Agnes Meyer
American journalist, philanthropist, civil rights activist, and art patron.
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Melinda French Gates
As co-chair of the world’s largest private charitable foundation, Melinda Gates is one of the most powerful women in philanthropy.
Sarah Cryer
New Zealand farmer, community worker and philanthropist
Hariot Blackwood
Irish marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, philanthropist and author
Harriet Bagwell
Irish philanthropist and promoter of local industry
Jane Bannerman
New Zealand Presbyterian church leader and philanthropist
Marvin Breckinridge Patterson
When World War II broke out in 1939, freelance photojournalist Marvin Breckinridge Patterson took the first pictures of a London air-raid shelter.
Anna Maria Hall
Irish writer, editor, and philanthropistq
Henrietta de Grey
Countess de Grey , political hostess and philanthropist
Annie Montague Alexander
Philanthropist, zoologist, paleontologist, and heiress who established the University of California Museum of Paleontology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.