Phil Knight
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American billionaire and co-founder of Nike
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1938
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Shoe Dog
- נעליים גדולות
- Shoe Dog By Phil Knight & Intelligent Investor By Benjamin Graham 2 Books Collection Set
- Crucial Conversations, How to Talk to Anyone, Deep Work, Shoe Dog, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 5 Books Collection Set
- Fifty Ways to Stuff the Planet
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1953
- Active to
- 1989
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 142
- Total plays
- 2,028
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,945x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,871x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,783x
- UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection
· 2011 · cited 13,548x
- First principles methods using CASTEP
· 2005 · cited 12,253x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Philip Hampson Knight , ( 1938-02-24 ) February 24, 1938 (age 88) , Portland, Oregon , U.S.
- Education
- University of Oregon ( BBA ) Stanford University ( MBA )
- Spouse
- Penny Parks ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. September 13, 1968</span>"}]]}'>1968 )
- Children
- 2, including Travis Knight
- Father
- William Knight
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Philip Hampson Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American billionaire businessman who is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., a global sports footwear, equipment and apparel company. He was previously its chairman and CEO. As of October 2025, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$35.4 billion. He is also the owner of the stop motion film production company Laika. Knight is a graduate of the University of Oregon and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was part of the track and field club under coach Bill Bowerman at the University of Oregon with whom he would later co-found Nike.
Knight has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to each of his alma maters, as well as Oregon Health & Science University.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phil Knight” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.