History Main / SameFaceDifferentName

** This was quite common in the 1960's, with freelancers working for DC Comics taking up assignments for the (at the time) less established Marvel and not wanting to potentially burn their bridge to DC. Among them, George Roussos inked early issues of ''Comics/FantasticFour'' as "George Bell", and ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' co-creator Jerry Siegel wrote a couple of issues as "Joe Carter"

** This is basically Disney's method for all their banners beyond themselves and Pixar (Marvel and Lucasfilm). On those films, the only indicator that ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''Film/{{Solo}}'' are Disney movies is the card at the end saying that the films were "distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures".

* Rob Grant and Doug Naylor use their own names when writing their television shows, most notably Series/RedDwarf. When they collaboratively ventured into novel writing, they did so as the "gestalt entity" Grant Naylor, which also came to serve as the name of their TV production company.

* There are quite a few examples of this on ''Series/DoctorWho''. Sometimes it was because the script had been rewritten to the extent that the original writer used a pseudonym. '[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons The Daemons]]' was credited to "Guy Leopold", when it was co-written by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts: It's often assumed this is because Letts was the producer ([[TheBBC BBC]] rules forbade staff from taking a second credit on a show, e.g. for writing), although Sloman once claimed it was because he had another writing partner at the time and didn't want people to think they'd fallen out.

* Creator/JohnWyndham used his first two names (rather than his surname, Harris) for most of his (generally apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic) work, but when he wrote ''The Outward Urge'', a space exploration story, he used "John Wyndham & Lucas Parkes", Lucas and Parkes being two of his other given names. He had five-- he also used the fifth (as "John Beynon") for some early work.

* Creator/JKRowling once stated that she considered publishing future works under a different name, mainly to separate the new work from ''Literature/HarryPotter'', but knew the press would figure it out in seconds. She did write the novel ''Literature/TheCuckoosCalling'' under the name "Robert Galbraith" and the book received critical praise before she revealed that she'd written it, but Rowling's prophecy came true and sales ultimately went through the roof after the announcement.

* Writers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor use their own names when writing their television shows. When they ventured into novel writing, they did so as "Grant Naylor".
** They were also credited as "Grant Naylor" when they directed about half of the episodes of Series V. Funnily enough, in those same episodes their writing credits remained separate.
* There are quite a few examples of this on ''Series/DoctorWho''. Sometimes it was because the script had been rewritten to the extent that the original writer used a pseudonym. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons The Daemons]]" was credited to "Guy Leopold", when it was co-written by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts: It's often assumed this is because Letts was the producer, although Sloman once claimed it was because he had another writing partner at the time and didn't want people to think they'd fallen out. The name "David Agnew" was twice used for scripts co-written by the producer and script editor.
* Ronnie Barker (one of Series/TheTwoRonnies) wanted to have a go at writing for a show he was appearing in called The Frost Report. In order that his writing would be considered on its own merits; he sent in his sketches under the name of 'Gerald Wiley'. He continued to do all his writing under a number of different pseudonyms.

* In the early 2010s, outside of distributing films for Creator/DreamWorks, {{Disney}}'s Creator/TouchstonePictures label was relegated to an AlanSmithee-esque name that they used to release animated films they wished to basically disown, like ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'' and ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic''[[note]][[Creator/HayaoMiyazaki Miyazaki's]] ''Anime/TheWindRises'' was released the same way, but due to its subject matter, not because Disney wanted nothing to do with it[[/note]]. With [=DreamWorks=] jumping ship in 2016, the fate of Touchstone is up in the air.

* During the heydays of the [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], Creator/{{Nintendo}} imposed a policy on third-party publishers that limited the number of games they could publish in North America and Europe to only five games a year. Creator/{{Konami}} created the Ultra Games division in America in order to get around this limit and localize more games than they were allowed to publish. In Europe, Konami formed Palcom Software label for the same reasons, although they also published the European versions of certain ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Twinbee}}'' games which were never released in America.

* The writer born Salvatore Lombino wrote his "serious" novels and screenplays as Creator/EvanHunter (which he legally changed his name to) and crime fiction as Ed [=McBain=]. He co-wrote the 2000 novel ''Candyland'' with himself. TheOtherWiki lists at least five other pseudonyms he used from time to time.

** {{Moby}} released some of his {{ambient}} music under the name Voodoo Child.

* There are quite a few examples of this on ''DoctorWho''. Sometimes it was because the script had been rewritten to the extent that the original writer used a pseudonym. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons The Daemons]]" was credited to "Guy Leopold", when it was co-written by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts: It's often assumed this is because Letts was the producer, although Sloman once claimed it was because he had another writing partner at the time and didn't want people to think they'd fallen out. The name "David Agnew" was twice used for scripts co-written by the producer and script editor.

* Ronnie Barker (one of TheTwoRonnies) wanted to have a go at writing for a show he was appearing in called The Frost Report. In order that his writing would be considered on its own merits; he sent in his sketches under the name of 'Gerald Wiley'. He continued to do all his writing under a number of different pseudonyms.

* Creator/TheCoenBrothers use Roderick Jaynes for their editing credit on their films. "Jaynes" received an Oscar nomination for ''{{Fargo}}''.

** Quentin Cook has performed as Norman Cook, Beats International, Freak Power, Pizzaman, Mighty Dub Katz, Cheeky Boy, DJ Quentox, Sensataria, and (by far most famously) FatboySlim.

* In the early 2010s, outside of distributing films for Creator/DreamWorks, {{Disney}}'s Creator/TouchstonePictures label was relegated to an AlanSmithee-esque name that they used to release animated films they wished to basically disown, like ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'' and ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic''. With [=DreamWorks=] jumping ship in 2016, the fate of Touchstone is up in the air.

* In the early 2010s, outside of distributing films for Creator/DreamWorks, {{Disney}}'s Creator/TouchstonePictures Touchstone label was relegated to an AlanSmithee-esque name that they used to release animated films they wished to basically disown, like ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'' and ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic''. With [=DreamWorks=] jumping ship in 2016, the fate of Touchstone is up in the air.

* The Creator/{{Disney}} Company does this with "[[Creator/TouchstonePictures Touchstone]]", a label used for releasing quirkier films like ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.

* Singer/songwriter Carole King once made a very unobtrusive acting appearance in a ''MaryTylerMooreShow'' episode, billed under her married name of 'Carole Larkey'.

* John Wagner and Alan Grant wrote several stories for ComicBook/TwoThousandAD under a variety of pseudonyms. Particularly notably was Wagner's alias of Keef Ripley, which was used to cover up TheReveal at the end of ''The Dead Man''.
* Ian Gibson also did 2000AD art credited as 'Emberton'.

* John Wagner and Alan Grant wrote several stories for 2000AD under a variety of pseudonyms. Particularly notably was Wagner's alias of Keef Ripley, which was used to cover up TheReveal at the end of ''The Dead Man''.

* Todd [=McFarlane=] returned to write his creator-owned ''{{Spawn}}'' with #185, and wrote it until #200, after which another writer named "[[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Will Carlton]]" took over the writing for the next 19 issues. Then [=McFarlane=] revealed that it was actually himself, and from #220 onward he was once more using his real name.
* DarkHorseComics editor Randy Stradley has written many ''StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' comics: sometimes as himself, and sometimes as either "Mick Harrison" or "Welles Hartley". The three personas would on occasion co-operate to work on the same title and even take over ongoing series from one another. Apparently, his comics would generate more fan-mail when not written by the main editor of the entire publishing line. Stradley eventually came out after too many people became aware of the secret and it was about to be leaked on the Internet anyway.

* Early in her career as an author, while she was still working as an actual private detective, Creator/LinneaSinclair wrote under the name Megan Sybil Baker.

* Daniel Handler has written some rather explicit novels under his own name, and ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' as LemonySnicket-- although the latter also involves an elaborate LiteraryAgentHypothesis played out to some degree both in the books and in RealLife (with Handler presented as Snicket's representative).

* Creator/EdwardGorey frequently used anagrams of his name (Ogdred Weary, Dogear Wryde, Mrs. Regera Dowdy, etc.) as pseudonyms, though given his distinctive artistic style these were probably more for Gorey's amusement than actual disguise.

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* German writer Erich Kästner was blacklisted by the Nazis and forbidden to write, but was granted special permission to write the screenplay of the movie ''Münchhausen'' (1943), where he was credited as Berthold Bürger, a ShoutOut to Gottfried August Bürger (1747-1794), writer of the original book of the baron's adventures.

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