# Elon Musk

> The world's wealthiest person - $834 billion as of mid-2026 - built that fortune steering Tesla into the electric-vehicle vanguard and SpaceX into commercial spaceflight, then spent chunks of it reshaping politics and platforms, most visibly by buying Twitter and turning it into X.

*American businessman (born 1971)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/elon-musk

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Founder ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524))
- **Category:** Founders
- **Country:** South Africa
- **Born:** 1971-06-28
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Pretoria to money, Musk moved to Canada in 1989, earned degrees from Penn in 1997, and rode the first dot-com wave: co-founded Zip2 in 1995, then X.com in 1999, which merged into PayPal and sold to eBay in 2002. That year he founded SpaceX and became a U.S. citizen; two years later he joined Tesla as an early investor, taking the CEO role in 2008. The companies delivered: reusable rockets, mass-market EVs. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015, left, then started rival xAI a decade later. In 2022 he bought Twitter for control of the conversation, rebranded it X, and let moderation loosen. A year of conspicuous support for Trump - the largest donor in 2024 - earned him a White House perch running DOGE in early 2025; a public feud ended that by May. The arc left him richer than anyone alive and more polarizing than most: hailed for forcing industries forward, condemned for spreading conspiracy and hate.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 93.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 13.7 / 100  (trend: LEGACY)
- **Historical depth:** 60.0 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 36.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 100.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Global rank:** #5
- **Country rank:** #1
- **Category rank:** #1
- **Total followers across platforms:** 213,000,000

## Platforms
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/elonmusk/ (@elonmusk)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1907769/ (@nm1907769)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2WUTOhBxG2HjyKYFJrcSPB (@2WUTOhBxG2HjyKYFJrcSPB)
- **X**: https://x.com/elonmusk (@elonmusk, 213,000,000 followers, verified)

## Topics
#AI, #Startups, #Venture Capital, #Founders, #Founder, #Web Development, #Politics, #Science, #United States, #Americas, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2026** - Order of Liberty
- **2023** - World Space Award
- **2022** - Member of the National Academy of Engineering
- **2021** - Financial Times Person of the Year
- **2018** - Time 100
- **2014** - Edison Awards
- **2011** - Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization
- **2009** - NSS Wernher Von Braun Memorial Award
- **1971** - Born

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