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William Henry Gates III, KBE, often called Bill Gates, is a famous American capitalist, investor, software engineer, and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen and served as Microsoft's chairman, CEO and chief software architect. He also held more than 8% of the company's common stock and was the company's largest individual shareholder.

Category
Entrepreneurs
Nationality
United States
Born
1955-10-28
Wikidata
Q5284
Occupations entrepreneurprogrammercomputer scientistinvestorphilanthropistwriterTycoonsponsorFounder
Aliases Bill GatesWilliam "Bill" Henry GatesWilliam H. GatesWilliam H. Gates IIIWilliam Henry "Bill" GatesWilliam Henry "Bill" Gates IIIWilliam Henry Gatesbill gatesBill Gatesbill gatesBill Gates

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