SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants (born/created July 14, 1986) is the main character of the Nickelodeon animated series of the same name. He was designed by the former marine biologist, Stephen Hillenburg. Hillenburg based SpongeBob on Bob the Sponge, a character he had created for his educational book "The Intertidal Zone" in the late 1980s.