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James Dyson
British inventor, industrial designer, farmer and business magnate (born 1947) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir James Dyson OM CBE RDI FRS FREng FCSD FIET (born 2 May 1947)[2] is a British inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and business magnate who founded the Dyson company.[3][4] He is best known as the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2023, he is the fifth-richest person in the United Kingdom, with an estimated family net worth of £23 billion.[5] As of March 2024, Forbes lists Dyson's net worth as $13.4 billion.[6]
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![]() Dyson in 2015 | |
Born | (1947-05-02) 2 May 1947 (age 77) |
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Deirdre Hindmarsh (m. 1968) |
Children | 3 |
Relatives | James Dyson (grandfather) |
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Provost of the Royal College of Art | |
In office 1 August 2011 (2011-08-01) – 1 July 2017 (2017-07-01) | |
Preceded by | Terence Conran |
Succeeded by | Jonathan Ive (as Chancellor) |
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He served as the Provost of the Royal College of Art from August 2011 to July 2017,[7][8] and opened a new university, the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, on Dyson's Wiltshire campus in September 2017.[9]