Carl-Axel Oscar Torén (8 March 1887 – 21 October 1961) was a Swedish Army officer and horse rider who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

One of them, Helge (1891–1954), competed internationally in middle-distance running and held a national record over 800 m.[4] Torén was commissioned as an officer with the rank of underlöjtnant in the Life Regiment Hussars in 1910.

Torén was promoted to ryttmästare in 1925 and was a cadet officer at the Military Academy Karlberg from 1925 to 1929.

Torén then served as a military attache in Warsaw, Prague and in Bucharest from 1937 to 1940.

[5] He was appointed executive officer of the Life Regiment of Horse in 1940.