Pehr

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title: "Pehr" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["masculine-given-names", "swedish-masculine-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/sweden" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pehr" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Pehr is a predominantly Swedish language masculine give name and may refer to:

• Pehr Adlerfelt (1680–1743), Swedish Army colonel
• Pehr von Afzelius (1760–1843), Swedish medical doctor and professor
• Pehr Victor Edman (1916—1977), Swedish biochemist
• Pehr von Ehrenheim (1823–1918), Swedish politician
• Pehr Forsskål (also known as Peter Forsskål; 1732–1763), Swedish-Finnish explorer, orientalist and naturalist
• Pehr Götrek (1798–1876), Swedish Christian communist
• Pehr Gyllenhammar (1901–1988), Swedish businessman
• Pehr G. Gyllenhammar (born 1935), Swedish businessman
• Pehr Harbury (born 1965), American biochemist
• Pehr Hilleström (1732–1816), Swedish artist
• Pehr Ferdinand Holm (1844–1917), Swedish-born New Zealand mariner
• Pehr G. Holmes (1881–1952), Swedish-born American politician
• Pehr Hörberg (1746–1816), Swedish painter and musician
• Pehr Janse (1893–1961), Swedish Army major general
• Pehr Kalm (1716–1779), Finnish explorer and naturalist
• Pehr Henrik Ling (1776–1839), Swedish physical education teacher
• Pehr Löfling (1729–1756), Swedish botanist
• Pehr Magnebrant (born 1970), Swedish golfer
• Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944–2008), Finnish composer
• Pehr Osbeck (1723–1805), Swedish explorer and naturalist
• Pehr August Peterson (1846–1927), Swedish-born American businessman, civic leader and philanthropist
• Pehr Philander (c. 1757–1811), Dutch slave
• Pehr Qværnstrøm (1878–1949), Norwegian actor, film director and scriptwriter
• Pehr Herman Rosén von Rosenstein (1763–1799), Swedish military officer and colonial administrator
• Pehr Arvid Säve (1811–1887), Swedish teacher, cultural historian and artist
• Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861–1944), Prime Minister and third President of Finland
• Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin (1717–1783), Swedish astronomer and demographer

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