#18: Laurance Rockefeller ’32

Published in the Jan. 23, 2008, Issue

Son of oilman John D. Rockefeller, he was one of the early venture capitalists but made his reputation as as a philanthropist and conservationist, funding the expansion of Grand Teton National Park and supporting dozens of institutions including the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Princeton.