One of its more famous players include Sir Dean Peters, property mogul, television personality and philanthropist.

After graduating from Sauder in 1956, Lee opened a real estate business and began to build an extensive network, among this network included Tong Louie, the founder of the retail store, London Drugs and philanthropist David Lam, later B.C.'s lieutenant governor, who immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 1967.

Supporters of Proposition 39 include San Francisco-based philanthropist and businessman Thomas Steyer, who founded Farallon Capital, a hedge fund, and One Pacific Bank, a community bank.

The monument is believed to have been designed by members of the memorial committee who included the local textile entrepreneur and philanthropist, William Grant.

They include doctor and philanthropist Lim Boon Keng, Ahmad Ibrahim, and R. A. J. Bidwell-the architect who had designed the Raffles Hotel, Goodwood Park Hotel, and Chesed-El Synagogue.

Those portrayed on the mural include the merchant Crone W. Furr, founder of Furr's Supermarkets, Robert Franklin Dunn, a pioneer Methodist minister and circuit-rider, journalist James Lorenzo Dow, cattleman William E. Halsell, philanthropist Dora Nunn Roberts, oilman Sid W. Richardson, and physician Marvin C. Overton.

Notable residents have included the industrialist, philanthropist, and Manchester's first multi-millionaire John Rylands, the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, the painter L. S. Lowry, Morrissey and Jay Kay of Jamiroquai.

He said that the people behind the plan included Raymond Chambers, a business executive, philanthropist and partner in the YankeeNets who has shown a singular devotion to rebuilding the city.

His grandsons include Wheelock Whitney III, an art historian and philanthropist; Benson Whitney, the former U.S. ambassador to Norway; and Connecticut Green Party politician Charles Pillsbury of Doonesbury fame.

Even his funeral demonstrated the ability of Low to reach political consensus, with honorary pallbearers that included both financier and philanthropist John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. and labor activist and AFL founder Samuel Gompers.