The Bonnier family is a wealthy Swedish family of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, active in the publishing business since the late-18th century. The family controls the Swedish company Bonnier AB, with an annual revenue in 2008 of US$ 4.13 billion (2008).
The earliest known member of the patriarchal line of the family was a cloth salesman Jacob Schye (born 1674) from the town of Soborten in Bohemia. His son, the jeweller Löbel Schie (1718–1790), fathered the jeweller and coin dealer Löbel Salomon Hirschel (born 1745). Hirschel's son, Gutkind Hirschel (1778–1862) moved from Germany to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1801 and changed his name to Gerhard Bonnier (the name Bonnier is a French variant of the German given name Gutkind). In Copenhagen, Gerhard Bonnier started a library, a bookstore, and a publishing company.
Gerhard Bonnier's oldest son Adolf Bonnier (1806–1867) moved to Gothenburg, Sweden in 1827 to expand the family business. He opened a library in the city the following year and a few years later in Stockholm as well. Adolf Bonnier started a publishing company in 1834 and his two younger brothers, David Felix Bonnier (1822–1881) and Albert Bonnier (1820–1900), soon moved to Stockholm to help with the business.