Manuel Lao Hernández (born 1944) is a Spanish

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

, and the founder of

Cirsa Cirsa is Spain's largest casino operator as of 2017. History Cirsa was founded in 1978 by Manuel Lao Hernández. It is involved in the fabrication and distribution of different types of gambling machines. By 1990 they started to expand their p ...

, Spain's largest casino company. Hernández was born in

Almería Almería (, , ) is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. It lies on southeastern Iberia on the Mediterranean Sea. Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. The city gr ...

in 1944. He is married, with three children, and lives in

Matadepera Matadepera is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Vallès Occidental in Catalonia, Spain. Twin towns * Mariapfarr, Austria, since 1984 * Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of ...

, Spain.

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