1874–1960 · American philanthropist · only son of John D. Rockefeller Sr.
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (born 29 January 1874, died 11 May 1960) was the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller Sr., and he spent his life on the giving side of the family fortune rather than the earning side. Wikipedia records donations of more than $537 million across his lifetime, including the reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg, the development of Rockefeller Center, and land purchases donated to national parks such as Grand Teton, Acadia and Great Smoky Mountains. That biography — inherited money, deliberately redirected — is exactly what makes this sentence his rather than his father’s.