# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laila-ohlgren
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:37:45.427Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laila-ohlgren"
name: "Laila Ohlgren"
slug: "laila-ohlgren"
description: "Ragnhild Laila Lillemor Ohlgren was a Swedish telecommunications engineer who is seen as the developer of mobile telephony together with Östen Mäkitalo, both engineers at Telia. In particular, she successfully introduced storage of the telephone number to be dialed in the phone's microprocessor so that connection could be achieved by pressing the call button. This avoided transmission breakages caused by obstacles such as trees during more lengthy traditional dialing. The approach was subsequently adopted worldwide. For her efforts, in 2009 she became the first woman to be awarded the Polhem Prize for technical innovation."
tagline: "Swedish engineer, inventor"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-11-17"
deathDate: "2014-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.469654666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Ohlgren"
    title: "Laila Ohlgren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Ohlgren"
    title: "Laila Ohlgren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Лајла Олгрен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Ohlgren"
    title: "Laila Ohlgren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Ohlgren"
    title: "Laila Ohlgren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Ольгрен, Лайла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4970827"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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