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Masayoshi Son

1957 - Today

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Masayoshi Son (Japanese: 孫 正義, romanized: Son Masayoshi, Korean: 손정의, romanized: Son Jeong-ui; born 11 August 1957) is a Japanese billionaire technology entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. A third-generation Zainichi Korean, he naturalized as a Japanese citizen in 1990. He is the founder, representative director, corporate officer, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masayoshi Son has received more than 3,447,141 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Masayoshi Son is the 163rd most popular businessperson (down from 150th in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from Japan (up from 383rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Businessperson.

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  • 58.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Masayoshi Son ranks 163 out of 601. Before him are Sung Jae-gi, Eric Schmidt, Basil Zaharoff, Melinda Gates, Lady Bird Johnson, and Charles Simonyi. After him are Phil Knight, Karl Albrecht, Stanley Ho, Torakusu Yamaha, Tomáš Baťa, and Steve Chen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Masayoshi Son ranks 43. Before him are Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, Caroline Kennedy, John Turturro, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Ivo Josipović, and Anna Lindh. After him are Carrie Lam, Marita Koch, Stephen Fry, Hwang Kyo-ahn, Fran Drescher, and Michael Cretu.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masayoshi Son ranks 337 out of 6,048. Before him are Nobuyuki Abe (1875), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), Junji Nishikawa (1907), Kiyonosuke Marutani (null), Seishirō Itagaki (1885), and Satoshi Nakamoto (1975). After him are Koji Miyata (1923), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950), Emperor Go-Toba (1180), Emperor Kōbun (648), Emperor Go-Kameyama (1347), and Emperor Go-Nijō (1285).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Masayoshi Son ranks 6. Before him are Soichiro Honda (1906), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), Akio Morita (1921), Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927), and Iwasaki Yatarō (1835). After him are Torakusu Yamaha (1851), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Eiji Toyoda (1913), Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858), Tadashi Yanai (1949), and Norio Ohga (1930).

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