off the top of my head i recognize marylon monroe and dr seuss

And Mark Twain, too, for me.

yeah, now that i see this, i remember that one too but anybody who doesn't get those first two must live under a rock

1. Houdini
2. John Wayne
3. Meat Loaf
4. Marilyn Monroe
5. no idea
6. no idea
7. Cary Grant
8. Lady Gaga
9. Lewis Carroll
10. Mark Twain
11. Mother Theresa
12. Dr. Seuss

bonus: no idea :3

Beat me to it XD I knew all of them but meatloaf.

Number ten would be Mark Twain.

10 is Mark Twain. His autobiography was supposed to come out soon, that happening now then? :3

Also see Pee Wee Herman, Lewis Carroll and maybe a Lady Gaga.. could be Madonna, they both have very Italian birth names.

1. Harry Houdini
2. John Wayne
3. Meat Loaf
4. Marilyn Monroe
5. Marilyn Manson
6. Pee Wee
7. Cary Grant
8. Lady Gaga
9. Lewis Carroll
10. Mark Twain
11. Mother Teresa
12. Dr. Seuss

^ These are all correct. :)
But what of the bonus question?

Mark Twain

Nicely done. :)

It is being release 100 years after because he "didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings" :3

Argh- yer evil for knowing all of that... Sweet.

Whelp, of the ones I even bothered to try at guessing, I got Cary Grant and Lady Gaag wrong. I could care less about Lady Gaga, though.

The shocker for me is not knowing Mother Theresa's real name! Aaaagh. *is one of her heroes, even though she's an atheist*

Twain's autobiography coming out a hundred years after he wrote it is hilarious... Now I gotta go find it.

Somehow, it figures that I knew Marilyn Manson's real name and that of Pee Wee... O___o

and which of those were not googled ? =p

Alas, I have no way to determine.
...Were any of yours?

Nope. :)

Don't be hatin~ All of these people are pretty huge pop icons and as far as the Mark Twain thing I saw it being mentioned on the news like a week ago.

I never heard of Pee Wee, guess he's an American thing =P
Marilyn Manson never interested me so I didn't care about his rl name. *shrug*

Yeah Pee Wee's Playhouse was pretty big over here. He is also known for jerking it in a theater. \o/

"He is also known for jerking it in a porntheater." /fixed

Actually knew more of them than I'd expected.

I've asked a few of my friends names like these and they normally have no clue. They're usually really surprised to see what Lady Gaga looked like before Lady Gaga...lol

Ok, without reading the other responses, here's my attempt at guessing who these folks are:

1. Erik Weisz- dunno, unfortunately, I saw the first response was Houdini, and that sounds right, but I can't call it a guess on my part, sorry.
2. Marion Morrison- ?
3. Michael Lee Aday- ?
4. Norma Jean Mortenson- Marilyn Monroe
5. Brian Hugh Warner- Marilyn Manson
6. Paul Rubenfeld- Pee Wee Herman
7. Archibald Leach- since I can't for the life of me remember the name of the guy from the OK Corral, I'll just say that.
8. Stefani Germanotta- I admit I'm guessing, and probably getting this one wrong- Gwen Stefani
9. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson- Lewis Carrol
10. Samuel Langhorne Clemens- Mark Twain
11. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu- ?
12. Theodor Geisel- Dr. Seuss

#7 and #8 = FAIL. *giggle* Oh, well. At least the others that I actually tried guessing were right. *sighs at her ignorance of pop-cultch*

I never knew it was "Rubenfeld" and not "Reubens". Huh. I guess I learned something.

As you know, I am horrible with names... so... umm... "Bacon" is the answer to all. ;P

I don't know and I don't care either, so I second the 'bacon' answer.

A little late now, especially since I already saw the answers, but I knew all of them except #1, 3, 5, 8,and 11.

I knew all of them except for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and the bonus question.

Oh yeah! I didn't know the bonus question either. :-P

Without even double checking, I know that 1. is Harry Houdini, 9. is Lewis Carroll, 10. is Mark Twain, and 12. is Dr. Seuss.

And I'm pretty sure it's Mark Twain's autobiography that's coming out today, right?

I thought Pee Wee was Paul Reubens, otherwise I would've known that one too.

The ones I got off the top of my head (without reading the comments) were:

7. Cary Grant
8. Lady Gaga
9. Lewis Carroll
10. Mark Twain
11. Mother Teresa

I now remember Norma Jean Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) and Brian Hugh Warner (Marilyn Manson).

Here's a bonus question for you:

Maurice Joseph Micklewhite = ???

Sir Michael Caine

Bingo!

what's worse, i know him from his work with the muppets >..>

Ohh... good one!

Thanks, not many people know that.

That's................. impossible! You told me you were on the pill!

...Jefferson Airplane much?
And what with your lago-meta-morphism, we're suddenly up to our ears in entendres.