Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.
Branson’s Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he started Virgin Atlantic Airlines and expanded the Virgin Records music label.
In 2004, he founded the spaceflight corporation Virgin Galactic, based at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, noted for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism.
In 2007, he was placed in the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World list. In July 2021, Forbes listed Branson’s estimated net worth at US$5.7 billion.
On 11 July 2021, Branson travelled as a passenger onboard Virgin Galactic Unity 22 at the edge of space, a suborbital test flight for his spaceflight company Virgin Galactic. At 70, Branson became the third oldest person to fly to space.
Richard Branson Children: Meet Holly Branson, Sam Branson, Clare Sarah Branson
Branson and Templeman have a daughter named Holly who was born in 1981 and a son named Sam who was born in 1985.
During an interview with Piers Morgan Branson said the pair also had a daughter named Clare Sarah, who died when she was four days old in 1979.
Holly Branson
Holly was born in 1981 and spent her time growing up between London, Oxford and British Virgin Islands.
She obtained a medical degree from University College London and even practised as a junior doctor at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
She later got a VP position at her father’s company.
She is also a founder of Big Change, a charity about positive change for young people in the UK.
In December 2012, she married her long-term boyfriend Freddie Andrews.
After struggling to conceive for two years, the pair finally had twins Etta and Artie in December 2015.
In 2019 they had her youngest daughter Lola.
Holly opened up about her fertility struggles in her debut book Weconomy.
Sam Branson
Sam who was born in 1985 is an actor and the co-founder of a production company called Sundog Pictures.
After graduating from St Edward’s School in Oxford in 2003, he attended a cooking school called Le Cordon Bleu London while two years later he enrolled at Musicians Institute in the US.
His acting debut was in 2006 in the sci-fi film Superman Returns.
In the same year he was also seen at Requiem for Krypton: Making ‘Superman Returns’ and in 2008 he appeared in a TV movie documentary titled Bransons: Come Hell or High Water.’
He started his production company Current Sponge in 2009 which was later rebranded as Sundog Pictures.