Ginger Rogers was a Virginia.
Hey. Ah, Zeldar. You may want to re-read the OP.
Circumcised seems to make more sense since most of the examples just had a little taken off near the tip of the word.
Beg pardon.
The first word of the thread title was originally spelled “circumcized.”
Elizabeth --> Betty or Bette, especially since you can pronounce the full name as “Elizabet.” Bette Davis is an example.
Liv Tyler’s an Olivia - and a reason I agreed to name Kid #2 with that name ;).
Well, “pizz” would be a rather unappetizing alternative.
It was worse than that. blush Thanks to the mod. Got to stopp reliing on speel chackers to do my thimking for me.
Wonder if Moon Unit, Dweezil, and Ahmed will change their names to Unit, Zil, and Med?
Harvey LaVan Cliburn.
From fiction: Mina Murray Harker – from Dracula and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen had the given name of “Wilhelmina.”
I’d love to hear somebody call Gregory House that.
*Yeah, I know. House is a character, not a celeb. But still, “Gory” House would sound cool.
The case of Eric Nelson is not entirely devoid of interest.
Originally known as Ricky, when he was 21 he started lopping letters of the end of his name by becoming Rick. Unfortunately, he died before he could further truncate this nomenclature, otherwise I’m pretty sure he would have become Ric by now.
It worked for Strong Bad.
Or Ick.
Her real first name is Elizabeth, and she looks like one. (My idea of an Elizabeth is dark, slender, and classically beautiful: Taylor, Ashley, Hurley, this woman I used to work with…)
Oh yeah…Beth.
There’s Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who everybody knows as “Wolfie”. 
Drew Carey’s full name is Drew Allison Carey. WTF were his parents thinking?
Maria Villers Farrow Became Mia. Allen Stewart Konigsberg legally changed his name to Haywood Allen and became Woody.
I don’t think he ever changed his name to Haywood. He performed as Woody Allen and pretended Woody was short for Haywood when telling that “Master Haywood Allen” joke.
“Marion Robert Morrison” became John Wayne. If he had stuck to his real first name, he could have been a Mario. Or a Rion. I like it!