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László Bíró

1899 - 1985

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László József Bíró (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːsloː ˈjoːʒɛf ˈbiːroː]; born László József Schweiger; 29 September 1899 – 24 October 1985), Hispanicized as Ladislao José Biro, was a Hungarian-Argentine inventor who patented the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen. The first ballpoint pen had been invented roughly 50 years earlier by John J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of László Bíró has received more than 1,313,749 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). László Bíró is the 36th most popular inventor (up from 43rd in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 30th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Inventor.

László bíró is most famous for being the inventor of the modern football.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, László Bíró ranks 36 out of 354. Before him are Ernő Rubik, Bartolomeo Cristofori, George Westinghouse, Robert Fulton, Joseph Marie Jacquard, and Abbas ibn Firnas. After him are Ismail al-Jazari, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Konrad Zuse, Herman Hollerith, Nicolas Appert, and Igor Sikorsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, László Bíró ranks 12. Before him are Vladimir Nabokov, Friedrich Hayek, Humphrey Bogart, Lavrentiy Beria, Yasunari Kawabata, and Frederick IX of Denmark. After him are Fred Astaire, Francis Poulenc, Adnan Menderes, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Duke Ellington, and Erich Kästner. Among people deceased in 1985, László Bíró ranks 10. Before him are Yul Brynner, Heinrich Böll, Orson Welles, Fernand Braudel, Carl Schmitt, and Italo Calvino. After him are Simone Signoret, Rock Hudson, Charles Francis Richter, Dian Fossey, Jean Dubuffet, and Simon Kuznets.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, László Bíró ranks 29 out of 866. Before him are Victor Vasarely (1906), Ernő Rubik (1944), Ilona Staller (1951), Andrew II of Hungary (1175), Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868), and Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371). After him are Sándor Kocsis (1929), Eugene Wigner (1902), Dennis Gabor (1900), Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409), Edward Teller (1908), and Zoltán Kodály (1882).

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Among INVENTORS In Hungary

Among inventors born in Hungary, László Bíró ranks 2. Before him are Ernő Rubik (1944). After him are David Schwarz (1850), Ottó Bláthy (1860), Tivadar Puskás (1844), Paul von Jankó (1856), Peter Carl Goldmark (1906), and Kálmán Kandó (1869).

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