Famous People with Name Kono

Konosuke Matsushita            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Konosuke Matsushita: was a Japanese industrialist, the founder of Panasonic, a company based in the suburb of Kadoma (on the Keihan line), Osaka in Japan. For many Japanese, he is known as "the god of management". A biography of Matsushita's life called Matsushita Leadership was written by American business management specialist John Kotter in 1998.Konosuke Matsushita was born in 1894 in the farming village of Wasa in Wakayama Prefecture, the son of a landlord. Poor investment decisions by his father in rice speculation ruined the family's finances, and Matsushita was sent to Osaka to work at a very young age.

Taeko Kono            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Taeko Kono: a Japanese writer and critic and is considered one of the most important contemporary writers of modern Japanese literature.[1] She is best known in English for her collection of short stories Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories.Taeko Kono was born April 30, 1926 in Osaka, Japan to Tameji and Yone Kono;[2] her father was a wholesale merchant.[1] She was ill as a child[1] and as a teenager, she was conscripted to work in a factory during World War II.[3]

Tensei Kono            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tensei Kono: a Japanese science fiction writer. Among other works, he has written Triceratops (?????????), which has been collected in The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell.

Rin Kono            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Rin Kono: a Japanese professional Go player.Rin Kono grew up as one of Koichi Kobayashi's students. He became a professional when he was 15 in 1996. He was promoted to 8 dan after beating Keigo Yamashita to win the Tengen in 2005. He was promoted to 9 dan after defending his Tengen title, once more against Yamashita.

Taro Kono            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Taro Kono: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Born in Hiratsuka, Odawara, Kanagawa and graduate of Keio University, he was elected for the first time in 1996.His father is Yohei Kono, only president of the Liberal Democratic Party who has not become a Prime Minister of Japan.

Tamio "Tommy" Kono            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tamio "Tommy" Kono: was a U.S. weightlifter in the 1950s and 1960s. Kono is the only lifter to have set world records in four different weightlifting classes: lightweight (149 pounds or 67.5 kilograms), middleweight (165 lb or 75 kg), light-heavyweight (182 lb or 82.5 kg), a