English > philanthropist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being. |
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| Synonym | altruist |
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| Instances | Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie | United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919) |
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| Cooper, Peter Cooper | United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| Mellon, Andrew Mellon, Andrew W. Mellon, Andrew William Mellon | United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937) |
| Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Bernhard Nobel | Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896) |
| Nuffield, William Richard Morris, First Viscount Nuffield | British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963) |
| Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, John Davison Rockefeller | United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937) |
| Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Commodore Vanderbilt | United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877) |
| Yale, Elihu Yale | English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721) |
| Broader | donor, giver, presenter, bestower, conferrer | person who makes a gift of property |
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| Spanish | altruista, altruísta, filántropo |
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| Catalan | altruista, filantrop |
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| Nouns | philanthropy | voluntary promotion of human welfare |
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