Jimmy Donal Wales was born 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. He’s made famous on the internet as the founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, where he still resides.
Before that, Jimmy Wales ran a soft-core porn search engine called Bomis, a company he isn’t associated with anymore. He later started the Nupedia wiki encyclopedia, written by experts, where he hired Larry Sanger as editor in chief. Nupedia was closed in 2004.
Wikipedia was created in January 15, 2001, after suggestions from Sanger. The Wikimedia Foundation followed in 2003.
In October 2004, Jimmy Wales founded Wikia (formerly known as Wikicities), a wiki hosting service.