Celebrity Names

It's not by accident that celebrities have snazzier names than the rest of us.  It's because they change their names to more charming ones, like...

Stage Name         Birth Name
Alan Alda - Aphonso D'Abruzzo
Barry Manilow - Barry Alan Pincus
Bea Arthur - Bernice Frankel
Bo Derek - Mary Cathleen Collins
Bob Hope - Leslie Townes Hope
Charles Bronson - Charles Dennis Buchinski
Cher - Cherilyn Sarkisian
Cheryl Ladd - Cheryl Stoppelmoor
Chubby Checker - Ernest Evans
Chuck Norris - Carlos Ray
Conway Twitty - Harold Lloyd Jenkins
Danny Thomas - Muzyad Yakhoob
Demi Moore - Demetria Guynes
Doris Day - Doris von Kappelhoff
Elton John - Reginald Kenneth Dwight
Enya - Eithne Ni Bhraonian
George Burns - Nathan Birnbaum
Jack Benny - Benjamin Kubelsky
Jane Seymour - Joyce Frankenberg
Jerry Lewis - Joseph Levitch
Joey Bishop - Joseph Gottlieb
John Denver - Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.
John Wayne - Marion Morrison
Kathy Lee Gifford - Kathie Epstein
Kirk Douglas - Issur Danieovitch
Lady Gaga - Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Larry King - Larry Ziegler
Lee Majors - Harvey Lee Yeary II
Michael Landon - Eugene Maurice Orowitz
Morgan Fairchild - Patsy McClenny
Natalie Wood - Natasha Gurdin
Nicolas Cage - Nicholas Coppola
Omar Sharif - Michael Shalhoub
Queen Latifah - Dana Elaine Owens
Randy Travis - Randy Traywick
Richard Burton - Richard Jenkins
Ringo Starr - Richard Starky
Rock Hudson - Roy Scherer, Jr.
Rodney Dangerfield - Jacob Cohen
Roy Rogers - Leonard Franklin Sly
Sally Field - Sally Mahoney
Sandra Dee - Alexandria Zuck
Shania Twain - Eileen Regina Edwards
Stephanie Powers - Stefania Federkiewicz
Steve Lawrence - Sidney Liebowitz
Susan Surandon - Susan Tomaling
Tiger Woods - Eldrick Woods
Tina Turner - Annie Mae Bullock
Tom Cruise - Thomas Mapother IV
Tom Jones - Thomas Woodward
Tony Curtis - Bernard Schwartz
Walter Matthau - Walter Matuschanskayasky
Whoopie Goldberg - Caryn Johnson
Woody Allen - Allen Konigsberg
Wynonna Judd - Christina Ciminella

Kinda makes me wonder what name I'd choose for myself if I was a celebrity.  Would it be one name or two?  Hmmmmm.  Gonna think on that a bit.