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Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla Motors, the co-founder of Paypal, the founder of SpaceX, and the chairman of SolarCity.[1]
Elon Reeve Musk was born 28 Jun 1971 in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. He is the son of Canadian-born Maye (Haldeman) Musk, a model and dietician, and Errol Musk, an engineer in South Africa. They had two other children, before they divorced, and Maye took the children with her back to Canada.[1][2]
Elon married Justine Wilson, Canadian fantasy author, in 2000. They had five children, first twins in 2004 then triplets in 2006. The couple separated in 2008.[1]
Elon married second Talulah Riley-Milburn 2010. They separated in 2012, then remarried in 2013, and finally divorced in 2016.[1]
Elon is 19 degrees from Isaac Asimov, 27 degrees from David Attenborough, 23 degrees from Bill Bryson, 24 degrees from Richard Dawkins, 34 degrees from Bengt Feldreich, 36 degrees from Ruth Gates, 24 degrees from Stephen Hawking, 36 degrees from Julius Miller, 19 degrees from Bill Nye, 27 degrees from Magnus Pyke, 26 degrees from Carl Sagan and 20 degrees from David Randall on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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Here is a link to the article in Sunday's Tages-Anzeiger: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/aus-diesem-schweizer-dorf-stammt-tesla-gruender-elon-musk-719465997366
And here is also a short summary of the article available in English: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/historians-trace-elon-musk-s-swiss-roots-to-emmental/47559580
So Elon Musk probably has plenty of English/British ancestors on his mother's side, outweighing the Swiss heritage by orders of magnitude (he loves to say orders of magnitude, by the way).
Source listing the connection to Kimbal Musk and family members
edited by Pausqualina Veres
The missing spouses/mates and children also are incomplete but obviously known although Grimes and son have been oddly excluded from the profile information AND the biography, which is strange. Grimes in her own right is famous as well. She may already have a profile that you can easily attach the this tree.
and Grimes/Claire Boucher (sons mother)
We are featuring this profile in the Connection Finder this week. Between now and Wednesday is a good time to take a look at the sources and biography to see if there are updates and improvements that need made, especially those that will bring it up to WikiTree Style Guide standards. We know it's short notice, so don't fret too much. Just do what you can.
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