The Resume

(January 30, 1863-April 7, 1947)
Worked for the Edison Illumination Company
Started the Ford Motor Company twice (1901, 1903)
Designed the assembly line concept (1913)
Made the 6th American car, starting with the Quadricycle (1896)
Lost in his bid for senate (1918)

Why he might be annoying:

We all know that FORD stands for 'Fix Or Repaired Daily' or 'Found On Road Dead.'
His company designed one of the most unsuccessful cars of all time, the Edsel.
He was a notorious anti-semite, he published a book based on the 'Protocols of Zion.'
He formed the Henry Ford Company in 1901 and quit in 1902, due to disputes with investors
After quitting, the company became Cadillac Motor Car Company.
He was anti union.
He was a vegetarian.
He admired Adolf Hitler.

Why he might not be annoying:

He formed The Henry Ford Motor Company with a new idea, 'The way to make automobiles is to make one automobile like another automobile, to make them all alike...,' thus the Model A is invented (1903).
He began assembly of the very successful Model T (1908).
He paid his workers $5.00 a day, which was much higher than his competition (1914).
He was left handed.

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• A & E Biographies of the Millennium (Ranked: 29)
• A Hospital is Named in My Honor
• Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire'
• Car Names
• Diego Rivera Portraits
• Forbes' 20 Most Influential Businessmen of All Time [2006] (Ranked: 1)
• Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century (Ranked: 16)
• Golden Girls References
• Greatest Americans [Discovery Channel, 2005] (Ranked: 24)
• I am an Anti-Semite
• I am Left Handed - Male [A-G]
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [D-G]
• I Did Not Graduate High School [F-I]
• I Died in 1947 (Ranked: 94)
• I Have Dyslexia
• I Outlived My Child
• In Town for The World's Fair at the Columbian Exposition [1893-Chicago]
• International Motorsports Hall of Fame Members (Ranked: 1992)
• Inventors
• Life Magazine's 100 People Who Changed the World [2010] (Ranked: 51)
• Life Magazine's Top 100 People of the Millennium [2000] (Ranked: 15)
• My Attention Span is Limited [Reportedly A.D.D.]
• My Name, My Company
• Newseum's 100 Stories of the Century (Ranked: 14)
• People who Have Similar Names on Am I Annoying (Ranked: 653)
• Profiles 1251-1500 (Ranked: 1268)
• Religion's 100 Most Influential People (Ranked: 91)
• Satirized on Family Guy
• Smithsonian’s 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time [2015] (Ranked: 9)
• Time Magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century [1998]
• Vehicle Names

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 50 Votes: 32.00% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 26 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 70 Votes: 54.29% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 51 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 43 Votes: 55.81% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 93 Votes: 60.22% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 17 Votes: 58.82% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 58 Votes: 51.72% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 156 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 85 Votes: 51.76% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 20 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 51 Votes: 62.75% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 64 Votes: 65.62% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 85 Votes: 65.88% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 433 Votes: 70.90% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 148 Votes: 57.43% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 311 Votes: 65.27% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 336 Votes: 57.44% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 713 Votes: 50.35% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 1949 Votes: 54.64% Annoying
In 2001, Out of 5852 Votes: 50.87% Annoying