List of Swedish entrepreneurs

This is a list of Swedish entrepreneurs and businessmen.

• Percy Barnevik (born 1941), industry leader (ABB)
• Yngve Bergqvist
• Gustaf Dalén (1869-1937), founder of AGA and Nobel Prize laureate
• Börje Denter, entrepreneur, banker, investor, Nordea, Skandia
• Nils Ericson (1802-1860), railroad pioneer (SJ)
• John Ericsson (1803-1889), inventor and engineer (USS Monitor)
• Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846-1926), founder of Ericsson
• Samer Falik (born 1983), Swedish entrepreneur, founder of PHILIKS and YEK Studio
• Joakim Fohlman, founder of Safer Uppsala County and the Foundation for Safer Sweden
• Assar Gabrielsson (1891-1962), industrialist, co-founder of AB Volvo
• Kai Hammerich, former vice president of Saab
• Bertil Hult
• Johan Petter Johansson (1853-1943), inventor
• Jonas af Jochnick, founder of Oriflame
• Robert af Jochnick, founders of Oriflame
• Ingvar Kamprad (born 1926), founder of IKEA
• Bert Karlsson
• Ivar Kreuger (1880-1932), industrialist and financier
• Håkan Lans
• Gustav de Laval (1845-1913), founder of Alfa Laval
• Adolf H. Lundin, oil and mining entrepreneur
• Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), industrialist, instituted the Nobel Prizes
• Birger Nordholm (1897-1989), entrepreneur
• Erling Persson (1917-2002), founder of Hennes & Mauritz
• Markus Persson, founder of Mojang AB, creator of Minecraft
• Ruben Rausing, founder of Tetra Pak
• Pär Olof Sandå (born 1965), Swedish entrepreneur, developer and stockbroker
• Lars Olsson Smith (1836-1913), spirits manufacturer
• Johan Stael von Holstein, founder of Icon MediaLab
• Frans Suell (1744-1818), founder of Malmö harbour
• Torsten Ullman
• Olof Wallenius (1902 – 1970)
• Dr. Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren, founder of Electrolux
• Jonas Wenström, industrialist
• Sven Wingquist (1876-1953), engineer, inventor, industrialist, co-founder of SKF
• Niklas Zennström, founder of KaZaA and Skype

See also

• Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
• List of Swedish companies
• Stockholm Stock Exchange