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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masaru Ibuka has received more than 724,439 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Masaru Ibuka is the 57th most popular engineer (up from 60th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Japan (down from 246th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Engineer.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 720k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Masaru Ibuka ranks 57 out of 389. Before him are Gustaf de Laval, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Charles George Gordon, Alexander Wienerberger, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Viktor Belenko. After him are Loránd Eötvös, Henry Gantt, Immanuel Nobel, Banū Mūsā, Valentin Glushko, and Kurt Gerstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Masaru Ibuka ranks 57. Before him are Lita Grey, Victor Weisskopf, Robert Merle, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Rex Harrison, and Stéphane Grappelli. After him are Mercè Rodoreda, Amintore Fanfani, Valentin Glushko, Martha Gellhorn, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, and Carlos Arias Navarro. Among people deceased in 1997, Masaru Ibuka ranks 57. Before him are John Denver, Louis, Prince Napoléon, Charles Brenton Huggins, Bulat Okudzhava, Friedrich Hund, and Stéphane Grappelli. After him are Colonel Tom Parker, Roland Topor, Georg Solti, Gerda Christian, Narciso Yepes, and Yuri Nikulin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masaru Ibuka ranks 256 out of 6,245. Before him are Hideo Kojima (1963), Ōkuma Shigenobu (1838), Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Yoshio Okada (1926), and Tamon Yamaguchi (1892). After him are Emperor Senka (467), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Emperor Tsuchimikado (1196), Eiichiro Oda (1975), and Kōki Hirota (1878).

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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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