History Main / SameFaceDifferentName

* Creator/StanLee is the pseudonym of Stanley (creative, eh) Martin Lieber. His original plan was to use Stan Lee for comics, and Lieber for more serious stuff. Some sixty years later, he's still Stan the Man. He eventually officially changed his name to Stan Lee.

* 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. Wiki/TheOtherWiki lists at least five other pseudonyms he used from time to time.

** Famed drum and bass artist Spor (Jon Gooch) releases electro house and {{Dubstep}} under the name of Feed Me.

* Eurobeat producer [[https://www.youtube.com/user/OdysseyEurobeat Travis Stebbins]] has released music under various names, including Ken Blast, Mortimer, Odyssey, Eurobeat Brony, DNA Team, and TJS. Justified in that this is apparently a common practice among Eurobeat musicians.

* Creator/DougWalker originally went by "Douglas Darian" for his work on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, since he was also working as an illustrator and worried that being associated with such raunchy material would hurt his ability to get work, as so much of the job consisted of material for children. After his online work completely eclipsed any other image he might try, he went by his real name everywhere.

** {{Music/Scooter}} used to produce remixes as "The Loop!". They also had side projects named "Guess Who", "3AM", and most famously "Ratty!". In the latter case, it was felt the different name would help them get club airplay amongst DJs who regarded Scooter as uncool. It didn't exactly work.

* Music/JeffersonAirplane started as a psychedelic band in the 1960s, which morphed into the 1970s ProgressiveRock band Music/JeffersonStarship, which later regrouped in the 1980s as the AOR/NewWave group {{Music/Starship}}.

* [=Seanan McGuire=] writes {{Fantasy}} under her real name, and her ZombieApocalypse books under the name Mira Grant.

** "David Agnew" was twice used for 1970s ''Doctor Who'' scripts co-written by the producer and script editor. The pen name was originated by writer Anthony Read on a couple of drama anthology series such as Series/PlayForToday, then carried over when Read became script editor on ''Who'', using it for a serial ('[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime The Invasion of Time]]') he cobbled together along with producer Graham Williams. Williams then borrowed it for his rewrite on '[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]' with script editor Creator/DouglasAdams of an original idea by David Fisher. The name was also used in at least one other BBC series, and in 2000 resurfaced as an 'author' in a ''Doctor Who'' short story collection. It was further [[PlayingWith played with]] on the DVD release of 'The Invasion of Time', where "Agnew" was the subject of a {{mockumentary}}, ''The Elusive David Agnew'' -- directed by one "AlanSmithee"...

* 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 (Creator/TheBBC's 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.

** This also applies to their Creator/StarDisneyPlus streaming hub since it serves as the closest counterpart to a worldwide version of Creator/{{Hulu}} with the reason being that the Hulu brand isn't marketable outside the United States along with lacking the third-party content.

This is a SubTrope of PenName, where the person in question is already known, and successful, by another identity. For example, Marshall Mathers issuing records as Music/{{Eminem}} is still the same old rap music; but if Eminem used the name "Bohunk Anthrax" to publish a country album, it would count as SameFaceDifferentName.

* In the early 2010s, outside of distributing films for Creator/DreamWorks, Creator/{{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 and Disney buying Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox a couple years later, the fate of Touchstone is sealed.
** This is basically Disney's method for all their banners beyond themselves and Pixar (Marvel and Lucasfilm). The only indicator that ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' and ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' are Disney movies is the card at the end of the credits saying that the films were "distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures".

* Daniel Handler has written some rather explicit novels under his own name, and ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' as Lemony Snicket-- 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).

* Douglas Lawrence Osowski, for his work on ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', was credited as Doug Lawrence for for the episodes he wrote, and as "Mr. Lawrence" for voicing Filburt. For the rest of his career, Mr. Lawrence would be his sole credit.

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* In the early 2010s, outside of distributing films for Creator/DreamWorks, Creator/{{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.

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

This is a different phenomenon from simply using a pen name or a stage name, in that the person in question is already known, and successful, by another identity. For example, Marshall Mathers issuing records as Music/{{Eminem}} is still the same old rap music; but if Eminem used the name "Bohunk Anthrax" do a country album, it would count as SameFaceDifferentName.

In books in particular, once the secret comes out they will probably be republished as by "Well-Known Name writing as Different Name", with the well-known name in much bigger letters.

* When Creator/IsaacAsimov was commissioned to write [[Literature/LuckyStarr a series of juvenile SF novels]], he did so as "Paul French" in case he needed to disown them. He later allowed them to be published under his real name.

* 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/TomHolt writes comic fantasy under his own name and more dramatic works of low fantasy as Creator/KJParker.