Bill Gates William Henry Gates is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of the Microsoft Corporation. From this you could tell that Bill Gates was a hard working man. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. So as in today his age is 62 years old. All his and work and effort payed of with about $ 92.2 billion in the year of 2018. Besides work he also had a family and was married to Melinda Gates and had a total of three children. Their children's names is Jennifer Katherine Gates, Phoebe Adele Gates and Rory John Gates. From 1967- 1973 Bill Gates studied in Lakeside School and then moved to Harvard college in 1973 - 1975. He study and did what he wants to be for the rest of his life. He was in fact also a very nice person that wanted to help. He donated the highest amount given to charity ($35 billion) among the greatest philanthropists. H