About László Bíró
László József Bíró, Hispanicized as Ladislao José Biro, was an Argentine, Hungary-born Jewish inventor who patented the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen. The first ballpoint pen had been invented roughly 50 years earlier by John J. Loud, but it was not a commercial success. László József Bíró (Hungarian:; né Schweiger; 29 September 1899 – 24 October 1985), Hispanicized as Ladislao José Biro, was an Argentine, Hungary-born Jewish inventor who patented the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen. The resulting designs, including the Bic Cristal, became the main products of his company Société Bic S.A., which has since sold more than 100 billion ballpoint pens worldwide.
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