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.
Andreas Panayiotou (businessman) Andreas Panayiotou (businessman) Andreas Panayiotou (born 1965/1966) is a British property developer, the founder of Ability Group, and once the UK's largest private landlord, until he sold up in 2006/07 and moved into hotels. Andreas Panayiotou was born in London, the son of Cypriot parents. He never really learnt to read and left school aged 14 without any qualifications. He was kicked out for punching his PE teacher, and went on to become the Essex under-16 amateur middleweight boxing champion. He started working for his father, before buying an Islington house, converting it into flats, and building one of the