Per Brahe the Elder

Per Brahe the Elder (1520–1590) was a Swedish statesman and Count of Visingsborg. His father Joakim Brahe died in the Stockholm Bloodbath of 1520, and his mother Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa was Gustav Vasa's sister, so Brahe was cousin to kings Eric XIV, John III and Charles IX. He joined the Privy Council in 1544.

In 1561 he was among Sweden's first counts at Eric XIV's coronation, receiving Visingsborg the following year, and under John III he became Lord High Justiciar (riksdrots). He died in 1590 at Stora Sundby; his grandson Per Brahe the Younger also became a statesman.