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* On the topic of celebrities with anglicized names, there's [[Music/FreddieMercury Farrokh Bulsara]], [[Creator/BenKingsley Krishna Bhanji]], [[Creator/JoanRivers Joan Alexandra Molinsky]], [[Creator/GeneWilder Jerome Silberman]], [[Creator/AynRand Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum]], [[Music/BobDylan Robert Allen Zimmerman]], [[Creator/PeterLorre ‎László Löwenstein]], [[Creator/NataliePortman Neta-Lee Hershlag]], [[Creator/KirkDouglas Issur Danielovitch Demsky]], [[Creator/EdwardGRobinson Emanuel Goldenberg]], [[Creator/DorisDay Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff]], [[Music/LadyGaga Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta]], [[Music/{{Lorde}} Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor]], [[Creator/MishaCollins Dmitri Tippens Krushnic]], [[Creator/MartinSheen Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez]] and his son [[Creator/CharlieSheen Carlos Irwin Estevez]], [[Music/CardiB Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar]], [[Music/DojaCat Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini]], [[Creator/TomOfFinland Touko Valio Laaksonen]] …

* The Invoker in VideoGame/Dota2 is arguably the most powerful wizard to ever exist, being immortal, [[IHaveManyNames he has many names,]] [[AscendedMeme but his true name of power... Is Carl]].

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]] is colloquially known, especially to outsiders, as the Mormon Church after [[Literature/TheBookOfMormon their best-known holy text]]. Interestingly, "UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}}" also encompasses a number of other churches: the largest being the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Christ Community of Christ]], but the most notorious being the {{cult colon|y}}ies (such as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints]]) that still practice polygamy. But the main LDS Church tends to be thought of as ''the'' "Mormon Church," since it comprises about 98 percent of the Latter Day Saint movement. Ironically, in recent decades the LDS Church has been ''less'' amenable than other such churches to the "Mormon" label--partly to distinguish themselves from the infamous splinter sects like the FLDS Church, who wholeheartedly embrace the term, and partly to draw ''less'' of a distinction from non-LDS Christians, who often [[NoTrueScotsman regard "Mormonism" as separate]] from UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} (as do many non-Christians, for that matter).

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]], colloquially known (especially to outsiders) as the Mormon Church after [[Literature/TheBookOfMormon their best-known holy text]]. Interestingly, "UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}}" also encompasses a number of other churches: the largest being the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Christ Community of Christ]], but the most notorious being the {{cult colon|y}}ies (such as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints]]) that still practice polygamy. But the main LDS Church tends to be thought of as ''the'' "Mormon Church," since it comprises about 98 percent of the Latter Day Saint movement. Ironically, in recent decades the LDS Church has actually been ''less'' amenable than other such churches to the "Mormon" label--partly to distinguish themselves from the infamous splinter sects like the FLDS Church, who wholeheartedly embrace the term, and partly to make ''less'' of a distinction from non-LDS Christians, who often [[NoTrueScotsman regard "Mormonism" as separate]] from UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} (as do many non-Christians, for that matter).

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]], colloquially known (especially to outsiders) as the Mormon Church after [[Literature/TheBookOfMormon their best-known holy text]]. Interestingly, "UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}}" also encompasses a number of other churches: the largest being the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Christ Community of Christ]], but the most notorious being the {{cult colon|y}}ies (such as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints]]) that still practice polygamy. But the main LDS Church tends to be thought of as ''the'' "Mormon Church," since it comprises about 98 percent of the Latter Day Saint movement. Ironically, in recent decades the LDS Church has actually been ''less'' amenable than other such churches to the "Mormon" label--partly to distinguish themselves from the infamous splinter sects like the FLDS Church, who wholeheartedly embrace the term, and partly to make ''less'' of a distinction from non-LDS Christians, who often regard "Mormonism" as separate from Christianity (as do many non-Christians, for that matter).

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]], colloquially known (especially to outsiders) as the Mormon Church after [[Literature/TheBookOfMormon their best-known holy text]]. Interestingly, "UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}}" also encompasses a number of other churches: the largest being the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Christ Community of Christ]], but the most notorious being the {{cult colon|y}}ies (such as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints]]) that still practice polygamy. But the main LDS Church tends to be thought of as ''the'' "Mormon Church," since it comprises about 98 percent of the Latter Day Saint movement. Ironically, in recent decades the LDS Church has actually been ''less'' amenable than other such churches to the "Mormon" label--partly to distinguish themselves from the infamous splinter sects like the FLDS Church, who wholeheartedly embrace the term, and partly to make ''less'' of a distinction from non-LDS Christians, who often regard "Mormonism" as a separate faith (as do many non-Christians, for that matter).

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]], colloquially known (especially to outsiders) as the Mormon Church after [[Literature/TheBookOfMormon their best-known holy text]]. Interestingly, "UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}}" also encompasses a number of other churches,[[note]]The largest of these would be the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Christ Community of Christ]], though the most infamous would be the {{cult colon|y}}ies (such as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints]]) that still practice polygamy.[[/note]] though they collectively make up only about 2 percent of Mormons.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]], colloquially known (especially to outsiders) as the Mormon Church after [[Literature/TheBookOfMormon their best-known holy text]]. Interestingly, "UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}}" also encompasses a number of other churches,[[note]]The largest of these would be the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Christ Community of Christ]], though the most infamous would be the {{cult colon|y}}ies (such as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints]] that still practice polygamy.[[/note]] though they collectively make up only about 2 percent of Mormons.

* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, colloquially known (especially to outsiders) as the Mormon Church after [[Literature/TheBookOfMormon their best-known holy text]]. Interestingly, "UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}}" also encompasses a number of other churches, though they collectively make up only about 2 percent of Mormons.
* Likewise, members of the Religious Society of Friends are colloquially called Quakers.

* Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the ''Spanish'' renaissance - and so aquired El Greco ("that Greek dude") as [[SomeCallMeTim a nickname]]. The artist went along with it: normally signing paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, and often adding the word Κρής (Krḗs), which means "from Crete" (the largest of the Greek islands). This is [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/El_Salvador_%28El_Greco%29.jpg/800px-El_Salvador_%28El_Greco%29.jpg a picture]] of Jesus by El Greco, the face of which is also a self-portrait.[[note]]Taking up a mirror and painting pictures as partial self-portraits when the subjects or rather models for them were either not available or not affordable to sit for pictures is actually not that uncommon among artists, particularily in times before you could just snap a photo and the model had to sit through all of the painting process (and be paid for it); so we know what a bunch of artists approximately looked like by their religious art. Jesus in particular not only had El Greco sitting in for him, but a bunch of other artists as well - most famously [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer Dürer]], who was a case of LooksLikeJesus ''anyway''.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'', where an alien girl tells Jimmy her comically convoluted real name (including a high-pitched wail in the middle), then offers to let him call her "April." He goes through her real name himself to make sure he has it right, at which point she ''insists'' on the nickname.

* On the topic of celebrities with anglicized names, there's [[Music/FreddieMercury Farrokh Bulsara]], [[Creator/BenKingsley Krishna Bhanji]], [[Creator/JoanRivers Joan Alexandra Molinsky]], [[Creator/GeneWilder Jerome Silberman]], [[Creator/AynRand Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum]], [[Music/BobDylan Robert Allen Zimmerman]], [[Creator/PeterLorre ‎László Löwenstein]], [[Creator/NataliePortman Neta-Lee Hershlag]], [[Creator/KirkDouglas Issur Danielovitch Demsky]], [[Creator/EdwardGRobinson Emanuel Goldenberg]], [[Creator/DorisDay Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff]], [[Music/LadyGaga Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta]], [[Music/{{Lorde}} Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor]], [[Creator/MishaCollins Dmitri Tippens Krushnic]], [[Creator/MartinSheen Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez]] and his son [[Creator/CharlieSheen Carlos Irwin Estevez]], [[Music/CardiB Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar]], [[Creator/TomOfFinland Touko Valio Laaksonen]]...

* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, colloquially known (especially to outsiders) as the UsefulNotes/{{Mormon|ism}} Church after [[Literature/TheBookOfMormon their best-known holy text]]. Interestingly, "Mormonism" also encompasses a number of other churches, though they collectively make up only about 2 percent of Mormons.

* ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'' quotes it almost exactly in [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=673 this strip.]]

* In ''Webcomic/TheKAMics'' [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/KAMics_Kast/5155498/ Sten's name is the only part that most people can hear.]]

* ''Anime/FullMetalAlchemist'': Scar and King Bradley[[spoiler:/Wrath]] do not go by their birth names (the latter [[IdentityAmnesia doesn't even remember it]]). One omake has them ''both'' claim their real names are really a long one based on a popular Japanese tale: Jugemu Jugemu Gokō-no surikire Kaijarisuigyo-no Suigyōmatsu Unraimatsu Fūraimatsu Kuunerutokoro-ni Sumutokoro Yaburakōji-no burakōji Paipopaipo Paipo-no-shūringan Shūringan-no Gūrindai Gūrindai-no Ponpokopī-no Ponpokonā-no Chōkyūmei-no Chōsuke. In the Englis dub Scar's "real" name is changed to Percival Ramtee Gregory Nicolai Jaques Scozer Leonardo Gabriel Socrates Ming Victor Nostradomus Alistair Predisha Vladimir Stiegler Rasputin Boromir Walla Walla Shadiga Alexander Oliver Abalard Arnesto Zippy Zappy Angel Eyes while Bradley's is Russel Daniel Paul Blake Joseph Alan Eri­c Fred Orsen Trevor Richard Charleton Christo­pher Benedict Garfield Polyuthane Nichol­as Robert Theodore Steve Michael Alvin Carter Bryc­e Jeffrey Maragold Peter Ethan Arin Papp­al William Nathanial Orville Chuck Slipp­y Slappy Zippy Zappy Angel Eye.

* In ''Film/{{Paddington}}'', Paddington's original bear name is a deep, throaty growl that humans can't pronounce. When Mr. Brown tries, Paddington thinks that whatever he said was very rude. He gratefully accepts Mrs. Brown's suggestion of having a human name, "Paddington".

** UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev was often called "K" in the Anglophone press.

* The famous UsefulNotes/{{Northern Ir|eland}}ish Anglican writer [[Creator/CSLewis Clive Staples Lewis]] went by "Jack" among his friends.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has a very occasional mentor figure of Harry's who could be described as the embodiment of downplayed tropes (and [[GodInHumanForm other]] things). He's completely unassuming in every way - at first glance. Pretty much anything about him in the narration or descriptions is either implied, hinted at, downplayed, maybe magic maybe mundane, rewatch bonus, or [[NoodleIncident offscreen]]. That he's notoriously elusive and tends to keep himself to himself just adds to this. Of course this includes IHaveManyNames: when asked who he is, he tells Harry to call him Joshua - not even bothering with any of the more well-known of the forty-seven or so names he has, let alone all of them. Although this is also a case of ExactWords to both neatly avoid saying a name Harry recognises - as the latter is ''already'' jumpy and near panic, and revealing Joshua's full identity wouldn't exactly help that - until Harry's calmed down a bit, and say his actual name in a different way, as Joshua is the most common way of translating the Hebrew Yehoshua.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has what could be described as the embodiment of downplayed tropes (and [[GodInHumanForm other]] things), who's completely unassuming in every way - at first glance. Pretty much anything about him in the narration or descriptions is either implied, hinted at, downplayed, maybe magic maybe mundane, rewatch bonus, or [[NoodleIncident offscreen]]. That he's notoriously elusive and tends to keep himself to himself just adds to this. Of course this includes IHaveManyNames: when asked who he is, he tells Harry to call him Joshua - not even bothering with any of the more well-known of the forty-seven or so names he has, let alone all of them. Although this is also a case of ExactWords to both neatly avoid saying a name Harry recognises - as the latter is ''already'' jumpy and near panic, and revealing Joshua's full identity wouldn't exactly help that - until Harry's calmed down a bit, and say his actual name in a different way - as Joshua is the most common way of translating the Hebrew Yehoshua.

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** Zola, known as Zola La Sirène Dorée, whose given name is [[spoiler:Zola Anya Talinka Venia Zeblinkya Malfeazium]].

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has Zola, known as Zola La Sirène Dorée, whose given name is [[spoiler:Zola Anya Talinka Venia Zeblinkya Malfeazium]].