The real names of famous people Bashny.Net

Today, I read about David Aaranovitch Mendel, and decided to do a post on this topic ...

Muhammad Ali - Cassius Marcellus Clay (see the movie "Ali»)





Yasser Arafat - Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (with the same name, I would have renamed)



Anna Akhmatova - Akhmatova Gorenko



Harry Houdini - Ehrich Weiss



Danny DeVito - Daniel Michaeli (Can anybody tell me why he always photographs his foot?)



Elton John - Reginald Kenneth Dwight



Catherine I - Skavronskaya March Samuilovna



John Paul II - Karol Wojtyla



Caligula - Gaius Caesar Germanicus (look it up yourself in this chaos)



Tom Cruise - Thomas Mapother IV



Bruce Lee - Lee Yuen Kam (Lee Yuen Kam)



Freddie Mercury - Farrukh Bulsara



Vyacheslav Molotov - Vyacheslav Skryabin (Remember even with that? By the way, he was a relative of the composer Alexander Scriabin)



Chuck Norris - Carlos Ray (Chelyabinsk guy)



Pele - Edson Arantes do Nascimento



Mark Twain - Samuel Langhorne Clemens



Mother Theresa - Agnes Bojaxhiu



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



Jackie Chan - Chan Kunsun



Roots Chukovsky - Nikolai Korneichuk



Avraam Russo - Ephraim Apdzhyan (something Messi reminded in this photo)



Shakira - Isabel Mebarak Ripoll



Vera Brezhnev - Faith Galushka



Efim Shifrin - Nahim Shifrin



Yevgeny Petrosyan - Eugene Petrosyants



Pinocchio - Pinocchio (all! Tara-tara there)



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