real names that you didn't see coming

[Lance Uppercut]

Not just any real name that's just kind of dorky, i mean names that make you go "huh?"

I've known for years, but I still can't wrap head around the fact that Charlie and Martin Sheen are related to Emilio Esteves and their real names are Carlos and Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez.

Mexican is the last nationality I would have expected that family to be. Not to metion being confused why Emilio didn't make a more caucasion stage name.

James Roday is apparently the Anglo-ized version of his real name, James Rodriguez. Once again, didn't see that one coming.

who surprised you when you found out their real name?

[Mozenrath]

I was kind of surprised with Vanilla Ice, in that "Van Winkle" was a real last name a person could have.

[BJ Sturgeon]

Nov 16, 2011 5:52:18 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I was kind of surprised with Vanilla Ice, in that "Van Winkle" was a real last name a person could have.

Sounds like a common Dutch lastname.

[Mozenrath]

Nov 16, 2011 6:08:16 GMT -5 BJ Sturgeon said:

Nov 16, 2011 5:52:18 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I was kind of surprised with Vanilla Ice, in that "Van Winkle" was a real last name a person could have.

Sounds like a common Dutch lastname.

Probably, but I had taken for granted that fact due to Rip Van Winkle. It'd be like if you met a Jeff Appleseed.

[Red Lion]

Nov 16, 2011 5:35:14 GMT -5 Lance Uppercut said:

Mexican is the last nationality I would have expected that family to be. Not to metion being confused why Emilio didn't make a more caucasion stage name.

By all accounts he wanted to be his own man and not live in the shadow of his father, and hence get acting jobs based on his own ability.

[Turd Ferguson]

John Wayne's first name being Marion. Bonus surprise and amusement at being Marion Morrison (I find alliteration to be hilarious, as well.)

[General Adam]

Kirk Douglas' real name is Issur Danielovitch

And Cary Grant's real name is Archibald Alexander Leach.

[Pervy Stone Cold]

Billy Gunn's name is Monty. Never really heard anyone else named that,

[rapidfire187]

Nov 16, 2011 10:53:19 GMT -5 Pervy Stone Cold said:

Billy Gunn's name is Monty. Never really heard anyone else named that,

Monty Brown?

[agent817]

Jamie Foxx's birthname is Eric Bishop.

[Porky's Butthole]

Nov 16, 2011 9:14:55 GMT -5 Turd Ferguson said:

John Wayne's first name being Marion. Bonus surprise and amusement at being Marion Morrison (I find alliteration to be hilarious, as well.)

You take that back!!

[Deleted]

Michael Caine - Maurice Micklewhite

Gene Simmons - Chaim Witz

[Sephiroth]

My mom is an administrator in a doctor's office, and she used to work for Dr. Goldfinger. Thank God he was a cardiologist and not a proctologist. They also used to have a patient who came into the office named Richard Crochfelt. I wish I was making that up.

We had a teacher in my high school named Mrs. Condom. I wish I was making that up too. And my favorite magazine, Weird NJ, once showed a picture of a tombstone that read "Paul Assman."

[Cela]

Nov 16, 2011 10:46:17 GMT -5 General Adam said:

And Cary Grant's real name is Archibald Alexander Leach.

Which is the name of John Cleese's character in A Fish Called Wanda.

[Deleted]

Can't blame Tiger for thinking Eldrick Woods wouldn't be quite as impressive.

[Pervy Stone Cold]

Nov 16, 2011 14:39:46 GMT -5 @akeem said:

Michael Caine - Maurice Micklewhite

Gene Simmons - Chaim Witz

I wonder if Gene Simmons feels the same way about people being WAY too smarky and calling him by his real name (in person) like wrestlers do.

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

Murphey's, of TNA security fame, real name is Micheal Cole.

[Sir Woodrow]

I remember telling my Mum that DDP's real name was Page Falkenberg and her reaction was, "Well that's a very teenage girls name"

[The Line]

Rick Steiner's real last name is Rechsteiner.

Really clever there, Rick.

[Sir Woodrow]

Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas