IWhether real or fictional, I am looking to ask for people who actualy anagram their names, and then call themselves by the anagram. Celebrities, authors, rock musicians, mad scientist, dark lords, or anyone, really. Any takers? This is one heck of a Riddle. Tom,I would love to see an answer from you.
Well, Voltaire is supposed to be an anagram from Arouet l.j (Arouet le jeune = “the younger”), since that was Voltaire’s real name.
In The Number of the Beast Robert Heinlein named the villains using anagrams of various forms of his names and pseudonyms and of his wife.
Can’t think of any other anagrams right now, but wordplay in naming isn’t unusyual Philip Jose Farmer had characters in his Riverworld and World of Tiers novels who were obvious stand-ins for him, both with the initials P.J.F.
I should point out that in Voltaire’s case, he used the classical identities i = j and u = v. Otherwise it doesn’t work.
In the Series of Unfortunate Events books, villain Count Olaf uses anagrams as the basis of several of his aliases. Al Funcoot is the only one I can think of right now, though.
Ed Wood used a number of aliases for his various brilliant projects…sometimes he’d credit himself as Akdov Telmig (his favorite drink, spelled backwards).
Vladimir Nabokov created a minor character in Lolita named Vivian Darkbloom.
Whoops…I jumped the gun with my earlier post, since Adkov Telmig isn’t an anagram of the author’s actual name, Ed Wood. (Though you can never know too much about Ed Wood…)
I just found another example that plays by the rules of the original post: Francois Rabelais published Pantagruel under the anagram pseudonym: Alcofribas Nasier.
Forget the “rules” of my OP, I want this thread to thrive, and if that mean posting clever examples of anagrams being used in fiction, in addition to what I asked for, then so be it. 
Btw, thank you everyone who posted thus far.
Edward Gorey used anagrams of his name as the fictional author of some of his books–the only one I can think of offhand is Ogdred Weary.
Philip K. Dick’s character Horselover Fat is a translation of his own first and last names from Greek and German, respectively.
William Bruce Bailey took the stage name Axl Rose because it’s an anagram of Oral Sex
Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon (both from Blur) have both worked on other people’s albums, and both used an anagram on the CD sleeve:
On Elastica’s debut album, Damon used the name Dan Abnormal. (This is also the title of a track on Blur’s album “The Great Escape”.)
On Sleeper’s debut album, Graham uses the name Morgan C. Hoax.
Say you took the name of a famous poet, then anagrammed the name to create a phrase. Now use that phrase as the title of the poem you will now write in a perfect parody of the poet’s style.
How many of us could do this even once?
Francis Heaney wrote The [del]Anthology[/del] Holy Tango of Literature, an entirely collection of poems written around anagrams of famous poet’s names. It shouldn’t possibly work. It’s frikkin’ brilliant.
Say you play around with Emily Dickinson’s name and come up with “Skinny Domicile” Could you write a meaningful poem in her style on that subject?
It starts:
I have a skinny Domicile-
Its Door is very narrow.
'Twill keep-I hope-the Reaper out-
His Scythe-and Bones-and Marrow.
And it ends funny. They all do.
I’m throwing in a mention here because - where else would I put it? But it has to be mentioned. It’s that good.
On a few occasions I have posted in other forums using the alias Mister Roper. I’ve also used Premier Sort once or twice.
Other forums, moderators, not this one. I don’t use sock puppets.
Bob Mould records some of his more dancey music under the name Loud Bomb.
In Neal Stephenson’s “Baroque” trilogy, there is a character named Oldenburg who has secret messages sent to him under the name Grubendol.
In an episode of The X-Files, it was mentioned that Fox Mulder published an article in a magazine under the pseudonym M.F. Luder (which, in case you’re wondering where the “x” and “o” are, is an anagram of F. Mulder).
Noticed another one today while reading the comics. In Foxtrot, Jason is playing an on-line RPG with a character named Sgt **Neelie **who turns out to be his girlfriend / arch-enemy **Eileen **Jacobson.
Whoa! I read the same comic, and I didn’t get this one at all, till you pointed it out. :smack:
And you can sing it to Gilligan’s Island. Wow! Welcome to my Amazon.com wish list.