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A philanthropist does not always find universal approval for her or his deeds. Common accusations include supporting the wrong cause (such as funding art instead of fighting world hunger) or having selfish motivation at heart (such as avoiding taxes with personal fame as side product).

1 Notable philanthropists

• Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
• Alfred Lee Loomis
• Mother Teresa
• Andrew McGillivray
• Andrew Carnegie
• Anthony J. Drexel
• Arthur Coles
• Harry Fischel
• Benjamin Franklin
• Bill Cosby
• Bill GatesWilliam Henry Gates III KBE, (born October 28, 1955), commonly known as Bill Gates is the co-founder and current Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft. According to Forbes magazine in 2004, Gates is the wealthiest person in the world, a posit
• Bill Gates SeniorWilliam Henry Gates, Sr. born 1925) is an attorney and the co-chair and CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His son, William Henry Gates III, is the co-founder of Microsoft and the wealthiest person in the world. Note: Gates, Sr. was born Willia
• Calouste GulbenkianCalouste Sarkis Gulbenkian ( 1869- 1955) was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He was born in Istanbul and educated at King's College, London, where he studied engineering. Immediately on leaving, he went into the oil business, and was one of th
• Cornelius VanderbiltCornelius Vanderbilt ( May 27, 1794 January 4, 1877), was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads and is the founder of the renowned Vanderbilt family. Cornelius Vanderbilt was the fourth of nine children born in Port Richm
• Edward HarknessEdward Stephen Harkness ( 1854 1940), was an American philanthropist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, one of three children born to Anna Richardson and her husband Stephen V. Harkness, a harnessmaker who invested with John D. Rockefeller, becoming the second-lar
• Elizabeth FryElizabeth Fry ( May 21, 1780 — October 12, 1845) was a prison reformer, social reformer and philanthropist. Fry was born Elizabeth Gurney at Earlham in Norfolk, England to a Quaker family. Motivated by the gospel, she took an interest in her teenage years
• Fred KavliFred Kavli is a Norwegian physicist, business leader, innovator, and philanthropist. He received a physics degree from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. He immigrated to the United States in 1956 to launch a business and two years later
• Genesio Morlacci
• George CadburyGeorge Cadbury ( September 19, 1839 October 24, 1922) was the third son of Quaker John Cadbury, the founder of Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company. Together with his brother Richard he took over the family business in 1861 and in 1878 they acquired 14 a
• George Soros
• Henry Duncan
• Henry H. Rogers
• J. C. Jacobsen
• Joan Kroc
• John D. MacArthur
• John D. Rockefeller
• John 'Mad Jack' Fuller
• Johns Hopkins
• Joseph Rowntree
• Joseph Whitworth
• Julius Rosenwald
• Paul Allen
• Richard Stallman
• Robert Raikes
• Samuel Augustus Barnett
• Steve Kirsch
• Ted Turner
• Thomas John Barnardo
• Walter Annenberg
• William Marsh Rice
• William Wilberforce
• Clara Winthrop
• Sir Alfred Yarrow
• Sir Robert Mayer
• Sir Run Run Shaw