Mark Shuttleworth

South African entrepreneur and space tourist (born 1973)

Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the Linux operating system variant Ubuntu. In 2002, Shuttleworth became the first African to travel to space, doing so as a space tourist.²

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Born Sep 18, 1973.¹