20 stars that have names unlike those we know

That is why it is no wonder that many of the people who are successful and in the center of the limelight were born with very different names than we know them.

Brighton Side has studied the biographies of many celebrities, revealing hidden names that not many people know. You probably have no idea these were their original names.

This singer from Barbados chose her middle name as her stage name when she moved to the US.

Even as a teenager, Allan Stewart Konigsberg wrote dramas, experimented with scripts, and performed Bithead-up. That was when he needed a special stage name. Consider this story from another angle: Allan also played in the clarinet, and his idol was jazz musician Woody Herman. That's why Alan is now Woody, the same name of jazz musician.

This is very direct: When this actress moved to the U.S., she cut her original name to make it fat and subx0 American “”.

The actor simply used his middle name as his artistic name.

It was her mother's idea and the popular model Yolanda Hadid.

The mother of this rapper called Calvin Cordozzar Broadway “Snoopy”, thanks to his style. So, when Calvin needed a stage name like any rapper does, he chose Snoop Doggy Dogg~ After a character from the famous cartoon.

The actress chose Poortman, the name of her Jewish-Russian grandmother's daughter as her stage name.

His father called him “Litle Peter Bruno”, because he was a fucking man like famous man, Bruno Sammartino. When he grew up, Bruno lost weight, but everyone told him he was weird as if he were from another planet. And the talented young man answered: “Yes, I'm from Mars”. So came his stage name.

Brooklyn Music Label General Dirtie Money Entainment convinced the strange rapper to change her exotic name to something shorter and simpler.

Jennifer is the daughter of Giannis Anastasakis, who is Greek from Crete. The whole family has cut their last name to “Aniston” to make it easier for Americans.

Young Eric Marlon Bishop needed an artistic name that easily lingers in mind for his performances éstand-up. So he got the name of a famous comedian, Redd Foxx.

During his childhood, Dustin had his nickname, Millie, who later became her stage name.

This explanation is simple: Demi is a shortened version of her name, Demetria, and Moore is the last name of her first husband, Freddy Moore.

The son of a Cypriot immigrant, Georgios, made his name slightly more British with George. He took the second part of his name from Michael Mortier, the father of his childhood friend.

Helen's father is a Russian immigrant named Vasily Mironoff. He changed his daughter's name when she was a child to make life easier in Britain.

The singer got an artistic name not to get involved with Kate Hudson.

Nina Dobrev is a Canadian version of a Bulgarian name.

We think that if a young actor had the same name as a now popular actor, they would change their name. That's why Michael Keaton changed his last name.

Nobody knows why this famous American guy got this artistic name. The only story we know is that she once met a guy at a strip club named and decided to borrow it.

The talented musician mixed that name from a saxophoneist named Elton Dean, and a singer named John Baldry, who played in the same group with him called Bluesology.