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Sal Khan

1976 - Today

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Salman Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private in-person school in Mountain View, California. As of January 2025, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 8.74 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than two billion times. In 2012, Khan was named in the annual publication of Time 100. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sal Khan is the 403rd most popular mathematician (up from 980th in 2019), the 3,418th most popular biography from United States (up from 14,263rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sal Khan ranks 403 out of 1,004. Before him are Thomas Fincke, Philippe de La Hire, Bhāskara I, Rolf Nevanlinna, Peter Barlow, and Anders Johan Lexell. After him are Karl Menger, Jean Dieudonné, Christian Kramp, Johann Benedict Listing, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, and Edmund Gunter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Sal Khan ranks 34. Before him are Silvia Saint, Armin van Buuren, Scott Adkins, Elsa Pataky, Fernando Morientes, and Santiago Solari. After him are Fedor Emelianenko, Álvaro Recoba, Tony Jaa, Sam Worthington, Mauro Camoranesi, and Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sal Khan ranks 3,418 out of 20,380. Before him are Jacques Futrelle (1875), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Randy Quaid (1950), and Alex North (1910). After him are Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), Trini Lopez (1937), Florence Harding (1860), Babushka Lady (1930), James Bond (1900), and Charlie Wilson (1933).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Sal Khan ranks 25. Before him are Stephen Smale (1930), Edward Kasner (1878), Martin Davis (1928), John Milnor (1931), Raymond Smullyan (1919), and Marshall Harvey Stone (1903). After him are Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), William Thurston (1946), Sam Loyd (1841), James Waddell Alexander II (1888), Whitfield Diffie (1944), and Stephen Cole Kleene (1909).

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