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* Laurence Tureaud’s birth name didn’t really suit a tough guy, so he became Mr. T.

 

* The classic fictional example comes from the film ''A Star Is Born'', where Esther Blodgett becomes Vicki Lester.

* Henry Jones, Jr. only goes by [[Indiana Jones]], after the family dog. In reality, his nickname actually came from [[George Lucas]]' dog.

* In the ''[[Friends]]'' episode "The One with the Fake Monica", Joey Tribbiani wants to change his name to something less ethnic. Chandler jokingly suggests [[Joseph Stalin]]; Joey, being [[The Ditz]], doesn't know how infamous this name is, and tries to use it.

* Delysia Lafosse from ''[[Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day]]'', a glamourous American club singer and aspiring actress, whose real name is Sarah Grubb, of the Pittsburg Grubbs.

* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' gives us Maximillian Galactica, magician extraordinare!... whose real name is Billy Bob Johns. He even has the accent to go with it when he gets nervous. (In Japan, his real name is Kohei Yamada; in both cases, the name intentionally screams "country boy".)

* In [[Watchmen]] Sally Jupiter, the first Silk Spectre, changed her name from Juspeczyk so people wouldn't know she was Polish.

 

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