The Name's the Games: Answers

I hope you enjoyed the quiz I set yesterday. Here are the answers. 

WELL-KNOWN NAME	ALTERNATIVE NAME
1) Boy George	V) George O’Dowd (b.1961), singer
2) Dana International	I) Sharon Cohen (b.1972), Eurovision winner
3) Dick Sargent	M) Richard Stanford Cox (1930-1994), actor, the second “Darren” in the tv series “Bewitched”
4) Divine	T) Harris Glen Milstead (1945-1988), drag entertainer and actor
5) Duke of Buckingham	H) Sir George Villiers (1592-1628), royal “favourite” of King James I of Great Britain
6) Dusty Springfield	Q) Mary O’Brien (1939-1999), singer, famous for her beehive hairstyle
7) Elegabalus	C) Varius Avitus Bassianus (c.204-222), Emperor of Rome
8) Freddie Mercury	W) Farroukh Bulsarra (1946-1991), singer with musical links to Barcelona and Bohemia
9) George Michael	U) Giorgios Panayiotou (1963-2016), singer who wrote a hit song as a result of being arrested for cruising in a public toilet
10) Hadrian	P) Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus (74-136), Emperor of Rome
11) Horace Walpole	Y) 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), gothic novelist
12) Jake Shears	R) Jason Sellards (b.1948), lead singer of Scissor Sisters
13) Lady Gaga	F) Stefani Germanotta (b.1986), singer
14) Little Richard	N) Richard Penniman (1932-2020), rock’n’roll singer
15) P. L. Travers	S) Helen Lyndon Goff (1899-1996), creator of Mary Poppins
16) Pope Alexander VI	K) Rodrigo di Borgia (1431-1503), Roman Catholic pontiff
17) Rock Hudson	J) Roy Scherer (1925-1985), Hollywood heart-throb
18) Rudolf Valentino	L) Rodolfo di Valentia d’Antonzuella (1895-1926), Hollywood heart-throb
19) Sir Elton John	O) Reginald Dwight (b.1947), Oscar-winning singer-songwriter
20) Stella Walsh	G) Stansisława Walasiewicz (1911-1980), Olympic sprinter, Anglicised her name when became US citizen
21) Tab Hunter	X) Arthur Andrew Gelien (1931-2018), American pop teen idol
22) Tom of Finland	D) Touko Vallo Laakionen (1920-1991), erotic artist
23) Tom Waddell	E) Thomas Flubacher (1937-1987), pre-adoption birth-name of Olympic athlete
24) Tsar Dmitri I of Russia	A) Yuri Otrepyev (1581-1606), royal imposter
25) Virginia Woolf	B) Virginia Stephen (1882-1941), writer