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Elon Musk

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Elon Reeve Musk (; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. His other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), and his role in the founding of the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI. In November 2024, United States president-elect Donald Trump appointed Musk as the co-chair of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the second Trump administration. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elon Musk has received more than 163,107,933 page views. His biography is available in 143 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 122 in 2019). Elon Musk is the 6th most popular inventor (up from 8th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from South Africa and the most popular South African Inventor.

Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and inventor. He is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; and chairman of SolarCity. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People.

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  • 22.20

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Elon Musk ranks 6 out of 426. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Johannes Gutenberg, and James Watt. After him are Alexander Graham Bell, Karl Benz, Henry Ford, Guglielmo Marconi, Charles Babbage, and Louis Braille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Elon Musk ranks 1. After him are Tupac Shakur, Justin Trudeau, Jared Leto, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Pep Guardiola, Jada Pinkett Smith, Anna Netrebko, Julian Assange, Winona Ryder, Idina Menzel, and Mark Wahlberg.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Elon Musk ranks 3 out of 454. Before him are Nelson Mandela (1918), and J. R. R. Tolkien (1892). After him are Miriam Makeba (1932), Sarah Baartman (1788), J. M. Coetzee (1940), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Shaka (1787), Desmond Tutu (1931), Christiaan Barnard (1922), and Cyril Ramaphosa (1952).

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Among INVENTORS In South Africa

Among inventors born in South Africa, Elon Musk ranks 1. After him are Phil Ramone (1934).

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