Born January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Oprah Winfrey was given the name Orpah Gail Winfrey, by Vernita and Vernon Winfrey. Friends and neighbors mixed her the r and the p and began referring to her as Oprah, which she soon made her name. She doesn't have any full-blood siblings, but it is said that she may have one half sister, Patricia, and a stepbrother, Jeffrey.