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Also Known As Axel Cäsar Springer
Born May 2, 1912 • Altona • Germany
Died September 22, 1985 (aged 73) • West Berlin • West Germany
Founder Axel Springer Verlag AG
Rupert Murdoch wearing glasses, a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, posing at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born American publisher
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Samuel Irving Newhouse
American publisher
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Alexander MacMillan
Scottish publisher
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Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
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Louis A. Godey
American publisher
Black and white illustrated portrait of a woman with a calm expression, wearing a headscarf and traditional clothing, representing Indian freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
Aruna Asaf Ali
Indian political activist
Viscount Northcliffe, 1918.
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe
British publisher
British publisher Robert Maxwell in a suit and patterned tie, seated and looking to his right, 1991.
Robert Maxwell
Czechoslovak-born British publisher
Girardin, engraving 1881, after a photograph
Émile de Girardin
French journalist
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Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-Hadi
Malaysian writer
William Blackwood, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Allan; in a private collection
William Blackwood
Scottish publisher
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Isaiah Thomas
American journalist
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Arthur M. Sackler
American physician
Tokutomi Sohō.
Tokutomi Sohō
Japanese author
Munsey
Frank Andrew Munsey
American publisher
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Richard Rogers Bowker
American editor and publisher
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Val McCalla
British publisher
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Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Schurz
Carl Schurz
German-American politician