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Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a South African-born entrepreneur and business leader known for advancing electric vehicles, space exploration, and AI. Elon Musk's nationality is South African and Canadian. Elon Musk was born on 28 June 1971.

Elon Musk is one of 1179 people in the A–Z index, listed under E.

Is Elon Musk dead or alive?

Who is Elon Musk?

Elon Musk is best known for Leading Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI, and being a prominent entrepreneur in technology and space exploration. Elon Musk is a South African and Canadian public figure. Elon Musk was born on 28 June 1971, which places Elon Musk among the people in the Dead or Alive catalog born in the 1970s. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Elon Musk is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

Facts

Known for: Leading Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI, and being a prominent entrepreneur in technology and space exploration.
Nationality: South African and Canadian
Born: 28 June 1971

About Elon Musk

He received bachelor's degrees in 1997 from the University of Pennsylvania before moving to California to pursue business ventures. In 1995, Musk co-founded Zip2, a web software company. Following its sale in 1999, he co-founded X.com, an e-commerce payment system that merged with Confinity in March 2000 to form PayPal. Musk also became an American citizen in 2002. In 2002, Musk founded and became CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX, a space technology company. Musk joined Tesla as an early investor in 2004 and became its CEO and product architect in 2008. In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI to advance artificial intelligence (AI) research, but later left; his growing discontent with the organization's direction and leadership in the AI boom in the 2020s led him to establish xAI, which became a subsidiary of SpaceX in 2026. In 2022, he acquired Twitter, a social networking service, and made significant changes, including rebranding it as X in 2023. His other businesses include Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that he co-founded in 2016, and the Boring Company, a tunneling company that he founded in 2017. Musk became the first US-dollar trillionaire upon the initial public offering of SpaceX in June 2026, though a SpaceX stock collapse brought him under the threshold by the next month.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Elon Musk known for?

Elon Musk is known for Leading Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI, and being a prominent entrepreneur in technology and space exploration.

When was Elon Musk born?

Elon Musk was born on 28 June 1971.

What nationality is Elon Musk?

Elon Musk's nationality is South African and Canadian.

Is Elon Musk still alive?

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