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List of Swedes
This is a list of well known Swedes (and Finland-Swedes), ordered alphabetically within categories:
Actors
Main article: List of Swedish actors
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Ann-Margret, entertainer
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Ingrid Bergman, (1915-1982), actress
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May Britt, (born 1933), actress
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Anita Ekberg, actress
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Gösta Ekman, (1920-1971), actor
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Greta Garbo, (1905-1990), actress
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Warner Oland (1879-1938)
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Peter Stormare, actor
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Stellan Skarsgård, actor
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Max von Sydow, (born 1929), actor
Artists
Main article: List of Swedish artists
- Ernst Josephson , (1851-1906)
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Carl Larsson, (1859-1928), painter
- Bruno Andreas Liljefors , (1860-1939), painter
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Carl Milles, (1875-1955), Swedish sculptor
- Alexander Roslin , (1718-1798), painter
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Johan Tobias Sergel, (1740-1814), sculptor
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Anders Zorn, (1860-1920), Swedish painter
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Ingmar Bergman, (born 1918), film director
Clergymen
Main article: List of Swedish clergymen
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Mikael Agricola, bishop and reformer
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Laurentius Petri, archbishop and reformer
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Olaus Petri, reformer
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Nathan Söderblom, archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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Erik Trolle, bishop and statesman
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Kettil Karlsson Vasa, bishop and statesman
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Saint Birgitta, (1303-1373), patron saint of Europe
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Emanuel Swedenborg, (1688-1772), writer, mystic and philosopher
Diplomats
Main article: List of Swedish diplomats
Entrepreneurs
Main article: List of Swedish entrepreneurs
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Gustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), inventor and entrepreneur
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Lars Magnus Ericsson, (1846-1926), industrialist and founder of Ericsson
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John Ericsson, (1803-1889), inventor and engineer
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Nils Ericson, (1802-1860), railroad pioneer
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Ingvar Kamprad, (born 1926), founder of IKEA
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Ivar Kreuger, (1880-1932), industrialist and financier
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Gustav de Laval, (1845-1913), industrialist
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Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), industrialist, instituted the Nobel Prizes
Film Directors
Military commanders
Main article: List of Swedish military commanders
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Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, (1757-1814) soldier
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Per Brahe, (1602-1680), soldier and politician
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Johan Banér, (1596-1641), soldier
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Georg Carl von Döbeln (1758-1820), soldier
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Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten, (1727-1786), soldier and politician
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Lennart Torstensson, (1603-1651), Field Marshal
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Karl Gustav von Wrangel, (1613-1676), Field Marshal
Monarchs
Main article: List of Swedish monarchs
Music
Main article: List of Swedes in music
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ABBA, undisputed most famous Swedish music group of all time
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Mikael Åkerfeldt, lead singer of Opeth
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Stikkan Anderson, (1931-1997), producer
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Hugo Alfvén, composer
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Benny Andersson, musician/composer
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Kurt Atterberg, composer
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Carl Michael Bellman, (1740-1795), singer-songwriter
- Wilhelm Peterson Berger , composer
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John Norum, guitarist (but originally from Vardo Norway
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Robyn, singer-songwriter
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Agnetha Fältskog, (born 1950) lead singer from ABBA
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Per Gessle, musician/composer solo and Roxette
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Bo Hansson, musician
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The Hives, band
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Europe, band
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Jenny Lind, singer
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Christian Lindberg, musician
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Anni-Frid Lyngstad, lead singer from ABBA
- Max Martin , composer
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Yngwie J. Malmsteen, regarded by many as the world's most accomplished guitarist
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Birgit Nilsson, singer
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Christina Nilsson, (1843-1921), singer
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Ann-Sofie von Otter, (born 1955), singer
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Povel Ramel, (born 1922). singer
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Johan Helmich Roman, the father of Swedish music
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Jean Sibelius, (1865-1957), Finland's most renowned composer
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Wilhelm Stenhammar, composer
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Evert Taube, singer-songwriter
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Björn Ulvaeus, musician/composer
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Cornelis Vreeswijk, singer-songwriter, Considered Swedish, although he never recived a Swedish citizenship.
Politicians
Main article: List of Swedish politicians
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Carl Bildt, former prime minister
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Gustav Bonde, (1620-1667), statesman
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Ingvar Carlsson, (born 1934), former prime minister
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Tage Erlander, former prime minister
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Axel von Fersen, (1755-1810), statesman
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Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, (1622-1686), statesman
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Louis De Geer, (1818-1896), former prime minister
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Arvid Horn, (1664-1742), statesman
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Anna Lindh, (1957-2003), foreign minister
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C.G.E. Mannerheim, (1867-1951), military leader and President of Finland 1944-1946
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Alva Myrdal, (1902-1986), politician, agitator
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Axel Oxenstierna, (1583-1654), politician
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Olof Palme, (1927-1986), former prime minister (assassinated)
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Göran Persson -- current Prime Minister of Sweden
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Fredrik Reinfeldt, (born 1965), leader of Moderata samlingspartiet
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Sten Sture the elder, (1470-1497 and 1501-1503), statesman
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Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, (1861-1944), President of Finland 1931-1937
Science
Main article: List of Swedish scientists
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Johann Arfvedson, (1792-1841), chemist
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius, (1779-1848), chemist
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Arvid Carlsson, (1923- ), neuroscientist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
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Anders Celsius, (1701-1744), astronomer
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Carolus Linnaeus, (1707-1778), botanist
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Christopher Polhem, physicist
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Olaus Rudbeckius, (1630-1702), medicine
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742-1786), chemist
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Anders Jonas Ångström, (1857-1910), physicist
Sports
Main article: List of Swedes in sports
Writers
Main article: List of Swedish language writers
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Frans G. Bengtsson, (1894-1954), novelist
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Karin Boye, (1900-1941), poet and novelist
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Fredrika Bremer, (1801-1865), writer
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Stig Dagerman, (1923-1954), writer
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Gunnar Ekelöf, (1907-1968), poet
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Nils Ferlin, (1898-1961), poet.
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Gustaf Fröding, (1860-1911), poet
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Verner von Heidenstam, (1859-1940), writer
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Erik Axel Karlfeldt, (1864-1931), poet and Nobel Prize laureate
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Tove Jansson, (1914-2001), Finland-Swedish writer
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Eyvind Johnson, (1900-1976), novelist and Nobel Prize laureate
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Pär Lagerkvist, (1891-1974), writer
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Selma Lagerlöf, (1858-1940), novelist and Nobel Prize laureate
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Astrid Lindgren, (1907-2002), children's author
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Elias Lönnrot, (1802-1884), author of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic
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Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), poet and Nobel Prize laureate
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Vilhelm Moberg, (1898-1973), novelist
- Per Nilsson , (1953-)
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Peter Pohl, (1940-)
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Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804-1877), Finland-Swedish writer
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August Strindberg, (1849-1912), novelist and playwright
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Hjalmar Söderberg, (1868-1941), novelist and playwright
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Edith Södergran, (1892-1923), Finland-Swedish poet
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Esaias Tegnér,(1782-1846), writer
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Zacharias Topelius, (1818-1898), national-romantic writer popular in Sweden and his native Finland
Other notables
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Elsa Brändström (1888-1948), The Angel of Siberia
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Horace Engdahl (1948-), secretary of the Swedish Academy
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Lars Johan Hierta (1801-1872), publicist
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Sven Hedin (1865-1952), explorer
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Linus Torvalds, (1969-), programmer and initiator of Linux
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Edward Westermarck, (1862-1939), philosopher
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Georg Henrik von Wright, (1916-2003), philosopher
See also
Last updated: 02-10-2005 04:56:08
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55
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