Anna Brandberg

In 1986, she used her fame and money to open Dollywood, which seemed like a vanity project but brought a vital economy to rural Tennessee.

In 1991, Dolly Parton launched the Buddy Program that made you & one other sign a contract that both you and your buddy must graduate and upon completion you would both receive $500. This caused the drop-out rate to go down to 6%.

She established the Imagination Library in 1995, which now sends about 1.3 million books to kids in need. For free. No questions asked.

In 2016, after the Nashville wildfires razed the area around Dollywood, she donated  via the ‘My People Fund’ $1,000 a month to all families who lost their homes in the fire. In total, she helped more than 900 families and raised over $9 million

She grants scholarships on the regular, to kids in her home place of Sevier County, Tennessee.

Pop trivia time: She is an uncredited producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv version) and godmother to Miley Cyrus and the world's first cloned sheep was named for her.

She regularly donates to the Red Cross and HIV/AIDS related charities. She helped fund a hospital, in Sevierville, and had it named after the doctor who delivered her. Dolly's father had paid that doctor with a sack of cornmeal for delivering her.

Her theme park has the biggest bald eagle sanctuary in the country.