altruist
Noun
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Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being (synset 110441701)
specific instances:
- andrew carnegie, carnegie - United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
- cooper, peter cooper - United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883)
- cornell, ezra cornell - United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)
- guggenheim, solomon guggenheim - United States philanthropist; son of Meyer Guggenheim who created several foundations to support the arts (1861-1949)
- harvard, john harvard - American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638)
- hershey, milton snavely hershey - United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945)
- hopkins, johns hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)
- andrew mellon, andrew w. mellon, andrew william mellon, mellon - United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937)
- alfred bernhard nobel, alfred nobel, nobel - Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896)
- first viscount nuffield, nuffield, william richard morris - British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)
- john d. rockefeller, john davison rockefeller, rockefeller - United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)
- commodore vanderbilt, cornelius vanderbilt, vanderbilt - United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)
- elihu yale, yale - English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)
same as: philanthropist
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