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The Musk family is a wealthy family of South African origin that is largely active in the United States and Canada. The Musks are of English, Anglo-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch, and Swiss descent. The family is known for its entrepreneurial endeavours.[2][3][4] Elon Musk was formerly the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$232 billion as of December 2023, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.[5]

History

Elon Musk's paternal great-grandmother was a Dutchwoman descended from the Dutch Free Burghers, while one of his maternal great-grandparents came from Switzerland.[3][6] His paternal grandmother was English from Liverpool and his paternal grandfather Walter Henry J. Musk was South African.[7][8] Elon Musk's father, Errol Musk,[9] is a South African former electrical and mechanical engineer consultant and property developer,[8] who was involved in the emerald business at some point in the 1980s,[10][11] and was a member of the South African Progressive Federal Party.[12]: 225, fn 119 

His maternal grandparents Winnifred Josephine "Wyn" (Fletcher) and Dr. Joshua Norman Haldeman were celebrity explorers who lived in South Africa and Canada and searched for the Lost City of the Kalahari.[13] Joshua Haldeman was a former director of Technocracy Incorporated and a political activist who ran for the Canadian Parliament on the Social Credit Party ticket, and headed the Canadian branch of the Technocracy movement.[14][15]

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References

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  8. ^ a b Hull, Dana; May, Patrick (20 April 2014). "Exploring the otherworldly ambitions of Elon Musk". Buffalo News. Archived from the original on 17 April 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  9. ^ Caboz, Jay. "How To Raise A Billionaire: An Interview With Elon Musk's Father, Errol Musk". Forbes Africa. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  10. ^ Pearce, Matt (11 September 2023). "The biggest ideas and pettiest rages in Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  11. ^ Liles, Jordan (17 November 2022). "What We Know About Elon Musk and the Emerald Mine Rumor". Snopes. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  12. ^ Sussman, Gary (2003). The referendum in F.W. de Klerk's war of manoeuvre: An historical institutionalist account of the 1992 referendum (PDF) (PhD thesis). London School of Economics.
  13. ^ "Elon Musk's grandparents were adventuring pilots who spent years looking for a lost city in the desert". South China Morning Post. 3 August 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  14. ^ Haldeman, Scott; Keating Jr., Joseph C. (September 1995). "Joshua N Haldeman, DC: the Canadian Years, 1926-1950". The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association. 39 (3): 172–186. PMC 2485067.
  15. ^ Basen, Ira. "In science we trust". CBC News. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  16. ^ Laura M. Holson (30 April 2016). "At 68, Maye Musk, the Mother of Elon, Is Reclaiming the Spotlight". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
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  18. ^ "Kimbal Musk — Elon's brother — is leading a $25 million mission to fix food in schools across the US". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 23 October 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  19. ^ Lieberman, Hallie (11 June 2020). "The Musk of Romance". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 2 September 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
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