Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York to Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist. He and his three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle,were brought up inDobbs Ferry, New York. Zuckerberg was raised Jewish, and had his bar mitzvah when he turned 13, although he has since described himself as an atheist.
At Ardsley High School he had excelled in the classics before in his junior year transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy, where Zuckerberg won prizes in science (math, astronomy and physics) and Classical studies (on his college application, Zuckerberg listed as non-English languages he could read and write: French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek) and was afencing star and captain of the fencing team. In college, he was known for reciting lines from epic poems such as The Iliad.
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