
Biography
Elon Reeve Musk is an industrialist, technologist, and former public official who is the chief executive officer (CEO) and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025, and became the only trillionaire in June 2026; as of November 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be $849.7 billion.
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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
Filmography50+ titles

Can Elon Musk Rule the World?
Odyssey

Rick and Morty

Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

South Park

How to with John Wilson

Young Sheldon

The Simpsons

The Big Bang Theory

Trump and the Tech Titans

Racing Extinction

Before the Flood

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

MARS: Inside SpaceX

Orwell: 2+2=5

Revenge of the Electric Car

Thank You for Smoking

The New York Times Presents

In Whose Name?

Iron Man 2

Saturday Night Live

Dumb Money

The UnXplained

Musk

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

60 Minutes

Return to Space

NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future

The Mars Generation

Frontline

Frontline

Why Him?

HitRECord on TV

Instadocs: AI Gone Wild

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

What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Elon Musk: The Real Life Iron Man

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Tech Billionaires: Elon Musk

Space Race to SpaceX

My View with Lara Trump

Melania