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Masaru Ibuka

1908 - 1997

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Masaru Ibuka (井深 大 Ibuka Masaru; April 11, 1908 – December 19, 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Masaru Ibuka is the 60th most popular engineer (down from 57th in 2019), the 350th most popular biography from Japan (down from 256th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Engineer.

Masaru Ibuka is most famous for co-founding Sony Corporation with Akio Morita.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Masaru Ibuka ranks 60 out of 389. Before him are Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, John Ambrose Fleming, Kurt Gerstein, Valentin Glushko, and Su Song. After him are Colin Chapman, Henry Gantt, Hans Kammler, Mikhail Gurevich, Adam Czerniaków, and Yuri Kondratyuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Masaru Ibuka ranks 65. Before him are Giovanni Leone, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Amintore Fanfani, Valentin Glushko, and Victor Ambartsumian. After him are Saizo Saito, Maria Prymachenko, Robert Merle, Bjarni Benediktsson, Martha Gellhorn, and Percy Williams. Among people deceased in 1997, Masaru Ibuka ranks 61. Before him are Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Diosdado Macapagal, André Franquin, Charles Brenton Huggins, Shoichi Yokoi, and George Wald. After him are Hastings Banda, Miguel Najdorf, Marco Ferreri, Fela Kuti, Maria Prymachenko, and Gerda Christian.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masaru Ibuka ranks 350 out of 6,245. Before him are Masahiko Kimura (1917), Kōki Hirota (1878), Kiyoo Kanda (1900), Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Yasuo Haruyama (1906), and Tamotsu Asakura (null). After him are Koji Miyata (1923), Saizo Saito (1908), Emperor Kanmu (737), Akira Yoshino (1948), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), and Eiji Yoshikawa (1892).

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Among ENGINEERS In Japan

Among engineers born in Japan, Masaru Ibuka ranks 3. Before him are Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), and Jiro Horikoshi (1903). After him are Hidesaburō Ueno (1872), Genichi Taguchi (1924), Hidetsugu Yagi (1886), and Naoki Hattori (1966).

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