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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. However, he became a national hero in France and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 2009. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roland Moreno is the 335th most popular inventor (down from 313th in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from Egypt (down from 490th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Egyptian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Roland Moreno ranks 335 out of 426. Before him are Jack Northrop, Hannibal Goodwin, An Wang, Victor Hasselblad, John Philip Holland, and Joseph Engelberger. After him are Harry Brearley, Heinrich Gerber, André Blondel, Henry Shrapnel, Edward Lawry Norton, and David Dunbar Buick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Roland Moreno ranks 447. Before him are Tony Kaye, Portia Simpson-Miller, Mario Livio, Leslie West, Francisco Sá, and Erwin Vandendaele. After him are Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Gulnazar Keldi, Ralph Siegel, Clive Russell, Jürgen Möllemann, and Johan Devrindt. Among people deceased in 2012, Roland Moreno ranks 298. Before him are Patrick Moore, Eugene Polley, Vadim Glowna, Mark Midler, Barbara Ann Scott, and Emmanuel Scheffer. After him are Richard D. Zanuck, Nils Karlsson, Hans Nowak, Mahmoud El-Gohary, Tibor Csernai, and Lennart Samuelsson.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Roland Moreno ranks 501 out of 642. Before him are Pope Justus of Alexandria (100), Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889), Kamal Hassan Ali (1921), Alex Proyas (1963), Ahmose-Sitamun (-1600), and Jonathan Williams (1942). After him are Leila Ahmed (1940), Mahmoud El-Gohary (1938), Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak (1955), Ali Sabri (1920), Mahmoud Fayad (1925), and Naima Akef (1929).

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Among INVENTORS In Egypt

Among inventors born in Egypt, Roland Moreno ranks 3. Before him are Mary the Jewess (100), and Mohamed M. Atalla (1924).

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