Melinda French Gates
Melinda French Gates (born
Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist, former multimedia product developer and manager at
Microsoft, and the ex-wife of its co-founder and billionaire
Bill Gates. French Gates has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most powerful women by ''
Forbes'' magazine. In 2000, she and her then-husband Bill Gates co-founded the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization. She and her ex-husband have been awarded the US
Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French
Legion of Honour. In early May 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates announced they were getting divorced. She was recognized as one of the
BBC's 100 women of 2021.
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