Dagmar Dolby & family
$4.8B
Born
Jun 28, 1941
Age
84
Source of Wealth
Dolby Laboratories
Residence
San Francisco, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Widowed
Children
2
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Heidelberg University
- Dagmar Dolby owns about 36% of publicly-traded audio technology firm Dolby Laboratories, which her husband Ray Dolby (d. 2013) founded in 1965.
- The company pioneered surround sound technologies used in thousands of films and products, and most recently, in video games and mobile devices.
- Her two sons share voting power over some assets. David is a board member at Dolby Labs; his brother, Tom, is a novelist and filmmaker.
- Since 2015, she has committed over $160 million to the University of Cambridge, where Ray Dolby earned a Ph.D. in physics.
- In September 2018, Dolby donated $20 million to UC San Francisco to establish the Dolby Family Center for Mood Disorders.
- She has also supported the Academy Foundation to fund the construction of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
- Dagmar Dolby graduated from Heidelberg University in her native Germany. She met Ray in 1962 while studying in a summer language program in the U.K.
- The Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of Culture features the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz.
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