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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Handwriting Practice Book for Children : Penmanship and Writing Handbook for Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Grade
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Metairie, Louisiana, USA
Known for
- What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates — Self - Founder and CEO, Khan Academy2024
- Demain, l'école — Self2018
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- Salman Amin Khan , ( 1976-10-11 ) October 11, 1976 (age 49) , Metairie, Louisiana , U.S.
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( SB , MEng ) Harvard University ( MBA )
- Occupations
- Educator entrepreneur
- Title
- Founder and CEO of Khan Academy Founder of Khan Lab School
- Board member of
- Aspen Institute
- Spouse
- Umaima Marvi ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2004 )
- Relatives
- Abdul Wahab Khan (grandfather)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Khan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Metairie
- Occupation
- head teacher
- Educated at
- University of Edinburgh
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- Salman Khan TED 2011.jpg
- Residence
- Mountain View
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- Commons category
- Salman Amin Khan
- date of birth
- 1976-10-11
- owner of
- Khan Academy
- name in native language
- Salman Khan
- different from
- Salman Khan
- writing language
- English language
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
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 April 2026, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 9.31 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. In the same year, he was featured on the cover of Forbes, with the tagline "The $1 Trillion Opportunity."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sal Khan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.