Crisp’s real first name is Covelli.
Thurl Ravenscroft, voice of Tony the Tiger
Plexico’s real first name is Alvin.
Dick Armey
Richard Littlejohn
According to his bio, the Scottish singer Johnny Cymbal, known for his 1963 hit “Mr. Bass Man,” was born John Hendry Blair but was adopted as a child by his stepfather, Polish-born Nick Cymbal. I think that counts as not being a pseudonym.
Megan Fox sounds like the kind of name a starlet would be given by some studio executive. But it’s her real name.
(Jamie Foxx, on the other hand, is faking it. His real name is Eric Bishop.)
Let’s not forget the SF writer A. E. van Vogt, which sounds like a pseudonym but is not.
I’m not sure it fits but it amuses me, so I’ll mention that the niece of the previous president (and granddaughter of another president) married the son of the guy who founded the Polo clothing line. She ended up with the married name Lauren Bush Lauren.
There’s gotta be a all-girl porn movie in that title somewhere.
Neil Diamond. Early in his career he considered changing his name to something plainer because he thought his real name sounded too fake.
Ric Flair changed the spelling of his name, but that is his given name phonetically.
“Eddie Rabbitt” sounds like a great stage name for a country singer, but it wasn’t a stage name.
“Rabbitt” is a fairly common last name in Ireland (it was the last name of the family Roddy Doyle wrote about in his popular “Barrytown Trilogy”). Future country music star Edward T. Rabbitt, who was born in Brooklyn, was the son of two Irish immigrants.
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom.
Yeah, but that’s not his birth name.
FWIW here’s a previous thread (of mine) on fun real sports names.
I still lament that it looks like Miroslav Satan will retire from the NHL having never played for the Devils. Angel Pagan is a pretty good one too, from MLB. And just to round out the religiosity, of course there was the NBA’s God Shamgod.
Also, some may remember former CNN and Headline News anchor Linda Stouffer. I think she’s on an ATL local station now…
When she was on WSVN here in South Florida she was “Cinnamon” Stouffer. I suppose there’s no room for Cinnamons at CNN, sounding a bit too strippery. But her real name is Cinnamon Linda Stouffer.
Murry State’s Women’s golf coach (she’s famous. She won coach of the year in 2010), is named Velvet Milkman.
It just seems too English and too Dickensian to be someone’s real name.
Speaking of “Cinnamon,” Johnny Cymbal, whom I mentioned in Post #166, recorded the 1968 #11 hit “Cinnamon” under the name “Derek,” which he borrowed from his brother. I was going to put that in above, but I’d spent so much time trying to put in links from my iPad I gave up. I had no idea he died so young or lived in Cleveland so long.
Recent Computer Chess star Wiley Wiggins.