Margot Birmingham Perot

Margot Birmingham Perot is the widow of the late technology entrepreneur and presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, Sr.

She gave her husband a $1,000 check to start Electronic Data Systems. He sold EDS to GM in 1984, netting $1.5 billion.

She and her family helped endow Dallas's Margot Perot Center, which has delivered more than 120,000 babies since 1983.

The former teacher also philanthropically supports the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and the Global Fund for Children.

Birmingham Perot met her husband on a blind date. He died in 2019 at age 89 after a battle with leukemia.