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Colonel Sanders
Sign in to saveAlso known as Harland Sanders, Colonel Harland Sanders, Colonel Harland David Sanders, Col. Harland David Sanders, Col. Harland Sanders, Col. Sanders, The Kentucky Colonel, Harland David Sanders
American entrepreneur (1890-1980) who founded KFC
OverviewAI-generated
Colonel Launeil Sanders was an American author and public figure. His professional career began in 1930. He is associated with the works "Grass Roots Co-President's Campaign" and "Create 2,500,000 Disciples of America."
Born on September 9, 1890, Sanders died on December 16, 1980. He is identified as a person from the US. His name is written in Japanese kana as "カーネル・サンダース."
Records indicate he has five works listed in Crossref and one work in Open Library. He is referenced by 552 other encyclopedia articles. On Last.fm, his name is associated with 211 listeners and a playcount of 2419.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Grass Roots Co-President's Campaign, Create 2,500,000 Disciples of America
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 211
- Total plays
- 2,419
His secret blend of herbs and spices is largely considered the most significant chicken-related discovery of the past century. He is considered a legend among chicken enthusiasts. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Colonel+Sanders">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,691x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,201x
- The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic
· 2014 · cited 8,590x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,250x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,794x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.”
- “That friggin’ outfit...they prostituted every goddamn thing I had. I had the greatest gravy in the world and those sons of bitches they dragged it out and extended it and watered it down that I'm so goddamn mad.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Harland David Sanders , ( 1890-09-09 ) September 9, 1890, Henryville, Indiana , U.S.
- Died
- December 16, 1980 (1980-12-16) (aged 90), Louisville, Kentucky , U.S.
- Resting place
- Cave Hill Cemetery
- Education
- La Salle Extension University
- Occupations
- Businessman restaurateur entrepreneur
- Years active
- 1930–1980
- Known for
- Founding Kentucky Fried Chicken
- Spouses
- Josephine King ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1909 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1947 ) Claudia Price ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1949 )
- Branch
- United States Army
- Service years
- 1906–1907
- Rank
- Private
- Unit
- Wagoner
- Conflicts
- Second Occupation of Cuba
- Awards
- Cuban Pacification Medal
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980), commonly known as Colonel Sanders, was an American entrepreneur and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). He later acted as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company today.
Sanders held a number of jobs in his early life, such as being a steam engine stoker, insurance salesman, and filling station operator. He began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in North Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. During that time, Sanders developed his "secret recipe" and his patented method of cooking chicken in a pressure fryer. Sanders recognized the potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first KFC franchise opened in South Salt Lake, Utah, in 1952. When his original restaurant closed, he devoted himself full-time to franchising his fried chicken throughout the country.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colonel Sanders” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.