Name-Droppers

This amusing encyclopedia of names lists those individuals who have changed their given names — not last names, or entire names, and especially not stage names and pseudonyms, but the more interesting and quirky changes of first names, nicknames and initials that become the person's best-known identity.

From Buzz Aldrin to Steve Young, from Jacqueline Bisset to Frank Lloyd Wright, from no less than six US Presidents to a dozen hockey players born "Joseph," Name-Droppers tracks, lists and exp...