1926 - 2018
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad (Swedish: [ˈɪ̌ŋːvar ˈkǎmːprad] (listen); 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 2,004,196 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Ingvar Kamprad is the 8th most popular businessperson, the 13th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 10th 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 8 out of 604. Before him are Howard Hughes, Pierre de Coubertin, Oskar Schindler, Cecil Rhodes, Warren Buffett, and John D. Rockefeller. After him are George Soros, Aristotle Onassis, David Rockefeller, Vince McMahon, Ray Kroc, and Sepp Blatter.
1905 - 1976
HPI: 85.21
Rank: 2
1863 - 1937
HPI: 84.78
Rank: 3
1908 - 1974
HPI: 84.57
Rank: 4
1853 - 1902
HPI: 84.04
Rank: 5
1930 - Present
HPI: 83.89
Rank: 6
1839 - 1937
HPI: 83.49
Rank: 7
1926 - 2018
HPI: 81.85
Rank: 8
1930 - Present
HPI: 81.84
Rank: 9
1906 - 1975
HPI: 81.28
Rank: 10
1915 - 2017
HPI: 81.05
Rank: 11
1945 - Present
HPI: 79.97
Rank: 12
1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.80
Rank: 13
1936 - Present
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 14
Among people born in 1926, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 6. Before him are Elizabeth II, Marilyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, Michel Foucault, and Alfredo Di Stéfano. After him are Jiang Zemin, Leslie Nielsen, Chuck Berry, Sathya Sai Baba, Dario Fo, and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Among people deceased in 2018, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 4. Before him are Stephen Hawking, George H. W. Bush, and Kofi Annan. After him are Stan Lee, Charles Aznavour, Montserrat Caballé, Miloš Forman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Aretha Franklin, Amos Oz, and Isao Takahata.
1926 - Present
HPI: 93.05
Rank: 1
1926 - 1962
HPI: 89.12
Rank: 2
1926 - 2016
HPI: 87.77
Rank: 3
1926 - 1984
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 4
1926 - 2014
HPI: 81.99
Rank: 5
1926 - 2018
HPI: 81.85
Rank: 6
1926 - Present
HPI: 79.84
Rank: 7
1926 - 2010
HPI: 78.95
Rank: 8
1926 - 2017
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 9
1926 - 2011
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 10
1926 - 2016
HPI: 77.84
Rank: 11
1926 - 2020
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 12
1942 - 2018
HPI: 89.32
Rank: 1
1924 - 2018
HPI: 82.99
Rank: 2
1938 - 2018
HPI: 82.82
Rank: 3
1926 - 2018
HPI: 81.85
Rank: 4
1922 - 2018
HPI: 81.63
Rank: 5
1924 - 2018
HPI: 81.21
Rank: 6
1933 - 2018
HPI: 80.52
Rank: 7
1932 - 2018
HPI: 80.22
Rank: 8
1941 - 2018
HPI: 79.78
Rank: 9
1942 - 2018
HPI: 77.85
Rank: 10
1939 - 2018
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 11
1935 - 2018
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 12
Among people born in Sweden, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 13 out of 1,296. Before him are Astrid Lindgren (1907), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626), Olof Palme (1927), Oleg of Novgorod (900), and Charles XII of Sweden (1682). After him are Ingrid Bergman (1915), August Strindberg (1849), Greta Garbo (1905), Bridget of Sweden (1303), Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), and Max von Sydow (1929).
1907 - 2002
HPI: 83.11
Rank: 7
1858 - 1940
HPI: 82.61
Rank: 8
1626 - 1689
HPI: 82.50
Rank: 9
1927 - 1986
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 10
900 - 912
HPI: 82.18
Rank: 11
1682 - 1718
HPI: 82.04
Rank: 12
1926 - 2018
HPI: 81.85
Rank: 13
1915 - 1982
HPI: 81.39
Rank: 14
1849 - 1912
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 15
1905 - 1990
HPI: 80.99
Rank: 16
1303 - 1373
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 17
1779 - 1848
HPI: 80.94
Rank: 18
1929 - 2020
HPI: 80.64
Rank: 19
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: 81.85
Rank: 1
1880 - 1932
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 2
1831 - 1888
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 3
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 4
1963 - Present
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 5
1972 - Present
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 6
1966 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 7
1983 - Present
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 8