What’s in a Name??  Famous people and their birth names

Woody Allen - Allen Konigsberg
Beatrice Arthur - Bernice Frankel
Fred Astaire - Frederick Austerlitz
Jack Benny - Benjamin Kubelsky
Charles Bronson - Charles Buchinski

Mel Brooks - Mel Kaminsky
George Burns - Nathan Birnbaum
Tony Curtis - Bernard Schwartz

Rodney Dangerfield - Jacob Cohen
Doris Day - Doris von Kappelhoff
Kirk Douglas - Issur Danielovitch
Rock Hudson - Roy Scherer Jr.
Al Jolson - Asa Yoelson
Danny Kaye - David Kaminsky
Larry King - Larry Zeigler
Michael Landon - Eugene Orowitz
Jerry Lewis - Joseph Levitch
Hal Linden - Harold Lipshitz
Karl Malden - Mladen Sekulovich
Walter Matthau - Walter Matuschanskayasky
Hugh O'Brian - Hugh Krampke
Jack Palance - Walter Palanuik
Tony Randall - Leonard Rosenberg
Donna Reed - Donna Belle Mullenger
Joan Rivers - Joan Sandra Molinsky
Edward G. Robinson - Emmanuel Goldenberg
Danny Thomas - Muzyad Yakhoob

 

Source: http://members.optushome.com.au/kazoom/trivia/realname.html