# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shojiro-ishibashi
# Generated: 2026-09-07T22:04:31.370Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shojiro-ishibashi"
name: "Shōjirō Ishibashi"
slug: "shojiro-ishibashi"
description: "Shōjirō Ishibashi  was a Japanese businessman who founded the Bridgestone Corporation, the world's largest maker of tires, in 1931 in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. The company was named after its founder: in the Japanese language, ishi means \"stone\" and hashi means \"bridge\", whence the origin of the company's name in English."
tagline: "Japanese businessman (1889–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sh%C5%8Djir%C5%8D_Ishibashi_in_1952.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1889-02-01"
deathDate: "1976-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.09
  momentum:             1.339055793991416
  historical:           9.967724
  currentAttention:     7.439198855507868
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E6%A9%8B%E6%AD%A3%E4%BA%8C%E9%83%8E"
    title: "石橋正二郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "شوچيرو ايشيباشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishibashi_Sh%C5%8Djir%C5%8D"
    title: "Ishibashi Shōjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF%CF%81%CE%BF_%CE%99%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%AC%CF%83%CE%B9"
    title: "Σογίρο Ισιμπάσι"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Djir%C5%8D_Ishibashi"
    title: "Shōjirō Ishibashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shojiro_Ishibashi"
    title: "Shojiro Ishibashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C"
    title: "شیجیرو ایشیباشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Djir%C5%8D_Ishibashi"
    title: "Shōjirō Ishibashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Djir%C5%8D_Ishibashi"
    title: "Shōjirō Ishibashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E6%A9%8B%E6%AD%A3%E4%BA%8C%E9%83%8E"
    title: "石橋正二郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%8B%9C%EB%B0%94%EC%8B%9C_%EC%87%BC%EC%A7%80%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "이시바시 쇼지로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4476873"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump