This site lists the original names of some famous people.
Here are some samples:
Hiram Ulysses Grant to Ulysses S Grant
Leslie Lynch King Jr to Gerald Ford
Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvilli to Joseph Stalin
Maurice Micklewhite to Michael Caine
Lucille Fay LeSueur to Joan Crawford
Stuart Leslie Goddard to Adam Ant
Goldie Jean Studlendegehawn to Goldie Hawn
3 comments
You forgot “Archibald Leach to Cary Grant”
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Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili only changed his last name to Stalin – he never took the English name Joseph.