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Kiichiro Toyoda

1894 - 1952

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Kiichiro Toyoda (Japanese: 豊田 喜一郎（とよだ きいちろう）, Hepburn: Toyoda Kiichirō; June 11, 1894 – March 27, 1952) was a Japanese engineer and businessman, and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to change Toyoda's focus from automatic loom manufacture into automobile manufacturing created what later became Toyota. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kiichiro Toyoda is the 85th most popular businessperson (down from 66th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Japan (down from 84th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Businessperson.

Kiichiro Toyoda is most famous for his invention of the Toyoda Automatic Loom.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Kiichiro Toyoda ranks 85 out of 847. Before him are Flavio Briatore, Robert Kardashian, Bernie Ecclestone, David Koch, Ray Kroc, and Ron Dennis. After him are Andrew Tate, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Stan Kroenke, Liliane Bettencourt, Stanley Rous, and Li Ka-shing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Kiichiro Toyoda ranks 27. Before him are Alexander Oparin, Dietrich von Choltitz, Karl Böhm, Pyotr Kapitsa, Heinrich Lübke, and Harold Macmillan. After him are Alfred Kinsey, C. R. Swart, Hermann Oberth, Otto Grotewohl, Satyendra Nath Bose, and Dashiell Hammett. Among people deceased in 1952, Kiichiro Toyoda ranks 19. Before him are Elena of Montenegro, Walter Schellenberg, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Paramahansa Yogananda, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, and Ferenc Molnár. After him are Jürgen Stroop, Charles Maurras, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, George Santayana, and Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kiichiro Toyoda ranks 105 out of 6,245. Before him are Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Akira Suzuki (1930), Empress Meishō (1624), Himiko (175), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), and Fumio Kishida (1957). After him are Emperor Sakuramachi (1720), Emperor Nakamikado (1702), Leo Esaki (1925), Shigeru Ishiba (1957), Emperor Higashiyama (1675), and Tameo Ide (1908).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Kiichiro Toyoda ranks 2. Before him are Soichiro Honda (1906). After him are Akio Morita (1921), 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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