Shahid Khan

Shahid Rafiq Khan (born 1950) is a Pakistani-American businessman who owns the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL, Fulham F.C. of the Premier League and the Flex-N-Gate auto-parts company, and appeared on the cover of Forbes in 2012 as the face of the American Dream ^{1 2}.

Khan was born on 18 July 1950 in Lahore to a middle-class Punjabi Muslim family in the construction industry; his father ran a survey-equipment shop and his mother was a professor of mathematics ^{1 2}. He moved to the United States in 1967 at sixteen to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, worked his first job washing dishes, graduated in industrial engineering in 1971, and became a naturalised citizen in 1991 ¹.

Khan started Bumper Works in 1978 and bought Flex-N-Gate, his former employer, in 1980, growing it into a supplier to the Big Three and to Toyota across the United States ^{1 2}. He bought the Jacksonville Jaguars for 770 million dollars, approved unanimously by NFL owners in December 2011, becoming the first ethnic-minority owner of an NFL team, and bought Fulham from Mohamed Al-Fayed in July 2013 ¹. With his son Tony he is a lead investor in All Elite Wrestling ¹. Khan has described himself in his own words as a Muslim, which names no school, so his faith is recorded as unknown with his statements preserved in the data note ^{1 2 3}.

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