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    BornLawrence Joseph Ellison · August 17, 1944 · New York City, U.S.
    EducationUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (no degree) · University of Chicago (no degree)
    SpousesAdda Quinn · (m. 1967; div. 1974) · Nancy Wheeler Jenkins · (m. 1977; div. 1978) · Barbara Boothe · (m. 1983; div. 1986) · Melanie Craft · (m. 2003; div. 2010) · Nikita Kahn (div. 2020) · Jolin (Keren) Zhu (m. 2023)
    ChildrenDavid Ellison · Megan Ellison
    Early life and education

    Ellison was born on August 17, 1944, in New York City to Florence Spellman, an unwed Jewish mother. His biological father was an Italian-American United States Army Air Corps pilot. After Ellison contracted pneumonia at … See more

    Early career and Oracle

    During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, Ellison began working for Ampex Corporation. His first project included a database for the CIA, code-named "Oracle". Ellison was inspired by a paper writt… See more

    Philanthropy and other endeavors

    In 1992 Ellison shattered his elbow in a high-speed bicycle crash. After receiving treatment at University of California, Davis, Ellison donated $5 million to seed the Lawrence J. Ellison Musculo-Skeletal Research … See more

    Political involvement

    Ellison was critical of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, saying that "Snowden had yet to identify a single person who had been 'wrongly injured' by the NSA's data collection". In 2012, he donated to both Democratic… See more

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