Guess music superstar Elton John didn't think his original name would be a hit with audiences.
Check former Paris Hilton BFF Nicole Richie's birth certificate and this is the name you'll see.
All it took was a nickname from some high school friends, and U2 frontman Bono's famous moniker was born.
We agree. Carmen Electra is much more effective when it comes to selling a sexy Baywatch persona.
True, Jamie Foxx just seems more fitting for an Oscar-winning Hollywood party guy.
Before she'd starred in dozens of huge Hollywood movies and married two Tinseltown A-listers, this was the name Demi Moore went by.
Jay-Z is definitely a more fitting name for a hip-hop impressario.
If you want to work a ghoulish persona, we agree, a name like Marilyn Manson will work much better.
Somehow, we don't think the Tiger Woods scandal would have been as sensational had he gone by his birth name.