Khan took upper-level mathematics courses at the University of New Orleans while he was in high school and graduated as valedictorian in 1994.

He attended Grace King High School, where, as he recalls, 'a few classmates were fresh out of jail and others were bound for top universities.' He was a cartoonist for the high school's newspaper. His mother, Masuda Khan, is from Murshidabad in West Bengal, India.

Khan's grandfather, Abdul Wahab Khan was the 3rd Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan. They are descended from Rahmat Khan, a Pathan chieftain who was killed in conflict with Raja Kandarpanarayan Rai of Chandradwip in the 16th century. His father was a physician, and originally hailed from the village of Rahmatpur in Babuganj, Barisal District, Bangladesh. 1990) and Masuda Khan in Metairie, Louisiana. Salman Amin Khan was born on Octoto Bengali Muslim parents Fakhrul Amin Khan (d. In the same year, Forbes magazine featured Khan on its cover, with the story '$1 Trillion Opportunity.' Early life and family In 2012, Time named Khan in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Īs of February 2023, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 7.7 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than 2 billion times.

He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a brick-and-mortar private school in Mountain View, California. Salman Amin 'Sal' Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform and an organization with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science.

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