Bob Dylan is a name that is synonymous with the art of storytelling and protest in music, thanks to his legendary catalog spanning over six decades, his work as a poet and artist, and his depictions in movies like 2007's I'm Not There and 2024's A Complete Unknown .

However, despite the latter movie, which starred Timothée Chalamet as the young Bob Dylan, captured the period of his life between 1961 to 1965, we always see him only as "Bob Dylan," and never as "Robert Zimmerman."

© Getty Images Bob Dylan was actually, fun fact, born Robert Allen Zimmerman

The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning songwriter, now 84, was born Robert Allen Zimmerman (his Hebrew name being Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham) in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota to Abe Zimmerman and Beatrice Stone.

By the late 1950s,

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