1926 - 2018
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad (Swedish: [ˈɪ̌ŋːvar ˈkǎmːprad] ; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire business magnate best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ingvar Kamprad has received more than 2,836,763 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Ingvar Kamprad is the 9th most popular businessperson (down from 8th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 13th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Businessperson.
Ingvar Kamprad is most famous for founding IKEA, a furniture company that sells affordable furniture.
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Among businesspeople, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 9 out of 601. Before him are Pierre de Coubertin, Oskar Schindler, Cecil Rhodes, John D. Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos. After him are Sepp Blatter, George Soros, Vince McMahon, Aristotle Onassis, Cosimo de' Medici, and David Rockefeller.
1863 - 1937
HPI: 80.21
Rank: 3
1908 - 1974
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 4
1853 - 1902
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 5
1839 - 1937
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 6
1930 - Present
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 7
1964 - Present
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 8
1926 - 2018
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 9
1936 - Present
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 10
1930 - Present
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 11
1945 - Present
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 12
1906 - 1975
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 13
1389 - 1464
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 14
1915 - 2017
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 15
Among people born in 1926, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 5. Before him are Elizabeth II, Marilyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, and Michel Foucault. After him are Alfredo Di Stéfano, Jiang Zemin, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Leslie Nielsen, Miles Davis, Sathya Sai Baba, and Dario Fo. Among people deceased in 2018, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 6. Before him are Stephen Hawking, Aretha Franklin, George H. W. Bush, Kofi Annan, and Charles Aznavour. After him are Stan Lee, Montserrat Caballé, Miloš Forman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Charles K. Kao, and Amos Oz.
1926 - 2022
HPI: 90.46
Rank: 1
1926 - 1962
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 2
1926 - 2016
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 3
1926 - 1984
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 4
1926 - 2018
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 5
1926 - 2014
HPI: 75.85
Rank: 6
1926 - 2022
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 7
1926 - 2020
HPI: 71.96
Rank: 8
1926 - 2010
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 9
1926 - 1991
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 10
1926 - 2011
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 11
1926 - 2016
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 12
1942 - 2018
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 1
1942 - 2018
HPI: 81.57
Rank: 2
1924 - 2018
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 3
1938 - 2018
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 4
1924 - 2018
HPI: 76.87
Rank: 5
1926 - 2018
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 6
1922 - 2018
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 7
1933 - 2018
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 8
1932 - 2018
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 9
1941 - 2018
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 10
1933 - 2018
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 11
1939 - 2018
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 12
Among people born in Sweden, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 12 out of 1,612. Before him are Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594), Astrid Lindgren (1907), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Olof Palme (1927), Charles XII of Sweden (1682), and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946). After him are Svante Arrhenius (1859), Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626), Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), Ingrid Bergman (1915), August Strindberg (1849), and Greta Garbo (1905).
1594 - 1632
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 6
1907 - 2002
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 7
1858 - 1940
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 8
1927 - 1986
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 9
1682 - 1718
HPI: 76.95
Rank: 10
1946 - Present
HPI: 76.70
Rank: 11
1926 - 2018
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 12
1859 - 1927
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 13
1626 - 1689
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 14
1779 - 1848
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 15
1915 - 1982
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 16
1849 - 1912
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 17
1905 - 1990
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 18
Among businesspeople born in Sweden, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 1. After him are Ivar Kreuger (1880), Ludvig Nobel (1831), Stefan Persson (1947), Anders Frisk (1963), Christian von Koenigsegg (1972), Niklas Zennström (1966), and Daniel Ek (1983).
1926 - 2018
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 1
1880 - 1932
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 2
1831 - 1888
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 3
1947 - Present
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 4
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 5
1972 - Present
HPI: 43.29
Rank: 6
1966 - Present
HPI: 42.46
Rank: 7
1983 - Present
HPI: 33.67
Rank: 8