swap_horiz Soichiro Honda Alternatives

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Fred Sanger

Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist renowned for his groundbreaking work in molecular biology. He developed pionee...

20TH Century British Biochemistry Genetics

9.8 Brilliant

2

Maurice Hilleman

Maurice Hilleman was a prominent American microbiologist whose groundbreaking work significantly advanced vaccine develo...

American Medicine 20TH Century Vaccines

9.7 Brilliant

3

Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer and producer who joined Nintendo in 1977. He created several of the c...

Entertainment Software Japanese Late 20TH

9.7 Brilliant

4

Wright brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American inventors credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first succes...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.6 Brilliant

5

Akio Morita

Akio Morita was a Japanese inventor and key figure in establishing Sony Corporation. His most significant contribution w...

Sony Japanese 20TH Century Consumer Electronics

9.4 Excellent

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Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian-born inventor instrumental in shaping twentieth-century automotive design. His enginee...

Austrian Racing 20TH Century Automobile

9.4 Excellent

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Masaru Ibuka

Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese inventor instrumental in establishing Sony Corporation. He collaborated with Nagamu Sakamoto...

Sony Japanese 20TH Century Consumer Electronics

9.3 Excellent

8

Kiichiro Toyoda

Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese industrialist instrumental in developing modern automobile manufacturing. His innovations...

Manufacturing Japanese 20TH Century Automobile

9.3 Excellent

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford was an American inventor best known for revolutionizing automobile manufacturing. His development of the movi...

American Manufacturing 20TH Century Automobile

9.2 Excellent

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Charles F. Kettering

Charles Kettering was an American inventor most notably recognized for his development of the electric automobile starte...

American 20TH Century Automobile Gm

9.2 Excellent

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Gunpei Yokoi

Gunpei Yokoi was a Japanese video game designer and hardware inventor who worked for Nintendo from 1965 to 1996. He crea...

Entertainment Nintendo Video Game Japanese

9.2 Excellent

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Momofuku Ando

Momofuku Ando was an entrepreneur and inventor born in Taiwan who became a Japanese citizen and founded Nissin Food Prod...

Food Consumer Japanese 20TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Nobutoshi Kihara

Nobutoshi Kihara was a Japanese engineer at Sony instrumental in developing the Walkman’s revolutionary portable audio t...

Sony Audio Japanese 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Hiroshi Amano

Hiroshi Amano was a Japanese engineer whose pioneering work fundamentally advanced semiconductor technology. He achieved...

Semiconductor Japanese 20TH Century LED

8.7 Great

15

Glenn Curtiss

Glenn Curtiss was a pivotal American inventor during the 20th century. He significantly advanced aviation through his de...

American Motorcycle 20TH Century Aviation

8.7 Great

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Masatoshi Shima

Masatoshi Shima was a Japanese engineer instrumental in early microprocessor development. His work designing logic for t...

Japanese 20TH Century Computing Microprocessor

8.3 Great

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Ransom E. Olds

Ransom E. Olds was an American automotive pioneer who founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company and later the REO Motor Car...

American 20TH Century Transport Automobile

7.8 Good

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Hideo Kodama

Hideo Kodama is a Japanese engineer recognized for his early contributions to the field of rapid prototyping and additiv...

Manufacturing 3D Printing Japanese 20TH Century

7.4 Good

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Yoshiro Nakamatsu

Yoshiro Nakamatsu, also known as Dr. NakaMats, is a Japanese inventor and media personality associated with a large numb...

Japanese 20TH Century Computing Prolific

7.4 Good

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Preston Tucker

Preston Tucker was an American entrepreneur who founded the Tucker Corporation to manufacture the 1948 Tucker 48 sedan....

Safety American 20TH Century Transport

6.9 Fair