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Andrew Carnegie

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Also known as Endriu Karnegi, A. Carnegie

Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)

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Andrew Carnegie was a human born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, on November 25, 1835. He held citizenship in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States. His occupations included philanthropist, business magnate, economist, and industrialist. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society and adhered to Presbyterianism. His movements included patriotism, philanthropy, and non-interventionism. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Carnegie died of bronchopneumonia on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, under natural causes. He is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. He was married to Louise Whitfield Carnegie, and they had a child named Margaret Carnegie Miller. He authored works such as *American Four in Hand*, *Empire of Business*, *The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays*, *Pioneers of America*, *American Four-In-Hand in Britain*, and *Americanism Versus Imperialism*. His writings have been described by sources including *Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography* and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.

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Person · Open Library

Works
60

Top works

  • American Four in Hand
  • Empire of Business and the Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays (2 Books)
  • Pioneers of America
  • American Four-In-Hand in Britain
  • Americanism Versus Imperialism

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Acting · Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late-19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.

Known for

  • What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates — Self - Founder of Carnegie Steel (archive footage)2024
  • Explained — Self (archive footage)2018
  • Paris 1900 — Self (archive footage)1948
  • Andrew Carnegie — Self1914
  • Opening van het Vredespaleis — Self1913
  • Modern Marvels: American Steel: Built to Last — Self

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1835
Active to
1919
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

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185
Total plays
344

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Andrew Carnegie (properly pronounced /kɑrˈneɪɡi/, but commonly /ˈkɑrnɨɡi/ or /kɑrˈnɛɡi/)[1] (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and a major philanthropist. He was an immigrant as a child with his parents. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U.S. Steel. With the fortune he made from business <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Andrew+Carnegie">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 62,978x

  2. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

    · 2003 · cited 45,756x

  3. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,635x

  4. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,910x

  5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,538x

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Quotes

  • “To be popular is easy; to be right when right is unpopular, is noble... I repudiate with scorn the immoral doctrine, 'Our country, right or wrong'.”
  • “Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.”
  • “Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves.”
  • “"Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often his additions tend not to happiness but to misery!"”
  • “The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.”
  • “While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of the few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late-19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.

He became a leading philanthropist in the United States, Great Britain, and the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away around $350 million (equivalent to $6.9 billion in 2025 dollars), almost 90 percent of his fortune, to charities, foundations and universities. His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, expressed support for progressive taxation and an estate tax, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy.

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