Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1976-10-11
- 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
Acting · 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
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 26
- Total plays
- 36
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sal+Khan">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 12,967x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,371x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,771x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,668x
via Crossref · CC0
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
Key dates
- Born
- 11 October 1976
via Wikidata · CC0
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
Article
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."
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