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Melinda Gates
b. 1964
American philanthropist (born 1964)
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Birth
1964 August 15, 1964 →Biography
Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she attended Duke University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics and an MBA. She joined Microsoft in 1987 as a multimedia product developer. In the same year, she began dating the company's co-founder and then-chief executive Bill Gates, whom she married in 1994 and divorced in 2021. They have three children together.
Timeline
American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
August 15 →Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
June 27 →More from the Postwar
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