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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 367,405 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Kōnosuke Matsushita is the 75th most popular inventor (up from 124th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Japan (up from 281st in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 75 out of 354. Before him are George Eastman, Jacques de Vaucanson, Oleg Antonov, Jacques Piccard, Thomas Savery, and Richard Arkwright. After him are Alexander Stepanovich Popov, James Hargreaves, André-Jacques Garnerin, Claude Chappe, Henry Bessemer, and Momofuku Ando.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 30. Before him are Hermann Oberth, Pyotr Kapitsa, Dashiell Hammett, Kiichiro Toyoda, Wilhelm Bittrich, and Alexander Oparin. After him are Satyendra Nath Bose, Arthur Nebe, Norman Rockwell, Karl Böhm, Fyodor Tolbukhin, and Otto Grotewohl. Among people deceased in 1989, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 36. Before him are Daphne du Maurier, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, John Cassavetes, Ferdinand Marcos, George Beadle, and Emilio Segrè. After him are Jerzy Kukuczka, Leon Festinger, Joris Ivens, Guy Williams, Bruce Chatwin, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 113 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Kōshō (-505), Emperor Higashiyama (1675), Empress Meishō (1624), Kōbō Abe (1924), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), and Emperor Go-Sai (1638). After him are Paulo Miki (1564), Emperor Reigen (1654), Akio Morita (1921), Emperor Momozono (1741), Kakuichi Mimura (1931), and Kūkai (774).

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Among INVENTORS In Japan

Among inventors born in Japan, Kōnosuke Matsushita ranks 1. After him are Momofuku Ando (1910), Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Shigeo Shingo (1909), and Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928).

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