100 Famous Jews who changed their names.

For the first half of this video I just copy & pasted bits of each person off of their WIKIPEDIA PAGES (BELOW) right up to singer Michael Boltin (Bolotin):

John Stewart was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz at Doctors Hospital in the Upper East Side of New York City.

Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebrew: שבתאי זיסל בן אברהם Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham).

John Forbes Kerry (John's paternal grandparents were Austro-Hungarian Jewish immigrants who converted to Catholicism) and his mother was Episcopalian.

Michael Douglas his father (Kirk Douglas) was Jewish and was born Issur Danielovitch. Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch) His parents were immigrants from Chavusy, Mogilev Governorate, in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus), and the family spoke Yiddish at home

Jason Alexander - Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959),[2] known professionally as Jason Alexander. Greenspan was born in Newark, New Jersey to a Jewish family.

Brad Garrett was born Brad H. Gerstenfeld on April 14, 1960. He is Jewish.

Albert Brooks was born Albert Lawrence Einstein on July 22, 1947, into a Jewish show business family in Beverly Hills, California.

David Bryan Rashbaum was born on February 7, 1962. Bryan was raised Jewish. Bryan was the first Bon Jovi member to receive a call when Jon Bon Jovi learned that he had received a recording contract, and agreed to join the band. He chose his stage name when he grew tired of continually having to spell out his entire name.

Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz; Hebrew: חיים ויץ [χaˈim ˈvits]; born August 25, 1949) at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish refugees from Hungary. He is an American musician. Also known by his stage persona "The Demon". Simmons spent his early childhood in Tirat Carmel and was raised in a practicing Jewish household.

Ben Cardin was born Benjamin Louis Cardin (born October 5, 1943) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maryland. The family name was originally "Kardonsky", before it was changed to "Cardin". Cardin's grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. In 1964, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh,[2] where he was a member of the "Pi Lambda Phi" fraternity.

George Soros (born György Schwartz; August 12, 1930). György Schwartz was born on 12 August 1930 in Budapest in the Kingdom of Hungary to a prosperous non-observant Jewish family. Soros has wryly described his home as a Jewish antisemitic home.

Woody Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg at Mount Eden Hospital in Bronx, New York City, on November 30, 1935. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants to the U.S. from Austria and Panevėžys, Lithuania.[28] They spoke German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. He attended Hebrew school for eight years.

Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger). His parents were Orthodox Jews who immigrated to the United States from Soviet Belarus in the 1920s.

Jonah Hill (born Jonah Hill Feldstein; December 20, 1983) is an American actor.

Edward G Robinson was born Emmanuel Goldenberg (Yiddish: עמנואל גאָלדענבערג) on December 12, 1893, in a Yiddish-speaking Romanian Jewish family in Bucharest.

Estée Lauder (/ˈɛsteɪ ˈlɔːdər/ EST-ay LAW-dər; née Josephine Esther Mentzer; July 1, 1908[1] – April 24, 2004) was an American businesswoman. Her parents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants.

Ralph Lauren (/ˈlɔːrən/; LOR-ən; né Lifshitz; born October 14, 1939 to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman.

Josh Keaton- Joshua Luis Wiener (born February 8, 1979), known by his stage name Josh Keaton, is an American actor. His father is Jewish and his mother is Catholic.

Natalie Portman- Natalie Hershlag[a] (Hebrew: נטע-לי הרשלג;[3] born June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem, to Jewish parents with roots in Poland, Russia, Austria, and Romanin), known professionally as Natalie Portman, is an Israeli-born American actress.

Josh Peck- Joshua Michael Peck (born November 10, 1986)[2] is an American actor, comedian, and YouTuber. Peck is Jewish, as are both his parents. He had a bar mitzvah ceremony.

Winona Ryder- Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), known professionally as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. Her father's family is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent and hails from Ukraine[9][10] and Romania.[11][12] Growing up, she visited her paternal grandparents in Brooklyn for the Jewish Holiday of Passover, every year. Named after Winona, Minnesota, Ryder was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents' friendship with Laura Huxley, writer Aldous Huxley's wife.

Sean Kanan (/keɪnən/; né Perelman; born November 2, 1966) is an American actor, producer, and author. He was raised Jewish.

Mike Wallace- Myron Leon Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist. Wallace, whose family's surname was originally Wallik, was born on May 9, 1918, in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents.[5][6] He identified as Jewish and claimed it was his ethnicity (instead of religion) throughout his life. While a college student, he was a reporter for the Michigan Daily and belonged to the Alpha Gamma Chapter of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.

Andrew Dice Clay (born Andrew Clay Silverstein; September 29, 1957) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is Jewish.

Barbara Bach- Lady Starkey (né Goldbach; August 28, 1946) is an American actress and former model. She played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. She is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. She is of Jewish and Irish descent. The following year, she shortened her surname to Bach and began modeling professionally, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines.

Elliot Easton (born Elliot Steinberg, December 18, 1953) is an American musician

Elliott Gould (/ɡuːld/; né Goldstein; born August 29, 1938) is an American actor. His family is Jewish, with his grandparents migrating from Ukraine, Poland, and Russia.

Erin Heather Bubley (born March 4, 1989), known professionally as Erin Heatherton. Her family is Ashkenazi Jewish, and she attended Solomon Schechter Day School, a Jewish day school, as well as Niles North High School.

Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch;[a] March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, filmmaker, actor. Jewish family.

Barbara Hershey- Barbara Lynn Herzstein, better known as Barbara Hershey (born February 5, 1948), is an American actress. Barbara Lynn Herzstein was born in Hollywood. Her father's parents were Jewish emigrants from Hungary and Russia.

Gene Wilder (né Jerome Silberman, June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker. His father was a Jewish Russian immigrant, as were his maternal grandparents. Wilder was raised Jewish, but he held only the Golden Rule as his philosophy. In a book published in 2005, he stated, "I have no other religion. I feel very Jewish and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion.". Wilder studied Communication and Theatre Arts at the University of Iowa, where he was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.

Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel; May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress, comedienne and singer. Arthur was raised in a Jewish home.

Benny Blanco- Benjamin Joseph Levin (born March 8, 1988), known professionally as Benny Blanco (stylized in all lowercase), is an American record producer, songwriter, and record executive. He is Jewish.

Ad Rock- Adam Keefe Horovitz (born October 31, 1966),[1][2] popularly known as Ad-Rock, is an American rapper, guitarist, and actor. His father was Jewish, whereas his mother, who was of Irish descent, was Catholic.

Brian Robbins (born Brian Levine, November 22, 1963) is an American businessman, producer, director, actor, and the current co-CEO of Paramount Global. He has been the president of Nickelodeon.

Cassandra Clare- Judith Lewis (née Rumelt; born July 27, 1973), better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author. Clare is Jewish and has described her family as "not religious".

David Benioff - David Friedman (/ˈfriːdmən/; born September 25, 1970), known professionally as David Benioff (/ˈbɛniɒf/),[1][2] is an American writer and producer. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss, he is best known for co-creating Game of Thrones (2011–2019). Benioff was born David Friedman in New York City, the youngest of three children in a Jewish family with ancestral roots in Austria, Romania, Germany, Poland and Russia.[4][5] He is the son of Barbara (née Benioff) and Stephen Friedman, a former head of Goldman Sachs. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and the Sphinx Senior Society.

Michael Bolton- Michael Bolotin[4] (born February 26, 1953), known professionally as Michael Bolton, is an American singer and songwriter.