenneth McManus)
- Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow , better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949....
(Joseph Louis Barrow)
- John Winter (Louis Krages
Louis Krages, more commonly known by his pseudonym John Winter, was a German racing driver and businessman....
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- Johnny Dumfries (John Crichton-Stuart
John Colum Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute , styled Earl of Dumfries before 1993 and from this courtesy title usually known as Johnny Dumfries, is a Scottish peer and a former racing driver. He does not use his title and prefers to be known solely as John Bute...
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- Kaká
Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite , commonly known as Kaká, is a Brazilian football midfielder who currently plays for Real Madrid and the Brazilian national team. He is widely considered as one of the best footballers of his generation, often drawing comparisons in style and ability to other great...
(Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite)
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an American retired basketball player. During his 20-year professional career in the NBA, from 1969 to 1989, he scored the highest points total of any player in league history , in addition to winning a record six Most Valuable Player Awards and six NBA championships...
(Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr.; legally changed name after conversion to Islam)
- Karim Abdul-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah)
- Khaosai Galaxy
Khaosai Galaxy is a former professional Thai super flyweight boxer and Muaythai kickboxer. Khaosai defended his WBA world title 19 times in seven years , winning 16 of his title fights by knockouts. A member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame he is widely considered as one of the greatest...
(Sura Saenkham)
- Kid McCoy
Charles "Kid" McCoy, who was born Norman Selby was an American world champion boxer.Born in Moscow, Rush County, Indiana, Weight 160, Heights 5' 11", record 81 wins 6 losses, 9 no decision, disqualified 6 times. McCoy was noted for his "corkscrew punch"-a blow delivered with a twisting of the wrist...
(Norman Selby)
- Kline (Roland Lam)
- Konishiki Yasokichi
, is a Hawaiian-born Japanese–Samoan sumo wrestler, nicknamed "The Dump Truck." He was the first foreign-born wrestler to reach ozeki, the second highest rank in the sport...
(Salevaa Atisanoe)
- Leon Duray
Leon Duray was an American racecar driver active in the 1920's. Born George Stewart, he legally changed his name in tribute to fellow driver Arthur Duray...
(George Stewart)
- Lucien Petit-Breton
Lucien Georges Mazan was a french racing cyclist ....
(Lucien Mazan)
- Míchel
José Miguel González Martín del Campo, aka Míchel , is a retired Spanish footballer, who played as a right midfielder.He was most noted for his stellar crossing ability, also contributing with a fair share of goals....
(José Miguel González Martín)
- Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali is a retired American boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion, who is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight champions. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome...
(Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.)
- Musashimaru Koyo
, is a former sumo wrestler. He was the second foreign-born wrestler in history to reach the rank of yokozuna. He won over 700 top division bouts and took twelve top division tournament championships during his career. Musashimaru's sheer bulk combined with of height made him a formidable...
(Fiamalu Penitani)
- Nenê
Nenê is a Brazilian professional basketball player who plays for the NBA's Denver Nuggets...
(Maybyner Rodney Hilario; this is now his legal name)
- Pelé
Edison Arantes do Nascimento , , best known by his nickname Pelé is a Brazilian football player. He was given the title "Athlete of the Century" by the International Olympic Committee...
(Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
- Pierre Levegh
Pierre Eugène Alfred Bouillin was a French sportsman and racecar driver. He took the racing name Pierre Levegh in memory of his uncle, a pioneering driver who died in 1904...
(Pierre Bouillin)
- Rivaldo
Rivaldo Vítor Borba Ferreira , commonly known as simply Rivaldo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who currently plays for Uzbek League club Bunyodkor on a multi-million pound contract...
(Vitor Borba Ferreira)
- Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano , born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was the heavyweight champion of the world from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956, when he retired as the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career.- Early years :Marciano was an...
(Rocco Francis Marchegiano)
- Ronaldo
Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima , more commonly known as Ronaldo, is a Brazilian professional footballer currently playing for Campeonato Brasileiro club Corinthians....
(Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima)
- Ronaldinho
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira , commonly known as Ronaldinho or Ronaldinho Gaúcho, is a Brazilian footballer who plays forItalian Serie A side Milan and the Brazilian national team...
(Ronaldo de Assis Moreira))
- Smush Parker
William Henry "Smush" Parker is an American professional basketball player, who until recently, was on the Denver Nuggets training camp roster, where he was competing for a spot on the roster, but was ultimately cut. Parker played shooting guard in college, but moved to point guard in the NBA...
(William Henry Parker)
- Stanley Ketchel
Stanislaw Kiecal, , better known in the boxing world as Stanley Ketchel, was an American boxer of Polish origin who became one of the greatest world middleweight champions...
(Stanislaus Kiecal)
- The Stig
The Stig is the name given to the racing driver on the BBC show Top Gear. In the show he is cast as a mysterious "tame racing driver". He is credited as a presenter alongside Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May....
(Unknown)
- Sugar Ray Robinson
'Sugar Ray Robinson was a professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances at the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight...
(Walker Smith Jr.)
- Takanohana Koji
is a former sumo wrestler from Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. He was the 65th man in history to reach sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, and he won 22 tournament championships between 1992 and 2001, the fifth highest total ever...
(Koji Hanada)
- Tony Zale
Anthony Florian Zaleski was an American boxer. Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname,...
(Anthony Florian Zaleski)
- Wakanohana Masaru
is a former sumo wrestler from Tokyo, Japan. As an active wrestler he was known as Wakanohana III Masaru , and his rise through the ranks alongside his younger brother Takanohana Koji saw a boom in sumo's popularity in the early 1990s...
(Masaru Hanada)
- Zico
Arthur Antunes Coimbra , better known as Zico , is a Brazilian coach and former footballer. Often called the White Pelé, he is commonly considered one of the most skilled dribblers and finishers ever and possibly the world's best player of the early 80's...
(Arthur Antunes Coimbra)
- JJ Lehto (Jyrki Järvilehto)
Fictional
- Rusty Shackleford (Dale Gribble)
- Demosthenes
Demosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by...
(Valentine WigginValentine Wiggin is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series of novels. She is the older sister of Ender Wiggin.-Biography:...
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- Locke (Peter Wiggin
In the science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels, written by Orson Scott Card, Peter Wiggin is Ender's older brother. He has appeared in the novels Ender's Game, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind and in an upcoming short story...
)
- Aramis
C. René d'Aramis de Vannes is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père...
(Chevalier d'Herblay)
- Athos
Olivier d'Athos de la Fère is a fictional character, a Musketeer of the Guard in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père....
(Le Comte de La Fère)
- Porthos
Porthos, baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers Athos and Aramis are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan...
(Monsieur du Vallon)
Other
- Alexander Supertramp (Christopher McCandless)
- Art Vandelay (George Costanza)
- Bernard Shakey (Neil Young)
- Colonel Tom Parker
"Colonel" Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker , born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, was a Dutch-born entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley. His management of Presley re-wrote the role of talent manager and was seen as central to the astonishing success of Presley's career...
(Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk)
- Emmanuel Goldstein
Emmanuel Goldstein is a fictional character in George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Despite being a key part of the story, he is never actually seen or heard, and may in fact be nothing more than a propaganda fabrication of the Ministry of Truth .-Character:In the novel, Goldstein is...
(Eric Corley)
- Manoj
Manoj is an Indian film editor working in the Malayalam film industry. He was born in Trivandrum.- Career :He was born in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India. He started his career as a film editor, movie Smart City...
(Mayank)
- Viktor Suvorov
Viktor Suvorov is the pen name for Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun , a Russian writer. Suvorov made his name writing books about Soviet history, the Soviet Army, GRU, and Spetsnaz. His testimony about the capabilities of the Soviet Special Forces created concern in the West...
(Vladimir Rezun)
See also
- Literary initials
A large number of authors choose to use some form of initials in their name when it appears in their literary work. This includes some of the most famous authors of the 20th century - D. H. Lawrence, J. D. Salinger, T. S. Eliot, J. R. R...
- List of notable pen names
- List of pseudonyms used in the American constitutional debates
- List of works published under a pseudonym
- Mononymous persons
A mononymous person is an individual who is known by a mononym, or "single name". In some cases, that name has been selected by the individual, who may have originally been given a polynym...
- Nicknames of jazz musicians
Nicknames are common among jazz musicians. Nicknames and sobriquets can also sometimes become stage names, and there are several cases of performers being known almost exclusively by their nicknames as opposed to their given names...