Line #34 OnlyKnownByTheirNickname/RealLife


1	People who are OnlyKnownByTheirNickname in real life.
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3	* AncientRome:
4	** UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}: His real name was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, but to distinguish him from his similarly-named relatives he's known by his childhood nickname of ''little (soldier's) boot.''
5	** Later, there was ''Caracalla'', whose birth name was Lucius Septimius Bassianus, with his nickname originating from a type of hooded tunic he commonly wore. and on the same dynasty, there was also Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus, who'd become better known as ''Elagabalus'', after the Syrian god he was a high priest of. It didn't help that both of them also used the same regnal name, ''Marcus Aurelius Antoninus''.
6	* [[UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun Attila (the Hun)]] is known by the name ("little father") that the Goths gave him. His real name is lost to history.
7	* Creator/MurasakiShikibu is just her pen name; her real name might've been Takako Fujiwara, but we don't know for sure.
8	* There are a lot of royals from the Antiquity until the 18th century who share similar first names like Henry, Charles, Edward, Philippe, Maria, Mary, Gustav, George, John. To keep them apart ancient historians came up with self-invented nicknames for these people that usually describe their characters (UsefulNotes/RamsesII the Great, UsefulNotes/CyrusTheGreat, UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat, UsefulNotes/PompeyTheGreat, Philippe the Good, Charles the Bold, John the Fearless, Louis the Pious, Akbar the Great, UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart, UsefulNotes/SuleimanTheMagnificent, William the Conqueror, UsefulNotes/IvanTheTerrible, UsefulNotes/PeterTheGreat, UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, UsefulNotes/RobertTheBruce, UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat, UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler,...), mental state (Johanna the Mad), race or ethnicity (Philippe the Arab, UsefulNotes/ShakaZulu, Louis the German,...) or a notable physical appearance (Pippin the Short, Charles the Bald, Charles the Fat, Frederick Barbarossa (''Red Beard'')) or age (UsefulNotes/WilliamPittTheElder, UsefulNotes/WilliamPittTheYounger, Louis the Child,...). These names were definitely '''not''' used during the royals' own lifetime. In many cases the epithet ''the good'' or ''the bad'' is now contested by modern historians, because they were often applied to judgments and standards of people in later centuries. For instance, UsefulNotes/MaryTudor, nicknamed ''Bloody Mary'', may have executed a lot of people during her reign, but UsefulNotes/ElizabethI, who was often called ''Good Queen Bess'', didn't shy away from executing people either; she just didn't do it to restore Catholicism.
9	* [[UsefulNotes/ElCidCampeador Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar]] is better remembered as ''El Cid'' ("The Lord", in Hispanicized Northern African Arabian) or ''Campeador'' (roughly "battlemaster" in medieval Spanish), combined as ''El Cid Campeador''.
10	* UsefulNotes/GonzaloFernandezDeCordoba was universally known as ''el Gran Capitán'' ("The Great Captain"), originally given in Italian, ''Il Gran Capitano''.
11	* Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel is also better remembered as UsefulNotes/TheDukeOfAlba.
12	* Arthur Wellesley is much better known as UsefulNotes/TheDukeOfWellington.
13	* Similarly, no one refers to country music icon Hiram Williams by anything other than the name he used in the business: Music/HankWilliams.
14	** His son and grandson, [[Music/HankWilliamsJr Hank Jr.]] and [[Music/HankWilliamsIII Hank III]], are actually cases of MiddleNameBasis; they're respectively Randall Hank and Shelton Hank Williams.
15	* Another country music example is Alvis Edgar Owens Jr., better known as Music/BuckOwens.
16	* The "Singing Cowboy", Music/GeneAutry, was born Orvon Grover Autry.
17	* Robbie Robertson, guitarist and primary songwriter for Music/TheBand, later a solo artist and a collaborator on many film soundtracks, was born Jaime Royal Robertson.
18	* Many outlaws of any kind can be known by their nicknames instead of their real name as they gain notoriety.
19	** Edward Teach was nicknamed ''UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}'' and is still better known under this name.
20	** UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid: Born Henry Patrick [=McCarty=], he took the name William Bonney after the death of his mother. He was nicknamed ''Billy the Kid'' because he was a teenager when he went around committing his crimes.
21	** UsefulNotes/CalamityJane: Martha Jane Cannary was nicknamed ''Calamity Jane'' because of her tough image.
22	** Dentist, gambler and gunslinger Dr. John Henry Holliday is primarily remembered by his nickname "Doc".
23	** UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper was nicknamed that way, because nobody ever knew his identity.
24	** Serial killer Donald H. Gaskins Jr. was called "Pee Wee" or "Junior Parrott" so often that he was a teenager when he first heard his real name. "Pee Wee" or piss, referring to his short stature which lead to him becoming a victim of bullying.
25	** Stanley Williams, also known as "Tookie" Williams, cofounder of the Crips.
26	* Creator/BuffaloBill: William F. Cody lives on in the public consciousness as ''Buffalo Bill'', a name derived from his talent for shooting bison (also known as "buffalo") and exploited during his WildWest shows.
27	* Renowned firearms instructor and designer Jeff Cooper was born John Dean Cooper.
28	* Many athletes and coaches/managers can get nicknames, often (but not always) because of their features and performance.
29	** James "Big Cat" Williams.
30	** Norman "Boomer" Esiason.
31	** Rudolph "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone. Billiards player.
32	** Adam "Pacman" Jones. He tried to tell media to stop using it, but no one listened.
33	** [[Creator/BabeRuth George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr.]]
34	** Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, Hall of Fame catcher.
35	** Denton True "Cy" Young. "Cy" was short for "Cyclone", because he threw real hard.
36	** Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochrane, another Hall of Fame catcher. Incidentally, he was the favorite player of one Elvin "Mutt" Mantle, who named his son after Cochrane. Yes, ''that'' Mickey Mantle.[[note]]The younger Mantle said many times that he was thankful his father didn't know Cochrane's given names, noting that he would have hated the name Gordon.[[/note]]
37	** [[UsefulNotes/MagicJohnson Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr.]] Basketball player.
38	** Another basketball star, now a college basketball coach, Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway.
39	** Prominent college basketball coach Orlando "Tubby" Smith.
40	** Not to mention Luigi "Geno" Auriemma, iconic [=UConn=] women's basketball coach.
41	** Eldrick "Tiger" Woods. Golfer.
42	** Larry Wayne Jones, Hall of Fame baseball player, is more familiarly known as "Chipper".
43	** Hall of Fame baseball manager George "Sparky" Anderson.
44	** Another prominent baseball figure as both a player and manager (though not a Hall of Famer), Alfred Manuel Martin Jr., became known as Billy Martin.[[note]]In his case, the nickname came from his Italian immigrant grandmother, who would constantly call him ''bello'' ("beautiful") as a baby. He didn't know his birth name until a teacher used it in school.[[/note]]
45	** Early NASCAR star Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts.
46	** German football player (soccer that is) and contestant for "[[UnnecessaryRoughness most gruesome foul of all time]]" Harald "Toni" Schumacher.
47	** Several racehorse trainers have been known to fans only by nicknames, including Grover "Buddy" Delp, Claude "Shug" [=McGaughey=] III, and Hubert "Sonny" Hine.
48	** Too many Brazilian football players to list are known only by their ''noms-de-foot'', to name just three: Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento), Tostão (Eduardo Gonçalves de Andrade), and Zico (Arthur Antunes Coimbra). Many may be self-chosen, though. A few enter FirstNameBasis (''Ronaldo'' Luiz Nazário de Lima and ''Marta'' Vieira da Silva).
49	*** This isn't restricted to football in Brazil—many people in other sports are known by single names. To name just three examples, volleyball player Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho[[note]]"Filho" is not a family name, but rather the equivalent to "Junior" in English[[/note]] is better known as Giba; women's basketball legend ''Hortência'' de Fátima Marcari entered FirstNameBasis; and men's basketball player Maybyner Rodney Hilário became known as Nenê, and eventually adopted that as his ''[[OnlyOneName full legal name.]]''
50	*** Many Spanish football players also become known by just one name, such as Xavi (full name Xavier Hernández i Creus), Guti (José María Gutiérrez Hernández) and Raúl (full name Raúl González Blanco). A few players from other countries also become known by only one name, such as the Ivorian Gervinho (Gervais Yao Kouassi) and the Serbian-born American Preki (Predrag Radosavljević).
51	** While most UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighters have a nickname in addition to their actual name, many are billed with their nickname in place of part (or all) of their actual name. This is particularly common with Brazilian fighters.
52	*** Mirko Cro Cop instead of Mirko Filipović. He was an actual Croatian anti-terrorism officer.
53	*** Renan Barão instead of Renan do Nascimento Mota Pegado. "Barão" means "Baron".
54	*** Cezar Mutante instead of Cezar Ferreira. "Mutante" means "mutant" and refers to the ''ComicBook/XMen''.
55	*** Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, "Minotauro" (''minotaur''). His twin brother Antônio Rogério is "Minotouro".
56	*** Rony Jason instead of Rony Mariano Bezerra. "Jason" refers to the villain of the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' franchise.
57	*** Korean Zombie instead of Chan Sung Jung (native order: Jung Chan-sung). Known as such because of his apparent ability to withstand damage that would drop most fighters.
58	** Many well-known boxers, such as James "Buster" Douglas, Rocco "Rocky" Marciano (birth surname Marchegiano), James "Bonecrusher" Smith, Donovan "Razor" Ruddock, and Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez are commonly referred to by their nicknames.
59	** Hockey rarely does it ever since the 1960s, but there is no dearth of early players who qualify, like King Clancy, Phantom Joe Malone, Ace Bailey, and Toe Blake. Not to mention coaching great Punch Imlach.
60	** Many think the subject of ''Film/EddieTheEagle'' is Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards. Nope. The nickname is "Eddie the Eagle". His ''real'' name is Michael David Edwards. In fact, his page at The Other Wiki is at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_Eagle Eddie the Eagle]].
61	* Another sporting example, though for a very different reason, was that of Connie Mack, who had the longest managing career in Major League Baseball history, aided by the fact that he owned the Philadelphia (now Oakland) Athletics, the team he managed for 50 seasons. He was actually known by a nickname for essentially his entire life—his legal name, which he never changed, was ''Cornelius [=McGillicuddy=]'' (with no middle name). "Connie" was a standard nickname for Cornelius, and "Mack" was often used by Irish immigrant families whose names started with "Mc".
62	** The "Connie Mack" name has been used by men in (at least) three further generations of the family, all legally named Cornelius [=McGillicuddy=] (though with middle names). Connie Jr. achieved no great fame, but Connie III and Connie IV both became US Congressmen from Florida (III in both the House and Senate, and IV in the House). Connie IV was also married for a time to Mary Bono, widow of Music/SonnyBono.
63	* A handful of men are known by the nickname "Spike" which isn't short for anything as most of them have quite different real names. The list include [[Creator/SpikeMilligan Terence Milligan]], [[Creator/SpikeSpencer Charles Spencer]], [[Creator/SpikeLee Shelton Lee]], [[Music/SpikeJones Lindley Jones]] and [[Creator/SpikeJonze Adam Spiegel]].
64	* Yet another sporting example: Say you're an American women's basketball fan. Does the name Ann [=McGraw=] ring a bell for you? Probably not... even though she's one of the most successful college coaches, with two NCAA titles and numerous Final Four appearances. However, you've almost certainly heard of ''Muffet'' [=McGraw=]. And now you know.
65	* Charles Frederick Kiraly, born in America to Hungarian immigrants, is the only person to have won Olympic gold medals (or indeed medals of any color) in both indoor and beach volleyball. No one, however, calls him by either of his given names... everyone, including The Other Wiki, refers to him as ''Karch'' Kiraly.
66	** "Karch" comes from "Karcsi", a nickname for "Károly", the Hungarian form of Charles.
67	* Ali Hassan al-Majid, former holder of multiple defense- and intelligence-related offices under Saddam Hussein in Iraq, was nicknamed ''Chemical Ali'' by Iraqis for his use of chemical weapons against Kurdish rebels, a nickname that was picked up by media throughout the world, especially the U.S.
68	* Muhammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Saddam's information (read: propaganda) minister at the time of the Gulf War famous for his ludicrously inaccurate briefings on Iraq's military prospects, was nicknamed ''Baghdad Bob'' in the American press and ''Comical Ali'' in the British press.
69	* Many astronaut examples include:
70	** Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom.
71	** Charles "Pete" Conrad
72	** Harrison "Jack" Schmitt.
73	** Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton.
74	** [[UsefulNotes/BuzzAldrin Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin]]. Later took the name by deed poll.
75	* An interesting case: In many historical cultures it has been custom to call certain things (most especially animals) by euphemism (the Greeks referring to the Erinyes as Eumenides or "The Kindly Ones" is one such example, TheFairFolk is another) to avoid their attention. A particularly interesting case is the word "bear" (and its variations in other Germanic languages) that is precisely such a euphemism. Only, we have no idea what the original name was. Bears are ''literally'' only known by their nicknames.
76	** Swedish has another case: The Swedish word for Wolf is ''Varg'' which originally meant "murderer", and was used as a euphemism for ''ulv'' (which is the same word as "wolf") nowadays ''ulv'' is a dead word while ''Varg'' is the one commonly used to describe the species.
77	* Early Soviet leaders used this quite often. In several cases, this started before the Soviets came to power, as an attempt to mask their true identities from the then-current authorities.
78	** Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - "[[UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin Lenin]]" (probably from the River Lena).
79	** Iosev Vissarionovich Djugashvili - "UsefulNotes/JosefStalin" (from the Russian word for steel).
80	** Lev Bronstein - "UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky" (he supposedly took the last name of one of his jailers).
81	** Vyacheslav Skriabin - "Molotov" (from the Russian word for hammer).
82	* Subcomandante Marcos, the leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (a Mexican rebel movement fighting for the rights of the indigenous people) is only known by his NomDeGuerre.
83	* Similarly, all statements from the IRA are signed by P. O'Neill, which may be a NomDeGuerre of some leader, or might be just a name used to conceal any internal changes of leadership from the outside world.
84	* There are also several German politicians which are regularly referred to by their nickname instead of their first name, like the [[strike:governor]] former first burgomaster of Hamburg ''"Ole" von Beust'' and former Minister of Foreign Affairs ''"Joschka" Fischer''. Former German chancellor ''Willy Brandt'' was born ''Herbert Frahm'', but exclusively used the name of his undercover identity as a resistance fighter when he returned to Germany after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
85	* A couple of Latin American examples: Luiz Inácio da Silva is always known as ''Lula'' -- to the point of adding it to his actual legal name -- and Ernesto Guevara is much more famous as ''UsefulNotes/{{Che\|Guevara}}''. And one ''norteamericano'' example: When was the last time you heard someone refer to President [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton ''William'' Clinton]]?
86	** The best Presidential example is [[UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr.]] He was the first President to officially sign documents with his nickname rather than his full name. Back during his days there were even official news agencies and TV channels who refused to name him "Jimmy" Carter, because it sounded so childish.
87	** Averted, though (at least in his political career) by UsefulNotes/BarackObama, who once went by "Barry".
88	** Not limited to presidents, either. When a certain young American-born Indian (South Asian, not [[UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans Native American]]) named Piyush was growing up in Baton Rouge, he regularly watched reruns of ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' after school, and strongly identified with the family's youngest son. He grew up to become a U.S. congressman, two-term governor of Louisiana, and Republican presidential hopeful. While his legal first name remains Piyush, everyone calls him Bobby Jindal.
89	*** There's a long history of such things happening with the American-born children of immigrants from non-English-speaking countries; if their parents don't give them an "American-sounding" name to begin with, they often take an English nickname that helps them fit in better. It's less common in the 21st century, as there's a greater acceptance of non-English names being just as authentically "American" as traditional English ones, but it still happens a lot.
90	*** This actually is relatively common when you're speaking another language and your name is either the local version of TheUnpronounceable or their tradition is that you take a nickname in that language--it's just less annoying, if nothing else. This is part of why, in Japan, people usually won't know who you're talking about when you mention Creator/LafcadioHearn--but will recognize who you're talking about if you call him Koizumi Yakumo.
91	* One of the most famous Spanish guerrilla leaders of the war against Napoleon was Don Juan Martín Díaz, known as ''el Empecinado''. After the war he got royal permission to use his nickname instead of "Díaz".
92	* In historical China, men (and sometimes women) received courtesy names at age 20. Elders could still use your birth name, but everyone else had to use this courtesy name. This means that many Chinese historical figures are only referred to by their nicknames - [[UsefulNotes/{{Taoism}} Laozi]] (real name Li Er), most of the characters in Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms, UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek (real name Chiang Choutai/[[UsefulNotes/WhyMaoChangedHisName Jiang Zhoutai]]) and Sun Yat-sen (real name Sun Deming) for example. Confucius is a double-example: his birth-name was Kong Qiu, his courtesy name was Zhongni, and he is most often called Kong Fuzi ('Great Master Kong'), which Matteo Rici [[GratuitousLatin Latinised]] to 'Confucius'.
93	** The premodern Chinese naming system was quite complex compared to the West; a person might have as many as [[IHaveManyNames eight names]], which were used in different occasions. Take Sun Yat-sen for example. His actual courtesy name is "Zaizhi"; Yat-sen/Yixian is a name he took while studying in Hong Kong. His name in the family register, which in Chinese culture amounts to his "real" name, is Tak-ming/Deming, but this was only used among family. He was born, however, as Tai-tseung/Dixiang, and this was used until he got older, when he received a "big name": Wen. Confusingly, "Sun Wen" is what the Chinese of his time called him, ''not'' Zaizhi, which is virtually unknown. Oh, since he was a Christian, he also had a baptismal name: Yut-sun/Rixin, which means "renew oneself daily").
94	** Some Western translations of Chinese historical fiction opt to do a {{Bowdlerise}} and use the figures' real names, likely to avoid culture clash and massive confusion. In the Japanese dub for ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'', for example, all male characters in the game are called by their style names in dialogue (Zhuge Liang is "Kongming", Cao Cao is "Mengde", etc.), with their real names reserved only in the in-game menu and certain occasions. In the English dub, however, they are referred to by their real names both in menu and dialogue. The fans follow accordingly, though the more attentive and nerdy Western fans tend to use the style names.
95	** Born Zhao Zheng (or Ying Zheng, if we use modern naming traditions), the self-declared first emperor of China is now perhaps best known as "UsefulNotes/{{Qin Shi Huang\|di}}" (literally "First Emperor of Qin". Indeed, such was his determination to be known as this that his personal name (Zheng) became a taboo name, to the extent that even the first person pronoun "zhen" was for his personal use only.
96	* Some Christian saints are known by their "nicknames", for instance the apostles (Simon called) Peter, Andrew and Thomas (Greek words meaning "the Rock", "the Manly" and "the Twin"), and St. Francis of Asisi (real name: Giovanni Battista Bernardone, his nickname Francesco means "Frenchy"). The fame of these nicknames led to them becoming common given names for future generations.
97	* A number of old families have two names, an older one and another they acquired later (which can be a simplified form of the former), these can be linked by the word "called" (''dit'' in French, ''genannt'' in German). Examples are Napoleon's marshal Claude Victor-Perrin ''dit'' Victor and the Prussian liaison in Wellington's HQ during the Waterloo campaign, general Karl von Müffling ''genannt'' Weiss.
98	* Some Minnesänger and mastersingers are known primarily or only known by their nicknames, most famously Tannhäuser (i. e. "the man from Tannhausen").
99	* Famous painters: Creator/SandroBotticelli (Alessandro die Mariano Filipepi, named after the goldsmith to whom he had been apprenticed), Canaletto (Antonio da Canal), the other Canaletto (Bernardo Bellotto), El Greco (Dominikos "the Greek" Theotokopoulos), three male artists called Tintoretto ("the little dyer", a nickname of the family, whose original name is Robusti) and a female one from the same family called "la Tintoretta".
100	* Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi).
101	* Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls.
102	%%* Most of the cast of ''Series/JerseyShore''.
103	* Music/MichaelJackson's eldest son is Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., but he's always been known as "Prince". Ironically, his younger brother whose birth name is actually Prince ended up also applying due to OneSteveLimit, known as "Blanket" as a child and "Bigi" ever since.
104	* Another musical Jackson, British singer-songwriter David Ian Jackson, is known to one and all as Music/JoeJackson. (No, not Michael's overbearing father, or one of the Chicago Black Sox.)
105	* Creator/JodieFoster. Her birth name is Alicia, but everyone has called her Jodie since she was a child.
106	* Same with Creator/MaisieWilliams whose real first name is Margaret.
107	* Coy Luther Perry III combined this with MiddleNameBasis, becoming known as Creator/LukePerry.
108	* Creator/MontyOum, short from Monyreak. Also his brothers Monyneath "Neath" ([[TheOtherDarrin who replaced him voice acting in]] ''Webanimation/{{RWBY}}''), and Reaksmeychivy "Chivy".
109	* Creator/CateBlanchett was born Catherine Élise Blanchett, but has always been known and professionally credited solely as "Cate".
110	* If not referred to as just "Grandma" or "Grandpa", many grandchildren have nicknames they only refer to their grandparents as, if not other relatives.
111	* Famous 20th century American gangsters who are only known by their nicknames.
112	** [[UsefulNotes/TheMafia Lucky Luciano (Charles Luciano)]]
113	** John Gotti had two nicknames: "the Dapper Don" due to his flamboyant persona, and later on, "the Teflon Don" because three high-profile trials resulted in his acquittal[[note]]later revealed to have been done thanks to jury misconduct and intimidation[[/note]]
114	** [[KosherNostra Dutch Schultz (Arthur Simon Flegenheimer)]]
115	** Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
116	** [[TheIrishMob Legs Diamond (Jack Diamond)]]
117	** Scarface Capone (UsefulNotes/AlCapone)
118	* An unusual case happened in 1920s China. Philologist-turned-language reformer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuantong Qian Xuantong]] noticed schoolmates started calling his third son Bingqiong "Sanqiang", he persuaded the latter to change his name to Sanqiang instead, probably because Bingqiong is overly classical in form[[note]]The character for "qiong", 穹, literally means "dome", but by early modernity it becomes an obscure character whose only use is in the set phrase "cangqiong" ("[[HeavenlyBlue blue]] dome"), a poetic allegory to the heavens.[[/note]] and no long sits well with his own beliefs. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Sanqiang Qian Sanqiang]] eventually became "the father of [[UsefulNotes/TheDragonsTeeth China's atomic bombs]]."
119	* Brandon Margera. If that's not ringing any bells, you might know him better as "[[Series/VivaLaBam Bam]]" (or "Bam Bam", if you're his grandfather).
120	* Edrice Femi Adebayo, NBA star with the Miami Heat... also generally known as Bam. As in Margera's case, Adebayo's page at The Other Wiki uses Bam instead of any of his given names.
121	* Jazz pianist and band leader [[Music/DukeEllington Edward Ellington]], better known by the nickname "Duke". The nickname seems popular with musicians if [[Music/FourTops Abdul Fakir]] and [[Music/{{Garbage}} Douglas Erikson]] are any indications.
122	* Tanigo Motoaki, the founder and CEO of Cover Corp and ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'', is more commonly known as "YAGOO". This is a misreading of the kanji for his family name. It's so widely used that Coco apparently didn't know it wasn't his actual name until a few months after her debut, when Marine mentioned his real name, despite having met him in person.
123	* The real name of Japanese voice actress Creator/{{Lynn}} is unknown to all but a select few (herself, her family, and presumably her agent), none of whom are in any real rush to reveal it.
124	* From the moment his birth was announced, [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Henry Charles Albert David]]'s parents declared that he would be informally called "Harry". He's never been referred to as anything else, not even at his wedding (although his full name was used on the invitation, the program, and at the beginning of the ceremony, "Harry" was used for the exchange of rings/recitation of vows/declaration of marriage/nuptial blessing). This is unusual for the British royal family, which typically doesn't allow the use of nicknames and diminutives (his sister-in-law had to switch from Kate to Catherine). This even extends to his son Archie, whose middle name is Harrison, which means "son of Harry" rather than "Henry". His wife herself is an example of this, having long been known on the MiddleNameBasis of "Creator/{{Meghan\|Markle}}" rather than her first of "Rachel", and their daughter Lilibet Diana will be called "Lili".
125	** Speaking of which, Harry's great-grandfather George VI was known to the world by that name. However, he chose George as a regnal name to honour his father, and his actual first name was Albert. His immediate family never called him anything other than Bertie.
126	* UsefulNotes/RichardNixon's wife was born Thelma Catherine Ryan, but nicknamed "Pat" by her Irish-American father, as she was born the day before St. Patrick's Day. She began using "Pat", and sometimes "Patricia", while in college, and was publicly known as Pat (or Patricia) Nixon during her married life, but she never actually changed her given names.
127	* In East German punk circles, nicknames were frequently used so that if caught by the Stasi, one couldn’t break and reveal the real names of their friends. A famous example that stuck over time is Christian “Flake” Lorenz from Music/{{Rammstein}}. Richard Z. Kruspe is frequently referred to by his bandmates as his old nickname “Scholle”, but doesn’t use the name himself anymore.
128	* There's Joseph Frank Keaton, known as Creator/BusterKeaton since an injury when he was infant which he shrugged off got him called that by a family friend.
129	* Elmer Earl Hartman IV, better known as Creator/ButchHartman.
130	* A non-person example is the Elizabeth Tower in London, England, as it's known mostly as Big Ben. This doubles as a case of IAmNotShazam.
131	* Jemima Redgrave, an award-winning English actress best known as Kate Stewart on ''Series/DoctorWho'' and Bernie Wolfe on ''Series/HolbyCity'', is known to all and sundry as "Creator/{{Jemma\|Redgrave}}".
132	* Creator/{{Rumi}}, whose real name was Muhammad bin Muhammad bin al-Husayn al-Khatibi al-Balkhi al-Bakri. The sobriquet means "from Rome", because he resided in what used to be the [[UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire Eastern Roman Empire]]. The Persians and Turks know him as "Mawlawi" (our master) instead.
133	* Abdullah ibn Uthman Abi Quhafa and Abd Ar-Rahman ibn Sakhr companion of Prophet Muhammad never called that he always by his kunya(nickname)is Abu Bakr and Abu Hurayra meaning father of Young Camel and father of kitten.
134	* This is common for Javanese children, who are often renamed relatively early in their life to stave off illness.
135	** Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, earned his name in one such instance, and is now rarely remembered by his original name, "Kusno Sosrodihardjo".
136	** Indonesia's seventh president, Joko Widodo, on top of also being subject to this custom (his original name was Mulyono), was given the nickname "Jokowi" at an international furniture expo, when he was still the successful but still relatively obscure owner of a furniture company. The Frenchman who reputedly gave him the name wanted to distinguish him from all the other Javanese furniture salesman named "Joko". As Jokowi made his way through local government up to the top, his nickname became so popular that by this point, his actual name is only used in official documentation.
137	* There was an ancient Athenian philosopher who was (probably) named Aristocles, but you and everyone else for the last few thousand years know him as Creator/{{Plato}} (a nickname meaning "broad shoulders").
138	* Welsh life peeress, television presenter and former wheelchair racer Tanni Grey-Thompson was born Carys Davina Grey, but her older sister Siân, referred to her as "tiny" as she first saw her, but pronounced it as "tanni" - the unique nickname stuck.
139	* UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte's most famous wife, UsefulNotes/JosephineDeBeauharnais, was born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie. "Joséphine" was how Napoleon called her.
140	* Creator/{{Banksy}}. While there are popular and widespread speculations about the real identity behind the moniker, the elusive street artist has remained anonymous throughout their career.
141	* "Deep Throat", the mysterious source who revealed the Watergate scandal to Woodward and Bernstein remained anonymous until 2005, when the FBI revealed it had been former Associate Director Mark Felt, who some had suspected already.
142	* In a more general example, many prehistoric mammals are only known by a common name as opposed to the specific/generic one (e.g. most people know what a Wooly Rhino is but not a ''Coelodonta'', even though both are names for the same animal). Dinosaurs aren't victims of this, but only because nobody gave them common names. ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is the one big exception among dinosaurs, as both its generic and specific name are well known due to [[AwesomeMcCoolName how cool they sound]].

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