“Given the decision to locate the headquarters in Singapore and the growing focus of the company’s business in the region, of course James Dyson has bought a property there.”
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James Dyson
Sir James Dyson is an English inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and business magnate who founded the company Dyson. He is best known as the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2023, he was the fifth-richest person in the United Kingdom, with an estimated family net worth of £23 billion. As of March 2025, Fo…
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business · British inventor and businessman (born 1947) · inventor · industrial designer · entrepreneur · farmer · designer · also James Dyson, Sir James Dyson, Dyson
Born 2 May 1947 · Q1346101
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2026· 12 entries
Published video “Empowering young people to be future engineers: International Women in Engineering Day 2026.”.
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Published video “Make-roscope | The Philippine's James Dyson Award 2023 National Winner & Global Top 20 Finalist”.
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Published video “The James Dyson Award 2026 Broadcast”.
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Published video “Peter | 2024 James Dyson Award Top 20”.
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Published video “The James Dyson Award 2026 is open for entries!”.
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Published video “What makes a good James Dyson Award entry?”.
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Published video “The James Dyson Award 2026 is now open for entries!”.
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Published video “Plumis | 2009 James Dyson Award International Winner”.
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Published video “Petit Pli | UK's 2017 James Dyson Award National Winner”.
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Published video “Rollo | Singapore's 2022 James Dyson Award National Runner up”.
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2022· 1 entry
Dyson sued Channel 4 and ITN over allegations of exploitation of workers at one of his suppliers' factories
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Asia's Most Influential Singapore (2021).
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2019· 1 entry
For the development of advanced technologies and innovative products and contributions to design and engineering education
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2017· 4 entries
Dyson was awarded IEEE Honorary Membership
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Dyson suggested that the UK should leave the EU without an interim deal and that "uncertainty is an opportunity"
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Dyson spent £7 million a week on research and development of new products
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Launched the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit (2016).
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (2015).
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Dyson spoke at the opening of a retrospective exhibition of de Sausmarez's work at the University of Leeds, speaking of the great influence the artist and former principal had on him and his career
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2014· 3 entries
Dyson has also invested heavily in buying agricultural land in Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, and Gloucestershire, and by 2014 was one of the biggest landowners in the UK.
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“dominated and bullied by the Germans”
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Dyson had said he would be voting to leave the European Union to avoid being "dominated and bullied by the Germans"
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2009· 1 entry
His company Dyson Ltd incorporated a new parent company in Malta to create £300 million and £550 million in intercompany loans via Luxembourg and Isle of Man companies that increased tax-deductible interest payments in t
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2008· 1 entry
"I think it's wrong to direct your business for tax reasons
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (2007).
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2005· 1 entry
Dyson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) and appointed a Royal Designer for Industry
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2003· 1 entry
Dyson paid £15 million for Dodington Park, a 300-acre (1
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2002· 3 entries
To support design and engineering education
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Dyson set up the James Dyson Foundation in 2002 to support design and engineering education.
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The company created a model of the optical illusions depicted in the lithographs of Dutch artist M
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2000· 5 entries
Awarded Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award (2000).
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Awarded Royal Designer for Industry (2000).
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Dyson again threatened to shift production abroad
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Received the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award
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Dyson expanded his appliance range to include a washing machine called the ContraRotator, which had two rotating drums moving in opposite directions
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1999· 2 entries
Dyson sued Hoover (UK) for patent infringement, and the High Court ruled that Hoover had deliberately copied a fundamental part of his patented designs in making its Triple Vortex bagless vacuum cleaner range
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Acquired Domaine des Rabelles, an estate and winery near Villecroze and Tourtour, Var, France
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1998).
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Dyson was one of the chairmen and chief executives of 20 FTSE 100 companies who signed a statement published in the Financial Times calling on the government for early British membership of the Eurozone
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Prince Philip Designers Prize (1997).
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Dyson was awarded the Prince Philip Designers Prize
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1987· 1 entry
“I think things that work well start to look good as well.”
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1980· 1 entry
And when his invention was rejected by the major manufacturers, he set up his own manufacturing company, Dyson Ltd
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-05-02.
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