Place of Birth: Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt, East Germany (now Germany)

Date of Birth: October 28, 1979

Ethnicity:
*Bangladeshi (father)
*German (mother)

Jawed Karim is a German-American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He is one of the founders of YouTube, along with Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. He is the first person to upload a video on it. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher. His mother, Christine, is German. He was raised in Neuss, West Germany, and his family moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S., in 1992.