Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is the name on Oprah Winfrey’s birth certificate. But it is not the name her parents intended – they named her after Orpah, Ruth’s sister-in-law in the Bible. The birth certificate was misspelled. What is even more amusing is that her fame is such that the Microsoft Word spellchecker (hereafter always to be known as the spillchucker) accepts Oprah and rejects Orpah (for whom it suggests Orphan). Even when you put Orpah in Google it leads you to the Biblical character but at the same time asks if you meant to search for Oprah!