Entrepreneurs
- Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), inventor and entrepreneur
- Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846–1926), industrialist and founder of Ericsson
- John Ericsson (1803–1889), inventor and engineer
- Nils Ericson (1802–1869), railroad pioneer
- Ingvar Kamprad (born 1926), founder of IKEA
- Ivar Kreuger (1880–1932), industrialist and financier
- Gustaf de Laval (1845–1913), industrialist
- Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), industrialist, instituted the Nobel Prizes
- Niklas Zennström (born 1966), founder of the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing network and Skype peer-to-peer internet telephony network
- Ruben Rausing (born 1895), co-founder of the liquid food packaging company Tetra Pak.
- Markus Persson (born 1979), creator of Minecraft and founder of Mojang.
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