Bill Gates
Skuespiller, Forfatter
28. oktober 1955 (70 år)
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of February 2026, his net worth stood at US$107.7 billion, making him the 18th-wealthiest individual in the world.
Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Gates was privately educated at Lakeside School, where he befriended Allen and developed his computing interests. In 1973, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he took classes including Math 55 and graduate-level computer science courses, but he dropped out in 1975 to co-found and lead Microsoft. He served as its CEO for the next 25 years and also became president and chairman of the board when the company was incorporated in 1981. Succeeded as CEO by Steve Ballmer in 2000, he transitioned to chief software architect, a position he held until 2008. He stepped down as chairman of the board in 2014 and became technology adviser to CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft leaders, a position he still holds. He resigned from the board in 2020.
Over time, Gates reduced his role at Microsoft to focus on his philanthropic work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization, which he and his then-wife, Melinda French Gates, co-chaired from 2000 until 2024. Focusing on areas including health, education, and poverty alleviation, Gates became known for his efforts to combat transmissible diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and polio. After French Gates resigned as co-chair following the couple's divorce, the foundation was renamed the Gates Foundation, with Gates as its sole chair.
Gates is the founder and chairman of several other companies, including BEN, Cascade Investment, TerraPower, Gates Ventures, and Breakthrough Energy. In 2010, he and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledged to give at least half their wealth to philanthropy. Named as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time magazine in 1999, he has received numerous other honors and accolades, including a Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded jointly to him and French Gates in 2016 for their philanthropic work. The subject of several documentary films, he published the first of three planned memoirs, Source Code: My Beginnings, in 2025.
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Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Gates was privately educated at Lakeside School, where he befriended Allen and developed his computing interests. In 1973, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he took classes including Math 55 and graduate-level computer science courses, but he dropped out in 1975 to co-found and lead Microsoft. He served as its CEO for the next 25 years and also became president and chairman of the board when the company was incorporated in 1981. Succeeded as CEO by Steve Ballmer in 2000, he transitioned to chief software architect, a position he held until 2008. He stepped down as chairman of the board in 2014 and became technology adviser to CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft leaders, a position he still holds. He resigned from the board in 2020.
Over time, Gates reduced his role at Microsoft to focus on his philanthropic work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization, which he and his then-wife, Melinda French Gates, co-chaired from 2000 until 2024. Focusing on areas including health, education, and poverty alleviation, Gates became known for his efforts to combat transmissible diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and polio. After French Gates resigned as co-chair following the couple's divorce, the foundation was renamed the Gates Foundation, with Gates as its sole chair.
Gates is the founder and chairman of several other companies, including BEN, Cascade Investment, TerraPower, Gates Ventures, and Breakthrough Energy. In 2010, he and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledged to give at least half their wealth to philanthropy. Named as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time magazine in 1999, he has received numerous other honors and accolades, including a Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded jointly to him and French Gates in 2016 for their philanthropic work. The subject of several documentary films, he published the first of three planned memoirs, Source Code: My Beginnings, in 2025.
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Filmografi
| 2026 | Finding Satoshi · as Self |
| 2026 | Diabolical: The Epstein Files · as Self - Philanthropist |
| 2025 | Breakdown: 1975 · as Self |
| 2025 | Skavlan And Sweden · as Self |
| 2024 | What's Next? The Future With Bill Gates · as Self |
| 2024 | |
| 2023 | The Story of Playstation · as Self - Co-Founder Of MicrosoftPå Plex |
| 2023 | The World’s Most Dangerous Show · as Self |
| 2023 | Plandemic 3: The Great Awakening · as Self - American Business Magnate, Philanthropist And Investor |
| 2023 | The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper · as Self |
| 2022 | Died Suddenly · as Self |
| 2022 | The Real Anthony Fauci · as Self - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| 2022 | Fluvid-19 · as Self |
| 2022 | The Big Reset · as Self - Co-Founder Of Microsoft |
| 2022 | Uncle Tom II: An American Odyssey · as Self |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Hold-Out · as Self |
| 2022 | Icahn: The Restless Billionaire · as Self |
| 2022 | Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Planet Lockdown · as Self |
| 2021 | Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story · as Self |
| 2021 | Power On: The Story of Xbox · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2021 | Fauci · as Self |
| 2021 | Bild Live · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Woodstock 99: Peace Love and Rage · as Self |
| 2021 | Tech Billionaires: Bill Gates · as Himself |
| 2021 | CORONAfilm - prologue · as Self |
| 2020 | Coded Bias · as Self - Co-Founder Of Microsoft |
| 2020 | Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself · as Self - Audience Member (uncredited) |
| 2020 | Toilet: A New Era · as Bill Gates |
| 2020 | Dear Class of 2020 · as Self |
| 2020 | Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein? · as Self - Ceo, Microsoft |
| 2020 | Coronavirus, Explained · as Self |
| 2020 | One World: Together at Home · as Self |
| 2020 | Tune Into the Future · as Self - Co-Founder Of MicrosoftPå Plex |
| 2020 | Coronavirus Explained · as Self |
| 2019 | Aces & Knaves · as Self |
| 2019 | Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates · as Self |
| 2019 | Retro Tech · as Self - Environmentalist & Philanthropist |
| 2018 | Axios · as Self |
| 2018 | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | You Quiz On The Block · as Self |
| 2018 | Explained · as Self |
| 2018 | In Principle · as Self |
| 2018 | Late Night Berlin · as Self |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | Family Shots · as Self |
| 2017 | Trump: An American Dream · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2017 | The New Fire · as Self |
| 2017 | The Pathological Optimist · as Self |
| 2017 | Nokia Mobile: We Were Connecting People · as Self |
| 2017 | The Beat with Ari Melber · as Self |
| 2017 | Becoming Warren Buffett · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | The Big Fat Quiz of Everything · as Self |
| 2017 | Malaria Business · as Self |
| 2016 | TrustWho · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | Silicon Cowboys · as Self |
| 2016 | Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | The Fifth Child · as Self |
| 2016 | Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street · as Self - Co-Founder, Microsoft |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · as Self - Guest |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden · as Self - Guest |
| 2014 | Top Spin · as Self - Ceo, Microsoft |
| 2014 | New World Order: Communism by Backdoor · as Self |
| 2014 | Silicon Valley · as Bill Gates |
| 2014 | Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo · as Self - Co-Founder, Microsoft |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers · as Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · as Self |
| 2013 | A Shot to Save the World · as Self |
| 2012 | London 2012: Games of the XXX Olympiad · as Self |
| 2012 | The Billionaires' Pledge · as Himself |
| 2012 | CBS Saturday Morning · as Self - Former Microsoft Ceo |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings · as Self |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings · as Self |
| 2011 | Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | The Decade You Were Born: The 1980's · as Self |
| 2011 | Secret Millionaires Club · as Self |
| 2011 | Dish Nation · as Self |
| 2010 | Daybreak · as Self |
| 2010 | Freakonomics · as HimselfPå Plex |
| 2010 | Veritasium · as Self - Guest |
| 2010 | Sky Midnight News · as Self - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| 2010 | The Virtual Revolution · as Self - Co-Founder: Microsoft |
| 2009 | Roslings värld · as Self - (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Skavlan · as Self - Guest |
| 2008 | Markus Lanz · as Self |
| 2008 | GPS Fareed Zakaria · as Self |
| 2008 | Q+A · as Self - Panellist |
| 2007 | College Tour · as Self - Guest |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | The Big Bang Theory · as Bill Gates |
| 2007 | The Spirit of Money · as Self |
| 2007 | Morning Joe · as Self |
| 2007 | vlogbrothers · as Self |
| 2006 | TED Talks · as Self |
| 2006 | Spam: The Documentary · as Self |
| 2005 | How William Shatner Changed the World · as Self |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report · as Self - Guest |
| 2005 | A Brief History of the PC · as Self |
| 2005 | Live 8 · as Self |
| 2004 | Le grand journal de Canal+ · as Self |
| 2003 | Unsere Besten · as Self |
| 2003 | Che tempo che fa · as Self - Guest |
| 2003 | Anderson Cooper 360 · as Self - Co-Chairman Of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show · as Self |
| 2003 | Surplus · as Self |
| 2002 | NOW · as Self |
| 2001 | Revolution OS · as Self |
| 2000 | Click (2000) · as Self |
| 1999 | Berlin Mitte · as Self |
| 1998 | Nerds 2.0.1 · as Himself (co-Founder, Microsoft) |
| 1998 | ARTE Journal Clips · as Self |
| 1998 | Sabine Christiansen · as Self |
| 1997 | The View · as Self - Guest |
| 1996 | Your World · as Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show · as Self - Guest |
| 1996 | The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires · as Self - Co-Founder, Microsoft |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show · as Self |
| 1996 | Whoever That Fails · as Self |
| 1996 | Fox News Sunday · as Self |
| 1995 | Kulturzeit · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1993 | Frasier · as Bill Gates |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien · as Self |
| 1993 | WWE Raw · as Self |
| 1992 | Late Show with David Letterman · as Self |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno · as Self |
| 1991 | Nick News · as Self - Host |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose · as Self - Guest |
| 1989 | Sky World News · as Self - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| 1988 | Countryfile · as Self |
| 1987 | Biography · as Self |
| 1986 | The Oprah Winfrey Show · as Self |
| 1985 | Larry King Live · as Self |
| 1983 | Computer Chronicles · as Self - Microsoft |
| 1982 | Wogan · as Self |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? · as Self |
| 1980 | Newsnight · as Self |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley · as Self |
| 1975 | PBS News · as Self |
| 1975 | Good Morning America · as Self |
| 1972 | Richard Dimbleby Lecture · as Self |
| 1970 | NBC Nightly News · as Self |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes · as Self |
| 1968 | Vremya · as Self - American Entrepreneur |
| 1966 | The Money Programme · as Self |
| 1955 | This is Your Life (UK) · as Self |
| 1954 | Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan · as Self |
| 1952 | Today · as Self - Guest |
| 1947 | Meet the Press · as Self - Co-Chairman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| 2021 | Roger Federer. The Reunion. · as Cast |
| 2020 | |
| 2012 | Men in Black³ · as Alien On Tv Monitor |
| 1996 |