Jimmy Donal Wales is an American and British internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is best known for co-founding Wikipedia, a non-profit free encyclopedia, and Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting service. He has also worked on Bomis, Nupedia, WikiTribune, and Trust Café.
Biography from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Also born on August 8
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Also born in 1966
- Halle Berry1966 · American actress
- Mike Tyson1966 · American boxer and media personality
- Janet Jackson1966 · American singer, songwriter, and dancer
- Salma Hayek1966 · Mexican and American actress
- Adam Sandler1966 · American comedian and actor
- Helena Bonham Carter1966 · British actress
- David Cameron1966 · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016
- Sinéad O'Connor1966 · Irish singer