WMary Sophia Alston was an Australian philanthropist. She was patron of the central executive of Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital and president of the Royal Women's Hospital. Her husband, James Alston, was an innovator and entrepreneur of windmills.
WCraig Gene Benzine is an American video producer, musician, and vlogger better known by his YouTube channel name of WheezyWaiter. On July 15, 2020, his channel hit 1 million subscribers and has over 155 million total video views.
WAjey Nagar (pronounced [əˈdʒeː ˈnaːɡər]), popularly known as CarryMinati, is an Indian YouTuber and streamer from Faridabad, India. He is known for his comedic skits and reactions to various online topics on his channel CarryMinati. His other channel CarryisLive is dedicated to gaming and live streams.
WJohn Felix Anthony Cena is an American professional wrestler, actor, television presenter, philanthropist, and former rapper currently signed to WWE. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he is tied with Ric Flair for the most world championship reigns in pro wrestling history.
WMaxwell Frank Clifford was an English publicist and was particularly associated with promoting 'kiss and tell' stories in tabloid newspapers.
WGérard Cohen is a Swiss private banker and patron of the arts. Between 1991 and 2016 he was managing director of HSBC Private Bank in Monaco.
WLouise De Mortie was an African-American lecturer and fundraiser. She devoted herself to aiding black children orphaned during the American Civil War.
WJermain Colin Defoe is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Scottish Premiership club Rangers. Defoe has also played for the England national team.
WWalter "Snowy" Farr MBE was a British charity fundraiser who mostly operated in the streets of Cambridge, England. Over several decades Farr collected many thousands of pounds for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. In recognition of his efforts, he received an MBE in November 1995. Farr was usually seen in eccentric clothing, often incorporating antique military wear, and accompanied by tame animals, including mice, cats, dogs and even a goat.
WFrancien Giraudi is the founding president of a Monegasgue association which helps the sick children of Monaco and the region Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur. Currently living in Monaco, she is a member of UNICEF. Active and committed to the Monegasque community, she received the title of Woman of the Year in 2014.In October 2018 she created "The Frankie Foundation for children" based in London who develops ways to improve lives of sick and disabled children of England and Wales and registered with the Charity Commission N°1180488.
WMaggie Gobran or Mama Maggie, a Coptic Orthodox, is the founder and CEO of the non-profit charity Stephen's Children in Cairo, Egypt. She was also professor of computer science at the American University in Cairo, is married and has a son and a daughter. She was nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
WJemima Marcelle Goldsmith is a British screenwriter, television, film and documentary producer and the founder of Instinct Productions, a television production company. She was formerly a journalist and associate editor of The New Statesman, a British political and cultural magazine, and served as the European editor-at-large for the American magazine Vanity Fair. In 1995, Goldsmith married Imran Khan, a Pakistani cricketer, with whom she had two sons. The couple divorced in 2004.
WKate Miriam Granger was an English geriatrician and campaigner for better patient care. In 2011 she was diagnosed with desmoplastic small-round-cell tumor (DSRCT), a type of sarcoma, and subsequently started the "#hellomynameis" campaign encouraging healthcare staff to introduce themselves to patients. Granger also raised over £250,000 for local cancer charity, the Yorkshire Cancer Centre Appeal.
WThe Green brothers, John and Hank, are two American brothers, entrepreneurs, social activists, authors, and YouTube vloggers. The two extensively work together, having started their collaborative popularity with a daily vlog project in 2007 titled "Brotherhood 2.0", in which they only communicated in vlogs posted to YouTube for a year. The Greens' portfolio of online work now includes their main Vlogbrothers channel, Crash Course, SciShow, their podcast Dear Hank & John, and several others projects spanning a number of forms of media.
WWilliam Henry "Hank" Green II is an American vlogger, science communicator, entrepreneur, author, internet producer, and musician. He is known for producing the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers, where he and his older brother, author John Green, regularly upload videos, as well as for creating and hosting the educational YouTube channels Crash Course and SciShow. He has also advocated for and organized social activism, created and hosted a number of other YouTube channels and podcasts, released music albums, and amassed a large following on TikTok.
WJohn Michael Green is an American author and YouTube content creator. He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, and his fourth solo novel, The Fault in Our Stars, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list in January 2012. The 2014 film adaptation opened at number one at the box office. In 2014, Green was included in Time magazine's list of The 100 Most Influential People in the World. Another film based on a Green novel, Paper Towns, was released on July 24, 2015.
WSeán William McLoughlin, better known as Jacksepticeye, is an Irish YouTuber, best known for his vlogs and comedic Let's Play series. As of June 2021, his channel has over 14.3 billion views and 27.2 million subscribers, and is the most-subscribed Irish channel. He is the co-founder of the clothing brand Cloak, along with fellow YouTuber Markiplier, and the founder and owner of the Top of The Mornin Coffee company. He has participated in fundraisers that have raised millions for charity.
WImran Ahmed Khan Niazi is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Pakistan and the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Before entering politics, Khan was an international cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team, which he led to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. He was chancellor of the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2014.
WHorace Greeley Knowles was an American attorney and diplomat, who served as an ambassador under three U.S. presidents between 1907 and 1913.
WRobert Lewandowski is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and is the captain of the Poland national team. Recognized for his positioning, technique and finishing, Lewandowski is considered one of the best strikers of all time, as well as one of the most successful players in Bundesliga history. He has scored over 500 senior career goals for club and country.
WKelli Lidell is an American country singer, actress, and charity fundraiser based in Los Angeles, California.
WMark Edward Fischbach, known online as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber and podcast host. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, he began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. As well as uploading videos on his main YouTube channel, he is the co-founder of clothing company Cloak with fellow YouTuber Jacksepticeye, and the co-host of the now defunct Unus Annus channel.
WJames McNair, known by his stage names Jimmy Mack and Uncle Jimmy Mack, was an American comedian and writer.
WJimmy Donaldson, better known online as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, businessman, and philanthropist. He has been credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that center on expensive stunts. He is also the founder of MrBeast Burger and the co-creator of Team Trees, a fundraiser for the Arbor Day Foundation, which has raised over $23 million. He is managed by the Dallas-based talent management company Night Media.
WUte-Henriette Ohoven is UNESCO Special Ambassador, the Honorary President of the ZNS - Hannelore Kohl foundation and the Counsel General of the Republic of Senegal. Ute Ohoven has an estimated net worth of 20€ million.
WJohan Thoning Widerøe Owesen was an Irish-Norwegian philanthropist and landowner. He is most famous for his charitable legacy of £9.6 million, roughly 105 million Norwegian krone, that he left after his death.
WFelix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known online as PewDiePie, is a Swedish YouTuber and comedian, known primarily for his Let's Play videos and comedic formatted shows.
WDanapala Mudiyanselage Rathidu Suramya Senarathna [Sinhala]), better known by his stage name Ratta, is a Sri Lankan YouTuber, television actor, director, philanthropist and social media personality. Started his career in 2012, Ratta became a popular figure in YouTube and other social media. During the preceding years, Ratta became one of the leading YouTube channels and a brand in Sri Lanka. The production of comic stories also takes place through Ratta where all the characters in the videos produced and played by Rathidu himself as well as videography and editing.
WMark B. Rober is an American YouTuber, engineer, and inventor. He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets. Before YouTube, Rober was an engineer with NASA for 9 years where he spent seven of those years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He later worked for four years at Apple Inc. as a product designer in their Special Projects Group, where he authored patents involving virtual reality in self-driving cars.
WSir James Wilson Vincent Savile was an English DJ, television and radio personality who hosted BBC shows including Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It. He raised an estimated £40 million for charities and, during his lifetime, was widely praised for his personal qualities and as a fund-raiser. After his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse were made against him, leading the police to conclude that Savile had been a predatory sex offender—possibly one of Britain's most prolific. There had been allegations during his lifetime, but they were dismissed and accusers ignored or disbelieved; Savile took legal action against some accusers.
WLloyd Scott, MBE is an English former professional football goalkeeper and now charity fundraiser, best known in the UK for his charity marathons. He is notable for competing in the 2002 London Marathon in a deep-sea diving costume during which he broke the world record for slowest marathon time. The diving suit he wore is now on display at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. The number he wore is still attached to the suit on display.
WThe response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake included national governments, charitable and for-profit organizations from around the world which began coordinating humanitarian aid designed to help the Haitian people. Some countries arranged to send relief and rescue workers and humanitarian supplies directly to the earthquake damage zones, while others sought to organize national fund raising to provide monetary support for the nonprofit groups working directly in Haiti. OCHA coordinates and tracks this on a daily basis. The information is disseminated through the UN news and information portal, ReliefWeb. As of September 5, 2013, ReliefWeb have reported a total relief funding of $3.5 billion given.
WMichael Alan Spencer, Baron Spencer of Alresford, sometimes known as "Spens", is a British businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of NEX Group, a UK-based business focused on electronic markets and post trade business which was acquired by CME Group in November 2018. NEX Group was formerly known as ICAP, until the sale of its voice-broking business to Tullett Prebon in December 2016. Spencer has been described as the richest self-made person in the City of London and as a "City grandee". According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, he is worth an estimated £1.1 billion, a decrease of £50 million from the previous year.. He was award a peerage in August 2020 in the Political Honours List.
WMiles Spencer is an American angel investor, media entrepreneur and explorer. He is best known for his role as co-host and co-creator of MoneyHunt, a reality-based show where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of experts. MoneyHunt was distributed to PBS stations in the US beginning 1997 and overseas beginning 1999. Spencer and co-host Cliff Ennico are known for their direct, fast-paced questioning and constructive criticism of entrepreneurs. The two developed the program after a classroom experience at a local continuing education class. The show is considered the original program of the genre, and has been copied in several markets worldwide, most notably Dragons' Den and Shark Tank. Spencer, who was born in Norristown, PA, readily admits in his book MoneyHunt to having been inspired by Enterprise, a French show hosted by Bernard Tapie, while he attended school there in the early eighties as an exchange student from Choate Rosemary Hall.
WStephen Robert Sutton, was an English blogger and charity activist known for his blog Stephen's Story and his fundraising efforts for the Teenage Cancer Trust charity for the aid of teenagers with cancer. By the second anniversary of his death, £5.5 million had been raised in his memory.
WAtul Tandon is a nonprofit executive, entrepreneur, humanitarian and author.
WChristian Vater is the founder of the independent German charitable foundation Deutschland rundet auf. Born in Berlin, Vater is a social entrepreneur since 2009. Previously, he worked as a music manager.
WVeteran Bandit is a UK-based team of volunteers who raise both money and awareness for a wide variety of Armed Forces charities through roadshow appearances, fundraising events and information and publicity generated on their own website and via social media.
WBob Wells is an American vandweller, YouTuber, and author. He is noted for being an inspiration to thousands of people who embrace a minimalistic and nomadic lifestyle centered on vandwelling. Wells founded the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous, an annual gathering of vandwellers in Quartzsite, Arizona, and Homes on Wheels Alliance, a charity organization dedicated to the promotion of vandwelling.