Real names of famous people

Muhammad Ali, Anna Akhmatova, Elton John, Tom Cruise, Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and even… Evgeny Petrosyan is just an incomplete list of stars who are not performing under their real name. Dive into the post — we will bring everyone there to the surface.

Yasser Arafat — Mohammed Abdel Rauf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (I would also rename myself with that name).

Anna Akhmatova — Anna Andreevna Gorenko.

Harry Houdini — Eric Weiss.

Danny DeVito as Daniel Michael.

Elton John — Reginald Kenneth Dwight.

Catherine I - Skavronskaya Marta Samuilovna.

John Paul II - Karol Wojtyla.

Caligula - Gaius Caesar Germanicus (find him yourself in this chaos).

Tom Cruise — Thomas Mapother IV.

Bruce Lee — Lee Yuen Kam.

Freddie Mercury — Farrukh Bulsara.

Vyacheslav Molotov — Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Scriabin. (Remember another one? By the way, he is a relative of the composer Alexander Scriabin.)

Chuck Norris — Carlos Ray (Chelyabinsk man).

Pele - Edson Arantis do Nascimento.

Mark Twain—Samuel Langhorn Clemens.

Mother Teresa - Agnes Boyagiu.

Leon Trotsky — Lev Davidovich Bronstein (this is not news for anti-Semites).

Jackie Chan - Chan Kunsun.

Korney Chukovsky — Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneichukov.

Abraham Rousseau — Ephraim Apdjian.

Shakira - Isabel Mebarak Ripoll.

Vera Brezhnev - Vera Galushka.

Yefim Shifrin - Nahim Shifrin.

Evgeny Petrosyan — Evgeny Petrosyants.

Muhammad Ali - Cassius Marcellus Clay (watch the movie "Ali").

Pinocchio - Pinocchio. (Everyone! Tara-tara-there.)