donor, giver, presenter - person who makes a gift of property

Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie - United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)

Cooper, 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)

Ezra Cornell, 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; son of Meyer Guggenheim who created several foundation to support the arts (1861-1949)

John Harvard, 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; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945)

Johns Hopkins, Hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)

Andrew Mellon, Andrew W. Mellon, Andrew William Mellon, Mellon - United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937)

Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Nobel - Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896)

First Viscount Nuffield, Nuffield, William Richard Morris - British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)

John D. Rockefeller, John Davison Rockefeller, Rockefeller - United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)

Commodore Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt - United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)

Elihu Yale, Yale - English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)