Jimmy Wales
Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)
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Born 1966 · age 60United States
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Updated 2026-05-29
Co-founded Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and Nupedia before it. Internet entrepreneur who pivoted from finance to building platforms where strangers write the internet's reference material.
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Jimmy Donal Wales is an American and British internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is best known for co-founding Wikipedia, a nonprofit free encyclopedia, and Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting service. He has also worked on Bomis, Nupedia, WikiTribune, and Trust Café.
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Stable47.3
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
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Momentum12.3
Historical22.7
Source confidence95.0
Completeness90.0
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- WikipediaHigh confidencewikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- WikidataHigh confidencewikidata · wikidata.org
- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
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