Philanthropist
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A philanthropist is a person who practices philanthropy.
[edit] Notable philanthropists
- Jane Addams
- Paul Allen
- Walter Annenberg
- Grace Arents
- Thomas John Barnardo
- Samuel Augustus Barnett
- Avie Bennett
- Bono
- Ciara
- Rt Hon Charles Booth
- Sir Richard Branson
- Warren Buffett - pledged 30.7 billion dollars worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Ansar Burney
- Nicholas Murray Butler - president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1925 to 1945.
- George Cadbury
- Andrew Carnegie - Donated money to build over 2500 libraries world-wide. Founder of The Carnegie Foundations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- Jackie Chan
- Mary Louise Milliken Childs
- Samuel Canning Childs
- Richard Churcher
- Mickey Beyer Clausen
- Arthur Coles
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
- Bill Cosby
- Charles Dickens
- Walt Disney
- Timothy Donahue - President/CEO of Nextel Communications
- James H. Dooley
- Anthony J. Drexel - founder of Drexel University
- Henry Duncan
- Abdul Sattar Edhi
- Harry Fischel
- Edsel Ford - co-founder of the Ford Foundation.
- Henry Ford - co-founder of the Ford Foundation.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Elizabeth Fry
- John 'Mad Jack' Fuller
- Isabella Stewart Gardner
- Bill Gates - co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Melinda Gates - co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- David Geffen
- Hallie Geier
- J. Paul Getty - funded the construction of the Getty Villa, the original Getty Museum, and donated his art collection to it. Upon his death, left his fortune to the Getty Museum, which eventually expanded to the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
- Barry Gibb
- Robin Gibb
- Maurice Gibb
- Noel Zbigniew Gondek
- Guinness Family
- Calouste Gulbenkian
- Rafic Hariri
- Edward Harkness
- Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (T.I.)
- Milton Hershey
- Johns Hopkins
- Jon Huntsman, Sr.
- Michael Jackson - founder of the Heal The World Foundation.
- J. C. Jacobsen
- Angelina Jolie
- Aditya Kachru
- Sir Ellis Kadoori
- Fred Kavli
- John P. Kee
- Alicia Keys
- Steve Kirsch
- Ian Koshnick
- Sebastian S. Kresge
- Joan Kroc
- Laing Family
- Eugene Lang
- Jerry Lewis
- Alfred Lee Loomis
- Catherine T. MacArthur - co-founder of the MacArthur Foundation.
- John D. MacArthur - co-founder of the MacArthur Foundation.
- Joseph Mammana
- George Marchant
- Sir Josiah Mason
- Sir Ernest de Silva
- Sir Robert Mayer
- [[John A. McNeice Jr]
- Paul Mellon - major benefactor of arts and education, and co-founder of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Ailsa Mellon-Bruce - co-founder of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Gordon Moore
- Sir John Morden
- John Pierpont Morgan
- Genesio Morlacci
- Charles Stewart Mott
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Michael Nesmith
- Paul Newman
- Linus Pauling - donated time and effort and spent personal funds to bring about the worldwide ban on above ground nuclear weapons testing.
- George Peabody
- Eva Peron
- Lois Pope
- Charles Pratt - founder of Pratt Institute
- Robert Raikes
- William Marsh Rice
- John D. Rockefeller - founder of the Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller University.
- John D. Rockefeller Jr. - dramatically expanded the Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller University. He also bought and then donated the land in Manhattan upon which the United Nations headquarters was built.
- John D. Rockefeller 3rd - major third-generation Rockefeller philanthropist and founder of the Asia Society (1956), the Population Council (1952) and a reconstituted Japan Society, he was chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation for twenty years. He established the Rockefeller Public Service Awards in 1958. Among his many other achievements, he was the driving force behind the construction of the landmark Lincoln Center, built between 1959 and 1966, in New York City.
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Winthrop Rockefeller
- Henry H. Rogers
- Julius Rosenwald
- Joseph Rowntree
- Saladin
- Sir Run Run Shaw
- Li Ka Shing
- Henry Fok
- Mark Shuttleworth
- Peter Singer
- Gary Sinise - Co-founder of Operation Iraqi Children
- George Soros
- Sir Ivan Stedeford
- Ken Stiles - http://www.thecattle.net/ken-stiles-memorial.htm
- Sir Alan Sugar
- Ted Turner
- Irene Valenti - founded Valenti International Foundation
- Cornelius Vanderbilt - funded Vanderbilt University.
- William Henry Vanderbilt - cofounder of the Metropolitan Opera.
- Sir Pradeep Varma
- Al-Waleed bin Talal
- Jimmy Wales - founder of the WikiMedia Foundation.
- Joseph Whitworth
- William Wilberforce
- Oprah Winfrey
- Clara Winthrop
- Steve Wozniak
- Sir Alfred Yarrow
[edit] See also
- Charitable organization
- Development charities
- Foundation (charity)
- Freelanthropy
- Non-profit organization
- Philanthropy
- Volunteer
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