James Goodfellow OBE (born 1937 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish inventor. He patented Personal Identification Number (PIN) technology,[1] and is widely acknowledged as the inventor of Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) technology, although John Shepherd-Barron also had a large part to play in their development.
He was a development engineer given the project of developing an automatic cash dispenser in 1965. His system accepted a machine readable encrypted card, with a numerical PIN keypad. - UK Patent No.1,197,183 - May 2, 1966. His machine was tested a month later than one developed by John Shepherd Barron.
In 2006 Goodfellow was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his invention of the Personal Identification Number.[2]