Ethan Edward Klein (; born June 25, 1985) is an American YouTuber and host of the H3 Podcast. He first found fame with the YouTube channel h3h3Productions, created and hosted by him and his wife, Hila Klein. Their content consisted of reaction videos and sketch comedy in which they satirize internet culture.
Personal life
Klein was born in Ventura, California in 1985 to Donna and Gary Klein. He has two older siblings, Sean and Jessica. He attended Buena High School. He has a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Klein has Tourette's syndrome and is Jewish.
He met his wife, Hila, at the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Israel in 2007 when he was on his Birthright Israel trip, and Hila was serving in the Israel Defense Forces. They married in 2012. During the early years of their YouTube careers, they lived together in Florentin, Tel Aviv, Israel.
The Kleins have two sons, Theodore (born 2019) and Bruce (born 2022). They currently live in Bel Air, California.
Klein is brother-in-law to Trisha Paytas and Moses Hacmon, who met each other on his podcast.