Richard Branson
1950 – ? British entrepreneur, Virgin Group founder
Founder of the sprawling Virgin brand.
- Religion
- Not religious.
- Affiliations
- Founded the Virgin Group, spanning airlines, music, telecom and space tourism with Virgin Galactic.
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson started with a mail-order record business and built the Virgin brand across music, airlines and telecoms. He founded Virgin Galactic to pursue commercial spaceflight. He is known for publicity stunts and adventure records.
Connections
- rival of Elon Musk — Competing private space ventures, Virgin Galactic versus SpaceX.
- rival of Jeff Bezos — Raced to fly to the edge of space in 2021.