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Melinda Gates

1964 - Today

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Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she was educated at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, Duke University, and Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Shortly after joining Microsoft in 1987 as a multimedia product developer, she began dating the company's co-founder and then-CEO Bill Gates, whom she married in 1994. They have three children together. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Melinda Gates is the 47th most popular businessperson (up from 277th in 2019), the 465th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,072nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Melinda Gates ranks 47 out of 847. Before her are Robert Kiyosaki, Frank Williams, Carlos Slim, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Philip Kotler, and David Rockefeller. After her are Adolf Dassler, João Havelange, Joan Gamper, J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Aga Khan IV.

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Among people born in 1964, Melinda Gates ranks 10. Before her are Keanu Reeves, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, Monica Bellucci, Marco van Basten, Sarah Palin, and Russell Crowe. After her are Sandra Bullock, Nigel Farage, Dan Brown, Tim Walz, Robert Fico, and Kamala Harris.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Melinda Gates ranks 465 out of 20,380. Before her are David Rockefeller (1915), Robert Zemeckis (1952), Joe Dassin (1938), Joseph Murray (1919), Oliver Hardy (1892), and Sylvia Plath (1932). After her are Kurt Cobain (1967), Ella Fitzgerald (1917), James B. Sumner (1887), Eminem (1972), Harry Nilsson (1941), and Chris Cooper (1951).

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