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Cameron Howard Winklevoss (born August 21, 1981) is an American rower and entrepreneur. He competed in the men's pair rowing event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with his identical twin brother and rowing partner, Tyler Winklevoss. Cameron and his brother are known for co-founding HarvardConnection (later renamed ConnectU) along with Harvard classmate Divya Narendra. In 2004, the Winklevoss brothers sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for $65 million, claiming he stole their ConnectU idea to create the popular social networking site Facebook. In addition to ConnectU, Winklevoss also co-founded the social media website Guest of a Guest with Rachelle Hruska. ==Early life and education== Cameron Winklevoss was born in Southampton, New York, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. He is the son of Carol (née Leonard) and Howard Edward Winklevoss, Jr.;〔http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Friendships-forged-in-devastating-nor-easter-425170.php〕〔http://www.rockawave.com/news/2007-02-09/obits〕 Howard was a professor of actuarial science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of (''Pension mathematics with numerical illustrations'' ), and founder of (Winklevoss Consultants ) and (Winklevoss Technologies ). Cameron began playing classical piano at 6 years of age, which he studied for 12 years. At an early age, he (left-handed) and his identical "mirror-image" twin brother Tyler (right-handed) demonstrated a pattern of teamwork, building Lego together and playing musical instruments. At the age of 13, they taught themselves HTML and started a web-page company, which developed websites for businesses. Winklevoss went to the Greenwich Country Day School before attending the Brunswick School for high school. He showed a fondness for the classics in high school, studying Latin and Ancient Greek. During his junior year, he co-founded the crew program with Tyler. He enrolled at Harvard University in 2000 for his undergraduate studies where he majored in economics, earning an A.B. and graduating in 2004.〔 At Harvard, he was a member of the men's varsity crew, the Porcellian Club and the Hasty Pudding Club. In 2009, Winklevoss entered the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford to study for a Master of Business Administration and completed an MBA in 2010.〔 While at Oxford, he was a member of Christ Church, an Oxford Blue, and rowed in the Blue Boat in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cameron Winklevoss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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