1971 - Today
Elon Reeve Musk ( EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate and investor. Musk is the founder, chairman, CEO and chief technology officer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, product architect and former chairman of Tesla, Inc.; owner, chairman and CTO of X Corp.; founder of the Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the Musk Foundation. He is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$241 billion as of September 2023, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and $261 billion according to Forbes, primarily from his ownership stakes in both Tesla and SpaceX.Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, 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 145,466,796 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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Among inventors, Elon Musk ranks 8 out of 354. Before 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.
1847 - 1931
HPI: 90.99
Rank: 2
1856 - 1943
HPI: 90.69
Rank: 3
1394 - 1468
HPI: 89.28
Rank: 4
1736 - 1819
HPI: 86.42
Rank: 5
1847 - 1922
HPI: 82.97
Rank: 6
1863 - 1947
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 8
1844 - 1929
HPI: 79.02
Rank: 9
1874 - 1937
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 10
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 11
1791 - 1871
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 12
1791 - 1872
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 13
1858 - 1913
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 14
Among people born in 1971, Elon Musk ranks 1. After 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.
1971 - Present
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 1
1971 - 1996
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 2
1971 - Present
HPI: 70.56
Rank: 3
1971 - Present
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 4
1971 - 2019
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 5
1971 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 6
1971 - Present
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 8
1971 - Present
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 9
1971 - Present
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 10
1971 - Present
HPI: 61.95
Rank: 11
1971 - Present
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 12
Among people born in South Africa, Elon Musk ranks 3 out of 374. Before 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).
1918 - 2013
HPI: 88.40
Rank: 1
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 2
1971 - Present
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 3
1788 - 1815
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 4
1931 - 2021
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 5
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 6
1787 - 1828
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 7
1922 - 2001
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 8
1936 - 2021
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 9
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 10
1932 - 2008
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 11
1975 - Present
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 12
Among inventors born in South Africa, Elon Musk ranks 1. After him are Phil Ramone (1934).