Lennart

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Lennart or Lennarth is a Germanic variant of the name Leonard, most common in Scandinavia and German-speaking countries as a surname or masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Camilla Lennarth (born 1988), Swedish golfer
• Isobel Lennart (1915–1971), American screenwriter and playwright
• Sonja de Lennart (born 1920), German fashion designer

Given name

A–E

• Lennart Alexandersson (born 1947), Swedish footballer, father of football players Niclas and Daniel Alexandersson
• Lennart Åqvist (born 1932), Swedish logician
• Lennart Askinger (1922–1995), Swedish football defender
• Lennart Atterwall (1911–2001), Swedish javelin thrower and European champion
• Lennart Augustsson, Swedish computer scientist
• Lennart Axelsson (musician) (born 1941), Swedish trumpet player
• Lennart Axelsson (politician) (born 1953), Swedish politician, member of the Riksdag
• Lennart Beijer (born 1947), Swedish Left Party politician, member of the Riksdag 1994–2006
• Lennart Bengtsson, Swedish meteorologist currently interested in global climate modelling
• Lennart Bergelin (1925–2008), Swedish tennis player and coach
• Lennart Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (1909–2004), Prince of Sweden and Duke of Småland from 1909 to 1932
• Lennart Bladh (1920–2006), Swedish politician, member of the Riskdag from 1974 to 1985
• Lennart Bodström (1928–2015), Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1985
• Lennart Bohman (1909–1979), Swedish boxer
• Lennart Bunke (1912–1988), Swedish football forward
• Lennart Carleson (born 1928), Swedish mathematician
• Lennart Carlström (born 1943), Swedish orienteering competitor
• Lennart Daléus (born 1946), Swedish politician, leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 1998 to 2001
• Lennart Dozzi (1910–1987), Swedish canoeist
• Lennarth Ebbinge (born 1956), Swedish handball player
• Lennart Ekdahl (1912–2005), Swedish sailor
• Lennart Eriksson (musician)
  (born 1956), the bass player in the Swedish punk rock band Ebba Grön
• Lennart Eriksson (handballer) (born 1944), Swedish handball player

F–L

• Lennart Fremling (1946–2013), Swedish Liberal People's Party politician
• Lennart Geijer (1909–1999), Swedish politician and lawyer
• Lennart Ginman (born 1960), Danish bassist, composer and music producer
• Lennart Green (born 1941), Swedish magician, world champion close-up/card magician
• Lennart Gripenberg (1852–1933), Finnish politician
• Lennart Gustavsson (born 1954), Swedish Left Party politician
• Lennart Hannelius (1893–1950), Finnish sport shooter
• Lennart Hartmann (born 1991), German footballer
• Lennart Hedmark (born 1944), Swedish track and field athlete
• Lennart Hedquist (born 1943), Swedish politician of the Moderate Party
• Lennart Heimer (1930–2007), Swedish-American neuroscientist and educator
• Lennart Hellsing (1919–2015), son of the merchant Paul Hellsing and his wife Sigrid
• Lennart Hjulström (1938–2022), Swedish actor and director
• Lennart Hyland (1919–1993), Swedish TV-show host and journalist
• Lennart Jähkel (born 1956), Swedish actor
• Lennart Johansson (1929–2019), Swedish football administrator, president of the Union of European Football Associations from 1990 to 2007
• Lennart Johansson (ice hockey) (1941–2010), Swedish professional ice hockey player
• Lennart Johnsson (born 1944), Swedish computer scientist and engineer
• Lennart Klingström (1916–1994), Swedish sprint canoeist
• Lennart Klockare (born 1945), Swedish social democratic politician
• Lennart Kollberg
  , fictional character in the books by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
• Lennart Kollmats (born 1943), Swedish Liberal People's Party politician
• Lennart Koskinen (born 1944), clergyman in the Church of Sweden, serving as bishop in Visby
• Lennart Larsson (cross-country skier) (1930–2021), Swedish cross-country skier
• Lennart Larsson (footballer) (born 1953), Swedish footballer
• Lennart Lindgren (1915–1952), Swedish Olympic sprinter
• Lennart Lindgren (Swedish Navy officer) (1919–2013)
• Lennart Lindroos (1886–1921), Finnish breaststroke swimmer
• Lennart Ljung (engineer) (born 1946), Swedish Professor in the Chair of Control Theory at Linköping University since 1976
• Lennart Ljung (general) (1921–1990), Swedish Army general

M–Z

• Lennart Magnusson (1924–2011), Swedish fencer
• Lennart Mathiasen (born 1948), Danish sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s
• Lennart Meri (1928–2006), Estonian writer, film director and statesman, President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001
• Lennart Nilsson (1922–2017), Swedish photographer and scientist
• Lennart Nilsson (born 1944), Swedish politician
• Lennart Nylander (1901–1966), Swedish diplomat
• Lennart Olsson (born 1961), Swedish zoologist & embryologist, professor of comparative zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
• Lennart Petrell (born 1984), Finnish professional ice hockey player
• Lennart Poettering (born 1980), German software engineer
• Lennart Rodhe (1916–2005), Swedish artist, painter and printmaker
• Lennart Rönnback (1905–2007), Finnish White Guard veteran of the Finnish Civil War of 1918
• Lennart Rönnberg (1938–2022), Swedish Army major general
• Lennart Roslund (born 1946), Swedish sailor
• Lennart Samuelsson (1924–2012), football player from Sweden
• Lennart Sandin (1919–1991), Swedish bobsledder who competed in the early 1950s
• Lennart Skoglund (1929–1975), Swedish football player
• Lennart Söderberg (1941–2022), Swedish football manager and former football player
• Lennart Steffensen (born 1977), Norwegian football midfielder
• Lennart Stekelenburg (born 1986), Dutch swimmer who is specialized in breaststroke
• Lennart Stenberg
  , Swedish author of Den nya nordiska floran
• Lennart Strand (1921–2004), Swedish middle-distance runner, 1500 m silver medallist at the 1948 London Summer Olympics
• Lennart Strandberg (1915–1989), Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
• Lennart Svedberg (1944–1972), Swedish ice hockey defenceman
• Lennart Swahn (1927–2008), Swedish journalist and radio and television personality
• Lennart Thy (born 1992), German footballer
• Lennart Torstenson
  (1603–1651), Count of Ortala, Baron of Virestad (1603–1651), Swedish Field Marshal and military engineer
• Lennart Viitala (1921–1966), Finnish freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion
• Lennart von Post (1884–1951), Swedish naturalist and geologist
• Lennart Wass (born 1953), Swedish football manager
• Lennart Wing (born 1935), Swedish international footballer who played in defence

See also

• Lenaerts, a surname
• Lenard, a surname
• Lenhart, a surname
• Municipality of Lenart, a small town and municipality in northeastern Slovenia
• Lennert (disambiguation)
• Leonard (disambiguation)

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