Svend Foyn Bruun Sr. (1 December 1883 – 31 May 1956) was a Norwegian naval officer, ship-owner and whaler, and politician for the Conservative Party.
He ran the company Bruun & von der Lippe from 1919 to 1945, co-founded Kosmos and was a four-term member of the Parliament of Norway.
He was born in Tønsberg as a son of ship-owner Carsten Henrik Carstensen Bruun (1828–1907) and Maren Sibylle Bull Foyn (1840–1918).
[3] After middle school he studied for a short time in France and Oxford and attended the Norwegian Naval Academy.
He inherited Aker farm in Sem in 1916, but definitely entered shipping in 1919 when he founded the company Bruun & von der Lippe.