Hi eoe -- is the answer to your question.... 5...
Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, Eldridge Bryant, and Otis Williams.
from the website......
"Initially known as the Elgins, the quintet were renamed the Temptations by Berry Gordy when he signed them to Motown in 1961."
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I already asked a new question (above), so someone else can ask a new question.......