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9 unusual facts about Pseudonym


Alan J. Dixon

In the fall of 1970, Karl Rove, a future White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the George W. Bush Administration, used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Illinois State Treasurer, and stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead.

American Maid

She has also been revealed to be an operative (at least part-time) for the US government and had the former alias of Jeanine Smith during a mission with the Tick and Arthur to rescue Yank, a monkey made temporarily smart by cosmic rays, and subsequently kidnapped by the evil ruler Pineapple Pokopo.

Budrio

Budrio is the birthplace of Giuseppe Barilli, better known under his false name of Quirico Filopanti, a famous Italian mathematician and politician.It is also the birthplace of Zenobio, a famous comedian of the 1970s.

D. K. Suresh

Doddaalahalli Kempegowda Suresh a.k.a D. K. Suresh is an Indian Politician and is Member of Parliament of the 15th Lok Sabha of India.

John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley

He was the first of his family to adopt the surname of Dudley as an alias for Sutton.

Khalifa Ayil Al-Naufli

Many people in the Western World are not familiar with the naming system in the Arab/Muslim World, and at times it can cause much confusion, resulting in many aliases being used.

Newlands Corner

She was found some days later having checked in under an alias at a hotel in Harrogate.

Takano Chōei

He then spent the rest of his life in hiding using various aliases.

The Isness

The Isness is a 2002 album by experimental electronica group The Future Sound of London, released under the alias Amorphous Androgynous (except in the US, where it was released as FSOL for commercial reasons).


A Practical Guide To Racism

A Practical Guide to Racism is a 2007 humorous satirical book written by Sam Means under the pseudonym C.H. Dalton.

Abermule

The composer Peter Warlock, the pseudonym of Peter Heseltine lived at Abermule before and after the First War.

Acheng

Zhong Acheng, pseudonym A Cheng or Ah Cheng, Chinese author and screewriter

Adrian Ross

He wrote in The Tatler under the pseudonym Bran Pie and in 1893 published an edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montague's Letters.

Agathangelus

Agathangelos, the name (possibly pseudonym) of the author of a text about Gregory the Illuminator

Alan Smith

Alan Smithee, pseudonym used since 1968 by film directors who wished to be dissociated from a film

Alice or the Last Escapade

The film is very loosely inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, including the protagonist's name being Alice Carroll (a combination of the Alice character and the author's pseudonymous surname).

Andrew MacDonald

Andrew Macdonald, pseudonym of William Luther Pierce (1933–2002), American leader of the white separatist National Alliance organization

Anouk

Anouk Aimée (b. 1932 as Françoise Sorya Dreyfus), pseudonym of a French film actress

As It Is Written

Based on various evidence including handwriting and typewriter comparisons, and similarities of subject matter and style, they believed the novel to be the work of Clark Ashton Smith using Cass as a pseudonym.

Barbara Paul

:See Barbara Ovstedal for the article about the author previously writing under the pseudonym Barbara Paul.

Claude Farrère

Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in Lyon – 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a French author of novels set in such exotic locations as Istanbul, Saigon, and Nagasaki.

Crime Writers of Canada

The awards are named for Arthur B. English, a British expatriate who, under the pseudonym Arthur Ellis, became Canada’s official hangman in 1913.

Dabney Carr

Using the pseudonym Obediah Squaretoes, Carr contributed an article to William Wirt's The Old Bachelor (1814).

David Cornwell

John le Carré (born 1931), pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, English writer of espionage novels

Enzo Barboni

Enzo Barboni (July 10, 1922 – March 23, 2002), sometimes credited by his pseudonym E.B. Clucher, was an Italian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter, best known for his slapstick comedies starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.

Eric Scarboro

He graduated to submitting various humorous articles for magazines and newspapers almost always under a variety of aliases, one of them being Viz Cliche, and writing music articles and appearing on radio phone-ins under another array of pseudonyms, one of them being the almost incomprehensible Dutchman Sid Andik (named after Morecambe and Wise's writers Sid Hills and Dick Green).

Evening Press

Other journalists who worked for the paper were the award-winning journalist and author Clare Boylan, Sean Cronin (sub editor), Matt Farrell (deputy editor) who also went under the pseudonym Sir Ivor with racing tips, Ed Moloney, the financial journalist Des Crowley, Sean McCann, former senator John Horgan and Vincent Browne.

Georges Colomb

Under the pseudonym Christophe (playing on "Christophe Colomb", the French name for Columbus), Colomb created comics that were popular among the French intelligentsia, yet were published in Le Petit Français illustré, a children's paper.

James Belich

T. James Belich (born 1976), playwright, also known by pseudonym of Colorado Tolston

John Worth

Les Vandyke (born 1931), singer who used the pseudonym John Worth

Kazimierz Leski

Kazimierz Leski, nom de guerre Bradl (21 June 1912 — 27 May 2000), was a Polish engineer, co-designer of the Polish submarines ORP Sęp and ORP Orzeł, a fighter pilot, and an officer in World War II Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence.

Kelly Gallagher

Kelly Wearstler (born 1967), interior designer and former Playboy model (under the pseudonym Gallagher)

Leonor Maia

Leonor Maia, pseudonym of Maria da Conceição de Vasconcelos (born 8 December 1921) was a Portuguese film actress active in the 1940s, best remembered for her role in The Tyrant Father.

Luke Records

The label was originally called Luke Skyywalker Records, however because it was not found to be of fair use, Campbell shortened his pseudonym to Luke (a result of George Lucas' successful lawsuit for Campbell appropriating the Skywalker name).

Morris Winchevsky

Morris Winchevsky (Leopold Benzion Novokhovitch; Pseudonym: Ben Netz (Hebrew: 'Son of Hawk'; 1856–1932) was a prominent Jewish socialist leader in London and the United States in the late 19th century.

Pavel Tigrid

In Great Britain, he adopted the pseudonym Tigrid (after Tigris) when he worked as a broadcaster of anti-fascist propaganda in BBC, and kept it for the rest of his life.

Pennywise

Jon Vitti, writer for The Simpsons, who has used the pseudonym Penny Wise

Pierre Duval

a pseudonym used by Remy Chauvin (1913–2009), French entomologist and parapsychological writer

Political privacy

The Federalist Papers, which contributed to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, were written under the pseudonym Publius.

Reginald Browne

Edwy Searles Brooks, British novelist, who sometimes used the pseudonym Reginald Browne

Robert Conroy Goldston

He served in the U.S. Army, did some sailing on the Great Lakes and at one time was a science-fiction cover artist under the pseudonym James Stark for Nebula Science Fiction.

Saint Swithun

Eliza Gutch (1840–1931), who wrote to Notes and Queries under the pseudonym St Swithin.

Sasha Miller

Sasha Miller is the pseudonym of American fantasy writer Georgia Myrle Miller (born October 15, 1933 in Erick, Oklahoma).

Shan Sa

She adopted the pseudonym Shan Sa from a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi.

Steve Ekstrom

Initially, he started out reviewing comic books independently via MySpace.com under the pseudonym "The Masked Comic Dork", in an attempt to enter the American comic book industry.

Steve Zodiac

Steve Zodiac (pseudonym adopted from the lead character of Fireball XL5) is a rock guitarist and prolific songwriter, who gained recognition in the early 1980s as frontman of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal band Vardis.

Swiss Boy

"Swiss Boy" is a single by Italo disco singer Tom Hooker, released in 1986 under the pseudonym Lou Sern.

The Bolitho novels

The Bolitho novels are a series of nautical war novels written by Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent).

The Crazy Otto Medley

"The Crazy Otto Medley" is a ragtime medley, originally arranged and recorded by the German comic performer Fritz Schulz-Reichel under the pseudonym of "Otto der Schrage" aka "Crazy Otto".

The Righteous Men

The Righteous Men is a novel written by Sam Bourne, a pseudonym of English journalist Jonathan Freedland.

The Secret at Shadow Ranch

It was first published in 1931 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, and was ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt Benson.

The Voice of the Night

The Voice of the Night is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1980 under the pseudonym Brian Coffey.

Thomas Rowley

the pseudonym of Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770), English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry

Thomas von Randow

Thomas von Randow (26 December 1921 Breslau, Schlesien – 29 July 2009 Hamburg) was a German mathematician and journalist who published mathematical and logical puzzles under the pseudonym Zweistein in the "Logelei" column in Die Zeit.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate

Checkmate, like the previous two books, was written under the pseudonym David Michaels, although the previous two books were written by Raymond Benson.

Tommy February6 discography

The discography of Japanese pop singer Tomoko Kawase's alter-ego pseudonym "Defstar Records between 2003 and 2009, and later Warner from 2011 onwards.

Ward Sutton

He also illustrates and writes a cartoon for The Onion under the pseudonym of 'Kelly', depicting the far-fetched Republican and Fundamentalist Christian one-panels of a middle-aged cartoonist.

Zep

Zep (born December 15, 1967) is the pseudonym of Philippe Chappuis, a comics creator from Switzerland, known for his series Titeuf, a popular character in French-speaking countries, and Tchô!, the associated Franco-Belgian comics magazine.


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