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Roland Moreno

1945 - 2012

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Roland Moreno (11 June 1945 – 29 April 2012) was a French inventor, engineer, humorist and author who was the inventor of the smart card. Moreno's smart card, or la carte à puce in French, was little known internationally. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roland Moreno has received more than 97,053 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Roland Moreno is the 313th most popular inventor (up from 325th in 2019), the 490th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 469th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Inventor.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Roland Moreno ranks 313 out of 426. Before him are David Bushnell, Dan Bricklin, Ken Olsen, Jack Northrop, Wilson Greatbatch, and Joseph Engelberger. After him are Peter Carl Goldmark, Ernst Alexanderson, Walter Bruch, Heinrich Gerber, Thomas Wedgwood, and Victor Hasselblad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Roland Moreno ranks 392. Before him are Filoimea Telito, Gamal El-Ghitani, Davy Jones, Iccho Itoh, Ralph Siegel, and Alcindo. After him are Hugo Fernández, Clive Russell, Fuad Muzurović, Nicholas Meyer, Jorge Serrano Elías, and Vladimir Nazlymov. Among people deceased in 2012, Roland Moreno ranks 267. Before him are Aleksandr Belyavsky, Heino Kruus, Davy Jones, Keith Campbell, Juan Francisco Lombardo, and Ignatius IV of Antioch. After him are Félicien Marceau, Verghese Kurien, Ladislav Kuna, Jacques Dupin, Ann Curtis, and Barney McKenna.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Roland Moreno ranks 490 out of 642. Before him are Al-Hakim II (null), Gamal El-Ghitani (1945), Pope Justus of Alexandria (100), Theognostus of Alexandria (210), Mahmoud Fayad (1925), and Nadia Gamal (1937). After him are Khenemetneferhedjet I (-1950), Naima Akef (1929), Pope Agrippinus of Alexandria (100), Mustafa Khalil (1920), Meretseger (-1850), and Ibrahim Shams (1917).

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Among INVENTORS In Egypt

Among inventors born in Egypt, Roland Moreno ranks 2. Before him are Mary the Jewess (100). After him are Mohamed M. Atalla (1924).

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