Samuel Owen (engineer)

Samuel Owen
Samuel Owen, circa 1820-30
Born(1774-05-12)12 May 1774
Died15 February 1854(1854-02-15) (aged 79)
Stockholm, Sweden
OccupationEngineer • inventor • industrialist
Spouse(s)Ann Spen Toft
Beata Carolina Svedell
(m. 1817; died 1822)

Johanna Magdalena Elisabeth
Children17
Some of Owen's original workshop buildings in Stockholm, photographed in 2009

Samuel Owen (12 May 1774 – 15 February 1854), was a British-Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist. He founded a workshop in Stockholm in 1809 that produced a large number of mechanical components, and since then has been regarded as "the founder of the Swedish mechanical industry".