Lennart

Lennart is a variant of Leonard most common in Sweden. Notable people named Lennart are:

As a surname:

  • Isobel Lennart (1915–1971), American screenwriter and playwright
  • Sonja de Lennart (born 1920), European fashion designer

As a given name:

  • Lennart Alexandersson, father of football players Niclas and Daniel Alexandersson
  • Lennart Åqvist (born 1932), Swedish logician
  • Lennart Askinger (1922–1995), Swedish football defender
  • Lennart Atterwall (1911–2001), Swedish javelin thrower and European champion
  • Lennart Augustsson, Swedish computer scientist
  • Lennart Axelsson (musician) (born 1941), Swedish trumpet player
  • Lennart Axelsson (politician) (born 1953), Swedish politician, member of the Riksdag
  • Lennart Beijer (born 1947), Swedish Left Party politician, member of the Riksdag 1994–2006
  • Lennart Bengtsson, meteorologist currently interested in global climate modelling
  • Lennart Bergelin (1925–2008), Swedish tennis player and coach
  • Lennart Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (1909–2004), Prince of Sweden and Duke of Småland from 1909 to 1932
  • Lennart Bodström (born 1928), Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1985
  • Lennart Bohman (1909–1979), Swedish boxer
  • Lennart Bunke, Swedish football forward
  • Lennart Carleson (born 1928), Swedish mathematician
  • Lennart Carlström, Swedish orienteering competitor
  • Lennart Daléus (born 1946), Swedish politician, leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 1998 to 2001
  • Lennart Dozzi (1910–1987), Swedish canoeist
  • Lennart Ebbinge (born 1956), former Swedish handball player
  • Lennart Ekdahl (1912–2005), Swedish sailor
  • Lennart Eriksson (musician) (born 1956), the bass player in the rebellious Swedish punk rock band Ebba Grön
  • Lennart Eriksson (handballer) (born 1944), former Swedish handball player
  • Lennart Fremling (born 1946), Swedish Liberal People's Party politician
  • Lennart Geijer (born 1909), Swedish politician and lawyer
  • Lennart Ginman (born 1960), Danish bassist, composer and music producer
  • Lennart Green (born 1941), world champion close-up/card magician
  • Lennart Gripenberg (1852–1933), Finnish politician
  • Lennart Gustavsson, (born 1954), Swedish Left Party politician
  • Lennart Hannelius (1893–1950), Finnish sport shooter
  • Lennart Hartmann (born 1991), German footballer
  • Lennart Hedmark (born 1944), retired Swedish track and field athlete
  • Lennart Hedquist (born 1943), Swedish politician of the Moderate Party
  • Lennart Heimer (1930–2007), Swedish-American neuroscientist and educator
  • Lennart Hellsing (born 1919), son of the merchant Paul Hellsing and his wife Sigrid
  • Lennart Hjulström (born 1938), Swedish actor and director
  • Lennart Hyland (1919–1993), Swedish TV-show host and journalist
  • Lennart Jähkel (born 1956), Swedish actor
  • Lennart Johansson (born 1929), the president of the Union of European Football Associations from 1990 to 2007
  • Lennart Johansson (ice hockey) (1941–2010), Swedish professional ice hockey player
  • Lennart Johnsson (born 1944), Swedish computer scientist and engineer
  • Lennart Klingström (1916–1994), Swedish sprint canoeist
  • Lennart Klockare (born 1945) a Swedish social democratic politician
  • Lennart Kollberg, fictional character in the books by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
  • Lennart Kollmats (born 1943), Swedish Liberal People's Party politician
  • Timothy Lennart Kopra (born 1963), colonel in the United States Army and a NASA astronaut
  • Lennart Koskinen (born 1944), clergyman in the Church of Sweden, serving as Bishop in Visby
  • Per Lennart Krusell, born 1959, Swedish macroeconomic theorist, teaches at Princeton University and in Stockholm
  • Lennart Larsson (cross country skier) (born 1930), Swedish cross-country skier
  • Lennart Larsson (footballer) (born 1953), former Swedish footballer
  • Lennart Lindroos (born 1886), Finnish breaststroke swimmer
  • Lennart Ljung, Swedish Professor in the Chair of Control Theory at Linköping University since 1976
  • Lennart Magnusson (1924–2011), Swedish fencer
  • Lennart Mathiasen (born 1948), Danish sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s
  • Lennart Meri (1929–2006), writer, film director and statesman, President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001
  • Jon Lennart Mjøen (1912–1997), Norwegian actor, film director and screenwriter
  • Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij (born 1978), co-founder of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent index site and tracker
  • Lennart Nilsson (born 1922), Swedish photographer and scientist
  • Karl Lennart Oesch (1892–1978), one of the leading Finnish generals during World War II
  • Lennart Olsson, born 1961, a Swedish zoologist & embryologist, professor of comparative zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
  • Lennart Petrell (born 1984), Finnish professional ice hockey player
  • Lennart Poettering, computer programmer
  • Rolf Lennart Ridderwall (born 1958), retired Swedish ice hockey goaltender
  • Lennart Rodhe (1916–2005), Swedish artist, painter and printmaker
  • Lennart Rönnback (1905–2007), Finnish White Guard veteran of the Finnish Civil War of 1918
  • Lennart Roslund (born 1946), Swedish sailor
  • Lennart Samuelsson (born 1924), former football player from Sweden
  • Lennart Sandin (1919–1991), Swedish bobsledder who competed in the early 1950s
  • Lennart Skoglund, (1929–1975), Swedish football player
  • Lennart Söderberg (born 1941), Swedish football manager and former football player
  • Lennart Steffensen (born 1977), Norwegian football midfielder
  • Lennart Stekelenburg (born 1986), Dutch swimmer who is specialized in breaststroke
  • Lennart Strand (1921–2004), Swedish middle distance runner, silver medallist over 1500 m at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
  • Lennart Strandberg (1915–1989), Swedish athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
  • Lennart Svedberg (1944–1972), Swedish ice hockey defenceman
  • Lennart Thy (born 1992), German footballer
  • Lennart Torstenson, Count of Ortala, Baron of Virestad (1603–1651), Swedish Field Marshal and military engineer
  • Lennart Viitala (1921–1966), Finnish freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion
  • Lennart von Post (1884–1951), Swedish naturalist & geologist
  • Lennart Wass (born 1953), Swedish football manager
  • Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren (1881–1961), Swedish entrepreneur, one of the wealthiest men in the world during the 1930s
  • Lennart Wing (born 1935), Swedish former international footballer who played in defence