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Can You Guess the Popular Names of These Famous People?
We know that many, many people change their names for various reason. Cheif among them are celebrites. Also included in this group are gangsters. We compiled a list of well know people and list their original names followed by their more famous names.

Can you match the birth names with the famous names.

Their parents knew them by:

Robert Allen Zimmerman
Doris von Kappellhoff
David Adkins
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
Frances Rose Shore
Judy Kay Cohen
Joan Alexandra Molinksy
Lester Nelson Gillis
John Lydon
Joseph Levitch
Archibald Alexander Leach
Nguyen That Thanh
Richard Starkey
Shirley Schrift
Harry Longabaugh
Ladonna Andrea Gaines
Melvin Kaminsky
Allen Stewart Konigsberg
Aaron Chwatt
Cherilyn Lapierre Sarkisian

You know them by:

Bob Dylan, folksinger
Doris Day, American actress
Sinbad, American comedian
Nina Simone, American jazz singer
Dinah Shore, American singer
Juice Newton, American singer
Joan Rivers, American comedienne
Baby Face Nelson, member of Dillinger gang
Johnny Rotten, British punk singer
Jerry Lewis, American comedian
Cary Grant, English actor
Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese president
Ringo Starr, Beatle
Shelley Winters, American actress
The Sundance Kid, American outlaw
Donna Summer, American disco singer
Mel Brooks, American director, comedian
Woody Allen, American director, comedian
Red Buttons, American actor
Cher, American singer, actress

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