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Akio Morita

1921 - 1999

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Akio Morita (盛田 昭夫, Morita Akio; January 26, 1921 – October 3, 1999) was a Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Akio Morita is the 117th most popular businessperson (down from 82nd in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 121st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Businessperson.

Akio Morita was a Japanese businessman and the co-founder of Sony. He is most famous for his work with Sony and his contributions to the development of the transistor radio, transistor television, and the Walkman.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Akio Morita ranks 117 out of 847. Before him are Carlos Ghosn, Massimo Moratti, Roman Abramovich, J. Bruce Ismay, David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, and Brian Epstein. After him are Jensen Huang, Christophe Plantin, Ferdinand Piëch, Charlie Munger, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, and Elizabeth Christ Trump.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Akio Morita ranks 67. Before him are Dobrica Ćosić, Zizinho, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Kurt Knispel, György Cziffra, and Edgar Morin. After him are Mary Jackson, Karel Appel, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Harry Daghlian, Countess Georgina von Wilczek, and Murray Bookchin. Among people deceased in 1999, Akio Morita ranks 32. Before him are Oliver Reed, Gerhard Herzberg, Julius Nyerere, Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Grotowski, and Daniel Nathans. After him are Mary Ainsworth, George C. Scott, Sarah Knauss, Henry Way Kendall, João Figueiredo, and Hélder Câmara.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akio Morita ranks 192 out of 6,245. Before him are Yukio Hatoyama (1947), Emperor Ōjin (210), Tomohiko Ikoma (1932), Ken Watanabe (1959), Utamaro (1753), and Yoshimatsu Oyama (null). After him are Akira Kitaguchi (1935), Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), Takeshi Inoue (1928), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), and Junji Kawano (1945).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Akio Morita ranks 3. Before him are Soichiro Honda (1906), and Kiichiro Toyoda (1894). After him are Masayoshi Son (1957), Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927), Torakusu Yamaha (1851), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Iwasaki Yatarō (1835), Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Eiji Toyoda (1913), Mineko Iwasaki (1949), and Tadashi Yanai (1949).

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