Business Mogul
Branson is the founder of the Virgin Empire, which notably includes Virgin Records, Virgin Airlines, among other entities. He has made several attempts to be the first to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon.
He writes in his autobiography, Losing My Virginity (p.239) "I do not believe in God, but as I sat there in the damaged [balloon] capsule, hopelessly vulnerable to the slightest shift in weather or mechanical fault, I could not believe my eyes."
--MK