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Photos: Bono's buddy Bill Gates

By // July 18, 2006, 8:43 AM PST // billdetwiler

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  • Their day jobs are vastly different, but Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and U2 lead singer Bono (left, seen here in a photo from February 2002) have a shared interest in charitable work in the developing world. Their good deeds led Time magazine to name the two, along with Gates' wife, Melinda, as its Persons of the Year for 2005.

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  • At the World Economic Forum in January 2005, Gates and Bono shared the stage with political leaders prior to a session called "The G-8 and Africa: Rhetoric or action?" (From left: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Gates, South African President Thabo Mbeki, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bono and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.)

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  • In March 2005, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II recognized Gates for his charitable works in Commonwealth countries and conferred on him an honorary knighthood. Gates' wife, Melinda, is at right.

    Owen Humphreys

  • Gates displays the medal representing his knighthood as he departs Buckingham Palace with his wife. Because he is not a British or Commonwealth citizen, he cannot use the title "sir."

    Owen Humphreys

Their day jobs are vastly different, but Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and U2 lead singer Bono (left, seen here in a photo from February 2002) have a shared interest in charitable work in the developing world. Their good deeds led Time magazine to name the two, along with Gates' wife, Melinda, as its Persons of the Year for 2005.

AFP/Jeff Christensen

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