Phil Knight
Fashion & Retail · United States
Net worth
$33.0B
Lifetime giving
$4.5B
Share of wealth given
12.0%
Impact Score
57
Impact rank
#39
Hypothetical wealth
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Phil Knight is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Nike. He was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1938, earned a business degree from the University of Oregon in 1959, and later an MBA from Stanford in 1962; with his former coach Bill Bowerman, he helped create the company that became Nike.[1][2][4][6]