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Bill Gates, Chairman/Co-Founder/Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation

William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, to William H. Gates II, an attorney, and Mary Maxwell Gates, a schoolteacher. Gates and his two sisters, Kristianne and Libby, grew up in Seattle, Washington. His family called him "Trey". His grandmother gave him his nickname because it is a card player's term for three (Lowe 3). On January 1, 1994, Bill married Melinda French, a Product Manager/Marketing Executive at Microsoft. They have two children, Jennifer Katharine, born in 1996, and Rory John, born in 1999. Early on in life, it was apparent that he inherited the ambition, intelligence, and competitive spirit that had helped his progenitors rise to the top in their chosen professions. In elementary school he quickly surpassed all of his peer's abilities in nearly all subjects, especially math and science. He read the World Book Encyclopedia from A to Z by the time he was......

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