Bill Gates – Axios Press

Bill Gates

Born 1955

American

Computer software entrepreneur, the richest person in the world. He started his computer software company on a shoestring and came to exemplify entrepreneurship.

Contemporaries

1896–1986	Wallis Windsor
1911–1983	Tennessee Williams
1917–1999	William Whyte
1878–1958	John Watson
1907–1979	John Wayne
1927–1987	Andy Warhol
1891–1974	Earl Warren
1920–2012	Russell Errol Train
1894–1961	James Thurber
1899–1979	Allen Tate
1903–1998	Benjamin Spock
1904–1990	B. F. Skinner
1919–2014	Pete Seeger
1910–2004	Laurance Rockefeller
1898–1976	Paul Robeson
1874–1960	John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1911–2004	Ronald Reagan
1921–2002	John Rawls
1880–1973	Jeannette Rankin
1889–1979	A. Philip Randolph
1911–1993	Vincent Price
1935–1977	Elvis Presley
1872–1960	Emily Post
1892–1964	Cole Porter
1908–1996	Roger Peterson
1898–1993	Norman Vincent Peale
1871–1955	Maud Park
1913–1980	Jesse Owens
1929–1994	Jacqueline Onassis
1913–1994	Richard Nixon
1891–1980	Henry Miller
1880–1956	H. L. Mencken
1901–1978	Margaret Mead
1895–1989	John McCloy
1909–1957	Joseph McCarthy
1885–1957	Louis Mayer
1915–2001	William Masters
1895–1977	Groucho Marx
1901–1979	Zeppo Marx
1893–1961	Harpo Marx
1891–1961	Chico Marx
1880–1959	George Marshall
1908–1993	Thurgood Marshall
1925–1965	Malcolm X
1880–1964	Douglas MacArthur
1889–1974	Walter Lippmann
1918–2002	Ann Landers
1894–1956	Alfred Kinsey
1922–1969	Jack Kerouac
1880–1968	Helen Keller
1925–2013	Virginia Johnson
1908–1973	Lyndon Johnson
1897–1962	William Faulkner
1901–1966	Walt Disney
1886–1961	Ty Cobb
1888–1955	Dale Carnegie
1901–2000	Carl Barks
1876–1965	George Baker
1902–2001	Mortimer Adler