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  1. Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC). He later acted as the company's brand ambassador and symbol.

  2. Sep 9, 2015 · Before it became the world's second-largest fast-food chain, Kentucky Fried Chicken was the brainchild of a man named Harland "Colonel" Sanders, who cooked up simple country dishes at a roadside...

  3. Apr 2, 2014 · Colonel Sanders is best known for creating a fried chicken recipe that would launch the world's largest fast-food chicken chain, Kentucky Fried Chicken.

  4. Jul 6, 2015 · In 1964, when the 75-year-old Sanders sold his company for $2 million dollars, more than 600 franchises were distributing his fried chicken—made from the Colonels secret blend of “eleven ...

  5. Dec 12, 2021 · Popularly known as Colonel Sanders, Harland Sanders led a life of swearing, womanizing, and a whole lot of finger-lickin' good fried chicken. Sanders learned to cook up fried chicken as a boy preparing meals for his younger siblings at just eight while his mother was out working.

  6. KFC (also commonly referred to by its historical name Kentucky Fried Chicken) was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression.

  7. Jun 25, 2015 · By 1963, Sanders was fielding franchise requests without having to put in the legwork, and had more than 600 restaurants across the US and Canada selling Kentucky Fried Chicken.

  8. May 27, 2024 · Harland Sanders, also called Colonel Sanders, American business executive, a dapper self-styled Southern gentleman whose white hair, white goatee, white double-breasted suits, and black string ties became a trademark in countries worldwide for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

  9. Colonel Harland David Sanders [a] (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American businessman, best known for founding fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (now known as KFC) and later acting as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company.

  10. Dec 2, 2016 · Supposedly broke and suicidal at 65, KFC's Colonel Sanders parlayed his fried chicken recipe into a multi-billion-dollar business by age 88 — or did he?

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