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Melinda Gates

American philanthropist

  • Audience92.9K
  • Fame74.9
  • Momentum0.3
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  • Audience92.9K
  • Fame74.9
  • Momentum0.3
  • Founders rank#22
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Born 1964 · age 62United States
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  • Age
    62
    Born 1964
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    2023
Summary
Updated 2026-08-18

She built products at Microsoft, then built the world's largest private foundation — and after 27 years of marriage and two decades co-chairing billions in global health work, she walked away from both to steer her own $12.5 billion toward women and families.

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Melinda Ann French grew up in Dallas, studied computer science and economics at Duke, and joined Microsoft in 1987 as a multimedia product developer. She began dating Bill Gates that same year and married him in 1994. From 2000 to 2024, they co-chaired the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, steering unprecedented sums toward global health, development, and education — work that earned them the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honour. The marriage ended in 2021. As part of the divorce settlement, she received $12.5 billion for independent philanthropy focused on women and fa…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates
said
Some of these big firms often believe in the white guy in a hoodie disrupting a whole industry.
— mentioned 30 May 2018 by Fortune then 31 May 2018 by Business Insider and 5 June 2018 by The Federalist
Melinda Gates
saidundated
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult
— On Facebook #shesaid
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$29.0Bestimated · 2025

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Fame
Stable
74.9
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Momentum0.3
Historical24.6
Source confidence90.0
Completeness90.0
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Category rank
#22
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