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Phil Hampson Knight was born on February 24, 1938, in Portland, Oregon, to Bill Knight, a lawyer turned newspaper publisher, and his wife, Lota Cloy (née Hatfield) Knight. [5] [6] [7] He grew up in the Portland neighborhood of Eastmoreland, and attended Cleveland High School.
Travis Andrew Knight (born September 13, 1973) [1] is an American animator, producer, director, actor, and former rapper. The son of the Nike co-founder Phil Knight, he has worked as the lead animator and current CEO for the stop-motion animation studio Laika, and directed the films Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), Bumblebee (2018), and the upcoming Wildwood (2025).
Nike cofounder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, made a $400 million pledge to the 1803 Fund. The commitment from the Knights, whose net worth is pegged at $43 billion, will establish Rebuild ...
Alma mater. Yale University. Children. 2. John Joseph Moehringer (born December 7, 1964), known by his pen name J. R. Moehringer, is an American journalist, memoirist, and biographical ghostwriter. In 2000, he won the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper feature writing. [1] He collaborated on the 2021 film adaptation of his memoir, The Tender Bar (2005).
Knight grossed $8,000 in his first year. Throughout the book’s 400 pages, Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks he endured while growing that first $8,000 to a global-spanning ...
THAT’S A LOT OF SNEAKERS: Five years after donating $500 million to the University of Oregon, Nike’s former leader Phil Knight and his wife Penny have donated $500 million more for the second ...
Steve Prefontaine. Steve Roland " Pre " Prefontaine[1] (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975) was a US-American long-distance runner who from 1973 to 1975 set American records at every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 meters. [2][3] He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, [4] and was preparing for the 1976 Olympics with the Oregon Track Club at the ...
Bill Bowerman. William Jay Bowerman (February 19, 1911 – December 24, 1999) was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. [1] Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub- 4 minute milers. [2]