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I hated my name. In those days I thought it was really a boy's name. Now lots of girls are called Leslie and I…

— Leslie Uggams

My middle name is Cliff, so Ive been nicknamed Cliffy in the past.

— Gethin Jones

My parents named me Arlette, and I changed it to Agnes when I was young. I didn't like it because I don't like names…

— Agnes Varda

I took the name originally as a kind of disguise because I didn't want people to know I was about to embark on a…

— John Wesley Harding

When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.

— Thom Yorke

I changed her last name because she was the one to change the game.

— Raghib Clitso

I wanted to make a name for myself.

— Katie Cassidy

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

— J. August Richards

My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front.

— Steven Berkoff

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

— Anohni

My name is Jennifer, and when I first went to school, my kindergarten teacher called me Jenny, and from then on, I was Jenny.

— Jenny Han

It's tough having the last name 'Rickles.' Luckily, my kids handled it great.

— Don Rickles