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Ole Kirk Christiansen (April 8, 1891–March 11, 1958) was the 13th son of an impoverished farmer family in Jutland in western Denmark. He trained as a carpenter and started making wooden toys in 1932 to make a living after having lost his job during the depression. He came up with the name lego from the Danish leg godt (play well) and the company grew to become the Lego Group which is today the sixth largest toy company in the world. His eldest son Godfred Kirk Christiansen took over the company after his death and bought out his three brothers in 1960. Ole Kirk Christiansen's grandson Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is the current vice chairman of the board of LEGO. He was chief executive until 2004, when Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, a former McKinsey consultant, became the new head.
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