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This list of stage names lists names used by those in the entertainment industry, alphabetically by their stage name's surname, followed by their birth name. Individuals who dropped their last name and substituted their middle name as their last name are listed. In many cases, performers have legally changed their name to their stage name.
People are not listed here if they fall into one or more of the following categories:
Those who changed their surname due primarily to marriage:
Living: Maud Adams, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Angelica Agurbash, Karen Akers, Jane Alexander, Lexi Allen, Alicia Alonso, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Boots Anson-Roa, Eleanor Antin, Julia Arnall, P.P. Arnold, Jules Asner, Pernilla August, Jaya Bachchan, Shirley Ballas, Joy Bang, Tisha Terrasini Banker, Glynis Barber, Daniel Barnz, Alison Bartlett-O'Reilly, Barbara Becker, Victoria Beckham, Joy Behar, Pat Benatar, Jodi Benson, Gülse Birsel, Carla Bley, Scotty Bloch, Asha Bhosle, Helen Blatch, Rosa Bouglione, Angela Bowie, Katie Boyle, Bonnie Bramlett, Frankie Bridge, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Aline Brosh McKenna, Pat Crawford Brown, Maryedith Burrell, Ellen Burstyn, L. Scott Caldwell, Kate Capshaw, Nancy Carell, Lynn Carlin, Jean Carn, Kathleen Chalfant, Marge Champion, Stockard Channing, Pamela Chopra, Cheryl Cole, Liza Colón-Zayas, Didi Conn, Nukaaka (Nukâka) Coster-Waldau, Kathryn Crosby, Patrika Darbo, Joan Darling, Betty Davis, CeDell Davis, Kassie DePaiva, Élisabeth Depardieu, Bo Derek, Pamela Des Barres, Natalie Desselle-Reid, Tabitha D'umo, Noureen DeWulf, Joyce DiDonato, Caren Marsh Doll, Helen Donath, Carol Douglas, Anne Dudley, Emily Dunn, Marj Dusay, Sheena Easton, Jenna Elfman, Linda Ellerbee, Anita Ellis, Violetta Elvin, Lotta Engberg, Shannon Farnon, Barbara Feldon, Bette Ford, Lidija Franklin, Carolyn Garcia, Marcia Mitzman Gaven, Lynda Day George, Marla Gibbs, Kathie Lee Gifford, Astrud Gilberto, Sally Gilpin, Joanna Gleason, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Donna Hanover, Tess Harper, Estelle Harris, Susan Harris, Lindsay Hartley, Rohini Hattangadi, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Lotta Hedlund, Dana Hee, Martha Henry, Bec Hewitt, Anna Kathryn Holbrook, Nancy Holloway, Cissy Houston, Jan Howard, Alaina Huffman, Mary Beth Hurt, Jessica Hynes, Alexandra Isles, Bianca Jagger, Karen Jarrett, Tamara Johnson-George, Sue Johnston, Rebecca Judd, Mitzi Kapture, Jean Kasem, Nan Kelley, Jayne Kennedy, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Joanna Kerns, Sandra Kerns, Anita Kerr, Barbara Knox, Cheryl Ladd, Amel Larrieux, Lucy Lawless, Shamcey Supsup-Lee, Lar Park Lincoln, Rosaleen Linehan, Ernie Lively, Janice Long, Loretta Lynn, Ruth Madoc, Suhasini Maniratnam, Rita Marley, Bridget Marquardt, Susanne Marsee, Elaine May, Gwen McCrae, Aline Brosh McKenna, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Kay Mellor, Sheila Mercier, Monique Mercure, Carol Merrill, Vera Miles, Marisa Miller, Demi Moore, Diana Moran, Maria Muldaur, Mrs. John Murphy, Leigh Nash, Nancy O'Dell, Esther Ofarim, Genevieve Padalecki, Kimberly Page, Galina Panov (Panova), Lara Parker, Alexa PenaVega, Carlos PenaVega, Melanie Paxson, Michelle Phillips, Joyce Hiller Piven, Erin Hershey Presley, Priscilla Presley, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Noomi Rapace and Ola Rapace (created a surname, jointly), Phylicia Rashād, Johanna Ray, Perri "Pebbles" Reid, Jeannie C. Riley, Judith Roberts, Tanya Roberts, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Russell, Susan Ruttan, Jeri Ryan, Carole Bayer Sager, Charo Santos-Concio, Susan Sarandon, Dana Scallon, Rebecca Schull, Melody Thomas Scott, Peggy Scott-Adams, Julie Seitter, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Talia Shire, Joan Micklin Silver, Mary Jo Slater, Grace Slick, Connie Smith, Hillary B. Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Eleanor Sokoloff, P. J. Soles, Tatiana Sorokko, Ronnie Spector, Joan Staley, Brinke Stevens, Stella Stevens, Angie Stone, Anna Strasberg, Mira Stupica, Sulekha Talwalkar, Jennifer Taylor, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Betty Thomas, Linda Thompson, Linda Thorson, Julie Driscoll Tippetts, Jim True-Frost, Anita Tsoy, Tina Turner, Eleni Tzoka, Kim Johnston Ulrich, Nina van Pallandt, Maureen Van Zandt, Colleen Villard, Surbhi Javeri Vyas, Paula Wagner, Rita Walter, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Jack White, Thea White, Lynn Whitfield, Niecy Williams, Spice Williams-Crosby, Linda Womack, Kim Woodburn, and Sheri Moon Zombie.
Dead: Carol Ann Abrams, Jane Ace, Alberta Adams, Jill Adams, Frances Adaskin, Esin Afşar, Rosa Albach-Retty, Theoni V. Aldredge, Esther Allan, Sheila Matthews Allen, Adrienne Ames, Irena Anders, Liz Anderson, Signe Toly Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, Alice Arlen, Florence Arliss, Silvana Armenulić, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Beatrice Arthur, Dorothy Ashby, Sylvia Ashley, Lys Assia, Aniela Aszpergerowa, Mildred Bailey, Mary Barclay, Elaine Barrie, Inezita Barroso, B. Constance Barry, Patricia Barry, Cheryl Barrymore, Katherine Harris Barrymore, Belle Barth, Frances Bay, Lucy Beaumont, Gertrude Berg, Frances Bergen, Shirl Bernheim, Ilene Berns, Barbara Billingsley, Faye Blackstone, Madge Blake, Beverly Schmidt Blossom, Virginia True Boardman, Helen Boatwright, Karolina Bock, Lucienne Bogaert, Lucille Bogan, Pat Bond, Lynn Borden, Anne Borg, Clara T. Bracy, Barbara Brecht-Schall, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Ruth Brown, Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter, Argentina Brunetti, Claudia Bryar, Marie Burke, Adelaide Calvert, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Marie Carandini, Olive Carey, Mary Carr, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Maybelle Carter, Claiborne Cary, Maria Caserini, June Carter Cash, Irene Castle, Darlene Cates, Christine Cavanaugh, Olivia Cenizal, Lee Chamberlin, Henrietta Baker Chanfrau (aka Mrs F. S. Chanfrau), Cyd Charisse, Chris Chase, Yelena Chernykh, Patsy Cline, Véra Clouzot, Maria Cole, Patience Collier, Roberta Collins, Alice Coltrane, Jane Connell, Nadine Conner, Lady Diana Cooper, Paulette Coquatrix, Ellen Corby, Muriel Costa-Greenspon, Mae Costello, Ida Cox, Fanny Cradock, Elizabeth Crotty, Candy Csencsits, Adelaide Hawley Cumming, Phyllis Curtin, Myrtle Damerel, Ruby Dandridge, Alice Davenport, Fanny Vining Davenport, Ramona Davies, Josie DeCarlo, Ruby Dee, Marie de Forest, Julie Alix de la Fay, Desha Delteil, Dolores del Río, Nora Denney, Phyllis Diller, Jeane Dixon, Mary Dodson, Liv Dommersnes, Eileen Donaghy, Edna Doré, Bianca Doria, Kay Dotrice, Diana Douglas, Phyllis Douglas, Louisa Lane Drew, Alice Drummond, Ruth Duccini, Geeta Dutt, Alma Evans-Freke, Dame Pat Evison, Mimi Fariña, Kathe Feist, Edwige Feuillère, Margaret Field, Minnie Maddern Fiske (or simply "Mrs. Fiske"), Lisa Fonssagrives, Lilian Fontaine, Dolores Fuller, Gwen Fuqua, Amelita Galli-Curci, Hope Garber, Maria Garbowska-Kierczyńska, Anna Gordy Gaye, Leyla Gencer, Jeannette Clift George, Estelle Getty, Ann Gilbert, Lucile Gleason, Renee Godfrey, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Maude Turner Gordon, Vera Gordon, Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, Beatrice Gray, Dorothy Green, Joyce Grenfell, Laurence Grivot, Alice Guy-Blaché, Louise Closser Hale, Alaina Reed Hall, Grayson Hall, Juanita Hall, Kim Hamilton, Anne Haney, Dona Hardy, Estelle Harman, Cassandra Harris, Carole Hart, Signe Hasso, Wanda Hawley, Dixie Haygood, Edith Head, Žermēna Heine-Vāgnere, Louise Héritte-Viardot, Alice Herz-Sommer, Algia Mae Hinton, Hanne Hiob, Gertrude Hoffmann, Fay Holderness, Astrid Holm, Dolores Hope, Hedda Hopper, Jean Speegle Howard, Faith Hubley, Josephine Hull, Grethe Ingmann, Julia Crawford Ivers, Joyce Jacobs, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Florence Foster Jenkins, Besedka Johnson, Beverley Peck Johnson, Kathryn Joosten, Jenny Jugo, Lakshmi Kanakala, Helen Kane, Fay Kanin, Sylvia Kauders, Gina Kaus, Myra Keaton, Jenny Twitchell Kempton, Dame Madge Kendal, Marketa Kimbrell, Mabel King, Millie Kirkham, May Kitson, Evelyn Knight, Marie Knight, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Sossen Krohg, Yvonne Levy Kushner, Claire Labine, Jessie Royce Landis, Gracie Lantz, Elodie Lauten, Zarah Leander, Evelyn Lear, Vivien Leigh, Rosetta LeNoire, Gloria Leonard, Mimi Lerner, Stella LeSaint, Aleen Leslie, Anna Letenská, Rosina Lhévinne, Lois Lilienstein, Jane Little, Peggy Lloyd, Kathleen Lockhart, Judith Lowry, Alice Ludes, Nola Luxford, Sheila MacRae, Maria Malibran, Toni Mannix, Marietta Marich, Tina Marquand, Pamela Mason, Marilyn Lovell Matz, Linda McCartney, Nobu McCarthy, Ruth McDevitt, Marian McPartland, Margaret McWade, Adah Isaacs Menken, Patricia Merbreier, Zinka Milanov, Betty Miles, Mrs. Elva Miller, Helena Modjeska, Lydia Mordkovitch, Anna Karen Morrow, Yvonne Mounsey, Kathryn Murray, Bedia Muvahhit, Harriet Nelson, Shirley Collie Nelson, Frances Nero, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Nadine Nicolaeva-Legat, Agnes Nixon, Lupe Ontiveros, Joan Orenstein, Rita Orlandi-Malaspina, Mecha Ortiz, Ethel Owen, Bonnie Owens, Helenka Pantaleoni, Giuditta Pasta, Tayva Patch, Dina Pathak, Dorothy Patrick, Katina Paxinou, Barbara Payton, Margaret Pellegrini, Fern Persons, Orna Porat, Dory Previn, Ma Rainey, Saba Raleigh, Esther Ralston, Dottie Rambo, Anne Ramsey, Lois Ramsey, Bijoya Ray, Dana Reeve, Estelle Reiner, Elsa Respighi, Malvina Reynolds, Marjorie Reynolds, Irene Riano, Irene Rich, Billie Mae Richards, Cleo Ridgely, Sylvia Robinson, Nélida Roca, Blossom Rock, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Shirley Russell, Irene Ryan, Joel Ryce-Menuhin, Florence St. John, Harley Saito, Tura Satana, Neila Sathyalingam, Therese Schnabel, Teddy Scholten, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Dawn Sears, Zelda Sears, Toshi Seeger, Zohra Sehgal, Joan Shawlee, Madeleine Sherwood, Teri Shields, Nell Shipman, Elaine Shore, Mitzi Shore, Sarah Siddons, Rose Siggins, Hilda Simms, Susan Raab Simonson, Lilia Skala, Alison Skipworth, Anna Nicole Smith, Mamie Smith, Rosalie Sorrels, Zypora Spaisman, Elizabeth Spriggs, Kathy Staff, Anna Sten, Paula Strasberg, Donna Summer, Smita Talwalkar, Laurette Taylor, Beryl Te Wiata, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Olive Thomas, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Mrs Beerbohm Tree (aka Lady Tree), Barbara Trentham, Sophie Tucker, Helen Twelvetrees, Annette Vadim, Alice Van-Springsteen, Marlene VerPlanck, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, Pauline Viardot, Florence Vidor, Salka Viertel, Nedra Volz, Sláva Vorlová, Ethel Wales, Sippie Wallace, Pat Welsh, Helen Westley, Jean Willes, Cookie Williams, Dell Williams, Mary Lou Williams, Peggy Willis-Aarnio, Ellen Winther, Sheree Winton, Chan Woods, Jane Wyman, Yafa Yarkoni, Clara Kimball Young, Şenay Yüzbaşıoğlu, Izabella Zielińska, and Norma Zimmer.

People from Spanish and/or Portuguese-speaking countries and the Philippines if their professional name contains either of their two family names. For more information, see Spanish naming customs, Hispanic American naming customs, Filipino names, and Portuguese names.

Note, however, that other cultures have their own naming customs and systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hungarian, Indian, and others), some rather intricate, and minor changes or alterations, including reversing Eastern-style formats, do not in and of themselves qualify as stage names, and should not normally be included. For example, Björk, whose stage name appears to be an original creation, is part of her full Icelandic name, Björk Guðmundsdóttir. Her second name is a patronymic instead of a family name, following Icelandic naming conventions. "Björk" is not a stage name but how any Icelander would refer to her, casually or formally.

People known by generational nicknames: for example, Trey Anastasio (whose full name is Ernest Joseph Anastasio III), Noah Beery Jr., Noah Beery Sr., Lon Chaney Jr. and Pops Staples
People who may be popularly, though not professionally, known by a nickname, such as Robert John "Mutt" Lange.
Those who changed their surname due to adoption or legal name change prior to entering the entertainment industry:
Living: Dame Julie Andrews, Sean Astin, Jimmy Barnes, Christie Brinkley, Clemency Burton-Hill, Neneh Cherry, Robb Flynn, Missy and Tracey Gold, Julie Goodyear, Dave Gahan, Barra Grant, Jane Lapotaire, Blake and Eric Lively, Elle Macpherson, Jesse L. Martin, Steve March-Tormé, Martine McCutcheon, Frances McDormand, Rita Moreno, Piers Morgan, Simon Pegg, Nicole Richie, Juliet Rylance, Ken Shamrock, Scott Stapp, Kristoffer Tabori, Leigh Taylor-Young, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Louis Tomlinson, Steven Van Zandt, Suzanne Vega, and Vanna White.
Dead: Ina Balin, Bibi Besch, Peter Brown, Solomon Burke,William Collier Jr., Larry Coryell, Nancy Davis, Katherine DeMille, George Englund, Joan Fontaine, John Gavin, Wynonie Harris, Sterling Hayden, Eileen Heckart, Charlton Heston, Madeline Kahn, Dorothy Lamour, Arthur Taylor Lee, Art Linkletter, Lori March,June Mathis, Terry Melcher, Florence and Mary Nash, Baby Marie Osborne, Gram Parsons, Tracy Reed, Doris Roberts, Ginger Rogers, Joe Santos, Sylvia Sidney, Willie "the Lion" Smith, Alan Thicke, and Grace Lee Whitney.

Those known by a stage name consisting of a single word, not including those commonly referred to by their surname: See List of one-word stage names
People who adopted a matriname: See List of people who adopted matrilineal surnames
Those whose stage forename is a middle name, e.g. Paul McCartney and Marie Osmond: these are their real middle names, not stage names.
People referred or known publicly and/or professionally by an amended forename (substantial changes, indirect nicknames, etc.) — e.g. Dimi Mint Abba, Julie Adams, Cannonball Adderley, Zeca Afonso, Jeff Alexander, Red Allen, Christopher Allport, Chinggoy Alonzo, Ramsay Ames, Tori Amos, Judith Anderson, Keith Andes, Fatty Arbuckle, Gem Archer, Graham Armitage, Jerome Arnold, Kokomo Arnold, Antonin Artaud, Barry Atwater, Coco Austin, Patricia Avery, Tex Avery, Faith Bacon, Buff Bagwell, Benny Bailey, Ginger Baker, Ox Baker, Johnny Ball, Ryan Bang, Tim Barlow, Binnie Barnes, Lynda Baron, Syd Barrett, Count Basie, James Bate, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Terry Becker, Wilson Benge, Chico Benymon, Barney Bigard, Bam Bam Bigelow, Acker Bilk, Kelly Bishop, Sharkey Bonano, Sean Bonniwell, Lucienne Boyer, Leah Bracknell, Alice Brady, Beau Bridges, John Bromfield, Bruno Brookes, Bubba Brooks, Stephen Brooks, Tina Brooks, K Brosas, Chelsea Brown, Timothy Brown, Joshua Bryant, Slim Bryant, Brad Bufanda, Buddy Buie, Sonny Burke, T-Bone Burnett, Jethro Burns, Geezer Butler, Pat Buttram, Don Byas, Max Bygraves, Zig Byfield, Zoe Caldwell, Haystacks Calhoun, Earl Cameron, Juri Camisasca, Candy Candido, Tantoo Cardinal, David Carradine, John Carradine, Shorty Castro, Exene Cervenka, Chick Chandler, Lon Chaney Sr., Doc Cheatham, Joan Chen, Sonny Clark, Warren Clarke, Buck Clayton, Cheyne Coates, Steve Cochran, Cozy Cole, Jaybird Coleman, Buddy Collette, Patricia Collinge, G. Pat Collins, Betty Compson, Betty Compton, Heinie Conklin, Chuck Connors, Gary Conway, Tim Conway, Carole Cook, Gary Cooper, Matthew Corbett, Jacqueline Courtney, Mars Cowling, Lol Creme, Donald Crisp, John Cromwell, Bing Crosby, Scatman Crothers, James D'Arcy, Linda Darnell, Bodjie Dasig, Cow Cow Davenport, Deddie Davies, Richard Davies, Jim Davis, Lisa Davis, Angelika de la Cruz, Crahan Denton, Ajay Devgan, Manna Dey, Paw Diaz, B. B. Dickerson, Mark Dinning, Kenny Dino, Claire Dodd, Peter Donat, Roni Duani, Patty Duke, Sly Dunbar, Stephen (Steve) Dunne, Junior Durkin, Sunil Dutt, Coke Escovedo, Lu Edmonds, Honeyboy Edwards, Skye Edwards, Anthony Eisley, Joff Ellen, Duke Ellington, Peg Entwistle, Dixie Evans, Madge Evans, Jason Evers, Dez Fafara, Mimsy Farmer, Aniko Farrell, Tovah Feldshuh, Beanie Feldstein, Pops Fernandez, Gabriele Ferzetti, Virginia Field, Fyvush Finkel, Herbie Flowers, Dick Foran, Faith Ford, Carl Forgione, Anthony Forwood, Douglas Fowley, Panama Francis, Alan Freed, Mickey Freeman, Paul Frees, Ace Frehley, France Gall, Red Garland, Snuff Garrett, Anthony George, Dana Ghia, Coky Giedroyc, Hoot Gibson, Terry Gilkyson, Dana Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie, Redmond Gleeson, Mark Goddard, Harold Goldblatt, Beauty Gonzalez, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Tweety González, Michael Gordon, Stubby Gordon, Lloyd Gough, Charles Gray, Timothy Gray, José Greci, Buddy Greco, Dabbs Greer, Carlotta Grisi, Gigi Gryce, Yvette Guilbert, Clu Gulager, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Mick Guzauski, Sara Haden, Chief Halftown, Pooch Hall, Ram Hall, Rick Hall, Tubby Hall, Chico Hamilton, Kipp Hamilton, G Hannelius, Oliver Hardy, Damon Harris, Jet Harris, Sib Hashian, Wings Hauser, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Allison Hayes, Topper Headon, Niykee Heaton, Tippi Hedren, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, Levon Helm, Skitch Henderson, Joe Herndon, Benny Hill, Bill Hinnant, Skip Hinnant, Junie Hoang, Boscoe Holder, Peanuts Holland, John Hollis, Jennifer Holt, Tim Holt, Skip Homeier, Nellee Hooper, Bob Hope, Roy Horn, Robert Horton, Jennifer Howard, Season Hubley, Peanuts Hucko, Gareth Hughes, Sean Hughes, Gareth Hunt, Carlo Imperato, Antonio Inoki, Agot Isidro, Chubby Jackson, Inigo Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Rebbie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Hattie Jacques, Skip James, Jack Jenney, Lyfe Jennings, Leee John, Money Johnson, Susan Johnson, Henry Jolles, Deacon Jones, Griffith Jones, Rhubarb Jones, Rusty Jones, Spike Jones, Lonnie Jordan, Richard Jordan, Tiny Kahn, Nick Kamen, Frankie Kao, Boney Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Casey Kasem, Buster Keaton, Howard Keel, Maynard James Keenan, Garrison Keillor, Brian Keith, Judy Kelly, R. Kelly, Sam Kelly, Wael Kfoury, Rajesh Khanna, Twinkle Khanna, B.B. King, Jonathan King, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Johnny Kitagawa, Evel Knievel, Fuzzy Knight, Andre Kostelanetz, Kane Kosugi, Harley Jane Kozak, Papa Jack Laine, Lash LaRue, Prince Lasha, James Last, Yank Lawson, Kuh Ledesma, Bunny "Striker" Lee, China Lee, Jacknife Lee, Spike Lee, Lucky Lehrer, Tutte Lemkow, Kasi Lemmons, Bobo Lewis, Philip Locke, Preston Lockwood, Robert Loggia, Beba Lončar, Pixie Lott, Fabrice Luchini, Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor, China Machado, Mac MacLeod, Brandon Maggart, Raine Maida, Arthur Malet, Boots Mallory, Jose Manalo, Miles Mander, Camryn Manheim, Pigmeat Markham, Ziggy Marley, the Marx Brothers, Kedar Massenburg, Dakin Matthews, Christopher Mayer, Mac McAnally, Richard McCabe, Smilin' Ed McConnell, Dylan McDermott, Country Joe McDonald, Pake McEntire, Allan McKeown, Leo McKern, Stephen McNally, Matthew McNulty, Butterfly McQueen, Molly Meldrum, Carlos Mencia, Michèle Mercier, Bubber Miley, Jason Miller, Jody Miller, Moi-Yo Miller, Gyp Mills, Vincente Minnelli, Charlotte Mitchell, Julie Mitchum, Gunner Moir, Miff Mole, Robert Montgomery, Clayton Moore, Dennie Moore, Pee Wee Moore, Tim Moore, Dolores Moran, Buddy Moreno, Chino Moreno, John Moreno, Jaye P. Morgan, Barry Morse, Bubbi Morthens, Zero Mostel, Aga Muhlach, Moon Mullican, Jimmy Murakami, Turk Murphy, Sunny Murray, Max Mutchnick, Grim Natwick, Vhong Navarro, Taylor Negron, Mickey Newbury, Alec Newman, Juice Newton, Nichelle Nichols, Jack Nitzsche, Lobo Nocho, Noël-Noël, Keena Nomkeena, Rolla Norman, Kim Novak, Chubby Oates, Margaret O'Brien, Spec O'Donnell, Dead Ohlin, Michael O'Keefe, Chauncey Olcott, Sy Oliver, Ole Olsen, Moira Orfei, Kid Ory, Ozzy Osbourne, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Hot Lips Page (aka Lips Page), Alexander Pantages, Sunshine Parker, Michael Parks, Spede Pasanen, Michael Pate, Banjo Paterson, Pat Paterson, Hank Patterson, "Sunshine" Sonny Payne, Jesse Pearson, Tyler Perry, Siân Phillips, Robert Pine, Steve Plytas, Fernando Poe Jr., Lily Pons, Olaf Pooley, Henny Porten, George Pravda, Toni Price, Curly Putman, Buck Ram, Dack Rambo, Sue Randall, Lillian Randolph, Elliott Reid, Django Reinhardt, Debbie Reynolds, Jody Reynolds, Peter Mark Richman, Ron Rifkin, Snaffu Rigor, Tex Ritter, Emmanuelle Riva, Renee Roberts, Robbie Robertson, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Kasey Rogers, Fay Roope, Draco Rosa, Pee Wee Russell, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Gian Sammarco, Tiny Sandford, Isabel Sanford, Samantha Sang, Aggro Santos, Tom Santschi, Arjun Sarja, Leo Sayer, Boz Scaggs, Lalo Schifrin, Curly Seckler, Rolfe Sedan, Noot Seear, Peter Sellers, Rimi Sen, Doc Severinsen, Sarah Shahi, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore, Jackie Shroff, M. Night Shyamalan, Bunny Sigler, Richard Simmons, Zoot Sims, Campbell Singer, Zutty Singleton, Elliott Smith, Piano Smith, Stuff Smith, Cobie Smulders, Henriette Sontag, Oyo Boy Sotto, Maelcum Soul, Muggsy Spanier, Dorothy Squires, Robert Stack, Johnny Stark, Mark Stevens, B. W. Stevenson, Redd Stewart, Sigismund Stojowski, Mink Stole, Sydney Sturgess, Jazz Summers, Slim Summerville, Mack Swain, Birdy Sweeney, Olga Syahputra, Junpei Takiguchi, Baby Tate, Shaw Taylor, Jack Teagarden, Larri Thomas, Lydia Thompson, Big Mama Thornton, Richard Thorpe, Tedi Thurman, John Tillinger, Rip Torn, Rawy Torres, Norman Treigle, Pastor Troy, Butch Trucks, Barbara Turner, Lana Turner, Midge Ure, Iko Uwais, Mad Dog Vachon, Victor Varconi, Yoyoy Villame, Laurent Voulzy, Luigi Waites, Christopher Walken, Clint Walker, T-Bone Walker, Dylan Walsh, Raoul Walsh, Ray Walston, Lalla Ward, Butch Warren, Gedde Watanabe, Gary Watson, Mills Watson, Fee Waybill, Doodles Weaver, Pat Weaver, Sigourney Weaver, Chick Webb, Tuesday Weld, Paul Weller, Alice White, Eg White, Slappy White, Billy Wilder, Grant Williams, Loudmouth Williams, Dooley Wilson, Richard Wilson, Trey Wingo, Chubby Wise, Mac Wiseman, Finn Wittrock, Woolly Wolstenholme, Bomb Woodard, Woody Woodbury, Ilene Woods, Hank Worden, Vivian Wu, Joe Yamanaka, Yang Jinhua, Bimby Aquino Yap, Bud Yorkin, Ace Young, Alan Young, Jeremy Young, Loretta Young, Peggy Zina and Voula Zouboulaki.
People with more than one family name, provided at least one is represented in the professional name: for example, Felix Aylmer, Angela Baddeley, Hermione Baddeley, Jeff Banks, Jeremy Beadle, India de Beaufort, Jacqueline Bisset, Hugh Bonneville, Johannes Brost, Joseph Calleia, Jeanne de Casalis, Jonathan Cecil, Daveigh Chase, Colin Clive, Fay Compton, Viola Compton, Jimmy Crawford (British singer), Alexx Ekubo, Peter Finch, Bruce Forsyth, Fil Fraser, Christopher Guest, Alec Guinness, Binnie Hale, Sonnie Hale, Paul Henreid, Trevor Howard, Željko Ivanek, Jimmy Jewel, Stratford Johns, Cavan Kendall, Kay Kendall, Deborah Kerr, Boris Kodjoe, David Langton, Emily Lloyd, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Sharvell-Martin, Henry McGee, Bob Merrill, Jewel Mische, Anna Mjöll, Priscilla Morgan, Alan Napier, Sue Nicholls, Florencio Parravicini, Frankie Poullain, Dennis Price, Anna Russell, Mark Rylance, Thomas Sangster, Tonio Selwart, Roland Shaw, Tony Sheridan, Richard Todd, André de Toth, Edward Tudor-Pole, Bill Travers, Linden Travers, Bailey Tzuke, Betsy von Furstenberg, Martin Wallström, H. B. Warner, Boris Williams, Katherine Woodville, and Robert Wyatt.
People who change their names for religious reasons (see List of converts to Islam)
People who change their name(s) due to change in sexual gender, identity, or due to dysphoria or other recognized gender-related issue, or for drag performers, such as Courtney Act, Alexis Arquette, April Ashley, Evita Bezuidenhout, Chaz Bono, Pandora Boxx, Lady Bunny, Wendy Carlos, Peaches Christ, Roberta Close, Caroline Cossey, Jayne County, Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling, Sahara Davenport, Tomata du Plenty, Lili Elbe, Dame Edna Everage, Tannie Evita, Flawless Sabrina, Gila Goldstein, Laura Jane Grace, Harisu, Lauren Harries, Heklina, Alina María Hernández, Mimi Imfurst, Dana International, Jazzmun, Caitlyn Jenner, Holly Johnson, Danny LaRue, La Veneno, Miss Shangay Lily, Manila Luzon, Brini Maxwell, Morgan McMichaels, Jinkx Monsoon, Silvetty Montilla, Our Lady J, Rosa von Praunheim, Raven, Lily Savage, Verka Serduchka, Shangela, The Lady Chablis, Billy Tipton, Nong Toom, Florencia Trinidad (also known as Florencia de la V or Flor de la V), Del Lagrace Volcano, Larry Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, Jessica Wild, and Holly Woodlawn.
People who adopt a pseudo-nobiliary particle, prefix, suffix, hyphenation or other diacritic/symbol, including Willie Cauley-Stein, Robert James-Collier, John D'Aquino, Paquito D'Rivera, Anton du Beke, John Du Cann, Tom Goodman-Hill, Wilfrid Hyde-White, John Martin-Harvey, Crash McLarson, Alice O'Fredericks, Sean O'Haire, Dawn O'Porter, Terry O'Quinn, Annette O'Toole, Denise van Outen, Ruth St. Denis, Rik Van Nutter, Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles, Josef von Sternberg, Erich von Stroheim, and Lars von Trier, as well as, according to some sources, Max von Sydow.

In some cases this is reversed; i.e. a surname is simplified by the removal of a genuine particle (or particles), hyphenation or other diacritic/symbol, such as in the cases of Dirk Bogarde, Tabby Callaghan, Lyn Christie, Scott Forbes, Gregory Gaye, Martyn Green, Jean Hagen, Jock Mahoney, Frank Tashlin, and Peter Ustinov.

People who changed the spelling of a surname to either ensure proper pronunciation, resulting in a name which is basically the same phonetically as the original surname, or, in some cases, possibly required due to name conflicts in re Actors Equity or other acting unions: Hardie Albright, Lauren Ambrose, Don Ameche, Eddi Arent, Jay J. Armes, James Arness, Renée Asherson, Claudine Auger, Bessie Barriscale, Alain Bashung, Lina Basquette, Pierre Batcheff, Dave Batista, Warren Beatty, Lou Bega, Harry Belafonte, Antonín Bennewitz, Michael Bentine, Polly Bergen, Barbara Berjer, Sarah Bernhardt, Mel Blanc, Claire Bloom, James Blunt, Larry Blyden, Beulah Bondi, Jon Bon Jovi, John Brandon, Eileen Brennan, Teresa Brewer, Pierre Brice, Coral Browne, Aristide Bruant, Yul Brynner, Dorsey Burnette, Mike Burstyn, Pat Buttram, Kuda Bux, John Byner, Sammy Cahn, Emma Calvé, Bill Chase, Tsilla Chelton, Tom Clay, Lee J. Cobb, Betty Cody, Toni Collette, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, Michael Curtiz, Cass Daley, Henry Daniell, Smoky Dawson, Desmond Dekker, Tulio Demicheli, Jason Derulo, Tamara De Treaux, Pete Duel, Jane Dulo, Mary Duncan, Irene Dunne, Robbie Dupree, Jeanne Eagels, Richard Eastham, Bob Eberly, Billy Eckstine, George Edwardes, Britt Ekland, Richard Erdman, Roza Eskenazi, Kim E-Z, Nanette Fabray, Edwige Fenech, Sherilyn Fenn, Aaron Fink, David Flair, Reid Flair, Ric Flair, Nina Foch, June Foray, Victor Francen, Jane Frazee, Stan Freberg, Serge Gainsbourg, Mo Gallini, Marvin Gaye, Janet Gaynor, Nicolai Gedda, Jason Gedrick, Will Geer, Robert Gerringer, Rodleen Getsic, Don Grady, Al Green, Lorne Greene, Margaret Gwenver, Daryl Hall, May Hallatt, Phil Hartman, Charles Hawtrey, Richard Haydn, Helen Haye, Jerome Hines, Frankie Howerd, Walter Huston, Jack Hylton, Rhys Ifans, Emil Jannings, Adele Jergens, Tor Johnson, Al Jolson, Milla Jovovich, Vic Juris, Bertha Kalich, Sharon Kane, Larry Kert, Richard Kline, Patric Knowles, Alexis Korner, Jerzy Kossela, Nancy Kovack, Kidd Kraddick, Jane Krakowski, Belinda Lang, Laura La Plante, Violet La Plante, Eva La Rue, Jon Laurimore, Dee C. Lee, Jon Lormer, Eddy Louiss, Celia Lovsky, William Lucas, Laurette Luez, Paul Lukas, Harriet MacGibbon, Dolores Mantez, Johnny Marr, Derek Martinus, Léonide Massine, Tim Matheson, Walter Matthau, Sharon Maughan, Holt McCallany, Geraldine McEwan, Siobhán McKenna, Ross McManus, Louis B. Mayer, Sue Mengers, Tim Mensy, Daniela Mercury, Mezz Mezzrow, Pras Michel, Marjie Millar, Borrah Minevitch, Cameron Mitchell, Helena Modjeska, Tony Monopoly, Greg Mullavey, Shoista Mullojonova, Patrice Munsel, Aïché Nana, Oscar Natzka, Peter Nero, Julie Newmar, Keena Nomkeena, Ric Ocasek, Lani O'Grady, Warner Oland, April Olrich, Ed O'Ross, Seena Owen, Patricia Paay, Ron Palillo, Joy Page, Albert Paulsen, Doris Pawn, Joe Penner, Iván Petrovich, Suzie Plakson, Gene Pollar, Nyree Dawn Porter, Olga Preobrajenska, André Previn, Jonathan Pryce, John Qualen, Mae Questel, Lynne Randell, Aldo Ray, Ray Rayner, Ginette Reno, Rita Reys, Harry Richman, May Robson, Richard Romanus, Don Rondo, Alma Rubens, Rick Rude, Frances Ruffelle, Sig Ruman, John Russell, Sahlene, Aaron Schroeder, Johnny Sea, Victor Seastrom, Curly Seckler, Élie Semoun, Mack Sennett, Marion Shilling, Lee Shubert, Horace Silver, George Skibine, Andrew Stevens, Kaye Stevens, Amy Stock, Mink Stole, Lee Strasberg, Gloria Stuart, Wes Studi, Patrick Stump, Frank Tashlin, Leonard Teale, Milka Ternina, Maggie Teyte, Bernie Tormé, Alessandra Torresani, Lenore Ulric, Rudy Vallee, Pierre Vaneck, Edward Van Sloan, Victor Varconi, Jimmy Wakely, Eddy Wally, Koko B. Ware, John Witherspoon, Butch Warren, Ted Weems, Snowy White, Slim Whitman, Mykelti Williamson, Anneke Wills, Walter Winchell, Herbert Wise, Donald Wolfit, Víctor Yturbe, Joe Yule, and Blanche Yurka.
People who changed only a middle or second name, or who switched their first and middle names, such as Garry Gary Beers, Norman Bel Geddes, Halle Berry, Johnny Yong Bosch, John David Carson, David Clayton-Thomas, Michael J. Fox, Simon Gipps-Kent, Paul Michael Glaser, Anthony Michael Hall, Barry Shabaka Henley, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Sean Leonard, Meade Lux Lewis, Anna Maxwell Martin, Wayne Pocket Rocket McCullough, Denny Scott Miller, Julia Pace Mitchell, Junior Murvin, Rik Van Nutter, Paul Ryan Rudd, Michael Sharvell-Martin, J. Scott Smart, and Phil Spector.
Other/Unknown Reason(s): Vondie Curtis-Hall, Betty Huntley-Wright, Vernee Watson-Johnson.
The following are listed here for the following reasons:
Tupac Shakur is listed here, but under the stage name 2Pac. He was born either Lesane Parish Crooks or Parish Lesane Crooks, depending on the source, but his name was changed in early childhood to Tupac Amaru Shakur.
Elton John is listed here because he used the name professionally before he legally adopted it in 1972.

Source: Wikipedia