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Soichiro Honda

1906 - 1991

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Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, Honda Sōichirō; 17 November 1906 – 5 August 1991) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Soichiro Honda is the 65th most popular businessperson (down from 40th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Japan (down from 49th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Businessperson.

Soichiro Honda is most famous for being the founder of the Honda Motor Company. He was born in 1906 and died in 1991.

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Among businesspeople, Soichiro Honda ranks 65 out of 847. Before him are Donald Trump Jr., King C. Gillette, Bill Hewlett, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Rudolf Dassler, and Boris Berezovsky. After him are Giovanni Agnelli, Otto Frank, Robert Bosch, Dietrich Mateschitz, J. Paul Getty, and Martin Cooper.

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Among people born in 1906, Soichiro Honda ranks 42. Before him are Léon Degrelle, Ed Gein, Josef Kramer, Clyde Tombaugh, Marcelo Caetano, and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga. After him are Alexey Stakhanov, Wassily Leontief, Max Delbrück, Dino Buzzati, Klaus Mann, and Albert Sabin. Among people deceased in 1991, Soichiro Honda ranks 22. Before him are John Bardeen, Miles Davis, Frank Capra, Marcel Lefebvre, Lazar Kaganovich, and Ragnar Granit. After him are Oona O'Neill, Margot Fonteyn, David Lean, Max Frisch, Arno Breker, and Henri Lefebvre.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Soichiro Honda ranks 71 out of 6,245. Before him are Dōgen (1200), Yoshihide Suga (1948), Antonio Inoki (1943), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), and Tadao Ando (1941). After him are Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Kenzō Tange (1913), Nichiren (1222), Tomoe Gozen (1157), Emperor Annei (-577), and Kazuo Ishiguro (1954).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Soichiro Honda ranks 1. After him are Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), 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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