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Fusajiro Yamauchi

1859 - 1940

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Fusajirō Yamauchi (山内 房治郎, Yamauchi Fusajirō; November 22, 1859 – January 1, 1940), originally born as Fusajirō Fukui (福井 房治郎, Fukui Fusajirō), was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Yamauchi Nintendo, later known as Nintendo. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan and had a wife and two daughters—one of whom was Tei Yamauchi, who later married Sekiryō Kaneda, the successor and second president of Nintendo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fusajiro Yamauchi is the 193rd most popular businessperson (down from 164th in 2019), the 504th most popular biography from Japan (down from 397th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 193 out of 847. Before him are Giovanni Battista Caproni, Henry Ford II, Torakusu Yamaha, François-Henri Pinault, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, and Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici. After him are Hetty Green, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, Ben Bradlee, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Thomas J. Watson, and Fredrik Idestam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 38. Before him are Thibaw Min, Jānis Čakste, Alexandru Averescu, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Francesc Macià. After him are Natalie of Serbia, Théophile Steinlen, Adolf Hurwitz, Havelock Ellis, Feng Guozhang, and Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant. Among people deceased in 1940, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 45. Before him are Nicolae Iorga, Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Gunnar Asplund, Marcus Garvey, Walter Chrysler, and Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark. After him are Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, Jan Kubelík, Anton Korošec, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Édouard Claparède, and Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 504 out of 6,245. Before him are Takeo Takahashi (1947), Mōri Terumoto (1533), Saitō Hajime (1844), Seki Takakazu (1642), Eisai (1141), and Kenzō Takada (1939). After him are Emperor Go-Reizei (1025), Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), Ōkuma Shigenobu (1838), Takeo Fukuda (1905), Taizo Kawamoto (1914), and Kiichi Miyazawa (1919).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Fusajiro Yamauchi ranks 7. Before him are Soichiro Honda (1906), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), Akio Morita (1921), Masayoshi Son (1957), Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927), and Torakusu Yamaha (1851). After him are Iwasaki Yatarō (1835), Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Eiji Toyoda (1913), Mineko Iwasaki (1949), Tadashi Yanai (1949), and Akio Toyoda (1956).

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