Sven Hjalmar Lampell (18 December 1920 – 28 June 2007) was a Swedish Air Force officer.

Lampell was promoted to colonel in 1965 and served in the Red Cross as a part of the Biafran airlift in Biafra from 1968 to 1969[2] where he organized aid flights into the encircled and starving population during the Nigerian Civil War.

[2] He left Hälsinge Wing and the Air Force in 1972 for a position as Chief Delegate at the International Red Cross in Geneva.

The years serving in the Red Cross also involved missions in Jordan, Ethiopia, South Vietnam, Western Sahara, Somalia and Afghanistan.

[3] In addition to his military career, he was also an elite swimmer and world champion in aeronautical pentathlon.