Biographies: Notable Philanthropists

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Notable Philanthropists

Andrew Carnegie

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• Activists and Reformers

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Biographies by Category

• Baker, George Fisher, financier and philanthropist
• Baldwin, Matthias William, industrialist and philanthropist
• Bergh, Henry, philanthropist
• Brady, Diamond Jim, financier and philanthropist
• Brookings, Robert Somers, business executive, philanthropist
• Brown, Moses, manufacturer and philanthropist
• Brown, Nicholas, manufacturer and philanthropist
• Buffett, Warren Edward, financial executive
• Cadbury, Dame Elizabeth, social worker and philanthropist
• Carnegie, Andrew, industrialist and philanthropist
• Colgate, William, manufacturer and philanthropist
• Dale, David, cotton manufacturer and philanthropist
• Dodge, Grace Hoadley, philanthropist
• Drexel, Anthony Joseph, banker and philanthropist
• Du Pont, Henry Francis, businessman, museum founder
• Du Pont, Pierre S., industrialist, philanthropist
• Dunant, Jean Henri, philanthropist and founder of the International Red Cross
• Fliedner, Theodor, minister and philanthropist
• Gates, Bill, business executive
• Gimbel, family of merchants and philanthropists
• Girard, Stephen, merchant, banker, and philanthropist
• Goodnight, Mary Ann Dyer, early settler, philanthropist
• Grinnell, Henry, merchant, philanthropist
• Guggenheim, family of industrialists and philanthropists
• Guggenheim, Meyer, industrialist, philanthropist
• Guggenheim, Simon, business executive, philanthropist
• Guy, Thomas, philanthropist
• Hammer, Armand, industrialist, art collector, philanthropist
• Harkness, Edward Stephen, philanthropist
• Heinz, Howard, business executive, philanthropist
• Hershey, Milton, chocolatier, philanthropist
• Hirsch, Maurice, baron de, financier and philanthropist
• Hopkins, Johns, financier and philanthropist
• Howe, Samuel Gridley, reformer and philanthropist
• Kresge, S. S., merchant, philanthropist
• Lawrence, Amos Adams, colonizer and philanthropist
• Lever, William Hesketh, soap-maker, philanthropist
• Loeb, James, banker and philanthropist
• Millbank, Jeremiah, financier, philanthropist
• Montefiore, Sir Moses Haim, philanthropist
• Morgan, family of financiers and philanthropists
• Peabody, George, financier and philanthropist
• Peabody, George Foster, banker and philanthropist
• Raikes, Robert, English philanthropist
• Rockefeller, John Davison, industrialist and philanthropist
• Rogers, Ralph Burton, businessman and philanthropist
• Rosenwald, Julius, merchant, retail executive, philanthropist
• Ryerson, Martin Antoine, businessman, collector
• Sage, Russell, financier
• Scaife, Richard, philanthropist
• Schiff, Jacob Henry, banker and philanthropist
• Seng, Tan Tock, philanthropist
• Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy, philanthropist, mental health activist
• Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr., businessman and philanthropist
• Soros, George, stock trader and philanthropist
• Straus, merchants, public officials, and philanthropists
• Tappan, Arthur, merchant, philanthropist, abolitionist
• Toussaint, Pierre, philanthropist
• Tuke, William, merchant and philanthropist
• Vassar, Matthew, American philanthropist
• Watson, Thomas John, industrialist and philanthropist
• Weisman, Frederick R., businessman, art collector, philanthropist