| Stage name | Claim to fame | Birth name |
| Elvis Costello | Punk rock, New Wave musician | Declan Patrick MacManus |
| Bono | Singer of U2 | Paul David Hewson |
| The Edge | Guitarist of U2 | David Howell Evans |
| Stevie Wonder | Soul and pop musician | Stevland Hardaway Judkins (He later changed his name to Stevland Hardaway Morris) |
| Snoop Dogg | Rapper | Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. |
| Ringo Starr | Drummer for The Beatles | Richard Starkey |
| Ricky Martin | Latin music singer | Enrique Morales |
| Elton John | Pop rock musician | Reginald Kenneth Dwight |
| Alice Cooper | Hard rock musician | Vincent Damon Furnier |
| Sting | Frontman for The Police | Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner |
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