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Oprah’s Biblical Name Mishap | Birmingham News
Oprah Winfrey’s real birth name? Orpah — straight from the Bible’s Book of Ruth. But thanks to a spelling mix-up, everyone started calling her Oprah, and that’s the name that stuck. It’s just a flipped ‘p’ and ‘r’, but it changed everything — and she’s not the only one with a name that evolved. Even Keke Palmer goes by a different name than her birth certificate. Oprah even cleared up a myth from 1983: she wasn’t named after Harpo Marx — her family didn’t even have a TV then. A biblical name, a typo, and history’s biggest pop culture icon was born. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli…
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