MrBeast

American YouTuber, media personality and businessman

Born: 7 May 1998, Wichita
Age: 28
Birth name: James Stephen Donaldson

James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), known as MrBeast, is a YouTube creator, television host and businessman known for large-budget challenge, stunt and giveaway videos. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised in Greenville, North Carolina. According to Biography.com, his main channel is the most-subscribed channel on YouTube.

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Donaldson started his channel in 2012, at 13, under the name MrBeast6000. Alongside the main MrBeast channel he runs MrBeast 2 (formerly MrBeast Shorts), MrBeast Gaming, Beast Reacts and Beast Animations. In September 2020 he launched Beast Philanthropy, a charity and YouTube channel that says all of the channel's advertising, merchandise and sponsorship income goes to charity. He also ran channels with dubbed versions of his videos in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian and Hindi.

Fundraisers

With Mark Rober he co-founded Team Trees in 2019, raising money for tree planting by the National Arbor Day Foundation, and Team Seas, for Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup Foundation. In 2025 the two launched Team Water with the charity WaterAid.

Businesses and television

His businesses include the delivery restaurant brand MrBeast Burger (launched December 2020), the snack brand Feastables (January 2022) and the packaged-lunch brand Lunchly, launched with Logan Paul in October 2024. He hosts and executive produces Beast Games, a reality competition series on Amazon Prime Video that premiered in December 2024; its second season was released in January 2026 and a third season has been ordered.