Learn how Oprah became successful by reading her biography. Organized into several sections: "Television Pioneer," "Magazine Founder & Editorial Director," "Producer/Actress," "Philanthropist," "Television Programming Creator,"...

(1837-1919) American philanthropist and capitalist.

A capitalist and philanthropist, born near Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, May 27, 1794; died in New York City, Jan. 4, 1877.

A Christian philanthropist who was a major driving force behind new legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more humane.

James Oglethorpe (1/2/22/1696 - 6/30/1785) was a British general, a philanthropist and was the founder of the colony of Georgia. A social reformer in England, he hoped to resettle England's poor, especially those in debtors prison, in...

(1795-1869) American merchant and philanthropist, most noted for his donations to education in the South and to promote arts and sciences.

(1795-1869) An entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Institute in Boston. He was born in Danvers, Massachusetts to a middle class family.

(1820-1888) Henry Bergh was a philanthropist who organized the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

An Alsatian pastor and philanthropist.

His career shows him to have been one of the greatest of Americans and the noblest of men. He learned three trades before he was twenty-one; his genious enabled him to rank high as an inventor; he was pre-eminently a man of affairs, his...

Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809 - Boston) was an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

(1835-1919) Industrialist and Philanthropist