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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 87,802 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Roland Moreno is the 325th most popular inventor (down from 303rd in 2019), the 472nd most popular biography from Egypt (down from 429th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Roland Moreno ranks 325 out of 354. Before him are Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Henry Shrapnel, Georges Beuchat, Phil Ramone, Marion Donovan, and Norman Joseph Woodland. After him are Per Georg Scheutz, Barnes Wallis, Margaret E. Knight, Ken Olsen, Joseph Engelberger, and John Philip Holland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Roland Moreno ranks 377. Before him are Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Michael Brandon, Jorge Serrano Elías, Tommy Svensson, Peter Pace, and Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi. After him are Lasse Berghagen, Lloyd Kaufman, Burhan Ghalioun, Jozef Moravčík, Katri Helena, and Nikolai Tanayev. Among people deceased in 2012, Roland Moreno ranks 282. Before him are Fyodor Khitruk, Franz West, Ahmed Jabari, Norman Joseph Woodland, Albert George Wilson, and Barney McKenna. After him are Leila Denmark, Lennart Samuelsson, Kurt Maetzig, Emmanuel Scheffer, J. Bernlef, and Nils Karlsson.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Roland Moreno ranks 472 out of 582. Before him are Iah (-2200), Amr Waked (1973), Tiberius Claudius Balbilus (100), Karim Rashid (1960), Pope Justus of Alexandria (100), and Pope Timothy I of Alexandria (350). After him are H. A. R. Gibb (1895), Gamal Al-Ghandour (1957), Mohamed Zidan (1981), Ahmed al-Senussi (1933), Gamal El-Ghitani (1945), and Mido (1983).

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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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