Elon Musk’s Mother: Who Maye Musk Is

Who Elon Musk is

Elon Reeve Musk is an industrialist, technologist and former public official. He is chief executive officer and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX. His public career includes co-founding Zip2 and X.com, the latter merging with Confinity to form PayPal, and founding SpaceX in 2002. He joined Tesla as an angel investor in 2004 and became its chief executive officer and product architect in 2008. His honours include Fellowship of the Royal Society, the Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Time Person of the Year.

Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 28, 1971, and emigrated to Canada in 1989. He received bachelor’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 before moving to California, and became an American citizen in 2002. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but later left; his growing discontent with its direction and leadership in the AI boom of the 2020s led him to establish xAI, which became a SpaceX subsidiary in 2026.

Who Maye Musk is

Maye Musk is a South African model and dietitian. She was born in Regina on April 19, 1948, and is also described as Canadian-South African. Her professional identity centres on modelling and dietetics, while public biographies also identify her as the mother of Elon, Kimbal and Tosca Musk in her own right.

Her career has been presented publicly through profiles, interviews and nutrition-focused writing. New York magazine and Forbes have connected her public identity with modelling, nutrition, wellness and entrepreneurship, while Business Insider described her as a model mother of Elon Musk. These accounts introduce Maye Musk as a public figure in her own right, not only through her family connection.

Maye Musk’s relationship to Elon Musk

Maye Musk is Elon Musk’s mother. She married Errol Musk in 1970, after meeting him in high school. They had three children: Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk, and later profiles identify Maye as the mother of all three. The family connection is direct and consistently stated in public accounts.

A New York Times profile published in 2016 presented Maye as Elon’s mother and examined her return to the public spotlight. Coverage in New York magazine and Business Insider likewise described her as a model and dietitian. The subject of these profiles was Maye’s own public identity, including modelling and nutrition, while recognising her role in Elon’s family.

Elon Musk’s wider family

Maye Musk married Errol Musk in 1970, after meeting him in high school. Errol is Elon Musk’s father and is described as a South African engineer. Their three children are Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk. Errol’s date of birth has not been published in accounts of the family.

Nevada Musk is Elon Musk’s child, and Nevada Musk’s birth date has not been published. Vivian Wilson is Elon Musk’s child, and Vivian Wilson’s birth date has not been published. Griffin Musk is Elon Musk’s child, and Griffin Musk’s birth date has not been published. Damian Musk is Elon Musk’s child, and Damian Musk’s birth date has not been published.

Tosca Musk is Elon Musk’s sibling and Maye Musk’s child; Tosca Musk’s birth date has not been published. Kimbal Musk is Elon Musk’s sibling and Maye Musk’s child; Kimbal Musk’s birth date has not been published. Elliot Rush Musk is Elon Musk’s sibling; Elliot Rush Musk’s birth date has not been published. These sibling relationships form part of public biographical coverage of the Musk family.

Maye Musk’s professional life away from family

Maye Musk’s occupations are model and dietitian. Public profiles have connected those roles with nutrition, wellness and entrepreneurship, presenting her professional life in her own name rather than only through her relationship to Elon Musk. Coverage therefore places her work on a footing separate from the family role for which she is best known.

Her public image is not limited to the “model mother” description used in coverage. Articles in New York magazine, Forbes and Business Insider have presented her through modelling, nutrition and her own public profile. This wider coverage identifies her as Maye Musk in addition to describing her as Elon Musk’s mother publicly.

What has not been publicly reported

Birth dates for Errol Musk, Nevada Musk, Vivian Wilson, Griffin Musk, Damian Musk, Tosca Musk, Kimbal Musk and Elliot Rush Musk have not been published. A public date for the end of Maye and Errol Musk’s marriage has not been published. The duration of that marriage has not been published either.

Accounts of Elon Musk’s own marriage dates have not been published. Detailed accounts of how Maye and Errol Musk’s family life changed after Elon, Kimbal and Tosca were born have not appeared in print in public profiles.