William Avery Rockefeller Jr. (May 31, 1841 – June 24, 1922) was an American businessman and financier. Rockefeller was a co-founder of Standard Oil along with his elder brother John Davison Rockefeller.He was also part owner of the Anaconda Copper Company, which was the fourth-largest company in the world in the late 1920s.He was a prominent member of the …

William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat, best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II.He is regarded as the founding father of the …

William Henry Welch (April 8, 1850 – April 30, 1934) was an American physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, and medical-school administrator. ... From 1901 to 1933, he was founding president of the Board of Scientific Directors at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Margaretta Large "Happy" Rockefeller (née Fitler, formerly Murphy; June 9, 1926 – May 19, 2015) was a philanthropist and the second wife of the 49th governor of New York and 41st vice president of the United States, Nelson Rockefeller (1908–1979). She was First Lady of New York from 1963 to 1973, and Second Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977.

William Gordon Bowen (/ ˈ b oʊ ə n /; October 6, 1933 – October 20, 2016) was an American academic who served as the president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, serving as its president from 1988 to 2006. From 1972 until 1988, he was the president of Princeton University.Bowen founded the digital library, JSTOR

Die Familie Rockefeller wurde durch den Unternehmer John D. Rockefeller und seinen Bruder William Rockefeller bekannt. Diese beiden Brüder waren die Söhne von William Avery Rockefeller (1810–1906), einem Hausierer und Quacksalber, und dessen Frau Eliza Davison Rockefeller (1813–1889).

David Rockefeller (Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 12 de junio de 1915-Ibídem, 20 de marzo de 2017) [1] fue un banquero y hombre de negocios estadounidense de ascendencia judía, [2] [3] patriarca de la conocida familia Rockefeller, ya que fue el último hijo vivo de John D. Rockefeller Jr..Además, fue el nieto del multimillonario y magnate petrolero John D. Rockefeller, fundador …

Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was president of Harvard University from 1869 to 1909 – the longest term of any Harvard president. A member of the prominent Eliot family of Boston, he transformed Harvard from a respected provincial college into America's preeminent research university. Theodore Roosevelt called …

Michael Clark Rockefeller (May 18, 1938 – presumed to have died November 19, 1961) was the fifth child of New York Governor and former U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.He was the grandson of American financier John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the great grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller.He disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of …

William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator.A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a prominent figure in the Republican Party in its …