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Born November 27, 1894 • Wakayama • Japan
Died April 27, 1989 (aged 94) • Ōsaka • Japan
Founder Panasonic
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Morita Akio
Japanese businessman
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Idei Nobuyuki
Japanese businessman
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Asano Sōichirō
Japanese businessman
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André Michelin
French industrialist
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Édouard Michelin
French industrialist
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Levi Strauss
American entrepreneur
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Giovanni Battista Pirelli
Italian industrialist
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
American industrialist
Apple CEO Steve Jobs smiles and holds up a white iPhone 4, displaying its home screen, while wearing a black turtleneck and glasses.
Steve Jobs
American businessman
American industrialist and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car George M. Pullman
George M. Pullman
American industrialist and inventor
Bill Gates smiling and wearing glasses, a dark suit, a pale shirt, and a patterned tie.
Bill Gates
American computer programmer and entrepreneur
Walter P. Chrysler
Walter P. Chrysler
American engineer and automobile manufacturer
Howard Hughes, wearing a flight suit and goggles, sits in the cockpit of an airplane, looking toward the camera.
Howard Hughes
American manufacturer, aviator, and film producer
Black and white portrait drawing of Louis Vuitton, shown with wavy hair, a mustache, and dressed in a suit and bow tie.
Louis Vuitton
French box maker and entrepreneur
Portrait of Daymond John during a television studio appearance, wearing a blazer and looking off-camera.
Daymond John
American entrepreneur and investor
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist
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Olive Ann Beech
American business executive
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Kim Woo Choong
Korean businessman
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Jamsetji Tata
Indian industrialist
Robert S. McNamara
Robert S. McNamara
American businessman and government official