John D. Rockefeller

- Industrialist and Philanthropist
- Co- founder of the Standard Oil Company which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust
- Revolutionized the petroleum industry
- Defined the structure of modern philanthropy.
- Soon became the world's richest man and the first American worth more than a billion dollars
- His wealth was used to create the modern systematic approach and targeted philanthropy
- His foundations had a major effect on medicine, education, and scientific research.