Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi) is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the United States.

An African American woman born to humble beginnings -- her unmarried teenage parents were a housemaid, Vernita Lee, and a soldier, Vernon Winfrey. Her birth certificate has Orpah, after the Moabite woman in the Book of Ruth of the Bible, but family and neighbors transposed the R and the P when pronouncing and writing her name. Eventually, Oprah became the accepted name ... (read more )