Event class: name, changed, married, surname, adopted, family, converted, born, mother, legally

Events with high posterior probability

Georgi Ivanov	As soon as he entered the Soviet International Space Programme Intercosmos in 1978, he had to change his family name to Ivanov, because his original surname Kakalov occasionally had negative connotations in Russian.
Mathilde Kschessinska	In 1925 Mathilde converted from Catholicism to Russian Orthodoxy and took the name Maria.
John Henry Upshur	Upshur -- born John Henry Nottingham in Northampton County, Virginia December 5, 1823 changed his name at the request of his mother to her maiden name Upshur gratifying her wish, as the Upshur family was conspicuous in naval annals.
Athina Onassis Roussel	Miranda and Onassis were married on 3 December 2005, after which she assumed a hybrid version of the Onassis and Miranda names, and dropped the Roussel name.
Wakanohana Kanji II	Initially fighting under his own surname of Shimoyama, he changed to the sumo name of Wakamisugi in 1973.
Vilis Olavs	His surname changed to Olavs in 1890.
Lucy Page Gaston	In 1890, Lucy changed her middle name from Jane to Page, to be the same as her mother's maiden name.
Richard Brooks	He changed his name legally in 1943.
Tochinonada Taiichi	He made the jūryō division in November 1996, switching from his family name of Gotō and adopting the shikona of Tochinonada.
Michael Arlen	In 1922, Arlen naturalized as a British citizen and legally changed his birth name, Dikran Kouyoumdjian, to Michael Arlen.
Laurie Bembenek	She legally changed her name to Laurie Bembenek in 1994.
Khalid Kelly	Kelly by profession is an Irish nurse who, like Yvonne Ridley, converted to Islam, in 2000 after being imprisoned in Saudi Arabia.
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington	He married Hanna Sheehy in 1903, whose own surname he adopted as part of his name, resulting in his being known as Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, and sometimes referred to as'' Skeffy''.
Bernie Whitebear	Around 1970, as he became an activist, he changed his name to honor his mother's father, Alex Christian, known as Pic Ah Kelowna,'' White Grizzly Bear''.
Mahmoud Afshartous	His mother's family originated from this area and thus he chose that name as family name'' Afshar-e Tous'' or'' Afshartous'', when family names were mandated in 1930.
Damali ayo	She legally dropped her last name in 1995.
Sumner Redstone	In 1940, his father changed the family surname from'' Rothstein'' to'' Redstone'' ('' Red stone'' is a literal translation of the German - Jewish name,'' Rothstein'').
John Vassall	Although his father was an Anglican priest, his mother converted to Roman Catholicism (a fact which led to some tensions in their marriage), and John himself converted in 1953.
Erik Erikson	They married in 1930 and Erikson converted to Christianity during their marriage.
Josephine Bakhita	On 9 January 1890 Bakhita was baptised with the names of Josephine Margaret and Fortunata (which is the Latin translation for the Arabic Bakhita).
Harisu	On November 29, 2002, Harisu filed a petition with the Incheon District Court to have her sex corrected on her family register, and that her birth name be changed from Lee Kyung-yeop to the more feminine Lee Kyung-eun.
Sarah Mitchell	She married Anthony Mitchell in April 2011, and took her husband's name ; she had been elected two weeks before under her maiden name of Johnston.
Bay Buchanan	In 1976, Buchanan converted from Roman Catholicism to Mormonism.
Robert Liversidge	Some time before 1931, he adopted the name Liversidge from the married name of his eldest sister and in that year, applied for a Canadian passport in that name, claiming to have been born in Toronto and misstating his date of birth.
Remo Palmier	He changed his name legally in 1952, omitting the'' i'' at the end, to Palmier to not be associated with the already famous, Eddie Palmieri.
John Portsmouth Football Club Westwood	In 1989 he changed his name, by deed poll, from John Anthony Westwood to John Anthony Portsmouth Football Club Westwood and he is probably the most recognisable Portsmouth supporter.
Kerry Katona	On separating from McFadden in September 2004 she reverted to her maiden name.
David Kimche	Kimche's birth was registered in Hampstead, London between January and March 1928, with his mother's maiden name given as Palast.
Walter Zerlett-Olfenius	Active as a screenwriter, since 1935, Zerlett-Olfenius fused the first part of his hyphenated familial name -- Zerlett (his mother's maiden name -- Olfenius, was his father's name), and began a close collaboration with director Herbert Selpin, that would last until Selpin's death during the making of Titanic.
Maikano Abdoulaye	His name was officially changed from Abdoulaye Maikano to Maikano Abdoulaye on 9 March 1979.
Lulu (singer)	Now known as Lulu Kennedy-Cairns (her late mother's birth name before she was adopted by the McDonald family), in 2000 she was made an OBE by Queen Elizabeth.
Nancy Hogshead-Makar	Hogshead married Scott Makar, a fellow lawyer at Holland & Knight, on October 10, 1999 and hyphenated his surname to her maiden name.
Parvathamma Rajkumar	Interestingly, Singanallur Puttaswamaiah, her would-be father-in-law, father of would-be husband Rajkumar (adopted name ; original name : Muthuraj), and dear friend of Appaji Gowda, visited when Parvathamma was born and placed a silver coin in the cradle, apparently, vowed to make Parvathamma as his daughter-in-law ; accordingly, Parvathamma was married to Rajkumar at the age of 13 or 14 on June 25, 1953.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	Through his writings, von Hildebrand would later convert to Catholicism in 1914.
Virginia Mae Brown	In Charleston on February 15 of 1991 Brown married James V. Brown, a Charleston lawyer, making her married name the same as her maiden name.
Nikita Khrushchev	In 1922, Khrushchev met and married his second wife, Marusia, whose maiden name is unknown.
Thomas J. Abercrombie	After 1965 Abercrombie frequently covered Saudi Arabia and he converted to the Muslim faith, taking the name Omar.
Colin Lamont (politician)	Lamont was born Colin Bird in Brisbane, and changed his name by deed poll in 1965.
Thomas Tupper Carter-Campbell of Possil	In 1893 he was granted renewed arms by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, and formally changed his name to Carter-Campbell of Possil.
Rina Aiuchi	In August 2013, she legally changed her name to.
Asher Quinn	He had legally adopted the surname Quinn in 1980.
Nathan Ellington	In 2005, Ellington married a Bosnian woman, Alma from Tuzla, and adopted the religion of Islam, his wife's faith, before they married.
Ita Rina	Rina retired from her career shortly after her wedding in 1931, when she changed her religion from Roman Catholic to Serbian Orthodox and her name to Tamara Đorđević.
Mumia Abu-Jamal	He adopted the surname Abu-Jamal ('' father of Jamal'' in Arabic) after the birth of his son Jamal on July 18, 1971.
Deborah De Williams	De Williams' mother remarried Owen Drogemuller in 1976 and De Williams and her older brother Adam changed their surname by Deed Poll to Drogemuller.
Helen Carte	Meanwhile, Helen had married Stanley Carr Boulter, a barrister, in 1902, but she continued to use the name Carte for her business dealings.
John Records Landecker	His mother's maiden name was Records (her full name was Majorie Victoria Records as Landecker himself told during the 2008 BIG89 Rewind on 890 WLS AM) and was given to him at birth.''
Eileen Gray	After that, Lady Gray, who had separated from her husband in 1888, changed her children's surname to Gray.
Dismas Becker	He had his name changed legally in 1986.
Alexander Ramsay of Mar	Lord Lyon King Arms officially recognized her use of the surname Fraser in 1973.
Arman	And, thus, in 1957, Arman chose to change his name from Armand to Arman.
Jos? Rizal	Indeed, by 1891, the year he finished his El filibusterismo, this second surname had become so well known that, as he writes to another friend,'' All my family now carry the name Rizal instead of Mercado because the name Rizal means persecution !
Olivia Munn	Since 2006, she has been using the name Olivia Munn personally and professionally.
Maurice O'Rorke	He was knighted in 1880, when he became Sir Maurice, although he had previously used George as his Christian name.
Werner Stark	In 1941, influenced by the writings of John Henry Newman, Stark converted to Roman Catholicism.
Ahmad Jamal	He converted to Islam and changed his name to Ahmad Jamal in 1950.
Christopher Walken	In 1964, he changed his first name to'' Christopher'' at the suggestion of a friend who believed the name suited him better than his given name, Ronald.
Terje Rollem	Terje Rollem was married to Margit Dagny Berner Høglund on the 9 June, 1944, the same year he adopted Rollem as his surname and dropped his middle name.
Colin Miles	He changed his surname from Pluck to Miles in 2004, for family reasons.
Rob Zombie	Rob's younger brother, Michael David Cummings, was born in 1968 and is better known by his stage name Spider One.
Amina Wadud	By 1974 she had changed her name officially to Amina Wadud, to reflect her chosen religion.
Ardeshir Godrej	In January 1871, his father had the family name changed to Godrej.
War Machine (mixed martial artist)	After a dispute with TNA Wrestling over the use of his nickname, Koppenhaver legally changed his name to'' War Machine'' in 2008.
Katie Price	In 1988, her mother married builder Paul Price, after which she acquired the surname Price.
Jussi Jalas	He changed his surname to Jalas in 1943.
Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer	Following the death of his eldest son, John Sharpey Schafer, the name of ` Sharpey', which had been given as a middle name, was prefixed by Schafer to his own surname in 1918, both in memory of his son and to perpetuate the name of his teacher, William Sharpey.
Guntis Ulmanis	Guntis Ulmanis has been married to Aina Ulmanis (maiden name Štelce) since 1962.
Keriman Halis Ece	Following the introduction of the surname act on June 21, 1934, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gave her the family name'' Ece'', which means'' queen'' in Turkish language.
Joanna Sturm	When Paulina converted to Roman Catholicism in 1953, Joanna also converted.
Alicia Moreau de Justo	Alicia Moreau married Juan B. Justo in 1922, with whom she was to have 3 children, adding to her surname' de Justo'.
June Hutton	Ina Ray Hutton changed her last name to'' Hutton'' (inspired by heiress Barbara Hutton), and in 1941, her younger sister June joined the band of her older sister, first singing under the name of Elaine Merritt, eventually changing her last name to'' Hutton' as well.
Arthur C. Parker	In 1903 Arthur was adopted into the tribe as an honorary member, when he was given the Seneca name Gawaso Wanneh (meaning'' Big Snowsnake'').
Lee Boyd Malvo	Malvo and his mother, Una Sceon James, first met John Allen Muhammad in Antigua and Barbuda around 1999, where Una and Muhammad developed a strong friendship.
Sun Ra	On October 20, 1952, Blount legally changed his name to Le Sony' r Ra.
Daniel Lee Chee Hun	In August 2008, as to popular Chinese belief that a change of name can bring better luck and prospects, Daniel changed the middle character from 吉 (Jí / Chee) to 桀 (Jié / Chieh) and also his English name to Danell.
Francis B. Burch	In 1978, Burch would finally have his named changed ; legally inserting Bill into his formal name.
Oliver Hardy	Sometime prior to 1910, Hardy began styling himself'' Oliver Norvell Hardy'', adding the first name `` Oliver'' as a tribute to his father.
Marie Bashir	When Shehadie was knighted in 1976, Bashir acquired the title' Lady Shehadie', a title she seldom uses, preferring to use her maiden name.
Pharoahe Monch	Troy Donald Jamerson (born October 31, 1972), better known by his stage name Pharoahe Monch is an African-American rapper.
Sebastian Horsley	His name was officially changed by deed poll in 1967.
Angelica Page	Angelica Torn legally and professionally changed her name to Angelica Page in September 2011.
Josef Elvby	When he got married in June 2011 he changed his name to Elvby.
Salvador Luria	Luria arrived in New York City on September 12, 1940 and soon changed his first and middle names.
Alceu Amoroso Lima	After a dispute with the converted Jackson de Figueiredo, in favor of a'' intransigent Catholicism'' (with modernism), Lima converted to Catholicism in 1928, that event recounted in Adeus to disponibilidade e outros adeuses (1928).
Gu?mundur Kamban	In 1908 he adopted the family name Kamban in place of his birth name (Guðmundur Jónsson) and advocated a change in Icelandic naming conventions.
Dorothy Dix	She first used the pen name Dorothy Dix in 1896 for her column in the Picayune ; Dorothy, because she liked the name, and Dix in honor of an old family slave named Mr. Dick who had saved the Meriwether family silver during the Civil War.
Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart	Van Heuven Goedhart was initially called Goedhart, but in 1933 he received permission to add his mother's maiden name to his surname.
Ariano Suassuna	Ariano Suassuna was born in a Calvinist Protestant family, became agnostic and converted to Roman Catholicism in 1958.
Asher Quinn	He was initiated into the Sufi order of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan in 1988, the same year that he legally changed his name from Denis to Asha, following a dream.
Ali Sami Yen	After the enactment of law on family names in 1934, he took the surname Yen, which literally means `` win'' in the Turkish language.
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbini?re	He added'' de Lotbinière'' (part of his mother's maiden name) to his name in 1888.
April Ieremia	In 2006 they divorced, after which April reverted to her maiden name.
Richard Garriott	In 2011 he was married and changed his name to Richard Garriott de Cayeux.
Kristin Eubanks	In March 2010, Eubanks announced that she was no longer using her long-time ring name Krissy Vaine.
David Ruffin	The first song on Fall Out Boy's 2005 CD From Under the Cork Tree was to have been titled'' My Name is David Ruffin... and These are The Temptations'' but for legal reasons, the name was changed (to'' Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Would n't Get Sued'').
Andrew I. Porter	His name was legally changed in 1964 when his mother remarried.
Isoroku Yamamoto	In 1916, Isoroku was adopted into the Yamamoto family (another family of former Nagaoka samurai) and took the Yamamoto name.
Glenn Gould	The family's surname was changed to Gould informally around 1939 in order to avoid being mistaken for Jewish, given the prevailing anti-Semitism of prewar Toronto and the Gold surname's Jewish association.
Karle Wilson Baker	In 1893, Baker decided to add a final'' e'' to the end of her first name in order to better avoid the gender confusions with her name.
Rolf Dudley-Williams	On 10 July 1964 it was announced that he had adopted the new surname of Dudley-Williams.