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Elon Musk

1971 - Today

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Elon Reeve Musk (; EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor. He is the founder, chairman, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, product architect, and former chairman of Tesla, Inc.; owner, executive chairman, and CTO of X Corp.; founder of the Boring Company and xAI; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the Musk Foundation. He is one of the wealthiest people in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$190 billion as of March 2024, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and $195 billion according to Forbes, primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX.A member of the wealthy South African Musk family, Elon was born in Pretoria and briefly attended the University of Pretoria before immigrating to Canada at age 18, acquiring citizenship through his Canadian-born mother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elon Musk has received more than 154,626,833 page views. His biography is available in 122 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 107 in 2019). Elon Musk is the 8th most popular inventor (up from 44th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from South Africa (up from 8th in 2019) 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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  • 122

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  • 20.24

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  • 2.72

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Elon Musk ranks 8 out of 354Before him are Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Alexander Graham Bell, and Henry Ford. After him are Karl Benz, Guglielmo Marconi, Louis Braille, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, and Rudolf Diesel.

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Contemporaries

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

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Elon Musk ranks 3 out of 374Before him are Nelson Mandela (1918) and J. R. R. Tolkien (1892). After him are Sarah Baartman (1788), Desmond Tutu (1931), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Shaka (1787), Christiaan Barnard (1922), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Miriam Makeba (1932), and Charlize Theron (1975).

Among INVENTORS In South Africa

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

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