Jimmy Wales
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Jimmy "Jimbo" Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966) is the founder and current president of Wikimedia Foundation. He is best known as the founder of Wikipedia. He currently lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Wales developed Nupedia, a free encyclopedia. Then he launched Wikipedia, which was supposed to be a side project to Nupedia. Instead, it received a lot of interest and became the large online community it is today.