# Lennart

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 (1932–2019), 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 (born 1935), 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), Swedish translator and children's book writer
* 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 (born 1946), 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