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This is a list of notable people whose full legal name is (or was) a mononym, either by name change or by being born mononymic (e.g. Burmese, Indonesian, or Japanese royalty).
In the 17th and 18th centuries, most Italian castrato singers used mononyms as stage names (e.g. Caffarelli, Farinelli). The German writer, mining engineer, and philosopher Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772–1801) became famous as Novalis. [14]
famous people who are commonly referred to only by their first name (e.g. Adele, Beyoncé, Elvis, Madonna). famous people who are commonly referred to only by their surname (e.g. Liberace , Mantovani , Morrissey , Mozart , Shakespeare ); it is quite common and regular for surnames to be used to identify historic and pop culture figures.
The famous computer scientist Donald Knuth is most often referred to by just his surname Knuth. "K&R" means Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the inventors of the C programming language. I think people also use just "Bill" to refer to Bill Gates. And there's that one computer scientist who wrote an article I once read, he was credited as Robby.
Over 14 million views later, Boni’s video has officially gone viral — and it's gone global too, in a way that only Top 40 singles by pop songstresses with instantly recognizable mononyms ...
These two alone are far more famous and established mononymous persons than Teller, and it would also firmly establish simply by glancing at the page that mononyms are not only used in the 17th and 18th century (a reader could be forgiven for just glancing at the page, which we ALL do sometimes, and thinking that a mononym is pretty much ...
Bob Odenkirk may be a famous actor now, but he was also a writer on SNL from 1987 to 1991. After a writing stint on Late Night With Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 1994, he later made the switch to acting.
Lord Voldemort (Thomas Marvolo "Tom" Riddle) – Harry Potter series; Aramis (Henri d'Aramitz, le Chevalier d'Herblay) – The Three Musketeers; Scarlet Pimpernel (Sir Percy Blakeney) - The Scarlet Pimpernel