Lieutenant General Carl Axel Fredrik Ivar Holmquist (22 February 1879 – 24 September 1954) was a senior Swedish Army officer and sports official.

He was president of the International Ski Federation from 1924 to 1934 and served as Chief of the Swedish Army during World War II.

Holmquist attended the Royal Swedish Army Staff College from 1902 and 1904 and the Firing School in 1904.

Holmquist was ordered to the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1912 and was captain of the Göta Life Guards in 1917.

[1] Holmquist was an expert at the negotiations of the Åland crisis at the Council of the League of Nations at the Commission of Jurists in Paris and the conference in Geneva in 1921.

[2][1] As a sports official, Holmquist was a co-founder of the International Ski Federation (FIS) and he became its first president during the period 1924 to 1934.