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Persson
Persson (also Person, Pärsson) is the eighth most common Swedish family name. It is a patronymic surname and literally means "son of Per". People with the surname *Åke Persson, Swedish jazz trombonist *Erling Persson, founder of Swedish clothing company H&M * Essy Persson, Swedish actress *Göran Persson, Swedish politician and former Prime Minister (1996-2006) * Håkan Persson, Swedish 3D-Artist * Joakim Persson, retired Swedish footballer * Johanna Persson, Swedish female badminton player *Jöran Persson, counsellor to King Erik XIV of Sweden *Jörgen Persson, Swedish table tennis player *Karl-Johan Persson, billionaire CEO and president of Swedish company H&M * Kristin Persson, Swedish physicist and chemist *Kristina Persson (born 1945), Swedish politician * Leif G. W. Persson, Swedish criminologist and writer *Marie Persson (born 1967), Swedish curler *Markus Persson, Swedish video game developer * Miah Persson, Swedish soprano * Michael Persson (born 1959), Swedish weightlif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göran Persson
Hans Göran Persson (; born 20 January 1949) is a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007. Persson was first elected to the Swedish Parliament in 1979, representing Södermanland County but left in 1985 to serve as Municipal Commissioner of Katrineholm, which he did from 1985 to 1989. In 1991, he was re-elected to the Parliament and represented the same constituency. He served as Minister for Schools from 1989 to 1991 in Ingvar Carlsson's first and second cabinets. From 1994 to 1996, Persson served as Minister for Finance in Carlsson's third cabinet. After that Ingvar Carlsson announced his retirement from the position of Prime Minister, Persson was chosen to become the new Prime Minister. Persson began as Prime Minister where he left office as Minister for Finance – by continuing to spearhead government efforts to alleviate Sweden's chronic budget deficit. In 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Persson
Markus Alexej Persson (; born 1 June 1979), also known as Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is best known for creating the sandbox video game ''Minecraft'' and for founding the video game company Mojang in 2009. Persson's principal venture for founding Mojang was ''Minecraft'' which gained popularity and support since its tech demo in 2009. Since then, he has gained significant notability within the video game industry, winning multiple awards and establishing relations with the industry's figureheads. He retained his position as the lead designer of ''Minecraft'' until the game's official launch in 2011, after which he transferred creative authority to Jens Bergensten. He had continued to work on ''Minecraft'' until he left Mojang in September 2014, after its acquisition by Microsoft for $2.5 billion. Microsoft eventually dissociated from Persson following controversial comments regarding topics such as race and gender on his Twitter account. Biograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Persson
Nina Elisabet Persson (; born 6 September 1974) is the lead singer and lyricist for the Swedish rock band The Cardigans. She has also worked as a solo artist, releasing two albums as A Camp and one under her own name, and has also appeared as a guest artist with several other acts. Persson made her acting debut in the film ''Om Gud vill'' which was released in 2006. She appears on the Manic Street Preachers song "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough", which reached #2 on the UK chart, on the album ''Send Away the Tigers''. She also features on the 2009 Sparklehorse/Danger Mouse (music producer), Danger Mouse collaboration ''Dark Night of the Soul (album), Dark Night of the Soul'' singing "Daddy's Gone". Persson's first solo album released under her own name, ''Animal Heart'', was released on 10 February 2014 on the independent British record label Lojinx, Lojinx Records. Personal life Persson grew up in Jönköping, Sweden. "I grew up in a middle-class, academic family," Persson said ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Set Persson
Set Persson (5 March 189715 July 1960) was a Swedish communist leader. Persson was born on 5 March 1897 in Stockholm, but as an orphan he was raised by relatives in Hälsingland. He was a good student in school, but left his studies at the age of 14 to start to work in the railroads. Soon he joined the Social Democratic Youth League. Furtheron, the joined the Communist Party of Sweden, which had been founded by the youth league in 1917. Following the Ådalen massacre in 1931, Persson led a 10-day general strike in Söderhamn during which clashes with the police erupted. The following year he was, together with Anders Bäckström (leader of the 1931 Marma workers strike), the main speaker at a workers rally in Sandarne against strike breakers. After the speeches were concluded, the workers marched towards the dock area. Suddenly the rally was attacked from behind by police, using sables and smoke-bombs. Violence erupted, and three demonstrators were wounded by police bullets. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Persson (fashion Magnate)
Carl Stefan Erling Persson (; born 4 October 1947) is a Swedish billionaire businessman. In March 2013, Forbes reported Persson's net worth as $28 billion making him the richest of Sweden's 12 billionaires and the 17th richest person in the world; he has since dropped to number 50. Persson was the chairman of fashion company H&M until May 2020, when he was succeeded by his son. He remains the company's largest shareholder, owning a 36% stake. The company was founded by his father Erling Persson in 1947. Persson took over the company from his father in 1982 and served as its manager until 1998. Persson also owns a substantial stake in the Swedish technology company Hexagon AB. Through his privately held real estate company Ramsbury Invest, Persson owns a large number of properties in London, Paris and Stockholm. According to ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index'', Persson had a net worth of US$21.2 billion in January 2022, making him the 89th richest person in the world at the time. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joakim Persson
Björn Joakim Persson (born 3 April 1975) is a Swedish football manager and former player. He is the head coach of Varbergs BoIS. As a player, he represented Malmö FF, Atalanta, IFK Göteborg, Esbjerg fB, Hansa Rostock, Stabæk, and Landskrona BoIS during a career that spanned between 1992 and 2010. He also represented the Sweden national team, winning three caps and scoring one goal in 1997. Club career Born in Helsingborg, Persson began his career as a youth-team player with Högaborgs BK before moving to Malmö FF in 1992. He made his professional debut in a Swedish Cup game against Landskrona in 1994. Persson moved to the Italian Serie A club Atalanta in 1996. He returned to Sweden after less than two seasons in Italy, having very rarely played for Atalanta's first-team, joining IFK Göteborg in January 1998. Things went little better for him in Sweden. He was often singled out by the media as the main cause of his team's poor performances throughout his two seasons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jöran Persson
Jöran Persson, alternatively Göran Persson (c. 1530 – September 1568), was King Eric XIV of Sweden's favorite, most trusted counsellor and head of the King's network of spies. He was widely seen as a Machiavellian figure, and as holding too much influence over Eric. On both occasions on which the King was removed from power, Persson was quickly arrested by the nobility; the second time he was executed shortly after his arrest. Life Persson was born in Sala, the son of a local priest, Curatus Petrus (Per Joensson) and Anna Pehrsönernas moder, in about 1530. He had a brother, Christiern Persson. Early career During the early 1550s he studied at the University of Wittenberg, where he proved to be a very gifted student and, according to legend, was highly regarded by the eminent theologian Philipp Melanchthon, who, on his journey back to Sweden in 1555, sent with him a recommendation letter to King Gustav I. Upon his return to Sweden he was given an annual pension and empl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl-Johan Persson
Karl-Johan Erling Göran Persson (born 25 March 1975) is a Swedish billionaire businessman, and the chair and former president and CEO of the fashion company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), founded by his grandfather Erling Persson. As of March 2022, according to ''Forbes'', his estimated net worth is US$1.5 billion. Early life Persson attended the European Business School in London from 1996, majoring in Business and Economics. He graduated in 2002. Career In 2001, Persson purchased an events management business, which established itself as the leading events management company in Scandinavia. The business was successfully sold in 2007 to MCI. In 2005, he joined H&M in an operational role, working his way up to head of expansion and head of business development in 2007, before being appointed CEO in 2009 to succeed Rolf Eriksen. He was replaced by Helena Helmersson in January 2020. Personal life He is married to Leonie Gillberg, they have two children, and live in Stockholm, Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Persson (ice Hockey)
Eric Stefan Persson (born 22 December 1954) is a Swedish professional ice hockey executive and former player. He is the general manager of Borås HC hockey club in Sweden. Persson played for nine seasons with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL), where he was a member of four Stanley Cup championship teams in the early 1980s. Playing career Persson made his playing debut as an 18-year-old defenceman with Piteå IF. In 1973 he joined Brynäs. While with Brynäs, he received his first national championship silver medal and two national championship gold medals, in 1976 and 1977. It was during this time that the New York Islanders drafted him, so Persson decided to go overseas to play in the NHL. Persson's responsible, defensive style was endorsed highly by the Islanders head coach, Al Arbour, and Persson's career in the NHL started swiftly. Persson also showed an adept passing ability and an occasional scoring touch. This was no more apparent than during the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Persson
Kristin Aslaug Persson is a Swedish/Icelandic American physicist and chemist. She was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1971, to Eva Haettner-Aurelius and Einar Benedikt Olafsson. She is a faculty senior staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Currently, she is also the director of the Molecular Foundry, a national user facility managed by the US Department of Energy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Persson is the director and co-founder of the Materials Project, a multi-national effort to compute the properties of all inorganic materials. Her research group focuses on the data-driven computational design and prediction of new materials for clean energy production and storage applications. Education Persson holds a Master of Science in engineering physics from Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden and completed a Ph.D. in theoretical ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Persson
Leif Peter Gunnar Persson (born 1955) is a Sweden, Swedish politician and former member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party, he represented Jönköping County (Riksdag constituency), Jönköping County between October 2010 and August 2020. Persson is the son of Leif Persson and Ingegerd Persson (née Karlsson). He was an instrument mechanic in Nymölla from 1974 to 1984. He was a member of the Municipal council (Sweden), municipal council in Kristianstad Municipality. He was a member of the municipal council in Jönköping Municipality between 1988 and 2010. He was married to former Riksdag member Margareta Persson. He retired from politics in 2020 and moved back to Kristianstad. References 1955 births Living people Members of the Riksdag 2010–2014 Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018 Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022 Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats {{Sweden-SocialDemocrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erling Persson
Erling Persson (21 January 1917 – 28 October 2002) was the founder of H&M (Hennes & Mauritz). He got the idea following a post-World War II trip to the United States: He was impressed by the country's efficient, high-volume stores. He established the company in Västerås, Sweden, in 1947 selling women's clothing, calling it ''Hennes,'' Swedish for "hers." In 1968, Persson acquired the premises and inventory of a Stockholm hunting equipment store named Mauritz Widforss. In 1982, his son, Stefan Persson took over as the managing director A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ..., and today is the chairman of the board. The Persson family owns about 47% of the company and has a 74% voting rights. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Persson, Erling 1917 births 2002 deaths Swe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
