World s 20 most generous people named

WASHINGTON (Web Desk) – A global organisation Wealth-X that does research on wealth intelligence, has prepared a list of world’s 20 most generous people.

The firm calculated the total amount of donation that the individuals have offered, in comparison with their current net value. The total amount of donation in this list is worth around 106.8 billion dollars!

Here is the list of 20 most generous people, according to Wealth-X

1. Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft:

Donation amount: 27 billion dollars

2. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway:

Donation amount: 21.5 billion dollars

3. George Soros, Founder of Soros Fund Management:

Donation amount: 8 billion dollars

4. Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro:

Donation amount: 8 billion dollars

5. Charles Francis Feeney, Co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group:

Donation amount: 6.3 billion dollars

6. Sulaiman bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, Co-founder of Al Rajhi Bank:

Donation amount: 5.7 billion dollars

7. Gordon Moore, Co-founder of Intel:

Donation amount: 5 billion dollars

8. Carlos Slim, owner of Helu, a Mexican Telecom company:

Donation amount: 4 billion dollars

9. Eli Broad, Co-founder of KB Home:

Donation amount: 3.3 billion dollars

10. George Kaiser, Chairman of BOK Financial Corporation:

Donation amount: 3.3 billion dollars

11. Michael Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg LP:

Donation amount: 3 billion dollars

12. Paul Allen, Co-founder of Microsoft:

Donation amount: 2 billion dollars

13. Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook:

Donation amount: 1.6 billion dollars

14. Li Ka-shing, Chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings:

Donation amount: 1.4 billion dollars

15. Jon Huntsman (Senior), Founder of Huntsman Chemical Corporation:

Donation amount: 1.2 billion dollars

16. Ted Turner, Founder of CNN:

Donation amount: 2.1 billion dollars

17. James Simons, a Hedge Fund Manager:

Donation amount: 1.2 billion dollars

18. Michael Dell, Founder of Dell:

Donation amount: 1.1 billion dollars

19. Pierre Omidyar, Co-founder of eBay:

Donation amount: 1 billion dollars

20. Dietmar Hopp, Co-founder of SAP:

Donation amount: 1 billion dollars.

courtesy: India Today