Do you know someone who has a Wikipedia page?

The company I work for contract manufactures nutritional supplements for a privately-owned multi-level marketing company that sells its products worldwide, and the owner/founder of that company is a pretty rich guy-- he has a Wikipedia entry.

Yes. My husband works with several scholars and authors in his field who are listed on Wikipedia. We are also close friends with two senior White House officials. We were friends with them long before they worked in the White House.

Yes, many people. Through dd's dance journey, I personally know a number of ballet dancers (former and current) who have pages. A relative is a musician that has a page. Some engineers/scientists that I know from college have inventions or companies have pages.

Never thought about it until you asked so just checked a few people I know who I thought might have a page and sure enough they do, cool, a founder of a rock band and a sports coach.

Yes, my father-in-law. He is a respected Gaelic scholar who has written several well-received texts.

Yes, I went to high school with him and we grew up in the same neighborhood.

Yes, a cousin was a semi-famous football coach, another cousin is a loser, drug addict and disgraced football player and another uncle was a well known Chief of Police. In the '80s I spent some time around musicians and met/knew slightly George Winston, pianist.

I've never checked but I doubt it some how

Yes, a prior district attorney who handled a well known trial and is now a judge.

Yes, my 19 yr old nephew.
He is a Paralympian who won a gold medal at Rio last year.

Actually came in handy for him recently. He doesn't drive and uses his passport for ID. He lost his wallet one night and needed to go to a bank to get money. But of course he had no ID whatsoever on him to prove who he was. He asked "would my Wikipedia page do?"   He got out his phone and showed them - they accepted it!


Corinne

Wikipedia is not what most people think it is. ANYONE can create/edit a Wikipedia page; that's what a wiki is, a resource that's editable by many people. It's really not a big deal to have a Wikipedia page. Due to the nature of it, Wikipedia isn't a reliable source. If the page you are looking at has a bibliography/references, go straight to those to confirm the information you need.

Signed,
A Librarian who spends a lot of time explaining Wikipedia to patrons

Yes, and I was so surprised to find him. I think it was when I was doing some googling to find family while doing a family tree. I was, wow, I have a relative on Wikipedia and it isn't for something bad!

He was my grandfather's first cousin. He was born the year before my grandfather and died the year before my grandfather. I have a picture of the back of his head at my wedding! He was a big shot in my home city. My boss was so impressed that he was related to me and came to my wedding. I thought it was funny that it impressed her.

My ex brother in law won the Kentucky Derby a few years ago and he has page. And my neighbor from when I was in elementary school is an actress and she has a wiki and imdb page.

I know some actors, authors. others from high school and elsewhere.. and the most famous would be dh's college roommate's dad...who won a Nobel for chemistry..passed away a few years ago and I didn't understand some of what his peers were talking about. he also was instrumental in developing the atom bomb.