Born Joseph Frank Keaton - at six months he fell down a flight of stairs without being injured; after hearing of it, fellow vaudevillian Harry Houdini christened him Buster

Born Harry Lillis Crosby - a friend began calling him Bing after a comic strip character named Bingo

Born Tula Ellice Finklea - as a child her brother couldn't say sister; it just came out as Sid and she changed the spelling when she started performing

Born John Elroy Sanford - while Foxx is a stage name, he was called Redd as a young man due to his red hair; his friend Malcolm X even called him Chicago Red in his autobiography

Born Richard Henry Sellers - before he was born, Sellers' parents had a stillborn child named Peter; his parents began calling him Peter as a child

Born Elmore Rual Torn, Jr. - Rip is a family name, shared by generations of men from the Torn family

Born Lloyd Vernet Bridges III - his parents were reading Gone with the Wind when he was born and they quickly began calling him Beau after Ashley Wilkes' son

Born Cornelius Crane Chase - his grandmother called him Chevy after an English song, The Ballad of Chevy Chase

Born Shelton Jackson Lee - his mother called him Spike from infancy because of his toughness

Born Edward Ernest Reinhold, Jr. - at just two weeks old, his father noticed he looked very stern, so thereafter he was called Judge

Born Bryan Ray Trout - his Little League coach called him Skeeter after a mosquito because he was so small; Ulrich is the name of his first stepfather

Born John Marcus McNairy - his father called him Scooter starting around age two because he would scoot around on his butt

Born Destiny Hope Cyrus - her father called her Smiley as a kid; it morphed into Miley as she grew

Born Margaret Constance Williams - she is called Maisie after character of the same name from The Perishers comic strip