John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American (United States) biologist and entrepreneur, most famous for his role in being one of the first to sequence the human genome and for his role in creating the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010. Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research and the J. Craig Venter Institute, now working at the latter to create synthetic biological organisms and to document genetic diversity in the worlds oceans. He was listed on Time (Time (magazine)) magazines 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.