Hans Jørgen Wegner (1914 – 2007), Danish furniture designer and qualified cabinet maker. Wegner was employed as a furniture designer in the architect office of Arne Jacobsen and Erik Møller. In 1949 he started his own design company.

During the war he worked for his friend Børge Mogensen, who was manager of FDB's furniture design studio and they created a series of good, simple and cheap furniture. Throughout a long and productive life, Wegner has designed roughly 500 chairs, and he has always endeavoured to understand the nature of wood and exploit its potentials. His design is characterised by expressionism and often sculptural functionalism.

In the early 1940s Wegner reinterpreted a number of older chairs, e.g. the Windsor chair and the Chinese chair which gradually had stylistic details removed and modern elegance was added instead. In 1949 he presented The Round Chair, a simple and comfortable innovation of the Chinese chair which the international press called the world's most beautiful chair and named The Chair. It became the international breakthrough of Danish Design.

Wegner combined craftsmanship and industrial production technology and made industrial design for a number of Danish furniture producers. In 1995 a permanent collection of Wegner's chairs was exhibited in his home town, Tønder, in the water tower near Tønder Museum.

Wegner was awarded numerous honorable prizes, amongst other the Lunning Prize (1951), The Eckersberg Medal (1956) and Prince Eugens Medal (1961).