{"id":"stefan-persson","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/stefan-persson","language":"en","name":"Stefan Persson","name_en":"Stefan Persson","name_ne":null,"description":"Business magnate","headline":"Business magnate","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Carl Stefan Erling Persson (Swedish: [ˈstěːfan ˈpæ̌ːʂɔn]; born 4 October 1947) is a Swedish billionaire businessman. He 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.","summary_more":["Persson took over H&M from his father in 1982 and was its manager until 1998. He 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.","He is the sole director of Ramsbury Estates Limited, which farms 19,000 acres (7,700 ha) in the English counties of Wiltshire, Berkshire and Hampshire, centred on the village of Ramsbury in Wiltshire. Since Persson acquired the business in 1997, it has bought the land of several neighbouring estates including Littlecote and Hungerford Park.","According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Persson had a net worth of US$24.6 billion in August 2026, making him the 102nd richest person in the world at the time. In the same year, Forbes described him as Sweden's richest person."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"4 October 1947","date":"1947-10-04"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732202#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Stockholm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1754"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732202#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Sweden","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732202#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"entrepreneur","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131524"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732202#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Stockholm University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221645"},{"text":"Stockholm Business School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3499600"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732202#P69"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Honorary Doctor of Stockholm University of Economics","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88181705","date":"2001"},{"text":"Honorary Doctor at Karolinska Institutet","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86503339","date":"2010"},{"text":"honorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38257102","date":"2012"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732202#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Persson_(magnate)","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732202"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Stefan Persson born?","a":"Stefan Persson was born on 4 October 1947 in Stockholm."},{"q":"Where did Stefan Persson study?","a":"Stefan Persson was educated at Stockholm University, Stockholm Business School."}],"related":[{"name":"Dan Olsson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dan-olsson"},{"name":"Hans Rausing","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hans-rausing"},{"name":"Ingvar Kamprad","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ingvar-kamprad"},{"name":"Gustaf Dalén","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gustaf-dalen"},{"name":"Finn Rausing","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/finn-rausing"},{"name":"Jörn Rausing","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jorn-rausing"},{"name":"Kirsten Rausing","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kirsten-rausing"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/stefan-persson-3048d592cb.jpg","width":500,"height":646,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Prolineserver","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stefan_Persson.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Stefan Persson","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Persson_(magnate)","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q732202","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732202","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Stefan Persson.jpg by Prolineserver (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stefan_Persson.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Stefan Persson, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Stefan Persson.jpg — Prolineserver, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Stefan Persson\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/stefan-persson. Retrieved 8 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:28:20Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-07","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/stefan-persson","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/stefan-persson","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/stefan-persson?lang=ne"}}