6. Leonard Blavatnik

Amount Donated in 2010: $117.2 Million

Net Worth: $10.1 Billion (via Forbes)

Beneficiary: University of Oxford

Leonard Blavatnik is the founder of ‘Access Industries’, a major investment company. Though he never attended Oxford, but he donated £75 million to the University of Oxford to establish a new School of Government. This school will be dedicated to “improving Government and public-policy practices globally.” He also sponsors a ‘Colel Chabad’, a food bank and warehouse which send monthly food shipments to 5,000 poor families in Israeli cities.