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  • NAME: Melinda Gates
  • OCCUPATION: Business Leader, Philanthropist
  • BIRTH DATE: August 15, 1964 (Age: 47)
  • EDUCATION: Ursuline Academy, Duke University
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Dallas, Texas
  • Maiden Name: Melinda Ann French
  • ZODIAC SIGN: Leo
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Melinda Gates is a businesswoman and philanthropist who--with her husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates--started the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Melinda Gates was born on August 15, 1964 in Dallas, Texas. She joined Microsoft in 1987 and married Bill Gates in 1994. She left Microsoft to concentrate on family and charitable work. By 2006, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation--which she co-founded--was the world's largest philanthropic organization with $60 billion in assets focused on promoting global health and nutrition.

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