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Alama

Ragheb Alama (born 1962), Lebanese singer, composer, television personality and philanthropist

Alfred Loomis

Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–1975), American physicist and philanthropist

Allaman

The wealthy Genevan philanthropist Jean-Jacques de Sellon, who owned the property until 1839, gave accommodation at the castle to, amongst many others, such political refugees as Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte, Joséphine de Beauharnais, the Duke of Bassano, the Count Camille Cavour, Voltaire as well as to Franz Liszt and George Sand.

Anson Green Phelps

His grandsons included Anson Phelps Stokes and William Earl Dodge Stokes, and a great-grandson, a well-known philanthropist also named Anson Phelps Stokes.

Antoni Osuchowski

Antoni Osuchowski (13 June 1849 in Paris - 9 January 1928 in Warsaw) was a Polish lawyer, publicist, philanthropist and national activist in Silesia, Warmia and Mazury.

Aripuana

It is named for Lewis B. Cullman and Dorothy Cullman, philanthropists and supporters of the New York Botanical Garden.

Beit Orot

The purchase of the land that was to become Beit Orot was arranged in 1990 by Hanan Porat, an Israeli politician, and financed by Irving Moskowitz, an American philanthropist.

Brian Maxwell

Brian Leigh Maxwell (1953, London, England – March 19, 2004, San Anselmo, California) was a Canadian athlete, track coach, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Buchtel Community Learning Center

Buchtel High School opened in 1931 and is named after Akron industrialist and philanthropist John R. Buchtel, who helped to organize and finance a number of early Akron firms, including the Goodrich Corporation.

Cha Chi Ming

Cha Chi-ming GBM JP (1914 – 28 March 2007) was a Hong Kong industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Chitipa

Chitipa is the capital of Chitipa District, Malawi and the birthplace of Malawian lawyer, politician, and philanthropist James Nyondo.

Christopher Rheinlander Robert

Christopher Rheinlander Robert (Brookhaven, Long Island, New York, 23 March 1802, Paris, France, 28 October 1878) was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Robert College later known as Boğaziçi University.

District nurse

In 1858 Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone employed a nurse, Mary Robinson, to take care of his wife at home during her final illness.

Dorothy Green

Dolly Green (Dorothy Wellborn Green, 1906–1990), American heiress, philanthropist and thoroughbred owner

Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive

The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) funded the building of four Carnegie Libraries in the Dublin City Public Libraries branch network, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street; Rathmines Library (terracotta by the famous Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth, Staffordshire); Pembroke Library and Charleville Mall Library.

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (June 27, 1824 – November 19, 1904) was a writer, reformer, and philanthropist, born on Beacon Hill, Boston to Sargent Smith Littledale and Ednah Parker (Dow).

Fels

Joseph Fels (1853–1914), American soap manufacturer, millionaire, and philanthropist

George Woodruff

George W. Woodruff (1895–1987), American businessman and philanthropist

Government College of Technology, Coimbatore

The Government College of Technology, Coimbatore was founded in 1945 as Arthur Hope College of Technology (named after Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour), under the patronage of the philanthropist Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu (G.D. Naidu).

Hawn

William R. Hawn (1910–1995), American businessman, philanthropist, race horse owner and breeder

Henry F. Lippitt

They had two children - Rhode Island politician and philanthropist Frederick Lippitt and Mary Ann Lippitt.

High Hollow

When Howe left Mellor, Meigs & Howe in 1928, he sold High Hollow to cigar mogul Samuel Paley (see La Palina) and his artist-philanthropist wife, Goldie Paley.

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

In January 1778 Kaufmann sent Lenz to the philanthropist, social reformer and clergyman Johann Friedrich Oberlin in Waldersbach in Alsace, where he stayed from 20 January to 8 February.

Jan Albin Goetz

Jan Albin Goetz (Jan Goetz-Okocimski) (born July 18, 1864 in Okocim, Poland, died April 24, 1931 in Okocim) was a Polish brewer of German ancestry, head of Okocim Brewery, a philanthropist and patron of the arts, a "Freiherr" (baron) of the Hapsburg Empire, a conservative politician, activist and a member of the Austrian parliament and Polish sejm.

Jeltz

Wyatt F. Jeltz, an African American Oklahoman philanthropist and sociologist

Jim Stork

Stork became romantic partners with Ronald Ansin, a well-known Bostonian philanthropist, Democratic fundraiser, and brother of billionaire Edmund Ansin in 2002.

John Grubb Richardson

John Grubb Richardson (13 November 1813 – 1891) was an Irish linen merchant, industrialist and philanthropist who founded the model village of Bessbrook near Newry in 1845, in what is now Northern Ireland.

John Templeton, Jr.

(born February 19, 1940) is the elder son of the stock investor, businessman and philanthropist John Templeton and serves as the Chairman and President of the John Templeton Foundation.

Joseph Meyerhoff

Meyerhoff continued his career as an avid philanthropist serving as president of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in the 1970s, where he personally contributed money and helped raise millions of dollars.

Kazarian

Paul Kazarian, an Armenian-American investor, financier, businessperson, and philanthropist

Kingdon Gould

Kingdon Gould, Jr.(born 1924), former ambassador, businessman, and philanthropist

Liege Hulett

Sir James Liege Hulett (17 May 1838 – 1928) was a sugar magnate and philanthropist in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, originally from Kent, England.

London Monster

Philanthropist John Julius Angerstein promised a reward of £100 for capture of the perpetrator.

Malcolm Stewart

Percy Malcolm Stewart (1872–1951), English industrialist and philanthropist

Margaret Tobin

Birth name of Margaret Brown, also known as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, American socialite, philanthropist, activist; survivor of RMS Titanic

O.C. Tanner

Obert C. Tanner (1904–1993), a University of Utah professor of philosophy, philanthropist, and businessman

Paul-Louis Weiller

He subsequently became a philanthropist of the arts; through his influence and financial support, he contributed to the restoration of the Palace of Versailles, created a ballet company, and aided a number of artists (Robert Hossein, Roger Vadim, Maurice Béjart, Michèle Mercier, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, etc.).

Robert Pamplin

Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. (born 1941), American businessman and philanthropist, current CEO of R.B. Pamplin Corporation

Russell–Einstein Manifesto

A few days after the release, philanthropist Cyrus S. Eaton offered to sponsor a conference—called for in the manifesto—in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Eaton's birthplace.

Salam Masdoosi

Saalam Bin Musdoos Al Masdoosi Al Muhannad aka Salam Masdoosi (1909-?) was an Islamic scholar, social activist, leader, guide and philanthropist from Mahbubnagar, A.P. India.

Sarah Brown

Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper (1835–1896), American philanthropist and educator

Simon W. Tudor

Simon Woodson Tudor (November 5, 1887—May 10, 1956) was a prominent educator, businessman, church and civic leader, and philanthropist in the central Louisiana city of Pineville in the first half of the twentieth century.

St Marylebone School

In 1808, with the support of local philanthropist and social reformer Sir Thomas Bernard the school moved to 82 Marylebone High Street, which is now the boutique store Rachel Riley.

Strawbridge

George W. Strawbridge, Jr. (born 1937) American educator, historian, investor, sportsman, and philanthropist

TelVue

It currently operates under the direction of cable pioneer and philanthropist HF “Gerry” Lenfest.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Margaret Brown, American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous as one of the survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic

Thomas Edmonds

Thomas Edmonds (manufacturer) (1858–1932), a philanthropist from Christchurch famous for his 'Sure to Rise' baking powder and the Edmonds Cookery Book

Trout Brook Valley State Park Reserve

They were joined in the effort by Connecticut Fund for the Environment (CFE), Citizens for Easton, the Easton garden club, hiking and mountain biking groups, birding enthusiasts, naturalists and others including actor/philanthropist Paul Newman and his family.

Wheelock Whitney

Wheelock Whitney, Jr. or "Whee" Whitney, businessman, politician, philanthropist, and sports team and racehorse owner

William Coe

William Robertson Coe (1869–1955), English-born American insurance and railways business executive and philanthropist


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