Melinda Gates facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Melinda Gates
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Melinda Gates at the World Economic Forum in 2011
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Melinda Ann French
August 15, 1964 Dallas, Texas, U.S.
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| Alma mater | Duke University (BA), (MBA) |
| Occupation | Co-Chair and Founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
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| Children | 3 |
Melinda Ann Gates DBE (née French; August 15, 1964) is an American business woman who once worked at Microsoft. She married to Bill Gates. They met while she was working for Microsoft.
She was awarded an honorary damehood by Queen Elizabeth II in 2014 for her services to charity and international development. As an American citizen, she cannot be called "Dame Melinda", but can use the letters "DBE" after her name. Her current occupations are that she is a philanthropist and she is running the "Bill and Melinda Gates's Foundation" with her husband. She has three children : Phoebe Adele Gates, Rory John Gates, and Jennifer Katharine Gates. She got awarded for the Gates's Foundation in May 2006
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Images for kids
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French Gates in 2011
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Melinda and her then-husband, Bill, in 2009
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Front building of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle
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