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Awards & Recognition
★Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 for 'services to entrepreneurship'
★Named Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2007)
★Tony Jannus Award for accomplishments in commercial air transportation (2000)
★Golden Plate Award from American Academy of Achievement (1992)
★National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences honor (2012)
★Named No. 1 LGBT ally by OUTstanding organization (2014)
★First LinkedIn Influencer to cross 1 million followers milestone (2012)
Notable Facts
→Founder of Virgin Group with over 400 companies globally
→Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 as Sir Richard Branson
→First billionaire founder to travel to space on his own company's spacecraft
→Founded Virgin Galactic space tourism company in 2004
→Net worth of $3 billion according to Forbes (2023)
→Lives on private Necker Island in British Virgin Islands
→Has 15.6+ million LinkedIn followers, 12.6+ million Twitter followers
→Published multiple bestselling books including 'Losing My Virginity'
→Historic court victory against British Airways in 1990s
→World record holder for balloon flights across Atlantic and Pacific
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