List of Swedish entrepreneurs
This is a list of Swedish entrepreneurs and business people.
- Ola Ahlvarsson, founder of Result
- David Axmark, co-founder of MySQL
- Percy Barnevik, industry leader
- Per-Ingvar Brånemark, osseointegration, titanium dental prostheses
- Gustaf Dalén, founder of AGA and Nobel Prize laureate
- Nils Ericson, railroad pioneer
- John Ericsson, inventor and engineer
- Lars Magnus Ericsson, founder of Ericsson
- Joakim Fohlman, founder of Safer Uppsala County and the Foundation for Safer Sweden
- Assar Gabrielsson, industrialist, co-founder of Volvo
- Ellen Hodakova Larsson, founder of the clothing label Hodakova
- Bertil Hult, businessman, founder of EF Education First
- Jonas af Jochnick, founder of Oriflame
- Kerstin af Jochnick, banker
- Robert af Jochnick, founder of Oriflame
- Johan Petter Johansson, inventor
- Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA
- Bert Karlsson, owner and manager of Mariann Grammofon AB
- Mathilda Hamilton, missionary and entrepreneur
- Ivar Kreuger, industrialist and financier
- Håkan Lans, inventor
- Per E. Larsson, CEO and businessperson
- Gustav de Laval, founder of Alfa Laval
- Beatrice Lesslie, ran the Gothenburg clothing firm Konfektions AB Lesslie
- Birger Ljungström, engineer
- Fredrik Ljungström, industrialist
- Adolf H. Lundin, oil and mining entrepreneur
- Alfred Nobel, industrialist, instituted the Nobel Prizes
- Birger Nordholm, entrepreneur
- Erling Persson, founder of Hennes & Mauritz
- Markus Persson, founder of Mojang AB, creator of Minecraft
- Johanna Petersson, pioneering businesswoman from Ödeshög
- Ruben Rausing, founder of Tetra Pak
- Carl Fredrik Sammeli, entrepreneur, business developer
- Pär Olof Sandå, entrepreneur, developer and stockbroker
- Lars Olsson Smith, spirits manufacturer
- Jessie Sommarström, chef
- Johan Stael von Holstein, founder of Icon MediaLab
- Helena Stjernholm, CEO of the financial firm Industrivärden
- Frans Suell, founder of Malmö harbour
- Johan Ullman, working in ergonomy, occupational orthopedics
- Torsten Ullman
- Olof Wallenius
- Axel Wenner-Gren, founder of Electrolux
- Jonas Wenström, industrialist
- Sven Wingquist, engineer, inventor, industrialist, co-founder of SKF
- Niklas Zennström, founder of KaZaA and Skype