Ernst Killander

{{short description|Swedish orienteer}}

Ernst Killander (10 March 1882 – 24 January 1958[https://books.google.com/books?id=TMoUAQAAIAAJ Encyclopedia of world sport] vol. 2, p. 706), a Swedish Major in the First World War, was one of the people who made the sport of orienteering popular in Scandinavian countries.{{cite web|url=http://www.orienteering.asn.au/promotion/facts/History/ |title=Orienteering: A Brief History |publisher=Orienteering Australia |accessdate=2008-08-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719230326/http://www.orienteering.asn.au/promotion/facts/History/ |archivedate=2008-07-19 }}

Killander was a vegetarian. He was President of the Swedish Vegetarian Society and attended the International Vegetarian Union Congress in 1953.[https://ivu.org/congress/wvc53/photos.html "13th IVU World Vegetarian Congress 1953"]. International Vegetarian Union.