Cool G: Richard Gray [of MCJ & Cool G] (Canadian rap & blues singer/dancer)
Kenny G: Kenny Gorelick (solo jazz saxophonist, b1956)
Warren G: Warren Griffin III (rap singer, b1971)
Gabby Cabby: Peter Franklin (New York City cab driver/syndicated newspaper & radio commentator)
Scilla Gabel: Scilla Gabellini (tv actress, b1938)
Jean Gabin: Jean-Alexis Moncorgé (French actor) {father was cafe entertainer who performed using the name Gabin}
Clark Gable: William Clark Gable (movie actor, b1901? d1960)
B.B. Gabor: Gabor Hegedus (Hungarian-born Canadian singer/songwriter/producer, d1990)
Zsa Zsa Gabor: Sari Gabor [aka "Princess von Anhalt, Duchess of Saxony"] (Miss Hungary 1936/tv actress/author, b1917)
Gabrielle: Louise Gabrielle Bobb (singer)
Gabriel of Sedona: Tony Delevan (religious cult leader of the Aquarians who claims to be from another planet)
Guitar Gabriel: Robert Lewis [aka 'Niles Jones'] (blues guitarist, d1996)
Urban Gad: Peter Urban Gad (movie director, b1879 d1947)
Mo Gaffney: Maureen Gaffney (movie, stage & tv actress/comedienne)
Galileo: Galileo Galilei (Italian physicist/astronomer)
Gallagher: Leo Gallagher (watermelon-smashing slapstick comedian)
Gallagher II: Ron Gallagher (watermelon-smashing slapstick comedian too)
Nanni Galli: Giovanni Giuseppe Gilberto Galli (Italian auto racer)
Mahatma Gandhi: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Hindu religious/political leader and apostle of nonviolence)
Chick Gandil: Charles Arnold (professional baseball 1st baseman in 1920's)
Joe Gans: Joseph Gaines (early 20th-century professional light-weight boxer)
Margie Ganser: Margie Dorste (singer with Shangri-La, b1947 d1996)
Lola Gaos: Dolores Gaos Gonzalez-Pola (Spanish movie & stage actress, b1924)
Joe Garagiola: Joseph Henry (professional baseball catcher w/the St. Louis Cardinals/sports announcer/tv game show host, b1926)
Henri Garat: Henri Garascu (French, b1902 d1959)
Greta Garbo: Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (Swedish-American movie actress, b1905 d1990)
Andy Garcia: Andres Arturo Garcia-Menendez (Cuban-born movie actor, b1956)
Vincent Gardenia: Vincente Scognamiglio (Italian movie, stage & tv actor, b1922 d1992)
Ava Gardner: Lucy Johnson [aka Ava Lavinia Gardner] (movie actress, b1922 d1990)
Allen Garfield: Allen Goorwitz (movie actor, b1939) {used real name after 1979)
John Garfield: Jacob Julius Garfinkle (movie actor, b1913 d1952)
Beverly Garland: Beverly Fessenden (actress, b1929)
Judy Garland: Frances Ethel Gumm (movie & stage actress/singer/tv host, b1922 d1969)
James Garner: James Scott Baumgarner (movie & tv actor, b1928)
Tay Garnett: Tay Gannett (movie director)
John Garrick: Reginald Doudy (British actor, b1902)
Jennie Garth: Jennifer Eve Garth (tv actress/exerciser)
Green Gartside: Green Strohmeyer (British pop singer/songwriter with Scritti Politti) {named himself Green at age 16}
George Gately: Gallagher Gately (U.S. cartoonist who created Heathcliff, b1928)
Bill Gates: William Henry Gates III (computer geek/entrepreneur/gazillionaire, who may have coined the phrase, "Word to your momma!")
Gates' gatekeeper: Jack (sits in a little shelter at the entrance to Bill Gate's $60 million home)
Gunner Gatski: Frank Gatski (professional football center/Hall of Famer)
Paul Gauguin: Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin (French post-impressionist painter, b1848 d1903)
John Gavin: John Anthony Golenor (actor/U.S. Ambassador to Mexico)
John Gawsworth: Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (writer)
Marvin Gaye: Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (rhythm & blues singer/songwriter/keyboardist/drummer/pianist/murder victim, b1939 d1984)
Crystal Gayle: Brenda Gail Webb Gatzimos (country western singer, b1951) {nicknamed by sister Loretta Lynn after Krystal hamburger chain}
Janet Gaynor: Laura Gainor {Gainer?} (movie actress, b1906 d1984)
Mitzi Gaynor: Francesca Mitzi Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber (movie actress, b1930)
Ben Gazzara: Biago Anthony Gazzara (movie & tv actor, b1930)
Will Geer: William Ghere (movie & tv actor, b1902 d1978)
Lou Gehrig: Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig [aka Henry Louis Gehrig; nn: Iron Horse] (professional baseball 1st baseman w/the N.Y. Yankees/ALS victim, b1903 d1941)
Jem Gender: James O'Connor Taylor (drag queen/entertainer)
Genet: Janet Flanner (U.S. journalist/columnist stationed in France, b1892 d1978)
Genevieve: Ginette Marguerite Auger (French singer)
The Gentle Don: Angelo Bruno (assasinated leader of the Philadelphia Mafia) {beloved by almost all his peers}
Gentleman Jim: John James Corbett (U.S. heavyweight boxer, b1866 d1933)
Bobbie Gentry: Roberta Streeter (country singer/songwriter/guitarist/banjoist/bassist/pianist/variety show hostess, b1944)
Boom Boom Geoffrion: Bernie Geoffrion (Canadian hockey player)
George I: George Louis Wettin (King of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, 1714-1727)
Banana George: George Blair (noted yellow-clad, octogenarian barefoot water skier, b1915)
Boy George: B. George Alan O'Dowd (Cultured entertainer, b1961)
Chief Dan George: Geswanouth Slahoot (Canadian Indian actor/author/Chief of the Salish Band, b1899 d1981)
Screaming Mad George: George Tani (writer)
Georgianna: Georgianna Robertson (Jamaican model/movie actress)
Geraldo: Geraldo Bright (jazz musician, b1904 d1974)
Gerardo: Gerardo Mejia III (rap singer)
Gerber baby: Ann Turner Cook (weaner of a contest that placed her photogenic baby face on Gerber baby food jars since 1928)
Geronimo: Goyathlay (Apache tribe leader/patron saint of parachutists?, b1829 d1909) {"One Who Yawns"}
Don Geronimo: Mike Source [of the Don & Mike Radio Show] (radio deejay)
George Gershwin: Jacob Gershwin (American music composer, b1898 d1937)
Ira Gershwin: Israel "Izzy" Gershwin [nn: 'The Jeweler'] (American music lyricist, b1898 d1983)
Estelle Getty: Estelle Scher (movie & tv actor/Golden Girl, b1924)
J. Paul Getty: Jean Paul Getty (businessman/oil tycoon/billionaire, b1892 d1976)
Stan Getz: Stanley Gayetzsky (jazz pianist/tenor saxophonist, b1927 d1991)
Bart Giamatti: Angelo Bartlett Giamatti (youngest president of Yale/7th Major League Baseball commissioner)
Barry Gibb: Douglas Gibb (singer in The Bee Gees)
Hoot Gibson: Edward Gibson (movie actor, mostly seen in westerns)
Mel Gibson: Mel Coumcille Gerard Gibson (actor/director/producer)
Lauren Giddings: Nancy Gideon (author of novels that you can really sink your teeth into)
Sir John Gielgud: Arthur John Gielgud (British actor, 1904)
June Gifford: Virginia Snodgrass Gifford (singer, b1936 d1994)
Kathy Lee Gifford: Kathie Lee Epstein (talk-show host/child labor advocate)
Gilbert: William Schwenck Gilbert [of Gilbert & Sullivan] (British playwright, b1836 d1911)
John Gilbert: John Pringle (movie actor, b1895? d1936)
Rod Gilbert: Rodrique Gilbert (Canadian professional hockey player with the New York Rangers, b1941)
The Great Gildersleeve: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve [played by comedic radio/tv actor Willard Waterman]
Jack Gilford: Jacob Gellman (movie, stage & tv actor/comedian/and a Cracker Jack commercial spokesperson, b1907 d1990)
Eric Gill: Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (British sculptor)
Dizzy Gillespie: John Birks Gillespie (modern jazz trumpeter, b1917 d1993)
Gilligan: Willy Gilligan (ficticious tv island castaway; 1st name only ever used on the never-aired pilot show)
Virginia Gilmore: Sherman Virginia Poole (movie & stage actress, b1919 d1986)
Newt Gingrich: Newton Leroy Gingrich (U.S. Congressman from Georgia/former Speaker of the House)
Allen Ginsberg: Irwin Allen Ginsberg (American Beat poet, b1926 d1997)
Il Giorgione: Giorgio Barbarelli (16th-century Italian painter)
Giotto: Giotto di Bondone (Florentine painter/architect/sculptor)
The Gipper: George Gipp (college football player - Notre Dame runningback)
Girlina: Derrick Bradford (NYC drag queen/singer/gender illusionist) {grandmother nicknamed him/her Girlina when he/she was 7}
Gisele: Gisele Caroline Bundchen (Brazilian model, b1980)
Lillian Gish: Lillian de Guiche (tv, movie & stage actress/stuntperson, b1893 d1993)
Jackie Gleason: Herbert John Gleason [nn: 'The Great One'] (movie, stage & tv actor/comedian/composer/bandleader/variety show host, b1916 d1987)
Gary Glitter: Paul Francis Gadd (English stage actor/singer/songwriter, b1940)
Alma Gluck: Reba Fiersohn (Romanian-born opera soprano, b1884 d1938)
Lord Gnome: Peter Cook (comic actor/founder & proprietor of British satirical magazine Private Eye, b1937 d1995)
God: Hallowed {"Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name"} :-)
Paulette Goddard: Pauline Marion Goddard Levy (movie actress, b1914 d1990)
Rube Goldberg: Reuben Lucius Goldberg (very inventive U.S. cartoonist)
Whoopi Goldberg: Caryn Johnson (movie & tv actress/producer/stand-up comedienne, b1949? b1955?)
Goldie: Clifford Price (British singer, b@1965)
Nan Goldin: Nancy Goldin (photographic artist/Mirror of the vicissitudes of extended family life, b1953)
Emmanuel Goldstein: Eric Corley (editor/publisher of 2600 magazine, a hacker quarterly) {NdG taken from the renegade freethinker in George Orwell's '1984'}
Samuel Goldwyn: Schmuel Gelbfisz {Gelbfisch?} [aka 'Samuel Goldfish'] (film producer/founder of MGM)
Holly Golightly: Lula Mae Barnes (wonderful characterization from the mind and pen of Truman Capote)
Lefty Gomez: Vernon Louis Gomez (Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher with the New York Yankees, b1908 d1989)
Pancho Gonzalez: Richard Gonzalez (professional tennis player, b1928 d1995)
President Gonzalo: Dr. Ruben Abimael Guzman Reinoso (Peruvian Communist revolutionary leader, b1934)
Benny Goodman: Benjamin David Goodman (U.S. clarinetist/band leader)
Dody Goodman: Delores Goodman (comic film actress, b1929)
John Goodman: Karl Mundt (Matinee movie & tv actor/frequent SNL host, b1952)
William Goodrich: Roscoe Conklin 'Fatty' Arbuckle (directed comedy films under this pseudonym after the press scandalized his career)
Goofy: Dippy Dawg [later: Dippy the Goof] (animated Disney canine)
Mikhail S. Gorbachev: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian Soviet president, 1985-91)
Frances Gordon: Bridget Wood (writer)
Gale Gordon: Charles T. Aldrich, Jr. (movie, radio, stage & tv actor/comedian, b1906 d1995)
Ruth Gordon: Ruth Gordon Jones (actress/scriptwriter, b1896 d1985)
Tipper Gore: Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson Gore (child advocate/presidential advisor on mental health/Second Lady, b1948)
Gorgeous George: George Wagner (world-champion wrestler)
Maxim Gorki: Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov {Pyeshkov?} [aka Maxim Gorky] (Russian novelist/playwright, b1868 d1936)
Eydie Gorme: Edith Gormezano (singer)
Marjoe Gortner: Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner (evangelist/con-man/actor, b1944)
Sirak Goryan: William Saroyan (author)
Goose Gossage: Richard Gossage (professional baseball player w/the N.Y. Yankees, Padres, A's, b1951)
Elliott Gould: Elliott Goldstein (movie, stage & tv actor, b1938)
Gowan: Lawrence Gowan (Scotish-born, Canadian rock vocalist/keyboardist/songwriter with Styx)
Betty Grable: Ruth Elizabeth Grable (singer/dancer/movie actress, b1916 d1973)
Don Grady: Don Agrati (tv actor/Mouseketeer, b1944)
Bill Graham: Wolfgang Grajonca (rock music producer/entrepreneur, b1931 d1991)
Eve Graham: Evelyn May Beatson (Scottish musician with The New Seekers)
James Graham: Henry Patterson [aka Jack Higgins] (author)
Peter Graham: Jaroslav Stastny-Pokony (Czech musical composer, b1952)
Virginia Graham: Virginia Komiss (actress/tv talk show hostess, b1912)
Gloria Grahame: Gloria Hallward (movie actress)
Stewart Granger: James Lablanche {Leblanche?} Stewart (movie, stage & tv actor, b1913 d1993)
Bud Grant: Harold Grant (professional football player/coach, b1927)
Cary Grant: Archibald Alexander Leach (movie actor, b1904 d1986)
Gogi Grant: Audrey Brown (American entertainer and Wayward singer, b1924)
Lee Grant: Lyova Haskell Rosenthal (actress/director, b1927)
Shauna Grant: Colleen Applegate (porn actress)
Ulysses S. Grant: Hiram Ulysses Grant [aka 'Ulysses Simpson Grant'] (U.S. Army general/President of the United States, b1822 d1885) {name change due to clerical error upon entering U.S. Military Academy!}
The Grateful Dead: Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, then later, The Warlocks (early stage names of Jerry Garcia's legendary band)
Peter Graves: Peter Aurness (movie & tv actor, b1925? b1926?)
Wavy Gravy: Hugh Romney [nn: 'The Minister of Talk'] (World's oldest hippie/voice of Woodstock Festival/fund-raiser for children's causes) {alias given by B.B. King}
Barry Gray: Bernard Yaroslaw (radio interviewer/tv talk show host/pioneered radio call-in shows, b1916)
Dobie Gray: Leonard Victor Ainsworth (rhythm & blues/soul singer/songwriter/actor, b1942)
* Gilda Gray: Marianna Winchalska (Polish-born 1920's flapper/singer, b1901 d1959)
Macy Gray: Natalie McIntyre (singer)
Kathryn Grayson: Zelma Hednick {Hedrick?} (movie actress/singer)
Rocky Graziano: Thomas Rocco Barbella (professional middleweight championship boxer, b1922 d1990)
The Great Imposter: Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr. (America's most successful pretender and rascal)
Buddy Greco: Armando Greco (singer)
El Greco: Kyriakos Theotokopoulos (16th-century Greek painter of strangely illuminated objects)
Green Hornet: Britt Reid (fictional crime-fighter/newspaper publisher/son of Dan Reid, the nephew of The Lone Ranger)
+ Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner / Alan Ladd Scott / Hal Jordan (fictional New York City crime-fighter)
A.C. Green: A.C. Green (professional basketball star) {the initials 'A.C.' do not stand for real names - he is named after his father}
Al Green: Al Greene (soul-gospel singer/songwriter/music producer)
Hetty Green: Henrietta Green [nn: The Witch of Wall Street] (financier, b1835 d1916)
Graham Greene: Henry Graham Greene (English novelist/journalist)
Lorne Greene: Lorne Greenberg [aka Chaim Leibowitz?] (Canadian-born movie, stage & tv actor, b1915 d1987)
Shecky Greene: Fred Sheldon Greenfield (actor/comedian, b1925)
Green Goblin: Norman Osborn (Spider-Man's greatest enemy)
Mr. Green Jeans: Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum (Captain Kangaroo's handyman farmer friend)
Count Gregore: John Ferguson (writer)
W.K. Gregory: William King Gregory (noted paleontologist/ichthyologist, b1876 d1970)
Joel Grey: Joel Katz (movie, stage & tv actor/singer/dancer)
Zane Grey: Pearl Zane Grey (novelist of the western frontier/dentist)
Dr. Gridlock: Ron Shaffer (transportation columnist for the Washington Post)
Ken Griffey, Jr.: George Kenneth Griffey, Jr. (professional baseball player, b1969)
W.E.B. Griffin: William Edmund Butterworth, III (U.S. military novelist, b1929)
D.W. Griffith: David Lewelyn Wark Griffith (stage actor/movie producer/director, b1875 d1948)
Dod Grile: Ambrose Bierce (author)
Grimalkin: Graymalkin (in Shakespeare's MacBeth, the 1st witch's familiar in act I, scene I)
Brothers Grimm: Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm (writers)
Gus Grissom: Virgil I. Grissom (one of the U.S. astronauts that died in a fire aboard Apollo I)
Slats Grobnik: Mike Royko (fictitious alter-ego of this Chicago Tribune columnist)
Robert Grove: Robert Moses [nn: 'Lefty Grove'] (professional baseball pitcher/Hallof Famer, b1900 d1975)
Aldo Gucci: Maurizio Gucci (Italian fashion designer, b1905? d1990)
* Christopher Guest: Christopher Haden-Guest [aka Fifth Baron Haden-Guest of Saling] (movie & tv actor/comedy writer/director/producer, b1948)
Che Guevara: Ernesto Guevara (Argentine-born Bolivian & Cuban revolutionary leader, b1928 d1967) {'Che' means "hey, pal" in Spanish}
* Robert Guillaume: Robert Williams (movie, stage & tv actor/director/producer, b1927)
Texas Guinan: Mary Louise Cecelia Guinan (speakeasy hostess/vaudvillian/movie actress, b1884, d1933)
Alec Guinness: Alec Guinness de Cuffe (British movie actor, b1914 d2000)
Guitar Slim: Eddie Jones (blues singer/guitarist)
Bonnie Guitar: Bonnie Buckingham (country singer/songwriter/guitarist, b1924)
Hardrock Gunter: Sidney Louie Gunter, Jr. (radio deejay/rockabilly guitarist, b1925)
Buddy Guy: George Guy (blues guitarist)
Greta Gynt: Margrethe Woxholt (Norwegian-born movie actress popular in British 1940's crime melodramas, b1916)
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