Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

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1st Generation

2nd Generation

3rd Generation

4th Generation

William Henry Gates

 (1858–1926)

Rebecca Eppinhauser

 (1867–1933)

William H. Rice

 (1863–1925)

Isabella Sanderson

 (1871–1948)

James W. Maxwell

 (1864–1951)

Belle Oakley

 (1872–1945)

William James Thompson

 (1869–1935)

Ida Medcalf

 (1881–1961)

5th Generation

Bill Gates photo by World Economic Forum (CC BY 2.0)