Oprah Winfrey is probably one of the most popular and richest women to exist and is best known for her incredibly popular talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah Winfrey is an incredibly successful woman who has been admired for her philanthropy and in 2007 was named the most successful woman in the world. Coming from poverty, Winfrey began her career began working in local media and was the youngest and first black news anchor for WLAC of Nashville. Sometime in the early 1980’s she relocated to Chicago where the inception of The Oprah Winfrey Show began and continued on to become the number one talk show in America.