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Sakichi Toyoda

1867 - 1930

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Sakichi Toyoda (豊田 佐吉, Toyoda Sakichi; March 19, 1867 – October 30, 1930) was a Japanese inventor and industrialist who founded Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (later Toyota Industries). The son of a farmer and sought-after carpenter, he started the Toyoda family companies. His son, Kiichiro Toyoda, would later establish Japan's largest automaker, Toyota. Toyoda is referred to as the "King of Japanese Inventors". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sakichi Toyoda is the 95th most popular inventor (down from 82nd in 2019), the 208th most popular biography from Japan (down from 144th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Inventor.

Sakichi Toyoda was most famous for inventing the Toyoda Automatic Loom.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Sakichi Toyoda ranks 95 out of 426. Before him are Alphonse Bertillon, Henri Coandă, Thomas Savery, André-Jacques Garnerin, Wolfgang von Kempelen, and Johann Maria Farina. After him are Leo Fender, Daniel Swarovski, John Harrison, Momofuku Ando, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, and Richard Arkwright.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Sakichi Toyoda ranks 36. Before him are Percy Fawcett, Ignacy Mościcki, Hector Guimard, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Alexander Parvus, and Irving Fisher. After him are Joseph Maria Olbrich, Edward B. Titchener, Eugen Sandow, Antti Aarne, Martin Kutta, and Charles Fabry. Among people deceased in 1930, Sakichi Toyoda ranks 26. Before him are Alfred von Tirpitz, Horst Wessel, Arthur Balfour, Siegfried Wagner, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, and Ahmad Shah Qajar. After him are Adolf von Harnack, Adolf Engler, Jules Pascin, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Leopold Auer, and Luigi Facta.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sakichi Toyoda ranks 208 out of 6,245. Before him are Shozo Tsugitani (1940), Emperor Richū (336), Shiro Azumi (null), Emperor Kaika (-208), Kazuyoshi Miura (1967), and Hideki Shirakawa (1936). After him are Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Taira no Kiyomori (1118), and Hiroyuki Sanada (1960).

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Among INVENTORS In Japan

Among inventors born in Japan, Sakichi Toyoda ranks 1. After him are Kōnosuke Matsushita (1894), Shigeo Shingo (1909), Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928), and Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899).

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