"A rose by any other name" is supposed to smell as sweet, but while that may be true in love, it isn't always so in show business. Below are the real names of some famous faces.
1. Reginald Kenneth Dwight: Elton John
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2. Paul Hewson: Bono
3. Mark Vincent: Vin Diesel
4. David Robert Jones: David Bowie
5. Caryn Elaine Johnson: Whoopi Goldberg
6. Nathan Birnbaum: George Burns
7. Archibald Leach: Cary Grant
8. Eleanor Gow: Elle MacPherson
9. Samuel Langhorne Clemens: Mark Twain
10. Tara Patrick: Carmen Electra
11. McKinley Morganfield: Muddy Waters
12. Farrokh Bulsara: Freddie Mercury
13. Frances Gumm: Judy Garland
14. Robert Allen Zimmerman: Bob Dylan
15. Demetria Gene Guynes: Demi Moore
16. Marion Morrison: John Wayne
17. Allen Konigsberg: Woody Allen
18. Georgios Panayiotou: George Michael
19. Jay Scott Greenspan: Jason Alexander
Helen Davies, Marjorie Dorfman, Mary Fons, Deborah Hawkins, Martin Hintz, Linnea Lundgren, David Priess, Julia Clark Robinson, Paul Seaburn, Heidi Stevens, and Steve Theunissen
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