Sten Allan Olsson (28 October 1916 – 12 July 2013) was a Swedish
billionaire
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...
businessman, the founder, CEO and owner of
Stena Sphere.
Sten Allan Olsson was born on 28 October 1916, on
Donsö
Donsö () is a small island in the Southern Göteborg Archipelago and a locality situated in Göteborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 1,407 inhabitants in 2010. The local covenant church on Donsö has approximately 500 memb ...
, in the Gothenburg archipelago, the son of a schooner owner and captain.
He was educated at
Ljungskile Folk High School, followed by a commercial college in
Gothenburg
Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...
.
Olsson started a Gothenburg metals and rubber trading company in 1939, at the start of the Second World War, and moved into freight shipping.
He founded the ferry company
Stena Line
Stena Line is a Swedish shipping line company and one of the largest ferry operators in the world. It services Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Stena Line is a major unit of Ste ...
in 1962, initially on the Gothenburg-Skagen route.
He died on 12 July 2013.
He married Birgit Andersson in 1944, and they had three children.
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1916 births
2013 deaths
People from Gothenburg
Swedish businesspeople
Swedish billionaires
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