List of Swedish entrepreneurs
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This is a list of Swedish entrepreneurs and businessmen.
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- Percy Barnevik (born 1941), industry leader (ABB)
- Gustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), founder of AGA and Nobel Prize laureate
- Lars Magnus Ericsson, (1846-1926), founder of Ericsson
- John Ericsson, (1803-1889), inventor and engineer (USS Monitor)
- Nils Ericson, (1802-1860), railroad pioneer (SJ)
- Johan Petter Johansson (1853-1943), inventor
- Ingvar Kamprad, (born 1926), founder of IKEA
- Ivar Kreuger, (1880-1932), industrialist and financier
- Gustav de Laval, (1845-1913), founder of Alfa Laval
- Håkan Lans, (born 1947), inventor
- Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), industrialist, instituted the Nobel Prizes
- Birger Nordholm, (1897-1989), entrepreneur
- Ruben Rausing, founder of Tetra Pak
- Lars Olsson Smith, (1836-1913), spirits manufacturer
- Frans Suell, (1744-1818), founder of Malmö harbour
- Niklas Zennström, founder of KaZaA and Skype
- Dr. Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren, founder of Electrolux
- Jonas Wenström, industrialist