Founders and executives of the car makers, from Henry Ford and the Dodge brothers to the founders of Ferrari, Toyota and Honda. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the person an industrialist, founder, co-founder or executive of an automobile company. It excludes engineers and designers, inventors and early drivers. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
All Automobile Company Founders and Executives
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Wikipedia: Henry Ford
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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863, April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate.
View the Source Wikipedia: Andre Citroen
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André-Gustave Citroën (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ɡystav sitʁɔɛn]; 5 February 1878-3 July 1935) was a French industrialist and founder of major automaker Citroën.
View the Source Wikipedia: Enzo Ferrari
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Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari (; Italian: [ˈɛntso anˈsɛlmo ferˈraːri]; 18 February 1898-14 August 1988) was an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of Scuderia Ferrari in Grand Prix motor racing, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque.
View the Source Wikipedia: Kiichiro Toyoda
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Kiichiro Toyoda (Japanese: 豊田 喜一郎(とよだ きいちろう), Hepburn: Toyoda Kiichirō; June 11, 1894, March 27, 1952) was a Japanese engineer and businessman, and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda.
View the Source Wikipedia: Soichiro Honda
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Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, Honda Sōichirō; 17 November 1906-5 August 1991) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist.
View the Source John Francis Dodge (Wikipedia)
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John Francis Dodge (October 25, 1864, January 14, 1920) was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.
View the Source David Dunbar Buick (Wikipedia)
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David Dunbar Buick (September 17, 1854, March 5, 1929) was a Scottish-born American inventor, widely known for founding the Buick Motor Company.
View the Source Edsel Ford (Wikipedia)
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Edsel Bryant Ford (November 6, 1893, May 26, 1943) was an American business executive and philanthropist, who was the only child of pioneering industrialist Henry Ford and his wife, Clara Jane Bryant Ford.
View the Source Ransom E. Olds (Wikipedia)
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Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864, August 26, 1950) was an American businessman and executive who was known as a pioneer of the American automotive industry, after whom the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named.
View the Source Horace Elgin Dodge (Wikipedia)
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Horace Elgin Dodge Sr. (May 17, 1868, December 10, 1920) was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.
View the Source Franz Josef Popp (Wikipedia)
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Franz Josef Popp (14 January 1886 in Vienna, 29 July 1954 in Stuttgart) was one of three men responsible for the founding of BMW AG and the First General Director of BMW AG from 1922 to 1942.
View the Source William Lyons (Wikipedia)
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Sir William Lyons (4 September 1901-8 February 1985), known as "Mr. Jaguar", was with fellow motorcycle enthusiast William Walmsley, the co-founder in 1922 of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which became Jaguar Cars Limited after the Second World War.
View the Source Clessie Cummins (Wikipedia)
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Clessie Lyle Cummins (December 27, 1888, August 17, 1968) was the founder of the Cummins Engine Co.
View the Source James Ward Packard (Wikipedia)
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James Ward Packard (November 5, 1863, March 20, 1928) was an American industrialist who, alongside his elder brother William, created the Packard Motor Car Company and Packard Electric Company.
View the Source John Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth (Wikipedia)
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John Davenport Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth (5 August 1866-3 November 1953), was a pioneer of the motor industry in the United Kingdom, manufacturing aero engines and airframes as well as motor vehicles.
View the Source W. O. Bentley (Wikipedia)
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Walter Owen Bentley, (16 September 1888-13 August 1971) was an English engineer who founded Bentley in London.
View the Source Alexander Winton (Wikipedia)
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Alexander Winton (June 20, 1860, June 21, 1932) was a Scottish-American bicycle, automobile, and diesel engine designer and inventor, as well as a businessman and racecar driver.
View the Source Ed Cole (Wikipedia)
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Edward Nicholas Cole (September 17, 1909, May 2, 1977) was an American inventor, automotive engineer and executive, widely known for leading critical projects for General Motors, including development of the Chevrolet Corvair and Chevrolet Vega; developing GM's Small Block V8 and its rotary engine, championing the catalytic con
View the Source John DeLorean (Wikipedia)
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John Zachary DeLorean ( də-LOR-ee-ən; January 6, 1925, March 19, 2005) was an American engineer, inventor, and executive in the U.S.
View the Source Byron Carter (Wikipedia)
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was a founding partner of the Jackson Automobile Company, and founder of the Cartercar Company
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