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For other people named James Dyson, see James Dyson (disambiguation).

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Sir James Dyson OM CBE RDI FRS FREng FCSD FIET
Dyson in 2015
Born	(1947-05-02) 2 May 1947 (age 77) Cromer, Norfolk, England
Alma mater	\n Byam Shaw School of Art \n Royal College of Art \n
Occupations	Inventor industrial designer farmer business magnate
Spouse	\n Deirdre Hindmarsh (m. 1968)
Children	3
Relatives	James Dyson (grandfather)
Awards	\n Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1998) \n Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005) \n Knight Bachelor (2007) \n Fellow of the Royal Society (2015)^[1] \n Order of Merit (2016) \n


Provost of the Royal College of Art
In office 1 August 2011 (2011-08-01) \u2013 1 July 2017 (2017-07-01)
Preceded by	Terence Conran
Succeeded by	Jonathan Ive (as Chancellor)
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Website	\n dyson.co.uk \n jamesdysonaward.org \n jamesdysonfoundation.com \n

Sir James Dyson (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 \u00a323 billion.^[5] As of March 2024, Forbes lists Dyson's net worth as $13.4 billion.^[6]\n

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]\n

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People	\n James Dyson (founder) \n
Headquarters	\n St James Power Station \n
Products	\n Ballbarrow \n Dyson Airblade \n List of Dyson products \n
Related articles	\n James Dyson Award \n Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology \n Dyson Institute Village \n

v t e Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2015
Fellows	\n Mark Achtman \n Ali Alavi \n Allan Balmain \n Kamal Bawa \n Stephen Brown \n Jane Clarke \n Clifford Cocks \n Rory Collins \n Andy Cooper \n Stephen Cusack \n Anne Cutler \n Ben Davis \n Annette Dolphin \n Philip Donoghue \n Daniel Drucker \n James Dyson \n A. W. F. Edwards \n Yvonne Elsworth \n Alison Etheridge \n Jeremy Farrar \n Zoubin Ghahramani \n Mike Goddard \n Michael Hausser \n Laurence Hurst \n Jane Langdale \n Andy Mackenzie \n Philip Maini \n Jens Marklof \n Gero Miesenb\u00f6ck \n Ketan Patel \n David Phillips \n Jonathan Pila \n Roger Powell \n John Rarity \n Andrew Read \n Alan Roberts \n John Robertson \n Roger Sheldon \n Julia Slingo \n Scott Sloan \n Henry Snaith \n Ajay Sood \n Natalie Strynadka \n Richard Thomas \n Bryan Turner \n Frank Uhlmann \n Colin Wilson \n
Honorary	\n Lisa Jardine \n Robin Saxby \n
Foreign	\n Alain Aspect \n Zden\u011bk Ba\u017eant \n Linda Buck \n Andrew Knoll \n John Kuriyan \n Jiayang Li \n Sue Lindquist \n Gail Martin \n William Miller \n John Spence \n

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