List of pseudonyms

This article gives a list of pseudonyms, in various categories.

Pen names

:Note: List of Urdu language poets provides pen names for a range of Urdu poets.

Related Topics:
List of Urdu language poets - Urdu

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• Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Annu)
• Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky)
• Acton Bell (Anne Brontë)
• Æ (George William Russell)
• Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier)
• Alan Smithee (Ficticious name for certain U.S. Directors)
• Alberto Moravia (Alberto Pincherle)
• Alcofribas Nasier (François Rabelais)
• Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault)
• Anne Rice (Howard Allen O'Brien)
• Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)
• Ashida Kim (Radford William Davis)
• Seiko Legru (Janwillem van de Wetering)
• Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
• Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Louis Sauser)
• Boris Akunin (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili)
• Boz (Charles Dickens)
• Branislav Nusic (Ben Akiba)
• Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm)
• Cherubina de Gabriak (Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva)
• Christopher Hunter (Radford William Davis)
• Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
• Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë)
• Curzio Malaparte (Kurt Erich Suckert)
• Daniel Defoe (Daniel Foe)
• Daniil Kharms) (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev)
• David Axton (Dean Koontz)
• David Michaels (Raymond Benson)
• Dazai Osamu (Shuji Tsushima)
• Douglas Spaulding (Ray Bradbury)
• Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
• Edith Van Dyne (L. Frank Baum)
• Edogawa Rampo (Hirai Tar?)
• Edwin Caskoden (Charles Major)
• Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz)
• Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)
• Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
• Elsa Triolet (Elsa Kagan)
• Emanuel Morgan (Witter Bynner)
• Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark)
• Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan)
• Françoise Sagan (Françoise Quoirez)
• George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
• George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
• George Sand (Amandine Dupin)
• Georges Courteline (Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux
• Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Lippincott)
• Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky)
• Hard Pan (Geraldine Bonner)
• Harold Robbins (Harold Rubin)
• Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus)
• Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg)
• Irwin Shaw (Irwin Shamforoff)
• Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz)
• Jay Livingston (Jacob Harold Levison)
• Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)
• Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert)
• John Beynon (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
• John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
• Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski)
• Korney Chukovsky (Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov)
• Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
• Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
• Lorenzo da Ponte (Emmanuele Conegliano)
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches)
• Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
• Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
• Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian)
• Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart)
• Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
• Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
• Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins)
• Nancy Boyd (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Natsume Soseki (Natsume Kinnosuke)
• Nisa (Nicola Salerno), Italian lyricist
• Nicolas Bourbaki (a group of 20th-century mathematicians)
• Novalis (Friedrich Leopold)
• O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
• Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
• Paul Celan (Paul Antschel)
• Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos)
• Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud)
• Piers Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)
• Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers)
• Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
• Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
• Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis)
• Romain Gary (Romain Kacew)
• Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger)
• Saki (Herbert Hugh Munro)
• Sapper (H. C. McNeile)
• Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble)
• Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis)
• Student (William Sealey Gosset), discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics
• Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
• The Fredman Karl Mikael Bellman
• Thoinot Arbeau (Jehan Tabourot)
• Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford)
• Vercors (Jean Bruller)
• Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian)
• Umberto Saba (Umberto Poli)
• Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
• Walter (Henry Spencer Ashbee)
• Willibald Alexis (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring)
• Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
• Yevegny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev)
• Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka)