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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kōnosuke Matsushita has received more than 398,258 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Kōnosuke Matsushita is the 76th most popular inventor (down from 75th in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Japan (down from 113th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Inventor.

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  • 63.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 76 out of 426. Before him are Oleg Antonov, Josephine Cochrane, Les Paul, George Eastman, Claude Chappe, and Charles K. Kao. After him are Jacques de Vaucanson, Alois Senefelder, Ray Tomlinson, Bi Sheng, Thomas Savery, and Sakichi Toyoda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 33. Before him are Otto Grotewohl, Hermann Oberth, Benjamin Graham, Kim Hyong-jik, Fyodor Tolbukhin, and Arthur Nebe. After him are Wilhelm Bittrich, Karl Böhm, Nazli Sabri, Dashiell Hammett, Martha Graham, and Alexander Dovzhenko. Among people deceased in 1989, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 38. Before him are Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, John Hicks, Joris Ivens, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Hermann Oberth, and Michel Aflaq. After him are Danilo Kiš, William Shockley, John Cassavetes, Bruce Chatwin, Leon Festinger, and Cornel Wilde.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 134 out of 6,245. Before him are Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604), Yamato Takeru (72), Masaru Emoto (1943), Shigeru Yoshida (1878), Emperor Go-Sai (1638), and Emperor Go-Daigo (1288). After him are Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Shunroku Hata (1879), Tokugawa Hidetada (1579), Kakuichi Mimura (1931), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), and Tameo Ide (1908).

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Among INVENTORS In Japan

Among inventors born in Japan, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 1. After him are Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Shigeo Shingo (1909), Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928), and Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899).

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