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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 .
William Wesley Knight (February 8, 1909 – February 19, 1981) was an American lawyer, politician, and newspaper publisher. He lived, worked in, and raised a family with his wife, Lota Hatfield Knight, in Portland, Oregon. Their son, Phil Knight, a high school and college athlete, went on to co-found Nike.
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, including directing the company's films Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) and the upcoming Wildwood (2025).
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 ...
Phil and Penny Knight made a $400 million pledge in 2023 to revive a historic area of Portland that was once a thriving Black neighborhood. Warren Buffett, James Simons and Phil Knight are among ...
Before Ben Affleck donned an ill-fitting wig and distracting polarized sunglasses in his portrayal of Phil Knight in “Air,” the visionary Nike founder told his own life story in a 2018 memoir ...
Perez worked at S. C. Johnson from 1970 to 2004. He spent eight years as president and CEO of S. C. Johnson & Son.On December 28, 2004, Perez succeeded Phil Knight as CEO of Nike, Inc [1] and served from December 2004 until his announcement on January 23, 2006, that he was resigning from Nike due to disagreements with Knight over how to run the company.
Nike founder Phil Knight just listed his La Quinta home for $1.55 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.