Biography
Elon Musk is a South African-born Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and chairman of SolarCity. He is the founder of SpaceX and a co-founder of PayPal, Inc., Tesla Motors, and Zip2. He has also envisioned a conceptual high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop.
Awards & recognition
- Time 100 · 2025
- Rusty Razor Award · 2024
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering · 2022
- Order of Defence Merit · 2022
- Financial Times Person of the Year · 2021
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- John Fritz Medal · 2021
- Time 100 · 2021
- Time Person of the Year · 2021
- Axel Springer Award · 2020
- Stephen Hawking Medal — Science Communication · 2019
- Fellow of the Royal Society · 2018
- Time 100 · 2018
- honorary doctor of Yale University · 2015
- Edison Awards · 2014
- Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society · 2012
- Heinlein Prize — Advances in Space Commercialization · 2011
- Great Immigrants Award · 2010
- Living Legends of Aviation · 2010
- NSS Wernher Von Braun Memorial Award · 2009
- honorary degree
- honorary doctorate
Filmography48 titles
Rick and Morty
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
South Park
How to with John Wilson
Young Sheldon
The Simpsons
The Big Bang Theory
Racing Extinction
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Trump and the Tech Titans
Before the Flood
MARS: Inside SpaceX
In Whose Name?
The New York Times Presents
Revenge of the Electric Car
Thank You for Smoking
Orwell: 2+2=5
Iron Man 2
Saturday Night Live
Dumb Money
The UnXplained
Frontline
Frontline
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
60 Minutes
Return to Space
NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future
The Mars Generation
Why Him?
HitRECord on TV
The Elon Musk Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Transcendence
Real Time with Bill Maher
Men in Black: International
Axios
Machete Kills
This Is Not Financial Advice
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates
Elon Musk: The Real Life Iron Man
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Tech Billionaires: Elon Musk
Space Race to SpaceX
Melania
My View with Lara Trump
VICE News Presents: Cult of Elon
Elon Musk: Aiming for the Stars