Full Name: Elon Reeve Musk; Profession: Entrepreneur, business magnate and investor; CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; CEO and product architect of Tesla; founder of SpaceX and xAI; cofounder of PayPal, Neuralink and OpenAI; owner of X (formerly Twitter); and founder of The Boring Company. Nationality: South African-born American and Canadian citizen, holding triple citizenship in South Africa, Canada and the United States; Born: June 28, 1971; Birthplace: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa; Generation: Generation X; Chinese Zodiac: Metal Pig (Year of the Pig 1971); Zodiac Sign: Cancer (Sun in Cancer); Age in 2026: 55 (turning fifty-five on June 28, 2026, based on his 1971 birth year); Marital Status: Divorced and currently unmarried, previously married to Canadian author Justine Musk (née Wilson) from 2000 to 2008 and to British actress Talulah Riley in two separate marriages from 2010 to 2012 and from 2013 to 2016; Children: Father of fourteen children with four women—six with Justine Musk (including first son Nevada Alexander, who died of sudden infant death syndrome at ten weeks); three with musician Grimes; four with executive Shivon Zilis; and one with author Ashley St. Clair—making him one of the most prolific high-profile fathers of the modern era. Description: South African–born American and Canadian technology entrepreneur, engineer and investor whose companies have reshaped online payments, electric vehicles, private spaceflight, social media and artificial intelligence, known for cofounding the online payment firm X.com that became PayPal, founding SpaceX to reduce the cost of space travel and pursue Mars colonization, transforming Tesla into the world’s most valuable carmaker through mass-market electric vehicles, acquiring Twitter and rebranding it as X while using the platform as a global megaphone, launching the AI company xAI that trains models on X data, and promoting disruptive projects through Neuralink’s brain–computer interfaces and The Boring Company’s tunnel infrastructure, all while becoming the world’s richest person and first trillionaire from Africa by 2026, admired by supporters for his visionary risk-taking and criticized by opponents for controversial statements, labor practices and governance style; Cause of Death: Not applicable, alive as of 2026 and actively running multiple companies and projects.