1971 - Today
Elon Reeve Musk ( EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate, industrial designer and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, CTO and chief designer of SpaceX; early investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. Also that year, he was ranked 25th on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People, and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elon Musk has received more than 76,870,788 page views. His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). Elon Musk is the 44th most popular inventor (up from 56th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 11th 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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Among inventors, Elon Musk ranks 44 out of 355. Before him are Herman Hollerith, Igor Sikorsky, Ismail al-Jazari, Abbas ibn Firnas, Isaac Singer, and László Bíró. After him are Richard Trevithick, Charles Goodyear, Willis Carrier, Wilhelm Maybach, Douglas Engelbart, and Karl Drais.
1860 - 1929
HPI: 76.32
Rank: 38
1889 - 1972
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 39
1136 - 1206
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 40
810 - 887
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 41
1811 - 1875
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 42
1899 - 1985
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 43
1971 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 44
1771 - 1833
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 45
1800 - 1860
HPI: 75.39
Rank: 46
1876 - 1950
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 47
1846 - 1929
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 48
1925 - 2013
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 49
1785 - 1851
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 50
Among people born in 1971, Elon Musk ranks 3. Before him are Tupac Shakur and Justin Trudeau. After him are Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Jared Leto, Pep Guardiola, Anna Netrebko, Julian Assange, Winona Ryder, Jeremy Renner, Idina Menzel, and Mark Wahlberg.
1971 - 1996
HPI: 79.80
Rank: 1
1971 - Present
HPI: 76.96
Rank: 2
1971 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 3
1971 - 2019
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 4
1971 - Present
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 5
1971 - Present
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 6
1971 - Present
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 72.00
Rank: 8
1971 - Present
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 9
1971 - Present
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 10
1971 - Present
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 11
1971 - Present
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 12
Among people born in South Africa, Elon Musk ranks 8 out of 312. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Sarah Baartman (1788), Shaka (1787), Nadine Gordimer (1923), and Behati Prinsloo (1988). After him are F. W. de Klerk (1936), Christiaan Barnard (1922), Desmond Tutu (1931), Miriam Makeba (1932), Charlize Theron (1975), and Paul Kruger (1825).
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 2
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 3
1788 - 1815
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 4
1787 - 1828
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 5
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 6
1988 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 8
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 9
1922 - 2001
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 10
1931 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 11
1932 - 2008
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 12
1975 - Present
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 13
1825 - 1904
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 14
Among inventors born in South Africa, Elon Musk ranks 1. After him are Phil Ramone (1934).