Jimmy Wales Height, Weight, Age, Girlfriend, Biography, Family, Facts

Publish date: 2024-05-15
Jimmy Wales Quick Info
Height5 ft 6 in
Weight72 kg
Date of BirthAugust 7, 1966
Zodiac SignLeo
SpouseKate Garvey

Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is known as a co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and as a co-founder of the for-profit web hosting company Wikia, later renamed Fandom. In 2006, Time named him one of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World” and he was named one of “25 Web Superstars” by The Daily Telegraph in February 2014.

Born Name

Jimmy Donal Wales

Nick Name

Jimbo

Sun Sign

Leo

Born Place

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Residence

London, England, United Kingdom

Nationality

American

Education

Jimmy Wales received his early education at the House of Learning, a small private school in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse run by his mother and maternal grandmother. His siblings also studied there.

He started studying at Randolph School, a college preparatory school in Huntsville, after 8th grade and graduated at the age of 16. In 1986, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Auburn University.

He received his Master of Science degree from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and then entered the university’s Ph.D. finance program before entering the Ph.D. finance program at Indiana University. However, he did not write the doctoral dissertation required for a Ph.D., something he ascribed to boredom.

Occupation

Entrepreneur, Webmaster, Former Financial Trader

Family

Manager

Jimmy Wales has been repped by Wikia, Inc., Company, San Francisco, California, United States.

Net Worth

According to CelebrityNetWorth.com, his net worth had been $15 Million.

Build

Average

Height

5 ft 6 in or 167.5 cm

Weight

72 kg or 158.5 lbs

Girlfriend / Spouse

Jimmy Wales has dated –

  • Pamela Green (1986-1993)​ – He was just 20 years old when he married Pamela Green, a co-worker at a grocery store in Alabama. However, the marriage ended in divorce in 1993.
  • Christine Rohan (1997-2008)​ – Jimmy Wales met Christine Rohan through a friend in Chicago while she was working as a steel trader for Mitsubishi and they got married in Monroe County, Florida in March 1997. They were later blessed with a daughter but the duo eventually separated in 2008. They divorced in 2011.
  • Rachel Marsden (2008) – He had a short-termed romance with Rachel Marsden, a Canadian conservative columnist, in 2008. Their affair allegedly started when Marsden contacted Wales about her Wikipedia biography.
  • Kate Garvey (2012-Present) – On October 6, 2012, he got married to Kate Garvey at Wesley’s Chapel in London, England. They had met in Davos, Switzerland and she has been Tony Blair’s former diary secretary. The duo parents 2 daughters.
  • Race / Ethnicity

    White

    Jimmy Wales is of English, German, Irish, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish descent.

    Hair Color

    Salt and Pepper

    Eye Color

    Blue

    Sexual Orientation

    Straight

    Distinctive Features

    Receding hairline

    Religion

    Atheism

    In an interview with Big Think, he stated that his personal philosophy is firmly rooted in reason and he is a complete non-believer.

    Jimmy Wales Facts

  • Despite it being expensive for his family, he studied at Randolph School and has said that “education was always a passion in my household … you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life.”
  • He received the UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal in Copenhagen, Denmark on December 5, 2013.
  • He has stated that he is “a strong supporter of Israel”.
  • Jimmy Wales was awarded the President’s Medal of the British Academy in September 2017 “for facilitating the spread of information via his work creating and developing Wikipedia, the world’s largest free online encyclopedia”.
  • In 2019, he became a British citizen.
  • After reading Timothy Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Workweek, Wales secretly moved to Argentina for a month.
  • He is a passionate chef.
  • Featured Image by Cary Bass / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

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