If you are referring to the ballpoint pen, usually called a Biro in British English, the origin comes from Laszlo Biro (Bíró László József). Bíró was the Hungarian journalist who invented the ballpoint pen. He was not the first to use a ball point mechanism, but previous versions did not work very well. His was the first design to become widely used and commercially successful. Although Bíró's name is properly pronounced "BEE-roh", most English speakers call his pen a "BYE-roh."
Biro is named after Lรกszlรณ Bรญrรณ, the Hungarian-Argentinian inventor who developed the first commercially successful ballpoint pen in the 1940s.
It comes from the man named Charles Biro.
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The ball point pen known as a biro is named after László József Bíró.
The ballpoint pen, also known as the Biro pen, was named after its inventor, Laszlo Biro, a Hungarian-Argentinian journalist.
The word 'biro' or 'Biro' comes from the name of the inventor of the ballpoint pen as we know it now, and refers specifically to the Biro and generically to that type of pen. The inventor's name was László József Bíró (or, in his native Hungarian, Bíró László József); he lived from 1899 to 1985. You can learn more about Biro from many sources, including the link below.
I think they are both named after people.
It was named after László József Bíro, the man that invented it.
lazlo biro invented the biro in 1985
The Biro brothers invented the ball point pen. Years later, the BIC company, which had made its fortune by marketing inexpensive but very functional ball point pens, named one of its ball point pens after them, calling it the Biro.
Ladislao Biro Invented the Biro with his brother, Georg.
cheese Um, nope. Not from cheese. It's Hungarian and it means "judge". A Hungarian man named Biro invented the ball point pen, thus them being called "Biro's" in England. Although many people pronounce it "BI-ro" it's actually supposed to be "Beer-o".
A biro is a BIRO-brand ballpoint pen, or by extension, any variety of ballpoint pen.
Barney Biro's birth name is Barnet Wolf Biro.
Laszlo Biro's wife's name is Elsa Elizabeth Schick Biro.