| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Leonard Abramson |
Business |
1932 |
|
Founder, US Healthcare |
| Howard Ahmanson, Jr. |
Business |
3-Feb-1950 |
|
Reclusive fundamentalist-Christian philanthropist |
| Roberta Green Ahmanson |
Relative |
1949 |
|
Wife of Howard Ahmanson |
| Brooke Astor |
Philanthropist |
30-Mar-1902 |
13-Aug-2007 |
Heiress, philanthropist |
| John Jacob Astor |
Philanthropist |
13-Jul-1864 |
15-Apr-1912 |
Died aboard the Titanic |
| Jim Balsillie |
Business |
3-Feb-1961 |
|
Co-CEO, Research In Motion |
| Edward Bass |
Philanthropist |
c. 1945 |
|
Billionaire, Biosphere proponent |
| Lee Bass |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Billionaire |
| Perry R. Bass |
Philanthropist |
11-Nov-1914 |
1-Jun-2006 |
Billionaire |
| Sid Bass |
Business |
1942 |
|
Fort Worth Billionaire |
| Arnold Beckman |
Inventor |
10-Apr-1900 |
18-May-2004 |
Philanthropist who invented pH meter |
| Louis Beecherl |
Business |
10-Feb-1926 |
|
CEO, Texas Oil & Gas 1957-77 |
| Dennis R. Berman |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Denitech Corporation |
| Donald Bren |
Business |
1932 |
|
Irvine real estate billionaire |
| Eli Broad |
Business |
6-Jun-1933 |
|
Billionaire |
| Robert H. Brooks |
Business |
6-Feb-1937 |
16-Jul-2006 |
Hooters chairman |
| Catherine Wolfe Bruce |
Philanthropist |
22-Jan-1816 |
13-Mar-1900 |
Underwriter of astronomy |
| Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts |
Philanthropist |
21-Apr-1814 |
30-Dec-1906 |
Victorian philanthropist |
| Elihu Burritt |
Activist |
8-Dec-1810 |
6-Mar-1879 |
Organized Friends of Peace |
| Herman Cain |
Business |
13-Dec-1945 |
|
Godfather's Pizza |
| Joseph Canizaro |
Business |
1937 |
|
Real estate mogul |
| Andrew Carnegie |
Business |
25-Nov-1835 |
11-Aug-1919 |
Robber baron turned philanthropist |
| Malcolm Chace |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
Chairman, Bancorp Rhode Island |
| Jim Click |
Business |
? |
|
Tucson car dealer |
| Lillie Hitchcock Coit |
Philanthropist |
23-Aug-1843 |
22-Jul-1929 |
San Francisco eccentric |
| William Colgate |
Business |
25-Jan-1783 |
25-Jan-1857 |
Toothpaste empirebuilder |
| Holly Coors |
Activist |
? |
|
Ultraconservative beer baroness |
| Jenny Craig |
Business |
7-Aug-1932 |
|
Diet plan purveyor |
| Marvin Davis |
Business |
31-Aug-1925 |
25-Sep-2004 |
Oil magnate, former owner of 20th Century Fox |
| Robert A. Day |
Business |
1943 |
|
Billionaire, Founder of TCW |
| Richard DeVos |
Business |
4-Mar-1926 |
|
Amway cofounder |
| Patricia Duff |
Socialite |
Apr-1954 |
|
Ron Perelman's ex-wife |
| Doris Duke |
Philanthropist |
22-Nov-1912 |
28-Oct-1993 |
Heiress to Duke fortune |
| Mike Duncan |
Activist |
1951 |
|
RNC Chairman |
| Seymour Durst |
Business |
c. 1913 |
19-May-1995 |
New York real estate mogul |
| George Eastman |
Inventor |
12-Jul-1854 |
14-Mar-1932 |
Inventor of the Kodak camera |
| David Lee Edwards |
Philanthropist |
c. 1955 |
|
$41.4M Powerball winner |
| Chuck Feeney |
Business |
23-Apr-1931 |
|
Duty Free Shoppers |
| Max M. Fisher |
Business |
15-Jul-1908 |
3-Mar-2005 |
Gas station tycoon |
| Edward Floyd |
Doctor |
? |
|
Floyd Medical Associates |
| Sam Fox |
Business |
1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Belgium |
| Bradford M. Freeman |
Business |
1942 |
|
Freeman Spogli & Co. |
| Bill Gates |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
Co-Founder of Microsoft |
| Melinda Gates |
Philanthropist |
15-Aug-1964 |
|
Married to Bill Gates |
| William H. Gates, Sr. |
Philanthropist |
30-Nov-1925 |
|
Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Marvin J. Girouard |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
Pier 1 Imports executive |
| Sir Thomas Gresham |
Business |
1518 |
21-Nov-1579 |
Founder of Gresham College |
| Vin Gupta |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO, InfoUSA |
| Adele Hall |
Philanthropist |
? |
|
Hallmark Cards |
| Edward Stephen Harkness |
Philanthropist |
22-Jan-1874 |
29-Jan-1940 |
Philanthropist |
| Buck Harless |
Business |
14-Oct-1919 |
|
Coal baron, philanthropist |
| John Harvard |
Religion |
26-Nov-1607 |
14-Sep-1638 |
Bequest to Harvard College |
| Frederick B. Henry |
Philanthropist |
c. 1946 |
|
President of the Bohen Foundation |
| Norman Hsu |
Philanthropist |
Oct-1951 |
|
Notorious Democratic donor |
| Richard Hug |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
Environmental Elements Corporation |
| Robert Wood Johnson IV |
Business |
12-Apr-1947 |
|
Johnson & Johnson heir |
| Paul Tudor Jones |
Business |
1954 |
|
Billionaire |
| Otto Kahn |
Business |
21-Feb-1867 |
29-Mar-1934 |
Banker with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. |
| Fred Kavli |
Philanthropist |
1927 |
|
Kavli Foundation |
| Charles G. Koch |
Philanthropist |
1-Nov-1935 |
|
Conservative philanthropist, Koch heir |
| S. S. Kresge |
Business |
31-Jul-1867 |
18-Oct-1966 |
Founder of K-Mart |
| Robert H. Krieble |
Philanthropist |
1916 |
8-May-1997 |
Loctite Corporation |
| Joan B. Kroc |
Philanthropist |
27-Aug-1928 |
12-Oct-2003 |
McDonald's widow |
| Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
| Herbert H. Lehman |
Politician |
28-Mar-1878 |
5-Dec-1963 |
Governor of New York, 1933-42 |
| Alfred Lerner |
Business |
8-May-1933 |
23-Oct-2002 |
CEO of MBNA, 1982-2002 |
| James Lick |
Business |
25-Aug-1796 |
1-Oct-1876 |
Lick Observatory |
| Ruth Lilly |
Philanthropist |
2-Aug-1915 |
|
Philanthropist heir to Lilly fortune |
| William Louis-Dreyfus |
Business |
1932 |
|
Billionaire |
| Henry Luce III |
Publisher |
28-Apr-1925 |
7-Sep-2005 |
Former Time magazine publisher |
| C. Stephen Lynn |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Cummings Incorporated |
| John D. MacArthur |
Philanthropist |
6-Mar-1897 |
6-Jan-1978 |
Philanthropist, MacArthur Foundation |
| Ellen Malcolm |
Activist |
c. 1947 |
|
Founder, EMILY's List |
| Frederick L. Maytag |
Business |
14-Jul-1857 |
26-Mar-1937 |
Founder of Maytag Corporation |
| Wendy McCaw |
Philanthropist |
1951 |
|
Billionaire |
| Paul Mellon |
Philanthropist |
11-Jun-1907 |
1-Feb-1999 |
Yale Center for British Art benefactor |
| Philip Merrill |
Publisher |
28-Apr-1934 |
10-Jun-2006 |
Capital Gazette Communications |
| Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller |
Business |
13-Jul-1913 |
|
Shipbuilding tycoon, philanthropist |
| Philip Montgomery III |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO, P.O'B. Montgomery & Co. |
| James M. Moran |
Business |
8-Aug-1918 |
24-Apr-2007 |
JM Family Enterprises |
| Anne Morgan |
Philanthropist |
25-Jul-1873 |
29-Jan-1952 |
Friend of the French |
| David H. Murdock |
Business |
Mar-1923 |
|
CEO of Dole Food |
| Craig H. Neilsen |
Business |
1941 |
19-Nov-2006 |
Ameristar Casinos |
| Paul Newman |
Actor |
26-Jan-1925 |
|
Salad dressing magnate |
| Henry T. Nicholas |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Broadcom billionaire |
| Jean Nidetch |
Business |
12-Oct-1923 |
|
Weight Watchers founder |
| Alfred Nobel |
Inventor |
21-Oct-1833 |
10-Dec-1896 |
Dynamite inventor, established Nobel Prize |
| Paul Orfalea |
Business |
28-Nov-1947 |
|
Founder of Kinko's |
| George Peabody |
Business |
18-Feb-1795 |
4-Nov-1869 |
American businessman, philanthropist |
| Jerry Perenchio |
Business |
20-Dec-1930 |
|
Univision billionaire |
| Hy Peskin |
Photographer |
5-Nov-1915 |
2-Jun-2005 |
Sports photojournalist |
| T. Boone Pickens |
Business |
22-May-1928 |
|
Texas oilman, founded Mesa Petroleum |
| Prem Reddy |
Doctor |
1949 |
|
Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. |
| Catherine B. Reynolds |
Philanthropist |
c. 1957 |
|
Prominent benefactor |
| Win Rockefeller |
Politician |
17-Sep-1948 |
16-Jul-2006 |
Billionaire, Arkansas Lt. Governor |
| Felix Rohatyn |
Business |
29-May-1928 |
|
Financier, Lazard Frères |
| E. John Rosenwald, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
Former Vice Chairman of Bear Stearns |
| Nina Rosenwald |
Philanthropist |
? |
|
Sears Roebuck heiress |
| Edmond de Rothschild |
Philanthropist |
19-Aug-1845 |
2-Nov-1934 |
Father of the Yishuv |
| Edmund de Rothschild |
Philanthropist |
2-Jan-1916 |
|
British banker |
| Cheryl Saban |
Philanthropist |
30-Apr-1951 |
|
Saban Family Foundation |
| Haim Saban |
Business |
1944 |
|
Billionaire |
| Henry Samueli |
Business |
20-Sep-1954 |
|
Co-Founder of Broadcom |
| Richard Scaife |
Activist |
3-Jul-1932 |
|
The Republican George Soros |
| Dwight Schar |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
NVR Homes |
| Alex Schoenbaum |
Business |
8-Aug-1915 |
6-Dec-1996 |
Founder, Shoney's |
| Marge Schott |
Baseball |
18-Aug-1928 |
2-Mar-2004 |
Owner, Cincinnati Reds |
| Charles M. Schwab |
Business |
18-Feb-1862 |
19-Sep-1939 |
Founder of Bethlehem Steel |
| Bud Shivers |
Business |
1946 |
|
Texans for Quality Health Care |
| Harold C. Simmons |
Business |
1931 |
|
Drugstore billionaire |
| William E. Simon |
Government |
27-Nov-1927 |
3-Jun-2000 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1974-77 |
| James Simons |
Mathematician |
c. 1938 |
|
Renaissance Technologies hedge fund |
| Charles Simonyi |
Computer Programmer |
10-Sep-1948 |
|
Hungarian notation |
| James Smithson |
Chemist |
1765 |
27-Jun-1829 |
Chemist funded The Smithsonian Institution |
| James LeVoy Sorenson |
Business |
30-Jul-1921 |
20-Jan-2008 |
Utah billionaire |
| Alex Spanos |
Business |
28-Sep-1923 |
|
A.G. Spanos Companies |
| Ronald P. Spogli |
Business |
1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Italy |
| Manny Stamatakis |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Capital Management Enterprises |
| Harry Steenbock |
Biologist |
16-Aug-1886 |
25-Dec-1967 |
Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D |
| Adolph Sutro |
Politician |
29-Apr-1830 |
8-Aug-1898 |
San Francisco mayor, 1895-97 |
| Charles Swindells |
Diplomat |
c. 1942 |
|
US Ambassador to New Zealand, 2001-05 |
| Myles Tanenbaum |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
Real Estate developer |
| Oscar Tang |
Philanthropist |
1938 |
|
Chinese-American philanthropist |
| Sir Henry Tate |
Philanthropist |
1819 |
5-Dec-1899 |
Bequeathed the Tate Gallery |
| John M. Templeton, Jr. |
Relative |
19-Feb-1940 |
|
Conservative philanthropist |
| G. Kennedy Thompson |
Business |
25-Nov-1950 |
|
CEO of Wachovia, 2000-08 |
| Jay Van Andel |
Business |
3-Jun-1924 |
7-Dec-2004 |
Amway billionaire |
| William Henry Vanderbilt |
Business |
8-May-1821 |
8-Dec-1885 |
Wealthy son of Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| Sunny von Bulow |
Victim |
1-Sep-1932 |
|
Still breathing on her own |
| George Wackenhut |
Business |
1919 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Founder of Wackenhut |
| Lulu Wang |
Philanthropist |
c. 1944 |
|
Tupelo Capital Management |
| Y. C. Wang |
Business |
18-Jan-1917 |
|
Taiwanese plastics billionaire |
| Sanford I. Weill |
Business |
16-Mar-1933 |
|
CEO of Citigroup, 1998-2003 |
| Daniel Wildenstein |
Business |
11-Sep-1917 |
23-Oct-2001 |
Wildenstein & Company |
| Clayton W. Williams, Jr. |
Business |
1931 |
|
Texas oilman, rancher |
| Fred Wilpon |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
New York Mets owner |
| Robert W. Woodruff |
Business |
6-Dec-1889 |
7-Mar-1985 |
President of Coca-Cola, 1923-54 |
| Charles Wyly |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
Billionaire, Michael's Stores |
| Elihu Yale |
Philanthropist |
5-Apr-1649 |
8-Jul-1721 |
Namesake of Yale University |
| George Zimmer |
Business |
21-Nov-1948 |
|
Founder and CEO of Men's Wearhouse |
