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  2. Oprah wasn't always Oprah: Her birth name revealed - AOL

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    Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...

  3. Katherine Helmond - Wikipedia

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    Helmond was born on July 5, 1929, in Galveston, Texas, to Thelma Louise (née Walker) and Patrick Joseph Helmond. Her name on her birth certificate was misspelled as "Catherine". [1] She had a younger sister, Jo Ann, born three years later, who died in infancy. [2] She was raised by her mother and grandmother, both devout Catholics.

  4. Mom blames labor meds for hilariously misspelling daughter’s ...

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    Gabrielle Mayor was 15 years old when she discovered that her birth certificate name calls her Babrielle. Mom blames labor meds for hilariously misspelling daughter’s name on birth certificate ...

  5. Coco Chanel - Wikipedia

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    She went to her grave as Gabrielle Chasnel because to correct, legally, the misspelled name on her birth certificate would reveal that she was born in a poor house hospice. [12] The couple had six [ 13 ] children—Julia, Gabrielle, Alphonse (the first boy, born 1885), Antoinette (born 1887), Lucien, and Augustin (who died at six months) [ 13 ...

  6. Cher was ‘shocked’ to discover her legal name after birth ...

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    Cher has revealed the painful discovery that her legal birth name was not what she thought it was, due to a mix-up on her birth certificate.. The pop icon recently released her memoir, Cher: the ...

  7. Rowland Emett - Wikipedia

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    Cats Cradle Pussiewillow III Clock in Basildon Visivision Machine, one of the "Things" created by Rowland Emett. Frederick Rowland Emett OBE (22 October 1906 – 13 November 1990), known as Rowland Emett (with the forename sometimes spelled "Roland" [as his middle name appears on his birth certificate] and the surname frequently misspelled "Emmett"), was an English cartoonist and constructor ...

  8. Cher Says She Was 'Shocked' to Find Out Her Legal Name ... - AOL

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    Cher made an unexpected discovery when she began the process of legally changing her name.. In her new memoir Cher: The Memoir, Part One, which was released on Nov. 19, the 78-year-old music ...

  9. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    Name Pronunciation Notability Notes Respelling IPA; Alicia Silverstone: ə-lee-SEE-ə / ə l i ˈ s iː. ə / American actor According to her; mainly regular outside North America Anna Faris: like Ana / ˈ ɑː n ə / American actor and comedian Pronunciation mainly regular outside the US and Canada Chone Figgins: like Shawn / ˈ ʃ ɔː n ...