Dr. King was actually born Michael King..............and named after his father,,,,,,,who was a minister...........



Martin Luther King, Jr., was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King.^[3] His legal name at birth was Michael King.^[4] King's father was also born Michael King. The father changed his and his son's names following a 1934 trip to Germany to attend the Fifth Baptist World Alliance Congress in Berlin. It was during this time he chose to be called Martin Luther King in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther.^[5] King had Irish ancestry through his paternal great-grandfather.^[6