# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-johan-persson
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:10:12.869Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-johan-persson"
name: "Karl-Johan Persson"
slug: "karl-johan-persson"
description: "Karl-Johan Erling Göran Persson is a Swedish billionaire businessman. He is chairman of the fashion company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), and was its CEO from 2009 to 2020. H&M was founded by his grandfather Erling Persson. As of December 2023, according to Forbes, his estimated net worth is US$1.9 billion."
tagline: "Swedish businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl-Johan_Persson_2014-09-22_001_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
birthDate: "1975-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.093312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl-Johan_Persson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كارل جوهان بيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Johan_Persson"
    title: "Karl-Johan Persson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Johan_Persson"
    title: "Karl-Johan Persson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Johan_Persson"
    title: "Karl-Johan Persson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Johan_Persson"
    title: "Karl-Johan Persson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Johan_Persson"
    title: "Karl-Johan Persson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Johan_Persson"
    title: "Karl-Johan Persson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1719952"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump