World’s greatest

Philanthropists
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1. Warren Buffett

 Warren Buffett is an American investor,

industrialist and philanthropist.
 He is widely regarded as one of the most
successful investors in the world.
 Often called the "legendary investor,
Warren Buffett", is the chairman and CEO
of Berkshire Hathaway.
 In 1962, Buffett invested in and eventually took control
of a textile manufacturing firm, Berkshire Hathaway.

 In June 2006, he announced a plan to give away his

fortune to charity, with 83% of it going to the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation.

 He pledged about the equivalent of 10 million

Berkshire Hathaway shares to the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation (worth approximately US$30.7
billion ), making it the largest charitable donation in
history.
2.Oprah Winfrey
 Oprah Winfrey is an
American television host,
actress, producer, and
philanthropist, best known
for her self-titled, multi-
award winning talk show,
which has become the
highest-rated program of its
kind in history.
 She has been ranked the
richest African American of
the 20th century, the
greatest black philanthropist
in American history.
 In 1998, Winfrey created the
Oprah's Angel Network, a
charity that supported
charitable projects and
provided grants to nonprofit
organizations around the
world.
 She personally donates more
of her own money to charity
than any other show-business
celebrity in America.
3.Mother Teresa
 Mother Teresa a Catholic
nun of Albanian ethnicity
and Indian citizenship,
founded the Missionaries of
Charity in Calcutta, India in
1950.
 For over 45 years she
ministered to the poor, sick,
orphaned, and dying, while
guiding the Missionaries of
Charity's expansion, first
throughout India and then in
other countries.
 In 1952 Mother Teresa opened the
first Home for the Dying in space
made available by the city of
Calcutta.

 In 1955 she opened the Nirmala

Shishu Bhavan, the Children's Home
of the Immaculate Heart, as a haven
for orphans and homeless youth.
 On 13 March 1997, she stepped
down from the head of Missionaries
of Charity. She died on 5 September
1997.
4.Paul Newman
 Paul Newman was an American
actor, film director, entrepreneur,
humanitarian, professional racing
driver and auto racing enthusiast.
 He won numerous awards,
including an Academy Award for
best actor for his performance in the
1986 Martin Scorsese film The
Color of Money

 Three Golden Globe Awards, a

BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors
Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival
Award, an Emmy award, and many
honorary awards.
 Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a
food company from which Newman donated all
profits and royalties to charity.
 As of August 2010, these donations had exceeded
$300 million.
 Paul Newman was one of the founders of the
Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy
(CECP), a membership organization of CEOs and
corporate chairpersons committed to raising the
level and quality of global corporate philanthropy.
5.Imran Khan
 Imran Khan is a retired
Pakistani cricketer who
played international cricket
for two decades and has
been a politician since the
mid-1990s.
 Currently, besides his
political activism, Khan is
also a philanthropist and
cricket commentator.
 In April 1996, Khan founded and became the chairman
of a political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
 By 1991, he had founded the Shaukat Khanum
Memorial Trust, a charity organization.
 Khan established Pakistan's first and only cancer
hospital, constructed using donations and funds
exceeding $25 million, raised by Khan from all over
the world.
 Khan established Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer
Hospital & Research Centre, a charitable cancer
hospital with 75 percent free care.
6.Sunil Bharti Mittal
 Sunil Bharti Mittal is an
Indian telecom mogul,
philanthropist and the
founder, chairman and
Group CEO of Bharti
Enterprises.
 In 2007, he was awarded
the Padma Bhushan, India's
third highest civilian honor.
 A first generation entrepreneur, Mittal started his first business in
April 1976 at the age of 18.
 He was one of the first Indian entrepreneurs to identify the
mobile telecom business as a major growth area.
 He launched services in Delhi in 1995 , when Bharti Cellular
Limited (BCL) was formed to offer cellular services under the
brand name AirTel.
 Mittal has also been working towards educating India through the
Bharti Foundation.
 The foundation has established over 200 schools on its 2009 list
of the world's top 25 philanthropists.
7. Christopher Reeve

 Christopher Reeve was an American

actor, film director, producer,
screenwriter and author.

 He achieved stardom for his acting

achievements, including his notable
motion picture portrayal of the fictional
superhero Superman.

 On May 27, 1995, Reeve became a

quadriplegic after being thrown from a
horse in an competition in Virginia.

 He required a wheelchair and breathing

apparatus for the rest of his life.
 He lobbied on behalf of people
with spinal cord injuries, and
for human embryonic stem cell
research afterward.
 He founded the Christopher
Reeve Foundation and co-
founded the Reeve-Irvine
Research Center.
 He created the Christopher
Reeve Foundation to speed up
research through funding, to
improve the quality of the lives
of people with disabilities.
8. J. K. Rowling

 J. K. Rowling is a British
author best known as the
creator of the Harry Potter
fantasy series.
 J. K. Rowling was named
'Most Influential Woman in
Britain' by leading
magazine editors.
 Forbes ranked Rowling as
the forty-eighth most
powerful celebrity of 2007
 She has become a notable philanthropist, supporting such
charities as Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple
Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, and Lumos.

 Rowling has contributed money and support for research and

treatment of multiple sclerosis, from which her mother suffered
before her death in 1990.

 In 2006, Rowling contributed a substantial sum toward the

creation of a new Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh
University and in 2010 she donated a further £10 million to the
centre.
9.Angelina Jolie

 Angelina Jolie is an
American actress.
 She has received an
Academy Award, two
Screen Actors Guild
Awards, and three Golden
Globe Awards.
 Jolie promotes humanitarian
causes, and is noted for her work
with refugees as a Goodwill
Ambassador for the United
Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR).
 In February 2010, following a $1
million donation to relief efforts
combating the ravages of the
2010 Haiti earthquake,
 Jolie visited Haiti and the
Dominican Republic to discuss
the future of relief efforts.
 In April, Jolie travelled to Bosnia
to visit displaced victims of the
Bosnian War.
10.Mohamed Al-Fayed
 Mohamed Al-Fayed is an
Egyptian businessman.
 Amongst his business
interests are ownership of
the English Premiership
football team Fulham
Football Club, Hotel Ritz
Paris and formerly Harrods
Department store.
 Fayed and his brothers founded a shipping company in Egypt
before moving its headquarters to Genoa, Italy with additional
offices in London. It was then that Fayed moved to England
where he lived in central London.

 In the mid 1960s, Fayed met the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid al
Makhtoum who entrusted Fayed with helping transform Dubai.

 Fayed introduced British companies like the Costain Group.

 He is also the founder of The New School at West Heath.