Famous People and Their Real Names

Real names of famous people → Muhammad Ali, Anna Akhmatova, Elton John, Tom Cruise, Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and even ... Evgeny Petrosyan - this is just an incomplete list of stars who are not under their real name. Dive into the post - we will bring everyone to clean water there.

Yasser Arafat | Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat

Anna Akhmatova | Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova

Harry Houdini | Erik Weisz, la ter Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss Popularly known as Harry Houdini

Danny DeVito | Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. Popularly known as Danny DeVito

Elton John | Reginald Kenneth Dwight Popularly known as Elton John

Catherine I of Russia | Marta Helena Skowrońska, later known as Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya

Pope John Paul II | Karol Józef Wojtyła later known as
Pope John Paul II

Tom Cruise | Thomas Cruise Mapother IV Popularly known as
 Tom Cruise

Bruce Lee | Lee Jun-fan Popularly known as Bruce Lee

Freddie Mercury | Farrokh Bulsara  Popularly known as Freddie Mercury

Vyacheslav Molotov | Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Skryabin Popularly known as Vyacheslav Molotov (He rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin)

Chuck Norris | Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris  Popularly known as Chuck Norris

Pelé  | Edson Arantes do Nascimento Popularly known as Pelé

Mark Twain | Samuel Langhorne Clemens known by his pen name Mark Twain

Mother Teresa  | Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu commonly known as Mother Teresa

Leon Trotsky | Lev Davidovich Bronstein Popularly known as Leon Trotsky

Jackie Chan | Chan Kong-sang Popularly known as Jackie Chan

Korney Chukovsky | Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov Popularly known as Korney Chukovsky

Avraam Russo | Abraham Ipjean Popularly known as Avraam Russo

Shakira | Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll Popularly known as Shakira

Vera Brezhneva | Vira Viktorivna Halushka Popularly known as Vera Brezhneva

Efim Shifrin | Nakhim Zalmanovich Shifrin Popularly known as Efim Shifrin

Muhammad Ali | Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. Popularly known as Muhammad Ali

Akshay Kumar | Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia Popularly known as Akshay Kumar

Rajinikanth | Shivaji Rao Gaekwad Popularly known as Rajinikanth

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