How Many Children Do Bill and Melinda Gates Have?

How Many Children Do Bill and Melinda Gates Have?

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Bill and Melinda Gates share three children: Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe. Jennifer is the oldest daughter, born on April 26, 1996. Jennifer attended her father's alma mater, Lakeside High School, a top-rated private school in Seattle, Wash. After graduating, she enrolled in Stanford University and graduated in 2018 with a degree in human biology. Before medical school, she took time off to focus on her passion as an equestrian.

Jennifer currently attends The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and in 2020, got engaged to longtime boyfriend Navel Nassar. 

Little is known about Bill and Melinda's middle child, Rory. Unlike Jennifer, he doesn’t share his life on social media. He was born on May 23, 1999, and also attended Seattle’s Lakeside School. The Chicago Tribune reported that Bill Gates may have bought a house in Chicago near the University of Chicago, which Rory supposedly attended.

What we do know about the 21-year-old is that he’s passionate about gender equality, like his mother. On Rory's 18th birthday, Melinda penned an essay for Time Magazine about his perspective on feminism. She wrote, "Rory is compassionate and curious. He’s intelligent and well-read and deeply informed about the wide range of issues that interest him. He’s a great son and a great brother. But one of the things that makes me proudest is that Rory is a feminist.”

The youngest in the family is Phoebe, who was born on Sept. 14, 2002. Not that much is known about her, either. She was an aspiring ballerina who studied at the School of American Ballet at the Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts and The Juilliard School in New York City. Phoebe was also a student at the Professional Children’s School in New York, and it appears from her private Instagram account that she's following in big sister Jennifer's footsteps and plans on attending Stanford University.

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