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Why do you think so many celebrities change their names? Example: Jack Benny/Benjamin Kubelsky.

Also, many of them were/are Jewish.

Posted - November 5, 2019
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  • 8214
    I think some of them do.  
      November 5, 2019 3:56 PM MST
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  • 44649
    The question is 'Why...'. It is also many.
      November 5, 2019 3:59 PM MST
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  • 5391

    Privacy. To separate their past, personal and family lives from their public lives.

    Image. The birth or given names are awkward, plain or unsuitable.
    How tough a guy could Marion Morrison be? 
    Would anyone swoon for a Norma Jean Baker, or pay any mind to a rapper calling himself Calvin Broadus? 

     

      November 5, 2019 4:07 PM MST
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  • 44649
    I wouldn't pay any mind to any rapper.
      November 5, 2019 4:14 PM MST
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  • 5391
    Me either, but it‘s a generational thing. 
      November 5, 2019 4:17 PM MST
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  • 44649
    Persecution of Jews might also have something to do with it. Even in the USA. When my grandfather moved here from Russia, he changed his name from Goldstein to Davis.
      November 5, 2019 4:23 PM MST
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  • 23641
    I prefer all of those original names.
    :)
      November 5, 2019 6:58 PM MST
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  • 16826
    David Bowie changed his name to avoid being confused with Davy Jones from The Monkees. John Denver changed his because "Henry J Deutschendorf, Jr" wouldn't fit on a record label, same with Ritchie Valens (Ricardo Valenzuela). Ringo Starr decided that "Richard Starkey" was too bland, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and Peter Criss changed theirs because they thought that Gene Klein, Stanley Eisen and George Criscoula would be less appealing to their fans.
      November 5, 2019 8:31 PM MST
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