Ferruccio Lamborghini (Italian pronunciation:
[ferˈruttʃo lamborˈɡiːni]; 28 April 1916 – 20 February 1993) was an
Italian industrialist. In 1963, he created
Automobili Lamborghini, a maker of high-end
sports cars in
Sant'Agata Bolognese.
Born to grape farmers in Renazzo, from the
comune of
Cento in the
Emilia-Romagna region, his mechanical know-how led him to enter the business of
tractor manufacturing in 1948, when he founded
Lamborghini Trattori, which quickly became an important manufacturer of agricultural equipment in the midst of Italy's
post-WWII economic boom. In 1959, he opened an oil burner factory, Lamborghini Bruciatori, which later entered the business of producing
air conditioning equipment.
Lamborghini founded a fourth company, Lamborghini Oleodinamica in 1969 after creating Automobili Lamborghini in 1963. Lamborghini sold off many of his interests by the late 1970s and retired to an estate in
Umbria, where he pursued
winemaking.
