List of Pseudonyms - Pen Names

Pen Names

Note: List of Urdu language poets provides pen names for a range of Urdu poets.

• A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner, one of several that he used)
• Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Annu)
• Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
• Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky)
• Acton Bell (Anne Brontë)
• Æ (George William Russell)
• Alan Gould (Victor Canning)
• Alan Smithee (name used by American film directors under certain circumstances)
• Alberto Moravia (Alberto Pincherle)
• Alexander Kent (Douglas Reeman)
• Amanda Quick (Jayne Ann Krentz)
• Andrej Zivor (Andrej Tisma)
• Ann Landers (Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer)
• Anonymous (Joe Klein, used while writing the novel Primary Colors)
• Alcofribas Nasier (François Rabelais)
• Alexander Barks (Charlie Christensen)
• Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault)
• Andrew MacDonald (William Luther Pierce)
• Anne Perry (Juliet Marion Hulme)
• Anne Rice (Real name: Howard Allen O'Brien. Other aliases: Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure)
• Anne Knish (Arthur Davison Ficke)
• Arkon Daraul (likely Idries Shah)
• Ashida Kim (Radford William Davis)
• Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum)
• Azorín (José Martínez Ruiz)
• Banaphool (Balāi Chānd Mukhopādhyāy)
• Barbara Michaels (Barbara Mertz)
• Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Louis Sauser)
• Bob Hart or Clem Watts (Al Trace)
• Boris Akunin (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili)
• Boz (Charles Dickens)
• Boz (Raymond "Boz" Burrell)
• Branislav Nušić (Ben Akiba)
• Bruno Traven
• Brynjolf Bjarme (Henrik Ibsen)
• Carter Dickson (also Carr Dickson: John Dickson Carr)
• Chad von Tyler (Angelito H. Legaspi Jr.)
• Charles Moulton (William Moulton Marston)
• Charlotte Jay
• Cherry Wilder (Cherry Barbara Grimm)
• Cherubina de Gabriak (Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva)
• Christopher Hunter (Radford William Davis)
• Clem Watts ([Albert J. Trace)
• Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
• Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë)
• Curzio Malaparte (Kurt Erich Suckert)
• Dan Crow (Ernest Aris)
• Daniel Defoe (Daniel Foe)
• Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev)
• Danuta de Rhodes (Dan Rhodes)
• David Axton (Dean Koontz)
• David Agnew (Doctor Who producers and script editors)
• David Michaels (Raymond Benson)
• Dazai Osamu (Shuji Tsushima)
• Dear Abby (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)
• Diablo Cody (Brook Busey) (screen writer)
• Diedrich Knickerbocker (Washington Irving)
• Douglas Spaulding (Ray Bradbury)
• Doctor A (Isaac Asimov)
• Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
• Ed McBain (Evan Hunter, born as Salvatore A. Lombino)
• Edgar Box (Gore Vidal)
• Edith Van Dyne (L. Frank Baum)
• Edogawa Rampo (Hirai Tarō)
• Edward Pygge (Ian Hamilton, Clive James, Russell Davies)
• Edwin Caskoden (Charles Major)
• Francis Bennett (Edwin Keppel Bennett)
• Elia (Charles Lamb)
• Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz)
• Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë)
• Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter)
• Elsa Triolet (Elsa Kagan)
• Elsie J. Oxenham (Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley)
• Emanuel Morgan (Witter Bynner)
• Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark)
• Erin Hunter (Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Tui Sutherland, and Victoria Holmes)
• Euphrosyne (Julia Nyberg)
• Fergie (Stacy Ferguson)
• Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan)
• Françoise Sagan (Françoise Quoirez)
• Gerald Wiley (Ronnie Barker)
• Geoffrey Crayon (Washington Irving)
• George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
• George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
• George Sand (Amandine Dupin)
• Georges Courteline (Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux
• Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Lippincott)
• Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky)
• Guillaume Maguire (John Spencer)
• Guy d'Obonner (Marion D. Farell)
• H.N. Turtletaub (Harry Turtledove)
• Hard Pan (Geraldine Bonner)
• Harold Robbins (Harold Rubin)
• Havank (Hans van der Kallen)
• Henriett Seth F. (on Hungarian pseudonym Seth F. Henriett; on birth name Fajcsák Henrietta)
• Hergé (Georges Remi)
• Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block)
• Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus)
• Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg)
• Irwin Shaw (Irwin Shamforoff)
• Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
• Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz)
• J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts)
• Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg)
• James Dillinger (James Robert Baker)
• James Tiptree, Jr (Alice Sheldon)
• Jay Livingston (Jacob Harold Levison)
• Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)
• Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert)
• Johann Joachim Sautscheck (Roman Turovsky-Savchuk)
• John Beynon (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
• John Christopher (Samuel Youd)
• John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell)
• John Wyndham (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
• Jonathan Oldstyle (Washington Irving)
• Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski)
• Julia Quinn (Julia Pottinger)
• Kennilworthy Whisp (J.K. Rowling)
• Korney Chukovsky (Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov)
• Keno (Eric Killinger)
• Kurban Said (Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli)
• Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
• Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol)
• Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
• Lorenzo da Ponte (Emmanuele Conegliano )
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches)
• Lu Lung (Alicia Garcia)
• Lydia Koidula (Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen)
• M. Barnard Eldershaw (Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw)
• Maarten Maartens (Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz)
• Maironis (Jonas Mačiulis)
• Man Without a Spleen (Anton Chekhov)
• Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Cameron Schwartz)
• Mark Brandis (Nikolai von Michalewsky)
• Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
• Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
• Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian)
• Michael Serafian (Malachi Martin)
• Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart)
• Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
• Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
• Murray Leinster (Will F. Jenkins)
• Nancy Boyd (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Natsume Sōseki (Natsume Kinnosuke)
• Newt Scamander (J.K. Rowling)
• Nicci French (Nicci Gerrard and Sean French)
• Nisa (Nicola Salerno), Italian lyricist
• Nicolas Bourbaki (a group of 20th-century mathematicians)
• Novalis (Friedrich Leopold)
• O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
• Ogdred Weary (Edward Gorey)
• Onceler Lorax (Zachary Bass)
• Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
• Pablo Neruda (Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto)
• Paul Annixter (Howard Allison Sturtzel)
• Paul Celan (Paul Antschel)
• Paul French (Isaac Asimov)
• Jean Ray (Jean Raymond Marie de Kremer)
• Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos)
• Peter Gast (Heinrich Köselitz)
• Peyo (Pierre Culliford)
• Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud)
• Piers Anthony (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)
• Phillip Guston (Phillip Goldstein)
• Publius (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, when writing The Federalist Papers)
• Q (Arthur Quiller-Couch)
• Rafael Lefort, anagram of "a real effort", Idries Shah
• Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
• Richard Leander (Richard von Volkmann)
• Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake)
• Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)
• Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis)
• Robin A Hood (Ernest Aris)
• Roger Fairbairn (John Dickson Carr)
• Romain Gary (Romain Kacew)
• Rosemary Edghill (eluki bes shahar)
• Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger)
• Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
• Salomėja Nėris (Salomėja Bučinskaitė-Bučienė)
• Sannois (Camille Saint-Saëns)
• Sapper (H. C. McNeile)
• Sidney Sheldon (Sidney Schechtel)
• Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin)
• Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble)
• Stash Cairo (Craig Hamilton of The Shopping Channel)
• Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber)
• Stefan Brockhoff (Dieter Cunz, Richard Plant, Oskar Seidlin)
• Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis)
• Stein Riverton (Sven Elvestad, born as Kristoffer Elvestad Svendsen)
• Student (William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics)
• Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
• Ted L. Nancy (Comedian and Seinfeld writer Barry Marder, creator of the "Letters from a Nut.")
• The Fredman (Karl Mikael Bellman)
• Thoinot Arbeau (Jehan Tabourot)
• Tite Kubo (Noriaki Kubo)
• TM Maple (Jim Burke)
• Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford)
• Trevanian (Rodney William Whitaker)
• Tristan Tzara (Sami Rosenstock)
• Uanhenga Xitu (Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho)
• Umberto Saba (Umberto Poli)
• Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili)
• Vera Haij (Tove Jansson)
• Vercors (Jean Bruller)
• Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian)
• Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
• Walter (Henry Spencer Ashbee)
• Willibald Alexis (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring)
• Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
• Yevgeni Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev)
• Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka)