John Craig Venter is an American biotechnologist and businessman. He is known for leading one of the first draft sequences of the human genome and assembled the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. Wikipedia
Born: 1946 (age 77 years), Salt Lake City, UT
Education: University of California San Diego (1972), College of San Mateo, and Mills High School
Spouse: Heather Kowalski (m. 2008) and Claire M. Fraser (m. 1981–2005)
Organizations founded: The Institute for Genomic Research, Celera Corporation, Human Longevity, and more
Parents: John Venter and Elizabeth Venter