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Andrew Carnegie
United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
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Peter Cooper
United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883)
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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)
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Solomon Guggenheim
United States philanthropist; son of Meyer Guggenheim who created several foundations to support the arts (1861-1949)
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John Harvard
American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638)
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Milton Snavely Hershey
United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945)
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Johns Hopkins
United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)
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Andrew William Mellon
United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937)
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896)
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First Viscount Nuffield
British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)
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John Davison Rockefeller
United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)
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Commodore Vanderbilt
United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)
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Elihu Yale
English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)
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benefactor, helper
a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)
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brick
a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
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giver
someone who devotes himself completely
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good egg
(old-fashioned slang) a good person
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mensch, mensh
a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics
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plaster saint
a person (considered to be) without human failings
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rock
(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
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angel, holy man, holy person, saint
person of exceptional holiness
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square shooter, straight arrow, straight shooter
a frank and honest person
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sweetheart
any well-liked individual
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trouper
a person who is reliable and uncomplaining and hard working
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Buddha
one who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment
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benefactress
a woman benefactor
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bondsman, bondswoman
someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else
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bestower, conferrer, donor, giver, presenter
person who makes a gift of property
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donor
(medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)
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fairy godmother
a generous benefactor
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fakeer, fakir, faqir, faquir
a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
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good Samaritan
a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble
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do-gooder, humanitarian, improver
someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms
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liberator
someone who releases people from captivity or bondage
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accommodator, obliger
someone who performs a service or does a favor
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offerer, offeror
someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection
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patron, sponsor, supporter
someone who supports or champions something
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provider
someone who provides the means for subsistence
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deliverer, rescuer, savior, saviour
a person who rescues you from harm or danger
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sparer
someone who refrains from injuring or destroying
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uncle
a source of help and advice and encouragement
