Born in Huntsville, Alabama, Wales, 50, a former financier, co-founded Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia that is the world’s fifth most popular website. Listed by Time in 2006 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, he takes no salary from the website, founded in 2001. He lives in west London with his third wife, Kate Garvey, a former aide to Tony Blair, and daughters Ada, 5, and Jemima, 3. Kira, 16, his daughter with his second wife, lives in Florida.
Home is a rented house in Notting Hill. I get up at 6.25am, make myself a coffee, check news headlines, then start chivvying Ada to get ready. She has Weetabix, I have Greek yoghurt with blueberries and hibiscus tea — at
A life in the day: Jimmy Wales
The Wikipedia co-founder on fake news and why he doesn’t mind not being a billionaire
LANE HARTWELL