Richard Branson
Business magnate and Virgin founder
Sir Richard Branson is an English entrepreneur who co-founded the Virgin Group. He wrote Losing My Virginity and The Virgin Way.
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British Born 1950 in Blackheath, United Kingdom
About Richard Branson
Richard Branson was born on 18 July 1950 in Blackheath, South London. At sixteen he started a magazine called Student, his first business venture. In 1970 he began selling records by mail order, and in 1972 he opened the Virgin Records shops, later known as Virgin Megastores. During the 1980s the Virgin brand grew quickly as he launched Virgin Atlantic and built up the Virgin Records music label. He founded Virgin Rail Group in 1997 and the space tourism company Virgin Galactic in 2004. Branson was knighted in March 2000 for services to entrepreneurship. In 2007 Time magazine included him in its list of the world's most influential figures. His books in our catalog are Finding My Virginity, Losing My Virginity and The Virgin Way.