James Dyson

Sir

James Dyson

OM CBE RDI FRS FREng FCSD FIET
Sir; James Dyson; OM CBE RDI FRS FREng FCSD FIET
	Dyson in 2015
Born	2 May 1947; Cromer, Norfolk, England
Alma mater	Byam Shaw School of Art; Royal College of Art;
Occupations	Inventor; industrial designer; farmer; business magnate;
Spouse	Deirdre Hindmarsh (m. 1968)
Children	3
Relatives	James Dyson (grandfather)
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1998); Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005); Knight Bachelor (2007); Fellow of the Royal Society (2015); Order of Merit (2016);
Provost of the Royal College of Art
	In office; 1 August 2011 – 1 July 2017
Preceded by	Terence Conran
Succeeded by	Jonathan Ive (as Chancellor)
Website	dyson.co.uk; jamesdysonaward.org; jamesdysonfoundation.com;

Sir James Dyson OM CBE RDI FRS FREng FCSD FIET (born 2 May 1947) is a British inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and business magnate who founded the Dyson company. 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. As of March 2024, Forbes lists Dyson's net worth as $13.4 billion.

He served as the Provost of the Royal College of Art from August 2011 to July 2017, and opened a new university, the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, on Dyson's Wiltshire campus in September 2017.

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