Pseudonym

The Open Window [|J.K. Rowling] [|Rowling revealed] Laura Redden Searing Pseudonym x . A pseudonym is a fictitious name used to conceal someone’s real name. The pseudonym of an author is a pen name and the pseudonym of an actor is a stage name or screen name. A pseudonym can also be an alias used by people or groups, like sports stars or criminals. Pseudonyms are most usually adopted to hide an individual's real identity, as with writers' pen names, [|graffiti] artists' tags, [|resistance fighters'] or [|terrorists'] and computer [|hackers]' handles.

Pen Names and Pseudonyms

Here are examples of pen names with the pseudonym listed first: Stage and Screen Pseudonyms Here are some examples: Sports Pseudonyms Here are examples: Pseudonyms Used by Criminals Here are examples of famous criminals with pseudonyms: Pseudonyms Used by Fictional Characters Here are some examples: With these examples you can now recognize pseudonyms for different famous people you may encounter.
 * A.A. Fair - Erle Stanley Gardner
 * Aaron Wolfe - Dean Koontz
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Anne Rice - Howard Allen O'Brien
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Boz - Charles Dickens
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Brynjolf Bjarme - Henrik Ibsen
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">David Agnew - A group of writers and producers for Doctor Who
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Dear Abby - Jeanne Phillips and Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Dr. Seuss - Theodor Seuss Geisel
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Edgar Box - Gore Vidal
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Elia - Charles Lamb
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Ellis Bell - Emily Bronte
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Geoffrey Crayon - Washington Irving
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Kennilworthy Whisp - J.K. Rowling
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Lemony Snicket - Daniel Handler
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Lewis Carroll - Charles Dodgson
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Mark Twain - Samuel Clemens
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Mary Westmacott - Agatha Christie
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Moliere - Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">O. Henry - William Sydney Porter
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Paul French - Isaac Asimov
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Richard Bachman - Stephen King
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Voltaire - François-Marie Arouet
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Alan Alda - Alphonso D'Abruzzo
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Axl Rose - William Bailey
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Barbara Stanwyck - Ruby Stevens
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Ben Kingsley - Krishna Banji
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Bruce Lee - Lee Yuen Kam
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Chuck Norris - Carlos Ray
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Dorothy Lamour - Mary Kaumeyer
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Elvis Costello - Declan McManus
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Faith Hill - Audrey Faith Perry McGraw
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">George Burns - Nathan Birnbaum
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">John Wayne - Marion Morrison
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">LL Cool J - James Todd Smith III
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Marilyn Monroe - Norma Jean Baker
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Michael Landon - Eugene Maurice Orowitz
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Queen Latifah - Dana Elaine Owens
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Rock Hudson - Roy Scherer Jr
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Shania Twain - Eileen Regina Edwards
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Sting - Gordon Sumner
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Tina Turner - Annie Mae Bullock
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Whoopie Goldberg - Caryn Johnson
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Woody Allen - Allen Konigsberg
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Casey Stengel - Charles Dillon Stengel
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Chi Chi Rodriguez - Juan Antonio Rodriguez
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Dida - Nélson de Jesus Silva
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Fuzzy Zoeller - Frank Urban Zoeller, Jr.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Khaosai Galaxy - Sura Saenkham
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Mercury Morris - Eugene Edward Morris
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Pele - Edson Arantes do Nascimento
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Smush Parker - William Henry Parker
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Sparky Anderson - George Lee Anderson
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Too Tall Jones - Ed Lee Jones
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Baby Face Nelson - Lester Joseph Gillis
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Billy the Kid - William H. Bonney
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Blackbeard - Edward Teach
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Butch Cassidy - Robert LeRoy Parker
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Legs Diamond - Jack Nolan
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Machine Gun Kelly - George Celino Barnes
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Pretty Boy Floyd - Charles Arthur Floyd
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Son of Sam - David Berkowitz
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">The Sundance Kid - Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">The Unabomber - Ted Kaczynski
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">M - Sir Miles Messervy from James Bond
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Q - Major Boothroyd from James Bond
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Aramis - Chevalier d'Herblay from The Three Musketeers
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Athos - Le Comte de La Fère from The Three Musketeers
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Porthos - Monsieur du Vallon from The Three Musketeers
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Art Vandelay - Used by George and Elaine in the TV sitcom Seinfeld
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Lord Voldemort - Tom Riddle from Harry Potter
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Mr. Underhill - Frodo Baggins from Lord of the Rings
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Scarlet Pimpernel - Sir Percy Blakeney from the play and novel of the same name
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">The Shadow - Lamont Cranston
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Zorro - Don Diego de la Vega originally created by author Johnston McCulley