Stage name "h" from his original name, Stumph. It was still pronounced "stump," but the change ensured his audience wouldn't think to pronounce it "stumf." Singer Jason Derulo uses the phonetic spelling of his given name, Jason Desrouleaux. Andy Warhol dropped an "a" from his original name, Warhola, while couturier Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dropped the first of his two surnames. Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi adopted the stage name Rudolph Valentino in part because American casting directors found his original surname difficult to pronounce. Singer George Michael (the son of a Greek Cypriot restaurateur in North London) was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou.
Georgios Panagiotopoulos (politician) Georgios Panagiotopoulos (politician) Georgios Panagiotopoulos (born 1 January 1930) is a Greek lawyer and politician. The son of politician Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, a former MP of the People's Party, Georgios Panagiotopoulos was born in Kavala. After he completed his law studies at the University of Athens, he returned to his hometown and started a career as a lawyer. Immediately after the dictatorship, he became involved in politics. In the first elections in 1974, he was elected MP from Kavala under the banner of the New Democracy party and was appointed undersecretary of Commerce (1974–1977). Reelected MP in 1977, he was appointed