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| name   = Meier, Sid
| image  = Sid_Meier.jpg
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| caption  = Sid Meier
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1954|24|02}}
| birth_place =  Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
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==Career==

Meier was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.  He founded MicroProse together with Bill Stealey in 1982. Meier eventually left MicroProse and in 1996 founded Firaxis Games along with veteran designer and gaming executive Jeff Briggs.

In 1996 he was awarded US Patent 5,496,962 for a "System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis" used in a product called [[C.P.U. Bach (3DO, CD-ROM) Microprose - 1994 USA, Canada Release|CPU Bach]].

In 1999, Meier became the second person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame. The first to receive that honor was Shigeru Miyamoto from Nintendo.

==List of major works==

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==External links==

* [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,3/ Mobygames]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier Wikipedia]

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