Philanthropy
- Douglas Burrows MBE CBE (1932–1934) – Sydney Medical School Foundation's Douglas Burrows Chair of Paediatrics and Child Health established in 1983 in his honour having been Chairman of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children and a significant financial supporter
- Clive Ramaciotti (1894–1900) – $75 million Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundation for biomedical research
- George Johnson (1913–1915) – $15 million George and Nerissa Johnson Bequest for the arts
- Edwin Cuthbert Hall (1886–1891) – Edwin Cuthbert Hall Chair of Middle Eastern Archaeology University of Sydney.
- Mervyn Horton AM (1930–1935) – $8 million of contemporary art Art Gallery of New South Wales Mervyn Horton Bequest
- Robert Storr (1935–1936) – $5 million Robert W Storr Chair for hepatic medicine University of Sydney
- Carlyle Greenwell (1897–1901) – $1 million Carlyle Greenwell Research Fund in Anthropology and Archaeology University of Sydney
- The Hon. Justice Leycester Meares AC CMG QC (1924–1926) – Benefactor of Kidsafe
- Colonel Thomas Millner MC VD (1897–1901) – Benefactor of T G Millner Field home ground of Eastwood Rugby Club
- Dr Mitchell Notaras (1948–1952) – $1.1 million Mitchel J Notaras Scholarship for Colorectal Medicine University of Sydney
- Dr Colin Laverty OAM (1949–1953) – Benefactor of funds and art works to National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Biennale of Sydney and Gold Coast City Art Gallery
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Famous quotes containing the word philanthropy:
“... the hey-day of a woman’s life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“Almost every man we meet requires some civility,—requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)