What about Snoop Doggy Dog?
Since groups have been included, I’ll add Molly Hatchet.
Duran Duran is also a character in a movie.
Erich Weiss was took his stage name from his mentor, Robert Houdin, and became famous as Harry Houdini.
Actually there’s a story (probably a UL) that claims that Prime Minister Winston wrote to the other Winston asking him to change his name to avoid confusion. The other Winston wrote back saying that he was older so the prime minister should change his name.
It’s a little known fact that Groucho Marx got his nickname from an obscure 1920’s style comic strip called “Sherlocko The Monk”
Really? I thought it was a sound effect from the Barbarella comic strip.
I’m sorry, I remembered the correct story. I think that the actual story was that some interviewer once asked the writer Winston if he’d ever considered changing his name to avoid people confusing him with the Prime Minister. The writer replied that since he was older the Prime Minister should change his name