What was Andy Warhol’s birth name?

Andy Warhol’s birth name was Andrew Warhola.

He was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Andrej and Julia Warhola, immigrants from what is now Slovakia. He later became internationally famous under the shortened surname Warhol.

Warhol dropped the final “a” from his surname after moving to New York and beginning his commercial-art career. The change helped create the concise professional name now associated with Pop Art. It is sometimes incorrectly written as “Warholski,” but that was not his family name.

Warhol’s early career included work as a magazine illustrator and advertising artist before he became known for paintings, films, books, and celebrity portraits.