i believe he also was the human genome project, he arranged to have one of the samples be him
You are confused by the human genome project vs the celera genome project. No, the human genome project didn't include his sample.
Yes, his was the first complete genome ever sequenced (by a private entity).
Craig Venter had his genome sequenced in 2007. It was the first individual human genome that was sequenced and released publicly.
The human reference genome is ~70% from a man with African and European ancestry who lived somewhere around Buffalo, NY. Most of the rest is from ~20 other individuals in the same area. They were supposed to sequence the samples more evenly, but apparently there were some technical reasons that made them prioritize a single sample.