Salman Amin "Sal" Khan (born October 11, 1976) is a Bangladeshi-American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private, in-person school in Mountain View, California.
As of April 2026, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 9.39 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than two billion times. In 2012, Khan was named in the annual publication of Time 100.
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