# László Bíró

> He didn't invent the ballpoint pen — someone beat him by half a century — but he made it work, and that's why your Bic has his name on it.

*Hungarian inventor (1899–1985)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/laszlo-biro

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Born:** 1899-09-29
- **Died:** 1985-10-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born László József Schweiger in Hungary on 29 September 1899, he eventually took the surname Bíró and carried it to Argentina. John J. Loud had patented a ballpoint pen around 1888, but it went nowhere commercially. Bíró revisited the concept and engineered a version that actually functioned reliably enough to sell. That patent, filed in his adopted country, launched the modern ballpoint pen into mass production. He died in Buenos Aires on 24 October 1985, having turned a fifty-year-old failure into the thing in everyone's pocket.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 57.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.1 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 23.0 / 100
- **Now attention:** 8.1 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Journalism, #Sculpture, #Science, #20th Century

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312680)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3%20B%C3%ADr%C3%B3)
- [Ласло Биро](https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%91%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE)
- [Ласла Біра](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%91%D1%96%D1%80%D0%B0)
- [László Bíró](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3)
- [Ladislao Biro](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislao_Biro)
- [László Bíró](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3)
- [Ladislo Biro](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislo_Biro)
- [László József Bíró](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_J%C3%B3zsef_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3)
- [Λάζλο Μπίρο](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%AC%CE%B6%CE%BB%CE%BF_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%AF%CF%81%CE%BF)
- [Ladislao Biro](https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislao_Biro)
- [László Bíró (inventisto)](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3_(inventisto))
- [Ladislao Biro](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislao_Biro)
- [László József Bíró](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_J%C3%B3zsef_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3)
- [László Bíró](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3)
- [لاسلو بیرو](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88)
- [László Bíró](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3)
- [László Biró](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Bir%C3%B3)
- [László Biró](https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Bir%C3%B3)
- [László Bíró](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3)
- [לאסלו יוז'ף בירו](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%95_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%96'%D7%A3_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95)
- [Bíró László József](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%ADr%C3%B3_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_J%C3%B3zsef)
- [Լասլո Բիրո](https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BC%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%AC%D5%B8_%D4%B2%D5%AB%D6%80%D5%B8)
- [László Bíró](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_B%C3%ADr%C3%B3)
- [Wikiquote](https://hu.wikiquote.org/wiki/B%C3%ADr%C3%B3_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_J%C3%B3zsef)
- [لاسلو يوجيف بيرو](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88)
- [لاديسلاو چوزيف بيرو](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88_%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88)

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