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Knight met his wife, Penelope "Penny" Parks, while he was working at Portland State University and they were married on September 13, 1968. They own a home in La Quinta, California. Knight's son, Matthew, died in a scuba diving accident in El Salvador in 2004. Another son of Knight's, Travis Knight, runs the Laika animation studio. Phil Knight ...
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- Philip Hampson Knight, February 24, 1938 (age 85), Portland, Oregon, U.S.
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Mar 18, 2024 · Penny Knight is the spouse of renowned businessman Philip Knigh. Philip is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc. Knight family was recently ranked by Forbes in April 2023 as the 24th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $47.7 billion.
Jul 6, 2021 · Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny have given a second $500 million dollar gift to his alma mater, the University of Oregon. The gift will enable the the university to expand its...
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Mar 6, 2024 · CREDIT: Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images. Nike founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny were among the top U.S. philanthropic donors in 2023, according to a new ranking from...
Apr 6, 2023 · He married his wife Penny in 1968. Jemal Countess/WireImage. Though Knight found some early success with Blue Ribbon Sports, it wasn't quite enough to quit his day job for the first few years.
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Sep 17, 2019 · Penny Knight is Nike founder Phil Knight’s first and only wife. They met in 1968, in the early days of Nike’s founding, married the same year, and have been together since. Learn the history of Penny Knight, Phil Knight, and Nike, in this excerpt from our summary of Shoe Dog .
Mar 5, 2024 · Matthew Kish | The Oregonian/OregonLive. Phil and Penny Knight once again ranked near the top for U.S. philanthropy in 2023, and the family’s charitable giving continues to accelerate. The Nike...