Philanthropist

This page lists 2,745 biographies of philanthropists, covering lives from AD 50 to 2002. Featuring Aliko Dangote, Bill Gates and Marc Benioff. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Fannie Lorber

1881 – 1958

Elizabeth Jesser Reid

1789 – 1866

Jacqueline Desmarais

1928 – 2018

Emma Stirling

1839 – 1907

Ada Bampton Tremaine

1849 – 1928

Alice Lewisohn

1883 – 1972

Britainy Beshear

b. 1979

Louisa Goddard Frothingham Molson

1827 – 1910

Carol Bernstein Ferry

1924 – 2001

Yevgenia Shakhovskaya-Glebova-Streshneva

1840 – 1924

Lindsley F. Kimball

1895 – 1992

Elizabeth Taylor

1932 – 2011

Robin M. Wright

Elizabeth Clementine Miller Tangeman

1905 – 1996

Frank Shankwitz

1943 – 2021

Margaret Hoberg Turrell

1890 – 1948

Susan Minns

1839 – 1938

Annie Watson Lister

1866 – 1928

Jane K. Sather

1824 – 1911

Verónica Alcocer

b. 1976

Julia Broughton

1961 – 2024

Susan Schardt

1872 – 1934

Margaret Evelyn Stanley

1875 – 1964

Mary Duke Biddle

1887 – 1960

Margit Szápáry

1871 – 1943

David Kaiser

1969 – 2020

Dorothy Brooke

1883 – 1955

Richard Goldman

1920 – 2010

Pat Stryker

b. 1956

Armenia S. White

1817 – 1916

Eleanor Wigram

1767 – 1841

Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin

b. 1946

William Eastwood Thompson

1868 – 1952

Velimir Mihailo Teodorović

1849 – 1898

Martha Bayard Stevens

1831 – 1899

Cristhian Velasquez

b. 1984

Phoebe Hearst

1842 – 1919

Edith Vanderbilt

1873 – 1958

Mary Hughes

1874 – 1958

Helene Billing Wurlitzer

1874 – 1963

Florence Meyer Blumenthal

1875 – 1930

Shelby White

b. 1938

Aubrey Chernick

b. 1948

Grace Arents

1848 – 1926

Juana Ross Edwards

1830 – 1913

Annie Russell-Cotes

1835 – 1920

Thomas Hazlehurst

1816 – 1876

Albert Elay Shaltiel

b. 1969

Samuel Livingston Mather

1882 – 1960

Leonard Polonsky

1927 – 2025

Grace Carley

1873 – 1950

Margaret Eleanor Crosby

1884 – 1943

Elsie Traill

1876 – 1946

Belle Linsky

1904 – 1987

Ted Manson

b. 1954

Marie-Louise Lacoste

1849 – 1919

Mary von Waldersee

1837 – 1914

Cheng Yen

b. 1937

Marie Koopmans-De Wet

1834 – 1906

Frances Stephens

1851 – 1915

Georgina Schuyler

1841 – 1923

Sarah Lavanburg Straus

1861 – 1945

Evelyn Danzig Haas

1917 – 2010

Deborah Vernon Hackett

1887 – 1965

Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford

1774 – 1852

Diego Hidalgo Schnur

b. 1942

Edwina Grosvenor

b. 1981

Ellen Coolidge Burbank

1945 – 2023

Julie Ramsing

1871 – 1954

Eleanor Gehrig

1904 – 1984

Charlotte Crivelli

1863 – 1956

Olivia Egleston Phelps Stokes

1847 – 1927

Juliana Hele

1706 – 1794

Sarita Gurung

Osayi Alile

Mary Josephine Bedford

1861 – 1955

Tomás Burgos Sotomayor

1875 – 1945

Pam Omidyar

b. 1968

Jack Rabinovitch

1930 – 2017

Mimi Carstensen

1852 – 1935

Gertrude Robinson Smith

1881 – 1963

Jeannie Gilruth

1876 – 1965

Enid A. Haupt

1906 – 2005

Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin

b. 1971

Hope Abelson

1910 – 2006

Isabella Mackay

1777 – 1850

Helen Bonfils

1889 – 1972

Elena Ghiba Birta

1801 – 1864

Mary Danforth Ryle

1833 – 1904

Julia Stephen

1846 – 1895

Leonard Case, Jr.

1820 – 1880

Lia van Leer

1924 – 2015

Bessie Morse Bellingrath

1878 – 1943

Alfred Edward Goodey

1878 – 1945

Mary Seney Sheldon

1863 – 1913

Lucy Wortham James

1880 – 1938

Anna Eynard-Lullin

1793 – 1868

Frances Perry

1814 – 1892

Mary Huttleston Rogers Coe

1875 – 1924

Wendy Schmidt

b. 1955