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Kōnosuke Matsushita

1894 - 1989

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Kōnosuke Matsushita (松下 幸之助, Matsushita Kōnosuke; 27 November 1894 – 27 April 1989) was a Japanese industrialist who founded Panasonic, the largest Japanese consumer electronics company. Matsushita is referred to as the "God of Management" in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kōnosuke Matsushita is the 104th most popular inventor (down from 76th in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from Japan (down from 134th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 104 out of 426. Before him are John Harrison, Momofuku Ando, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Richard Arkwright, Elisha Otis, and Charles-Émile Reynaud. After him are Henry Bessemer, Étienne-Jules Marey, Orban, Walter Hunt, Abraham-Louis Breguet, and Vladimir K. Zworykin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 47. Before him are Josef von Sternberg, Elisabeth of Romania, Nazli Sabri, Walter Brennan, Sergey Ilyushin, and Ásgeir Ásgeirsson. After him are Norman Rockwell, Paul Blobel, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bessie Smith, Leo Kanner, and Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger. Among people deceased in 1989, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 47. Before him are Cornel Wilde, Bruce Chatwin, Charles J. Pedersen, Joris Ivens, Ahmadou Ahidjo, and Uichiro Hatta. After him are Gaetano Scirea, Countess Georgina von Wilczek, Guy Williams, Irving Stone, Jerzy Kukuczka, and Valentin Glushko.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 244 out of 6,245. Before him are Ko Takamoro (1907), Takehiko Kawanishi (1938), Uichiro Hatta (1903), Masao Nozawa (null), Emperor Shōkō (1401), and Yohji Yamamoto (1943). After him are Osamu Yamaji (1929), Emperor Seinei (444), Emperor Hanzei (336), Inejiro Asanuma (1898), Emperor Ankō (401), and Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464).

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Among INVENTORS In Japan

Among inventors born in Japan, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 2. Before him are Sakichi Toyoda (1867). After him are Shigeo Shingo (1909), Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928), and Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899).

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