List of Swedes
This is a list of well known Swedes, ordered alphabetically within categories:
Actors
Main article: List of Swedish actors
- Ann-Margret, entertainer
- Ingrid Bergman, (1915-1982), actress
- Anita Ekberg, actress
- Gösta Ekman, (1920-1971), actor
- Greta Garbo, (1905-1990), actress
- Peter Stormare, actor
- Stellan Skarsgård, actor
- Max von Sydow, (born 1929), actor
Artists
Main article: List of Swedish artists
- Ernst Josephson, (1851-1906)
- Carl Larsson, (1859-1928), painter
- Bruno Andreas Liljefors, (1860-1939), painter
- Carl Milles, (1875-1955), Swedish sculptor
- Alexander Roslin, (1718-1798), painter
- Johan Tobias Sergel, (1740-1814), sculptor
- Anders Zorn, (1860-1920), Swedish painter
- Ingmar Bergman, (born 1918), film director
Clergymen
Main article: List of Swedish clergymen
- Mikael Agricola, bishop and reformer
- Laurentius Petri, archbishop and reformer
- Olaus Petri, reformer
- Nathan Söderblom, archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Erik Trolle, bishop and statesman
- Kettil Karlsson Vasa, bishop and statesman
- Saint Birgitta, (1303-1373), patron saint of Europe
- Emanuel Swedenborg, (1688-1772), writer, mystic and philosopher
Diplomats
Main article: List of Swedish diplomats
Entrepreneurs
Main article: List of Swedish entrepreneurs
- Gustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), inventor and entrepreneur
- Lars Magnus Ericsson, (1846-1926), industrialist
- John Ericsson, (1803-1889), inventor and engineer
- Nils Ericson, (1802-1860), railroad pioneer
- Ingvar Kamprad, (born 1926), founder of IKEA
- Ivar Kreuger, (1880-1932), industrialist and financier
- Gustav de Laval, (1845-1913), industrialist
- Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), industrialist, instituted the Nobel Prizes
Film Directors
- Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, (1757-1814) soldier
- Per Brahe, (1602-1680), soldier and politician
- Johan Banér, (1596-1641), soldier
- Georg Carl von Döbeln (1758-1820), soldier
- Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten, (1727-1786), soldier and politician
- Lennart Torstensson, (1603-1651), Field Marshal
- Karl Gustav von Wrangel, (1613-1676), Field Marshal
Monarchs
Main article: List of Swedish monarchs
Music
Main article: List of Swedes in music
- ABBA, undisputed most famous Swedish music group of all time
- Stikkan Anderson, (1931-1997), producer
- Hugo Alfvén, composer
- Benny Andersson, musician/composer
- Kurt Atterberg, composer
- Carl Michael Bellman, (1740-1795), singer-songwriter
- Wilhelm Peterson Berger, composer
- Jussi Björling, singer
- Robyn, singer-songwriter
- Agnetha Fältskog, (born 1950) lead singer from ABBA
- Per Gessle, musician/composer solo and Roxette
- Bo Hansson, musician
- The Hives, band
- Jenny Lind, singer
- Christian Lindberg, musician
- Anni-Frid Lyngstad, lead singer from ABBA
- Max Martin, composer
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen, guitarist
- Birgit Nilsson, singer
- Christina Nilsson, (1843-1921), singer
- Ann-Sofie von Otter, (born 1955), singer
- Johan Helmich Roman, the father of Swedish music
- Wilhelm Stenhammar, composer
- Evert Taube, singer-songwriter
- Björn Ulvaeus, musician/composer
- Cornelis Vreeswijk, singer-songwriter
Politicians
Main article: List of Swedish politicians
- Carl Bildt, former prime minister
- Gustav Bonde, (1620-1667), statesman
- Ingvar Carlsson, (born 1934), former prime minister
- Tage Erlander, former prime minister
- Axel von Fersen, (1755-1810), statesman
- Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, (1622-1686), statesman
- Louis De Geer, (1818-1896), former prime minister
- Arvid Horn, (1664-1742), statesman
- Anna Lindh, (1957-2003), foreign minister
- Axel Oxenstierna, (1583-1654), politician
- Olof Palme, (1927-1986), former prime minister (assassinated)
- Göran Persson -- current Prime Minister
- Fredrik Reinfeldt, (born 1965), leader of Moderata samlingspartiet
- Sten Sture the elder, (1470-1497 and 1501-1503), statesman
- Alva Myrdal, (1902-1986), politician, agitator
Science
Main article: List of Swedish scientists
- Johann Arfvedson, (1792-1841), chemist
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius, (1779-1848), chemist
- Anders Celsius, (1701-1744), astronomer
- Carolus Linnaeus, (1707-1778), botanist
- Christopher Polhem, physicist
- Olaus Rudbeckius, (1630-1702), medicine
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742-1786), chemist
- Anders Jonas Ångström, (1857-1910), physicist
Sports
Main article: List of Swedes in sports
Writers
Main article: List of Swedish language writers
- Frans G. Bengtsson, (1894-1954), novelist
- Karin Boye, (1900-1941), poet and novelist
- Fredrika Bremer, (1801-1865), writer
- Stig Dagerman, (1923-1954), writer
- Gunnar Ekelöf, (1907-1968), poet
- Nils Ferlin, (1898-1961), poet.
- Gustaf Fröding, (1860-1911), poet
- Verner von Heidenstam, (1859-1940), writer
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt, (1864-1931), poet and Nobel Prize laureate
- Eyvind Johnson, (1900-1976), novelist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Pär Lagerkvist, (1891-1974), writer
- Selma Lagerlöf, (1858-1940), novelist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Astrid Lindgren, (1907-2002), children's author
- Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), poet and Nobel Prize laureate
- Vilhelm Moberg, (1898-1973), novelist
- August Strindberg, (1849-1912), novelist and playwright
- Hjalmar Söderberg, (1868-1941), novelist and playwright
- Esaias Tegnér,(1782-1846), writer
Other notables
Finland-Swedes
See: List of Finland-Swedes
- Tove Jansson, (1914-2001), writer
- Elias Lönnrot, (1802-1884), writer
- Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, (1867-1951), military leader
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804-1877), writer
- Jean Sibelius, (1865-1957), composer
- Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, (1861-1944), politician
- Edith Södergran, (1892-1923), poet
- Zacharias Topelius, (1818-1898), writer
- Linus Torvalds, (born 1969), programmer and initiator of Linux
- Edward Westermarck, (1862-1939), philosopher
- Georg Henrik von Wright, (1916-2003), philosopher
See also: List of people by nationality
