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Howard Stringer

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Sir Howard Stringer (born 19 February 1942) is a Welsh-American businessman. He had a 30-year career at CBS, culminating in him serving as the president of CBS News from 1986 to 1988, then president of CBS from 1988 to 1995. He served as chairman of the board, chairman, president and CEO of Sony Corporation from 2005 to 2012. He is also the head of the board of trustees of the American Film Institute and now serves as a non-executive director of the BBC. He was knighted in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Howard Stringer is the 523rd most popular businessperson (up from 557th in 2019), the 3,840th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,094th in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Howard Stringer ranks 523 out of 847. Before him are James Buchanan Duke, Jean-Dominique Senard, Guy Kawasaki, Marcus Goldman, Piero Dusio, and Joe Sutter. After him are Suleyman Kerimov, George Peabody, Gigi Becali, Robert Durst, Muhtar Kent, and Mario Segale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Howard Stringer ranks 457. Before him are Vladimir Yermoshin, Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Terenci Moix, Dan Graham, Country Joe McDonald, and Ariel Dorfman. After him are Reiner Schöne, Jonathan Williams, Celso Amorim, Marty Balin, Irina Miroshnichenko, and Roger McGuinn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Howard Stringer ranks 3,841 out of 8,785. Before him are Tony Kaye (1945), Clare Hollingworth (1911), Jon Hiseman (1944), Leslie Marr (1922), Tom Daley (1994), and Lucy Hawking (1969). After him are Peter Ackroyd (1949), Simon Donaldson (1957), Henry Scott Tuke (1858), Frederick William Beechey (1796), Charles Jarrott (1927), and John Collins (1968).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Howard Stringer ranks 35. Before him are B. C. Forbes (1880), Angus Ogilvy (1928), Ken Aston (1915), Mark Thatcher (1953), John Houlding (1833), and William Knox D'Arcy (1849). After him are Jim Marshall (1923), Claire Williams (1976), Andrew Planche (1727), Neil Aspinall (1941), Fred Karno (1866), and Anita Roddick (1942).

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