List of Uppsala University people
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This is a list of notable people affiliated with Uppsala University
Uppsala University
Uppsala University is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Scandinavia, founded in 1477. It consistently ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings and is generally considered one of the most prestigious institutions of...

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For a list of chancellors of the university, see Chancellor of Uppsala University
Chancellor of Uppsala University
The Chancellor of Uppsala University was from 1622 to 1893 the head of the University of Uppsala, although in most academic and practical day-to-day matters it was run by the consistory or board, and its chairman, the Rector magnificus.There appears to have been a position as chancellor of the...

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Nobel laureates affiliated with Uppsala University

  • Svante Arrhenius
    Svante Arrhenius
    Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist, originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry...

     (1859–1927), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...

     1903
  • Allvar Gullstrand
    Allvar Gullstrand
    Allvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist.Born at Landskrona, Sweden, Gullstrand was professor successively of eye therapy and of optics at the University of Uppsala. He applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and of the refraction of light in the eye...

     (1862–1930), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

     1911
  • Robert Bárány
    Robert Bárány
    Robert Bárány was a Austro-Hungarian otologist. For his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus of the ear he received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.- Biography :...

     (1876–1936), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

     1914
  • Theodor (The) Svedberg
    Theodor Svedberg
    Theodor H. E. Svedberg was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate, active at Uppsala University. His work with colloids supported the theories of Brownian motion put forward by Einstein and the Polish geophysicist Marian Smoluchowski...

     (1884–1971), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...

     1926
  • Manne Siegbahn
    Manne Siegbahn
    Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn FRS was a Swedish physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy"....

     (1886–1978), Nobel Laureate in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

     1924
  • Arne Tiselius
    Arne Tiselius
    Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948.- Biography:Tiselius was born in Stockholm...

     (1902–1971), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...

     1948.
  • Hannes Alfvén
    Hannes Alfvén
    Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics . He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves...

     (1908–1995), Nobel Laureate in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

     1970
  • Kai Siegbahn
    Kai Siegbahn
    Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist.He was born in Lund, Sweden, and his father Manne Siegbahn also won the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1924. Siegbahn earned his doctorate at the University of Stockholm in 1944...

     (1918–2007), Nobel Laureate in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

     1981.
  • Erik Axel Karlfeldt
    Erik Axel Karlfeldt
    Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931. It has been rumored that he had been offered, but declined, the award already in 1919.Karlfeldt was born into a farmer's...

     (1864–1931), Nobel laureate in literature
    Nobel Prize in Literature
    Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

     1931 (posthumously)
  • Pär Lagerkvist
    Pär Lagerkvist
    Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.Lagerkvist wrote poems, plays, novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s...

     (1891–1974), Nobel laureate in literature
    Nobel Prize in Literature
    Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

     1951.
  • Hjalmar Branting
    Hjalmar Branting
    was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party , and Prime Minister during three separate periods . When Branting came to power in 1920, he was the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden...

     (1860–1925), Nobel Peace Laureate
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

     in 1921.
  • Nathan Söderblom
    Nathan Söderblom
    Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom was a Swedish clergyman, Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize...

     (1866–1931), Nobel peace laureate
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

     in 1931
  • Alva Myrdal
    Alva Myrdal
    Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist and politician. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924....

     (1902–1986), Nobel Peace Laureate
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

     in 1982
  • Hugo Theorell
    Hugo Theorell
    Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine.He was born in Linköping as the son of Thure Theorell and his wife Armida Bill. Theorell went to Secondary School at Katedralskolan in Linköping and passed his examination there on 23 May 1921...

     (1903–1982), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

     1955. (Worked at Uppsala University 1932–33 and 1935–36.)
  • Dag Hammarskjöld
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. An early Secretary-General of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He is the only person to have been awarded a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize. Hammarskjöld...

     (1905–1961), Nobel Peace Laureate
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

     in 1961 (posthumously).

Royalty

  • King Charles X of Sweden, matriculated 1638.
  • King Charles XV of Sweden
    Charles XV of Sweden
    Charles XV & IV also Carl ; Swedish and Norwegian: Karl was King of Sweden and Norway from 1859 until his death....

    , student in Uppsala 1843 and 1845 (spring semester 1844 in Christiania)
  • Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland
    Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland
    Prince Frans Gustaf Oscar of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Uppland was the second son of Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg and younger brother to Prince Charles.Prince Gustaf was a trained musician and composer...

     (1827–1852), song composer, matriculated 1844 and studied several semesters in Uppsala
  • King Oscar II of Sweden
    Oscar II of Sweden
    Oscar II , baptised Oscar Fredrik was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death and King of Norway from 1872 until 1905. The third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden through his mother.-Early life:At his birth in Stockholm, Oscar...

  • Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland
    Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland
    Prince Carl of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Västergötland , was the third son of King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway and Sophia of Nassau.-History:...

     (born 1861), student 1881–1882
  • Prince Eugén, Duke of Närke
    Prince Eugén, Duke of Närke
    Prince Eugen Napoleon Nicolaus of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Närke was the youngest son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway....

    , artist and art collector
  • King Gustav V of Sweden
  • King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
    Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
    Gustaf VI Adolf - Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf - was King of Sweden from October 29, 1950 until his death. His official title was King of Sweden, of the Goths and of the Wends. He was the eldest son of King Gustaf V and his wife Victoria of Baden...

    , also known as an accomplished archaeologist and connoisseur of East Asian art
  • King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
    Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
    Carl XVI Gustaf is the reigning King of Sweden since 15 September 1973, succeeding his grandfather King Gustaf VI Adolf because his father had predeceased him...

  • Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland

International work

  • Hjalmar Branting
    Hjalmar Branting
    was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party , and Prime Minister during three separate periods . When Branting came to power in 1920, he was the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden...

     (1860–1925), Prime Minister of Sweden
    Prime Minister of Sweden
    The Prime Minister is the head of government in the Kingdom of Sweden. Before the creation of the office of a Prime Minister in 1876, Sweden did not have a head of government separate from its head of state, namely the King, in whom the executive authority was vested...

     (first Social Democrat
    Swedish Social Democratic Party
    The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...

     in that position) for three periods from 1920 to 1925. Nobel Peace Laureate
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

     in 1921.
  • Per Jacobsson
    Per Jacobsson
    Per Jacobsson was managing director of the International Monetary Fund from November 21, 1956 until his death in 1963. Born in Tanum, Bohuslän, Jacobsson received degrees in law and economics from the Uppsala University....

      (1894–1963), Managing Director of the IMF
    International Monetary Fund
    The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...

     1956–1963
  • Alva Myrdal
    Alva Myrdal
    Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist and politician. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924....

     (1902–1986), Politician, diplomat. Nobel Peace Laureate
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

     in 1982.
  • Dag Hammarskjöld
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. An early Secretary-General of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He is the only person to have been awarded a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize. Hammarskjöld...

     (1905–1961), UN Secretary General. Nobel Peace Laureate
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

     in 1961 (posthumously).
  • Sture Linnér (1917-2010), diplomat (Ph.D. in Classical philology
    Classical philology
    Classical philology is the study of ancient Greek and classical Latin. Classical philology has been defined as "the careful study of the literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds." Greek and Latin literature and civilization have traditionally been considered...

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  • Hans Blix
    Hans Blix
    is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs . Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by Dimitris Perrikos...

     (born 1928), Diplomat; Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1978–1979, Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency
    International Atomic Energy Agency
    The International Atomic Energy Agency is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organization on 29 July 1957...

     1981–1997, of the UNMOVIC 2000–2003.
  • Hans Corell
    Hans Corell
    Hans Axel Valdemar Corell is a Swedish lawyer and diplomat. Between March 1994 and March 2004 he was Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations...

     (born 1939), Diplomat; UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs
  • Anna Lindh
    Anna Lindh
    Ylva Anna Maria Lindh was a Swedish Social Democratic politician, Chairman of the Social Democratic Youth League 1984-1990, Member of Parliament 1982-1985 and 1998-2003...

     (1957–2003), Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs. Assassinated in 2003.

Various Swedish politicians

Very incomplete
  • Hans Henric von Essen
    Hans Henric von Essen (1755–1824)
    Count Hans Henrik von Essen was a Swedish officer, courtier and statesman.Hans Henrik von Essen was born at Kavlås Castle in Tidaholm Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. He was educated at Uppsala University. He entered the army becoming a cornet at age 18. He accompanied Gustav III in...

     (1755–1824), Over-Governor of Stockholm
    Over-Governor of Stockholm
    The Over-Governor, or Överståthållaren of Stockholm was the highest official for the City between 1634 and 1967. The Office was instituted by the Instrument of Government of 1634, which divided Sweden into Counties and the Over-Governorship of Stockholm...

    , Governor-general of Norway
    Governor-general of Norway
    The Governor-general of Norway, styled Rigsstatholder in Danish or Riksståthållare in Swedish, both meaning 'Lieutenant of the realm' , was the appointed head of the Norwegian Government in the absence of the Monarch....

  • Gustaf Nils Algernon Stierneld
    Gustaf Nils Algernon Stierneld
    Baron Gustaf Nils Algernon Adolf Stierneld was a Swedish politician. He served twice as the Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1838 to 1842, and from 1848 to 1856. He was born, and died, in Stockholm....

     (1791–1868), Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1838 to 1842, and from 1848 to 1856
  • Nils Edén
    Nils Edén
    Nils Edén was a Swedish historian and liberal politician, Prime Minister of Sweden 1917–1920, and along with Hjalmar Branting acknowledged as co-architect of Sweden's transition from quasi-absolute monarchy to a parliamentary democracy with equal male and female suffrage.Edén was born in...

     (1871–1945), historian and liberal politician, Prime Minister of Sweden
    Prime Minister of Sweden
    The Prime Minister is the head of government in the Kingdom of Sweden. Before the creation of the office of a Prime Minister in 1876, Sweden did not have a head of government separate from its head of state, namely the King, in whom the executive authority was vested...

     1917–1920.
  • Karl Gustaf Westman
    Karl Gustaf Westman
    Karl Gustaf Westman Karl Gustaf Westman Karl Gustaf Westman (August 18, 1876 (Gothenburg)–January 24, 1944 (Stockholm) was a Swedish historian and political leader.-Biography:Westman attended Uppsala University, where he earned bachelor's degree in 1897, Licentiate of Philosophy in 1904 and a...

     (1876–1944), Leader of Bondeförbundet, held several ministerial posts, Minister of Justice 1936–1944
  • Yngve Larsson
    Yngve Larsson
    Gustaf Richard Yngve Larsson was a Swedish Ph. D., Municipal commissioner , Member of Parliament and statesman....

     (1881–1977), Municipal commissioner
    Municipal Commissioner
    Municipal Commissioner is an office and political title in the municipalities of Sweden for councillors with executive responsibilities. The Commissioners are the only full-time employed office-holders outside the municipal civil service...

     (Borgarråd) of Stockholm
    Stockholm
    Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

    , urbanist, statesman
    Statesman
    A statesman is usually a politician or other notable public figure who has had a long and respected career in politics or government at the national and international level. As a term of respect, it is usually left to supporters or commentators to use the term...

  • Östen Undén
    Östen Undén
    Bo Östen Undén , J.D., was a Swedish academic, civil servant and Social Democratic politician and acting Prime Minister of Sweden 6 October 1946-11 October 1946 following the death of Per Albin Hansson...

     (1886–1974), professor of civil law at UU, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden 1924–1926 and 1945–1962
  • Paul Lindquist
    Paul Lindquist
    Paul Lindquist is a Swedish politician and municipal commissioner of Lidingö since 2003. He is a Moderate Party member.Paul Lindquist has a BSc in Business Administration from Uppsala University in Sweden...

     (born 1964), Mayor of Lidingö
    Lidingö
    Lidingö is an island in the inner Stockholm archipelago, located north east of central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. It is also the seat of Lidingö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 44,000 inhabitants in 2011....

    , BSc in Business Administration (1989).
  • Lena Sommestad
    Lena Sommestad
    Lena Sommestad, born April 3, 1957 in Börje, Uppsala Municipality, is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. She was Minister for the Environment in the Ministry of Sustainable Development in the Cabinet of Göran Persson 2002-2006....

     (born 1957), Minister for the Environment (as of 2005), Ph.D. in history (1992).

Non-Swedes

  • Onésimo Silveira
    Onésimo Silveira
    -Biography:As a young poet, Silveira was one of the most prominent critiques of the literary elite in Cape Verde. Silveira was associated with the views o f the Claridade group, and argued in favour of an African cultural identity of the islands....

    , Cape Verde
    Cape Verde
    The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

    an diplomat, politician and writer (Ph.D., Political science, 1976)
  • Stane Dolanc
    Stane Dolanc
    Stane Dolanc was a Yugoslav and Slovenian communist politician, one of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in Yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s...

     (1925–1999), Yugoslav (Slovenian) politician, head of the security service under Tito
  • Guðmundur Steingrímsson
    Guðmundur Steingrímsson
    Guðmundur Steingrímsson is an Icelandic politician and son and grandson of former Icelandic Prime Ministers Steingrímur Hermannsson and Hermann Jónasson.-Career:Steingrímsson was elected to the Althing from the constituency of Norðvesturkjördæmi in 2009...

     (born 1972), Icelandic politician

Religion

As Uppsala University has one of only two faculties of Theology in Sweden, and the older one of the two (the other one is in Lund), most Swedish churchmen of note have actually graduated from the university.
  • Nicolaus Olai Campanius
    Nicolaus Olai Campanius
    Nicolaus Olai Campanius was a Swedish priest and Rector of a school in Enköping.He was born in 1593 in Gävle to a family of a sexton, hence his Latin name...

     (1593-1624), priest
  • Emanuel Swedenborg
    Emanuel Swedenborg
    was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian. He has been termed a Christian mystic by some sources, including the Encyclopædia Britannica online version, and the Encyclopedia of Religion , which starts its article with the description that he was a "Swedish scientist and mystic." Others...

     (1688–1772), scientist, philosopher and religious mystic
  • Lars Levi Laestadius (1800–1861), clergyman and botanist, founder of the conservative laestadian movement
    Laestadianism
    Laestadianism is a conservative Lutheran revival movement started in the middle of the 19th century. It is strongly marked by both pietistic and Moravian influences. It is the biggest revivalist movement in the Nordic countries. It has members mainly in Finland, North America, Norway, Russia and...

    .
  • Nathan Söderblom
    Nathan Söderblom
    Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom was a Swedish clergyman, Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize...

     (1866–1931), professor of comparative religion. Later archbishop of Uppsala
    Archbishop of Uppsala
    The Archbishop of Uppsala has been the primate in Sweden in an unbroken succession since 1164, first during the Catholic era, and from the 1530s and onward under the Lutheran church.- Historical overview :...

     and Nobel peace laureate
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

     in 1931
  • Gustaf Unonius
    Gustaf Unonius
    Gustaf Elias Marius Unonius also referred to as Gustav Unonius, Gustave Unonius, Gustavus Unonius, or Gustov Unonius was a pioneer and priest in the American Midwest...

     (1810–1902), Episcopalian priest
  • Israel Acrelius
    Israel Acrelius
    Israel Acrelius was a noted Swedish Lutheran missionary and clergyman.-Background:He was born in Österåker, Stockholm County, Sweden, in 1714 to Johan and Sara Acrelius. His brother was the surgeon Olof af Acrel. He attended Uppsala University and was ordained as a minister of the Church of...

     (1714–1800), Lutheran missionary to New Sweden
    New Sweden
    New Sweden was a Swedish colony along the Delaware River on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655. Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware, was the first settlement. New Sweden included parts of the present-day American states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania....

     and author who wrote History of New Sweden
  • Johan Campanius
    John Campanius
    John Campanius , also known as John Campanius Holm, was a Swedish Lutheran clergyman assigned to the New Sweden colony.-Background:...

     (1601–1683), Lutheran clergyman assigned to New Sweden
    New Sweden
    New Sweden was a Swedish colony along the Delaware River on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655. Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware, was the first settlement. New Sweden included parts of the present-day American states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania....

  • Carl Aaron Swensson
    Carl Aaron Swensson
    Carl Aaron Swensson was an American Lutheran minister and founder and President of Bethany College.-Background:...

     (1857–1904), American Lutheran minister and founder of Bethany College

Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy

  • Christopher Polhem
    Christopher Polhem
    Christopher Polhammar , better known as , which he took after his ennoblement, was a Swedish scientist, inventor and industrialist. He made significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining.-Biography:Polhem was born on the island of Gotland...

     (1661–1751), mechanical engineer and inventor
  • Samuel Klingenstierna
    Samuel Klingenstierna
    Samuel Klingenstierna was a very renowned Swedish mathematician and scientist. He started his career as a lawyer but soon moved to natural philosophy. He was the first to enunciate errors in Newton's theories of refraction, geometrical notes that were used by John Dollond in his experiments...

     (1698–1765), mathematician and physicist
  • Anders Celsius
    Anders Celsius
    Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France. He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 he proposed the Celsius...

     (1701–1744), physicist and astronomer, inventor of the centigrade scale, the predecessor of the Celsius scale
  • Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin
    Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin
    Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin , Swedish astronomer and demographer....

     (1717–1783), astronomer, first head of the Stockholm Observatory
    Stockholm Observatory
    The Stockholm Observatory is an astronomical institution in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in the 18th century and today part of Stockholm University...

  • Johan Carl Wilcke (1732–1796), physicist
  • Anders Jonas Ångström
    Anders Jonas Ångström
    Anders Jonas Ångström was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.-Biography:...

     (1814–1874), physicist, eponym of the unit ångström
    Ångström
    The angstrom or ångström, is a unit of length equal to 1/10,000,000,000 of a meter . Its symbol is the Swedish letter Å....

  • Tobias Robert Thalén (1827–1905), astronomer and physicist, awarded Rumford Medal
    Rumford Medal
    The Rumford Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every alternating year for "an outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe". First awarded in 1800, it was created after a 1796 donation of $5000 by the...

     1884 "for his spectroscopic researches"
  • Nils Christoffer Dunér
    Nils Christoffer Dunér
    Nils Christoffer Dunér was a Swedish astronomer.Dunér received his doctorate from Lund University in 1862, was observer at the observatory there from 1864 and Professor of Astronomy at Uppsala University from 1888.He was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1892...

     (1839–1914), astronomer, professor of astronomy in Uppsala from 1888, awarded the Rumford Medal
    Rumford Medal
    The Rumford Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every alternating year for "an outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe". First awarded in 1800, it was created after a 1796 donation of $5000 by the...

     in 1892.
  • Oskar Backlund
    Oskar Backlund
    Johan Oskar Backlund was a Swedish-Russian astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Jöns Oskar Backlund, however even contemporary Swedish sources give "Johan". In Russia, where he spent his entire career, he is known as Oskar Andreevich Baklund...

     (1846–1916), astronomer
  • Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846–1927), mathematician, Professor and Rector at Stockholm University College
    Stockholm University
    Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...

    , founder of the journal Acta mathematica
    Acta Mathematica
    Acta Mathematica is a journal publishing original research papers in all fields of mathematics. The journal was founded by Gösta Mittag-Leffler in 1882 and is published by Institut Mittag-Leffler, a research institute for mathematics belonging to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...

     (1882-) and the Mittag-Leffler Institute
    Mittag-Leffler Institute
    The Mittag-Leffler Institute is a mathematical research institute located in Djursholm, a suburb of Stockholm. It invites scholars to participate in year-long or half-year programs in specialized mathematical subjects...

     (Ph.D. 1872)
  • Knut Ångström
    Knut Ångström
    Knut Johan Ångström was a Swedish physicist. He was the son of physicist Anders Jonas Ångström and studied in Uppsala from 1877 to 1884, when he received his licentiat-degree, before going for a short time to the University of Strassburg to study with August Kundt...

     (1857–1910), physicist
  • Ivar Otto Bendixson
    Ivar Otto Bendixson
    - Biography :Bendixson was born August 1, 1861 in Djurgårdsbrunn, Stockholm Sweden to a middle class family. His father Vilhelm Emanuel Bendixson was a merchant, and his mother was Tony Amelia Warburg. On completing secondary education in Stockholm, he obtained his school certificate on May 25,...

     (1861–1935), mathematician, Professor and Rector at Stockholm University College
    Stockholm University
    Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...

     (M.A. 1881, Ph.D. 1890)http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Bendixson.html
  • Carl Charlier
    Carl Charlier
    Carl Vilhelm Ludwig Charlier was a Swedish astronomer.He received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1887, later worked there and at the Stockholm Observatory and was Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Lund University from 1897.He made extensive statistical studies of the...

     (1862–1934), astronomer, awarded the James Craig Watson Medal
    James Craig Watson Medal
    thumb|right|400px|James Craig Watson MedalThe James Craig Watson Medal was established by the bequest of James Craig Watson, and is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences for contributions to astronomy.The recipients have been:-External links:*...

     in 1924 and the Bruce Medal
    Bruce Medal
    The Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy. It is named after Catherine Wolfe Bruce, an American patroness of astronomy, and was first awarded in 1898...

     in 1933. Professor and head of the Astronomical Observatory at Lund University
    Lund University
    Lund University , located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, is one of northern Europe's most prestigious universities and one of Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities...

    .
  • Erik Ivar Fredholm
    Erik Ivar Fredholm
    Erik Ivar Fredholm was a Swedish mathematician who established the modern theory of integral equations. His 1903 paper in Acta Mathematica is considered to be one of the major landmarks in the establishment of operator theory.The lunar crater Fredholm is named after him.-List of publications:* E.I...

     (1866–1927), mathematician who established the modern theory of integral equations
  • Helge von Koch
    Helge von Koch
    Niels Fabian Helge von Koch was a Swedish mathematician who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described....

     (1870–1924), mathematician
  • Thomas Hakon Grönwall
    Thomas Hakon Grönwall
    Thomas Hakon Grönwall or Thomas Hakon Gronwall was a Swedish mathematician. He studied at the University College of Stockholm and Uppsala University and completed his Ph.D. at Uppsala in 1898. Grönwall worked for about a year as a civil engineer in Germany before he immigrated to the United...

     (1877–1932), mathematician, taught at Princeton
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

     and Columbia
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

     (studied in Uppsala and Stockholm, awarded Ph.D. by Uppsala University in 1898)http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Gronwall.html
  • David Enskog
    David Enskog
    David Enskog was a Swedish mathematical physicist. Enskog helped develop the kinetic theory of gases by extending the Maxwell–Boltzmann equations.- Biography :...

     (1884–1947), mathematician, Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology
    Royal Institute of Technology
    The Royal Institute of Technology is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest institutions of higher education in technology. KTH accounts for one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education...

     (Ph.D. 1917)http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Enskog.html
  • Manne Siegbahn
    Manne Siegbahn
    Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn FRS was a Swedish physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy"....

     (1886–1978), physicist; Nobel Laureate in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

     1924
  • Fritz Carlson
    Fritz Carlson
    Fritz David Carlson was a Swedish mathematician. He's famous for* Carlson's theorem in complex analysis* Carlson's inequality*Carlson–Levin constant*Carlson theorem on Dirichlet series...

     (1888–1952), mathematician, Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology
    Royal Institute of Technology
    The Royal Institute of Technology is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest institutions of higher education in technology. KTH accounts for one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education...

     and later at the Stockholm University College
    Stockholm University
    Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...

     (Ph.D. 1914)http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Carlson.html
  • Torsten Carleman
    Torsten Carleman
    Torsten Carleman , born Tage Gills Torsten Carleman, was a Swedish mathematician....

     (1892–1949), mathematician, Professor and Director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute
    Mittag-Leffler Institute
    The Mittag-Leffler Institute is a mathematical research institute located in Djursholm, a suburb of Stockholm. It invites scholars to participate in year-long or half-year programs in specialized mathematical subjects...

     in Stockholm (Ph.D. 1917)http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Carleman.html
  • Gunnar Malmquist
    Gunnar Malmquist
    Karl Gunnar Malmquist was a Swedish astronomer.-Biography:Gunnar Malmquist was born in Ystad, where he completed his secondary school education before matriculating at the Lund University in 1911. He received his Ph.D. in 1921, was an amanuensis at the Lund Observatory 1915-1920 and a docent from...

     (1893–1982), astronomer, Professor in Uppsala 1939–1959.
  • Bertil Lindblad
    Bertil Lindblad
    Bertil Lindblad Bertil Lindblad Bertil Lindblad (Örebro, 26 November 1895 – Saltsjöbaden (outside Stockholm, 25 June 1965) was a Swedish astronomer.After finishing his secondary education at Örebro högre allmänna läroverk, Lindblad matriculated at Uppsala University in 1914...

     (1895–1965), astronomer; Professor and head of the Stockholm Observatory
    Stockholm Observatory
    The Stockholm Observatory is an astronomical institution in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in the 18th century and today part of Stockholm University...

    . Awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
    Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
    -History:In the early years, more than one medal was often awarded in a year, but by 1833 only one medal was being awarded per year. This caused a problem when Neptune was discovered in 1846, because many felt an award should jointly be made to John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier...

     1948 and the Bruce Medal
    Bruce Medal
    The Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy. It is named after Catherine Wolfe Bruce, an American patroness of astronomy, and was first awarded in 1898...

     1954.
  • Rolf Maximilian Sievert
    Rolf Maximilian Sievert
    Professor Rolf Maximilian Sievert was a medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of radiation.Professor Sievert was born in Stockholm, Sweden...

     (1896–1966), physicist, professor at Stockholm University
    Stockholm University
    Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...

    , eponym of the unit sievert
    Sievert
    The sievert is the International System of Units SI derived unit of dose equivalent radiation. It attempts to quantitatively evaluate the biological effects of ionizing radiation as opposed to just the absorbed dose of radiation energy, which is measured in gray...

     (M.A. 1919)
  • Åke Wallenquist
    Åke Wallenquist
    Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist was a Swedish astronomer. He worked at the Dutch Bosscha Observatory in Indonesia between 1928 and 1935, and became assistant professor at Uppsala's Kvistabergs Observatorium in 1948...

     (1904–1994), astronomer
  • Arne Beurling
    Arne Beurling
    Arne Carl-August Beurling was a Swedish mathematician and professor of mathematics at Uppsala University and later at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey....

     (1905–1986), mathematician
  • Hannes Alfvén
    Hannes Alfvén
    Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics . He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves...

     (1908–1995), physicist; Nobel Laureate in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

     1970
  • Kai Siegbahn
    Kai Siegbahn
    Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist.He was born in Lund, Sweden, and his father Manne Siegbahn also won the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1924. Siegbahn earned his doctorate at the University of Stockholm in 1944...

     (1918-2007), physicist; Nobel Laureate in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

     1981. Son of Manne Siegbahn.
  • Lennart Carleson
    Lennart Carleson
    Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson is a Swedish mathematician, known as a leader in the field of harmonic analysis.-Life:He was a student of Arne Beurling and received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1950...

     (born 1928), mathematician (Ph.D. 1950), prof. at UU, later (after retirement) at UCLA. Awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics
    Wolf Prize in Mathematics
    The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts...

     in 1992.
  • Björn Engquist
    Björn Engquist
    Björn Engquist has been a leading contributor in the areas of multiscale modeling and scientific computing, and a productive educator of applied mathematicians.He received his Ph.D...

     (born 1945), mathematician (Ph.D. 1975), professor at the Royal Institute of Technology
    Royal Institute of Technology
    The Royal Institute of Technology is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest institutions of higher education in technology. KTH accounts for one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education...

     and Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

  • Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist
    Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist
    Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist is a Swedish astronomer at the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. He is known for his work on the shapes and spin properties of minor planets....

     (born 1944), astronomer
  • Johan Håstad
    Johan Håstad
    Johan Torkel Håstad is a Swedish theoretical computer scientist most known for his work on computational complexity theory. He was the recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1994 and 2011 and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1986, among other prizes...

     (born 1960), mathematician and computer scientist (M.Sc. 1984)

Chemistry, geology and mineralogy

  • Johan Gottschalk Wallerius
    Johan Gottschalk Wallerius
    Johan Gottschalk Wallerius was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist.Wallerius was born in Stora Mellösa in Närke, entered Uppsala University in 1725, and graduated as magister in 1731 after studies of mathematics, physics and medicine. He continued his studies at Lund University, where he received...

     (1709–1785), chemist and mineralogist
  • Torbern Bergman
    Torbern Bergman
    Torbern Olof Bergman was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published...

     (1735–1784), chemist
  • Johan Gottlieb Gahn
    Johan Gottlieb Gahn
    Johan Gottlieb Gahn was a Swedish chemist and metallurgist who discovered manganese in 1774.Gahn studied in Uppsala 1762-1770 and became acquainted with chemists Torbern Bergman och Carl Wilhelm Scheele...

     (1745–1818), mineralogist, discoverer of manganese
    Manganese
    Manganese is a chemical element, designated by the symbol Mn. It has the atomic number 25. It is found as a free element in nature , and in many minerals...

  • Johan Gadolin
    Johan Gadolin
    Johan Gadolin was a Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist. Gadolin discovered the chemical element yttrium...

     (1760–1852), chemist, physicist and mineralogist
  • Anders Gustaf Ekeberg
    Anders Gustaf Ekeberg
    Anders Gustaf Ekeberg was a Swedish chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802. He was notably deaf...

     (1767–1813), chemist, discoverer of tantalum
    Tantalum
    Tantalum is a chemical element with the symbol Ta and atomic number 73. Previously known as tantalium, the name comes from Tantalus, a character in Greek mythology. Tantalum is a rare, hard, blue-gray, lustrous transition metal that is highly corrosion resistant. It is part of the refractory...

  • Jöns Jakob Berzelius
    Jöns Jakob Berzelius
    Jöns Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist. He worked out the modern technique of chemical formula notation, and is together with John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robert Boyle considered a father of modern chemistry...

     (1779–1848), physician and chemist, considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry; invented modern chemical notation and discovered the elements silicon
    Silicon
    Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. A tetravalent metalloid, it is less reactive than its chemical analog carbon, the nonmetal directly above it in the periodic table, but more reactive than germanium, the metalloid directly below it in the table...

    , selenium
    Selenium
    Selenium is a chemical element with atomic number 34, chemical symbol Se, and an atomic mass of 78.96. It is a nonmetal, whose properties are intermediate between those of adjacent chalcogen elements sulfur and tellurium...

    , thorium
    Thorium
    Thorium is a natural radioactive chemical element with the symbol Th and atomic number 90. It was discovered in 1828 and named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder....

    , and cerium
    Cerium
    Cerium is a chemical element with the symbol Ce and atomic number 58. It is a soft, silvery, ductile metal which easily oxidizes in air. Cerium was named after the dwarf planet . Cerium is the most abundant of the rare earth elements, making up about 0.0046% of the Earth's crust by weight...

  • Nils Gabriel Sefström
    Nils Gabriel Sefström
    Nils Gabriel Sefström was a Swedish chemist. Sefström was a student of Berzelius and, when studying the brittleness of steel in 1830, he rediscovered a new chemical element, to which he gave the name vanadium....

     (1787–1845), chemist, discoverer of vanadium
    Vanadium
    Vanadium is a chemical element with the symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery gray, ductile and malleable transition metal. The formation of an oxide layer stabilizes the metal against oxidation. The element is found only in chemically combined form in nature...

  • Johan August Arfwedson
    Johan August Arfwedson
    Johan August Arfwedson was a Swedish chemist who discovered the chemical element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.- Life and work :...

     (1792–1841), chemist, discoverer of lithium
    Lithium
    Lithium is a soft, silver-white metal that belongs to the alkali metal group of chemical elements. It is represented by the symbol Li, and it has the atomic number 3. Under standard conditions it is the lightest metal and the least dense solid element. Like all alkali metals, lithium is highly...

  • Lars Fredrik Nilson
    Lars Fredrik Nilson
    Lars Fredrik Nilson was a Swedish chemist who discovered scandium in 1879.Nilson was born in Skönberga parish in Östergötland, Sweden. His father, Nikolaus, was a farmer. The family moved to Gotland when Lars Fredrik was young. After graduating from school, Lars Fredrik enrolled at Uppsala...

     (1840–1899), chemist, discoverer of scandium
    Scandium
    Scandium is a chemical element with symbol Sc and atomic number 21. A silvery-white metallic transition metal, it has historically been sometimes classified as a rare earth element, together with yttrium and the lanthanoids...

  • Per Teodor Cleve
    Per Teodor Cleve
    Per Teodor Cleve was a Swedish chemist and geologist.After graduating from the Stockholm Gymnasium in 1858, Cleve matriculated at Uppsala University in May 1858, where he received his PhD in 1863...

     (1840–1905), chemist and geologist.
  • Gerard De Geer
    Gerard De Geer
    Baron Gerard Jacob De Geer was a Swedish geologist who made significant contributions to Quaternary geology, particularly geomorphology and geochronology. De Geer is best known for his discovery of varves.- Early life and family :...

     (1848–1943), geologist who made significant contributions to Quaternary
    Quaternary
    The Quaternary Period is the most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the ICS. It follows the Neogene Period, spanning 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present...

     geology.
  • Svante Arrhenius
    Svante Arrhenius
    Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist, originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry...

     (1859–1927), physicist and chemist; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...

     1903
  • Abraham Langlet
    Abraham Langlet
    Nils Abraham Langlet was a Swedish chemist.Langlet was born in Södertälje. From 1886 to 1896, he studied chemistry under Per Teodor Cleve at Uppsala University, where he obtained a doctorate in 1896, and was made docent in the same year...

    , chemist who discovered helium
    Helium
    Helium is the chemical element with atomic number 2 and an atomic weight of 4.002602, which is represented by the symbol He. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas that heads the noble gas group in the periodic table...

     in 1895 together with Per Teodor Cleve
    Per Teodor Cleve
    Per Teodor Cleve was a Swedish chemist and geologist.After graduating from the Stockholm Gymnasium in 1858, Cleve matriculated at Uppsala University in May 1858, where he received his PhD in 1863...

    , independently from William Ramsay
    William Ramsay
    Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" .-Early years:Ramsay was born in Glasgow on 2...

    ) and defined its atomic weight correctly. Later professor at the Chalmers University of Technology
    Chalmers University of Technology
    Chalmers University of Technology , is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that focuses on research and education in technology, natural science and architecture.-History:...

    .
  • V. Walfrid Ekman (1874–1954), oceanographer (Ph.D. 1902)
  • Theodor (The) Svedberg
    Theodor Svedberg
    Theodor H. E. Svedberg was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate, active at Uppsala University. His work with colloids supported the theories of Brownian motion put forward by Einstein and the Polish geophysicist Marian Smoluchowski...

     (1884–1971), chemist; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...

     1926
  • Filip Hjulström
    Filip Hjulström
    Henning Filip Hjulström was a Swedish geographer. Hjulström was professor of geography at Uppsala University from 1944, and in 1949, when the subject of geography was split, he became professor of Physical Geography....

     (1902–1982), geographer (Prof. 1944)

Medicine and life sciences

  • Olaus Rudbeckius (1630–1702), a physician and professor of medicine as well as an engineer, architect and an imaginative writer of chauvinistic (pseudo)history
    Pseudohistory
    Pseudohistory is a pejorative term applied to a type of historical revisionism, often involving sensational claims whose acceptance would require rewriting a significant amount of commonly accepted history, and based on methods that depart from standard historiographical conventions.Cryptohistory...

  • Olaus Rudbeckius, junior (1660–1740), botanist
  • Peter Artedi
    Peter Artedi
    Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius was a Swedish naturalist and is known as the "father of Ichthyology."...

     (1705–1735), naturalist and friend of Linnaeus, called "the father of Ichtyology"
  • Carolus Linnaeus
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

     (1707–1778), botanist, the father of taxonomy
    Taxonomy
    Taxonomy is the science of identifying and naming species, and arranging them into a classification. The field of taxonomy, sometimes referred to as "biological taxonomy", revolves around the description and use of taxonomic units, known as taxa...

  • Students of Linnaeus:
    • Pehr Kalm
      Pehr Kalm
      Pehr Kalm was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus...

       (1716–1779), botanist
    • Fredric Hasselquist
      Fredric Hasselquist
      Fredric Hasselquist was a Swedish traveller and naturalist.Hasselquist was born at Törnevalla, which is two kilometers east of Linghem, Östergötland...

       (1722–1752), naturalist and traveller
    • Peter Forsskål
      Peter Forsskål
      Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl, was a Swedish explorer, orientalist, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.-Early life:...

       (1732–1763), explorer, orientalist and naturalist
    • Daniel Solander
      Daniel Solander
      Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil.-Biography:...

       (1733–1782), botanist
    • Johann Beckmann
      Johann Beckmann
      Johann Beckmann was a German scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject....

       (1739–1811), German scientific author, coiner of the word technology
      Technology
      Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

    • Adam Kuhn
      Adam Kuhn
      Adam Kuhn was an American physician and naturalist, and one of the earliest professors of medicine in a North American university....

       (1741–1817), one of the first professors of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
      University of Pennsylvania
      The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

      , and thus one of the first in North America; was for a time the family physician of George Washington
      George Washington
      George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

      . Was probably the only American student of Linnaeus
    • Johan Zoega
      Johan Zoëga
      Johan Zoëga 20 December 1788 was a Danish entomologist and botanist.Zoëga was a friend of Johan Christian Fabricius and a pupil of Carl Linnaeus who specialized in mosses....

       (1742–1788), Danish botanist and economist
    • Carl Peter Thunberg
      Carl Peter Thunberg
      Carl Peter Thunberg aka Carl Pehr Thunberg aka Carl Per Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus"....

       (1743–1828), botanist
    • Johan Christian Fabricius
      Johan Christian Fabricius
      Johan Christian Fabricius was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others...

       (1745–1808), Danish entomologist.
    • Anders Sparrman
      Anders Sparrman
      Anders Erikson Sparrman was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus....

       (1748–1820), physician and naturalist
    • Adam Afzelius
      Adam Afzelius
      Adam Afzelius was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany...

       (1750–1837), botanist
    • Anders Dahl
      Anders Dahl
      Anders Dahl was a Swedish botanist and student of Carolus Linnaeus. The dahlia flower is named after him.In 1770, Dahl entered Uppsala University as a freshman ....

       (1751–1789), botanist for whom the dahlia
      Dahlia
      Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, perennial plants native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. There are at least 36 species of dahlia, some like D. imperialis up to 10 metres tall. Dahlia hybrids are commonly grown as garden plants...

       flower is named
    • Jonas C. Dryander, naturalist and bibliographer, Librarian of the Royal Society
      Royal Society
      The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...

      , Vice-President of the Linnean Society of London
      Linnean Society of London
      The Linnean Society of London is the world's premier society for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history. It publishes a zoological journal, as well as botanical and biological journals...

    • Peter Gustaf Tengmalm
      Peter Gustaf Tengmalm
      Peter Gustaf Tengmalm was a Swedish physician and naturalist.Tengmalm was born in Stockholm and studied medicine at Uppsala University. He spent his spare time studying birds and became an accomplished taxidermist. He graduated in 1785 and moved to the town of Eskilstuna, where he worked as the...

       (1754–1803), physician and naturalist
    • Erik Acharius
      Erik Acharius
      Erik Acharius was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the taxonomy of lichens and is known as the "father of lichenology"....

       (1757–1819), botanist
  • Göran Wahlenberg
    Göran Wahlenberg
    Georg Wahlenberg was a Swedish naturalist. He was born in Kroppa, Värmland County.Wahlenberg matriculated at Uppsala University in 1792, received his doctorate in Medicine in 1806, was appointed botanices demonstrator in 1814, and professor of medicine and botany in 1829, succeeding Carl Peter...

     (1780–1851), botanist
  • Elias Magnus Fries
    Elias Magnus Fries
    -External links:*, Authors of fungal names, Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming.*...

     (1794–1878), botanist, the father of modern mushroom
    Mushroom
    A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi that...

     taxonomy
    Taxonomy
    Taxonomy is the science of identifying and naming species, and arranging them into a classification. The field of taxonomy, sometimes referred to as "biological taxonomy", revolves around the description and use of taxonomic units, known as taxa...

  • Alarik Frithiof Holmgren
    Alarik Frithiof Holmgren
    Alarik Frithiof Holmgren was a Swedish physiologist and professor at Upsala University and a vocal opponent of vivisection, and particularly the use of curare to immobilize subjects so they appeared peaceful while feeling great pain...

     (1831–1897), physiologist
  • Gustaf Retzius
    Gustaf Retzius
    Magnus Gustaf Retzius was a Swedish physician and anatomist who dedicated a large part of his life to researching the histology of the sense organs and nervous system.-Biography:...

     (1842–1919), anatomist. Professor at Karolinska Institutet
    Karolinska Institutet
    Karolinska institutet is a medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area, Sweden, and one of Europe's largest medical universities...

     1877–1890; member of the Swedish Academy
    Swedish Academy
    The Swedish Academy , founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.-History:The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 by King Gustav III. Modelled after the Académie française, it has 18 members. The motto of the Academy is "Talent and Taste"...

    . Began his studies in Uppsala, where he took his med.kand., later transferred to KI and Lund University
    Lund University
    Lund University , located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, is one of northern Europe's most prestigious universities and one of Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities...

  • Karl Oskar Medin
    Karl Oskar Medin
    Karl Oskar Medin was a Swedish pediatrician. He was born at Axberg, Örebro and died in Stockholm. He is most famous for his study of poliomyelitis, an illness often known as the Heine-Medin disease, named after Medin and another physician, Jakob Heine...

     (1847–1928), paediatrician, famous for his study of poliomyelitis. Professor at the Karolinska Institutet
    Karolinska Institutet
    Karolinska institutet is a medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area, Sweden, and one of Europe's largest medical universities...

     1883–1914. Completed his doctorate in Uppsala 1880.
  • Adolf Appellöf
    Adolf Appellöf
    Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf was a Swedish marine zoologist.Appellöf matriculated at Uppsala University in 1877, earned his Ph.D. in goatsville and became a docent of zoology in 1887. In 1889 he received the position of janitor at the Museum of Bergen...

     (1857–1921), teuthologist
  • Allvar Gullstrand
    Allvar Gullstrand
    Allvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist.Born at Landskrona, Sweden, Gullstrand was professor successively of eye therapy and of optics at the University of Uppsala. He applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and of the refraction of light in the eye...

     (1862–1930), ophthalmologist; Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

     1911
  • Robert Bárány
    Robert Bárány
    Robert Bárány was a Austro-Hungarian otologist. For his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus of the ear he received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.- Biography :...

     (1876–1936), physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

     1914 (professor in Uppsala from 1917)
  • Erik Stensiö
    Erik Stensiö
    Erik Helge Osvald Stensiö was a Swedish paleozoologist.Erik Andersson, as his original name was, was born in the village of Stensjö in Döderhult parish in Kalmar County; he later took his new surname from his place of origin and is occasionally referred to with both names...

     (1891–1984), paleozoologist, Professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
    Swedish Museum of Natural History
    The Swedish Museum of Natural History , in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg....

    , Stockholm. Awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London
    Linnean Society of London
    The Linnean Society of London is the world's premier society for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history. It publishes a zoological journal, as well as botanical and biological journals...

     1957.
  • Erik Jarvik
    Erik Jarvik
    Anders Erik Vilhelm Jarvik was a Swedish palaeozoologist who worked extensively on the sarcopterygian fish Eusthenopteron...

     (1907–1998), paleozoologist, Professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
    Swedish Museum of Natural History
    The Swedish Museum of Natural History , in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg....

    , Stockholm (succeeded Erik Stensiö). (Ph.D. in Uppsala 1942.)
  • Arne Tiselius
    Arne Tiselius
    Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948.- Biography:Tiselius was born in Stockholm...

     (1902–1971), biochemist; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...

     1948.
  • Svante Pääbo
    Svante Pääbo
    Svante Pääbo is a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. He was born in 1955 in Stockholm to Sune Bergström, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, and his mother, Estonian Karin Pääbo.He earned his PhD from Uppsala...

     (born 1955), evolutionary biologist

Explorers

  • Sven Hedin
    Sven Hedin
    Sven Anders Hedin KNO1kl RVO was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, and travel writer, as well as an illustrator of his own works...

     (1865–1952; fil. kand. 1888; honorary doctorate 1935), known for his travels through Central Asia
    Central Asia
    Central Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...

    . The last person to be ennobled in Sweden.
  • Finn Malmgren
    Finn Malmgren
    Finn Adolf Erik Johan Malmgren was a Swedish meteorologist and Arctic explorer.Malmgren studied in Göteborg, Sundsvall and Stockholm. In 1912 he started to study at the Uppsala University where he received a bachelor's degree in 1916...

     (1895–1928), Arctic explorer (Ph.D. in meteorology 1927, participated in several Arctic expeditions and died in one 1928.)

Humanities and social sciences

  • Johan Gunnar Andersson
    Johan Gunnar Andersson
    Johan Gunnar Andersson , Swedish archaeologist, paleontologist and geologist, closely associated with the beginnings of Chinese archaeology in the 1920s...

    , archaeologist
  • Tor Andræ
    Tor Andræ
    Tor Julius Efraim Andræ was a Swedish scholar of comparative religion and bishop of Linköping from 1936....

    , scholar of Comparative religion, orientalist, Bishop
  • Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
    Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
    Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom was a Swedish romantic poet, and a member of the Swedish Academy....

    , poet, professor of poetry
  • Anders Berch, economist
  • Anders Chydenius
    Anders Chydenius
    Anders Chydenius was the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. Born in Sotkamo, Ostrobothnia, Sweden and having studied under Pehr Kalm at the Royal Academy of Åbo, Chydenius became a priest, Enlightenment philosopher and member of the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.The world's first...

    , clergyman, economist
  • Bengt Danielsson
    Bengt Danielsson
    Bengt Emmerik Danielsson was an anthropologist and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki raft expedition from South America to French Polynesia in 1947. Danielsson was born in Sweden in 1921, obtained a Ph.D...

    , ethnologist, crewmember of Kon Tiki expedition
  • Georges Dumézil
    Georges Dumézil
    Georges Dumézil was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Proto-Indo-European religion and society...

    , scholar of comparative religion, lecturer of French 1931–1933
  • Michel Foucault
    Michel Foucault
    Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...

    , lecturer of French 1954–1958 (received the position through Dumézil)
  • Erik Gustaf Geijer
    Erik Gustaf Geijer
    Erik Gustaf Geijer was a Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swedish National Romanticism. He also was an influential advocate of Liberalism.-Biography:...

    , historian, poet, composer
  • Carl August Hagberg
    Carl August Hagberg
    Carl August Hagberg , was a Swedish linguist and translator. He was a member of the Swedish Academy, occupying seat 7 from 1851 until his death...

     (1810–1864), linguist and translator
  • Artur Hazelius
    Artur Hazelius
    Artur Immanuel Hazelius , Swedish teacher, scholar and folklorist, founder of the Nordic Museum and the open-air museum Skansen in Stockholm....

     (1833–1901), founder of the Nordic Museum
    Nordic Museum
    The Nordic Museum is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the Early Modern age until the contemporary period...

     and the open-air museum Skansen
    Skansen
    Skansen is the first open air museum and zoo in Sweden and is located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1891 by Artur Hazelius to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era....

     in Stockholm. (Ph.D. 1860)
  • Eli Heckscher
    Eli Heckscher
    Eli Filip Heckscher was a Swedish political economist and economic historian.-Biography:...

    , economic historian
  • Johan Ihre
    Johan Ihre
    Johan Ihre was a Swedish philologist and historical linguist.Ihre was born in Lund, son of the theologian Thomas Ihre and his spouse Brita Steuchia...

    , philologist
  • Bernhard Karlgren
    Bernhard Karlgren
    Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren was a Swedish sinologist and linguist who pioneered the study of Chinese historical phonology using modern comparative methods...

    , sinologist
  • Rudolf Kjellén
    Rudolf Kjellén
    Johan Rudolf Kjellén was a Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics". His work was influenced by Friedrich Ratzel...

    , political scientist
  • Gerhard Lindblom
    Gerhard Lindblom
    Karl Gerhard Lindblom was an ethnographer from Sweden who worked in East Africa in the 1910s. He was the principal author of materials on the Akamba peoples.- Bibliography :...

     (1887–1969), ethnographer, working in East Africa
  • Eva Lundgren
    Eva Lundgren
    Eva Lundgren is a Norwegian-born Swedish feminist scholar and sociologist, focusing on violence against women and religiously motivated violence. She is known for developing the theory of the process of normalization of violence, according to which, abused women gradually adopt the perspective of...

    , feminist scholar and sociologist
  • Oscar Montelius
    Oscar Montelius
    Oscar Montelius was a Swedish archaeologist who refined the concept of seriation, a relative chronological dating method...

    , archaeologist
  • Carl Gustaf Nordin
    Carl Gustaf Nordin
    Carl Gustaf Nordin was a Swedish statesman, historian and ecclesiastic.-Early life:...

     (1749–1812), historian, antiquarian and politician, Bishop of Härnösand from 1812.
  • Adolf Noreen
    Adolf Noreen
    Adolf Gotthard Noreen was a Swedish linguist who served as a member of the Swedish Academy from 1919 until his death.-Biography:...

     (1854–1925), linguist
  • Henrik Samuel Nyberg
    Henrik Samuel Nyberg
    Henrik Samuel Nyberg was a Swedish scholar of broad interest and a well known expert of Iranology and Arab studies.-Life:Nyber was born in Söderbärke in Southern Dalecarlia on the 28th of December 1889. When he was 19, he entered Uppsala to undertake university coures. There he studied from...

    , orientalist
  • Torgny Säve-Söderbergh, egyptologist
  • August Ludwig von Schlözer
    August Ludwig von Schlözer
    August Ludwig von Schlözer was a German historian who laid foundations for the critical study of Russian history.-Early career:...

    , studied 1755/56 with Johan Ihre
    Johan Ihre
    Johan Ihre was a Swedish philologist and historical linguist.Ihre was born in Lund, son of the theologian Thomas Ihre and his spouse Brita Steuchia...

  • Åke W. Sjöberg, assyriologist. Professor emeritus of Sumerian at the University of Pennsylvania
    University of Pennsylvania
    The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

    , first editor of The Sumerian dictionary
  • Knut Wicksell
    Knut Wicksell
    Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell was a leading Swedish economist of the Stockholm school. His economic contributions would influence both the Keynesian and Austrian schools of economic thought....

     (1851–1926), economist
  • Geo Widengren, comparative religion

Industry

  • Christopher Polhem
    Christopher Polhem
    Christopher Polhammar , better known as , which he took after his ennoblement, was a Swedish scientist, inventor and industrialist. He made significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining.-Biography:Polhem was born on the island of Gotland...

     (1661–1751)
  • Gustaf de Laval
    Gustaf de Laval
    Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and dairy machinery.-Life:De Laval was born at Orsa in Dalarna...

     (1845–1913), engineer, co-founder of the present Alfa Laval
    Alfa Laval
    Alfa Laval AB is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm. The company is a leading producer of specialized products and solutions used to heat, cool, separate and transport such products as oil, water, chemicals, beverages, foodstuffs, starch and...

  • Jan Stenbeck
    Jan Stenbeck
    Jan Stenbeck was a Swedish media owner. He was brother of the former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Margaretha af Ugglas...

     (1942–2002)
  • Karl Jöreskog
    Karl Jöreskog
    *Jöreskog, K. G., & Sörbom, D. . Advances in factor analysis and structural equation models. New York: University Press of America.*Jöreskog, K. G., & Moustaki, I. . Factor analysis of ordinal variables: A comparison of three approaches. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 36, 347–387.- Festschrift...

     (1935-) Professor Emeritus, a co-author (with Dag Sörbom) of LISREL
    LISREL
    LISREL, an acronym for linear structural relations, is a statistical software package used in structural equation modeling. LISREL was developed in 1970s by Karl Jöreskog, then a scientist at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ, and Dag Sörbom, later both professors of Uppsala University,...

     statistical program.
  • Hans Dalborg
    Hans Dalborg
    Hans Folkeson Dalborg is a Swedish business executive, who was chairman of the board of Nordea from 2002 to 2011....

     (1941-)
  • Carl-Henric Svanberg
    Carl-Henric Svanberg
    Carl-Henric Svanberg, born on May 29 1952 in Porjus, Sweden, is a businessman and current Chairman of BP.-Life and career:Svanberg holds a Master's degree in Applied Physics from the Linköping Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Uppsala University...

     (1952-)
  • Niklas Zennström
    Niklas Zennström
    Niklas Zennström is an entrepreneur best known for founding several high-profile online ventures with Janus Friis including Skype and Kazaa. More recently he founded the investment group Atomico and has become a significant figurehead for entrepreneurs in the tech sector.-Career:Zennström started...

     (1966-)

Arts

Literature

  • Georg Stiernhielm
    Georg Stiernhielm
    Georg Stiernhielm was a Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet. Stiernhielm was born in a middle-class family in the village Svartskär in Vika parish in Dalarna...

     (1598–1672), Swedish poet, linguist and civil servant
  • Carl Michael Bellman
    Carl Michael Bellman
    was a Swedish poet and composer. Bellman is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a very important influence in Swedish music, as well as in Scandinavian literature in general, to this day....

     (1740–1795), poet and composer (matriculated 1758 but left after less than a year)
  • Erik Gustaf Geijer
    Erik Gustaf Geijer
    Erik Gustaf Geijer was a Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swedish National Romanticism. He also was an influential advocate of Liberalism.-Biography:...

     (1783–1847), historian, poet and composer
  • Erik Johan Stagnelius
    Erik Johan Stagnelius
    Erik Johan Stagnelius was born October 14, 1793 in Gärdslösa, on the island Öland, Sweden, and died on April 3, 1823 in Stockholm. He was a Romantic poet and playwright....

     (1793–1823), poet
  • Per Ulrik Kernell (1797–1824), poet
  • Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
    Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
    Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom was a Swedish romantic poet, and a member of the Swedish Academy....

    , poet
  • August Strindberg
    August Strindberg
    Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...

     (1849–1912), novelist and playwright
  • Henrik Schück
    Henrik Schück
    Henrik Schück was a Swedish literary historian, university professor and author.-Biography:Johan Henrik Emil Schück was a professor at the Lund University 1890-98. He was a professor at at Uppsala University 1898-1920 and later Rector 1905-1918. He was a member of the Swedish Academy 1913-1947,...

     (1855–1947), literary historian.
  • Axel Munthe
    Axel Munthe
    Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe was a Swedish psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele, an autobiographical account of his life and work....

     (1857–1949), physician and writer
  • Gustaf Fröding
    Gustaf Fröding
    Gustaf Fröding was a Swedish poet and writer, born in Alster outside Karlstad in Värmland. The family moved to Kristinehamn in the year 1867. He later studied at Uppsala University and worked as a journalist in Karlstad....

     (1860–1911), poet
  • Oscar Levertin
    Oscar Levertin
    Oscar Ivar Levertin was a Swedish poet, critic and literary historian. Levertin was a dominant voice of the Swedish cultural scene from 1897, when he started writing influential high-profile essays and reviews in the daily paper Svenska Dagbladet...

     (1862–1906), poet and critic
  • Erik Axel Karlfeldt
    Erik Axel Karlfeldt
    Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931. It has been rumored that he had been offered, but declined, the award already in 1919.Karlfeldt was born into a farmer's...

     (1864–1931), poet. Nobel laureate in literature
    Nobel Prize in Literature
    Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

     1931 (posthumously)
  • Hjalmar Söderberg
    Hjalmar Söderberg
    Hjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. His works often deal with melancholy and lovelorn characters, and offer a rich portrayal of contemporary Stockholm through the eyes of the flaneur...

     (1869–1941), novelist
  • Pär Lagerkvist
    Pär Lagerkvist
    Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.Lagerkvist wrote poems, plays, novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s...

     (1891–1974), novelist, playwright. Nobel laureate in literature
    Nobel Prize in Literature
    Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

     1951.
  • Karin Boye
    Karin Boye
    was a Swedish poet and novelist.- Career :Boye was born in Gothenburg , Sweden and moved with her family to Stockholm in 1909. She studied at Uppsala University from 1921 to 1926 and debuted in 1922 with a collection of poems, "Clouds"...

     (1900–1941), poet and novelist
  • Gösta Knutsson
    Gösta Knutsson
    Gösta Lars August Knutsson was a Swedish radio producer and writer of a popular series of children's books about the cat Pelle Svanslös....

     (1908–1973), radio producer and author of children's books
  • Sara Lidman
    Sara Lidman
    Sara Lidman was a Swedish writer.Born in the village Missenträsk in the northern parts of Skellefteå Municipality, Lidman was raised in the Västerbotten region of northern Sweden. She studied at the University of Uppsala where her studies were interrupted by her receiving tuberculosis...

     (1923–2004), novelist
  • Kerstin Ekman
    Kerstin Ekman
    Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist.Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels but later went on to psychological and social themes...

     (born 1933), novelist
  • Per Olov Enquist
    Per Olov Enquist
    Per Olov Enquist, better known as P. O. Enquist, is a Swedish author. He has worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist...

     (born 1934), novelist
  • Lars Gustafsson
    Lars Gustafsson
    Lars Gustafsson is a Swedish, poet, novelist and scholar. He was born in Västerås, completed his secondary education at the Västerås gymnasium and continued to Uppsala University; he received his Licentiate degree in 1960 and was awarded his Ph.D. in Theoretical Philosophy in 1978. He lived in...

     (born 1936), novelist
  • Peter Nilson
    Peter Nilson
    Peter Nilson was a Swedish astronomer and novelist. Active at Uppsala University, he compiled a catalogue of galaxies...

     (1937–1988), novelist, essayist and astronomer
  • Håkan Nesser
    Håkan Nesser
    Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful novels, mostly crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000...

     (born 1950), detective novelist
  • Mari Jungstedt
    Mari Jungstedt
    Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist and popular crime fiction author.Jungstedt worked as a reporter on Swedish national public radio and television, and was an occasional presenter on TV4's daily talk show Förkväll....

     (born 1962), journalist and novelist
  • Ola Larsmo
    Ola Larsmo
    Ola Larsmo was born in 1957 in Sundbyberg and has lived in Västervik for ten years. He studied at Uppsala University, mainly in Nordic languages, literature, theology and history....

     (born 1957), novelist
  • Kevin MacNeil
    Kevin MacNeil
    Kevin MacNeil is a British novelist, poet and playwright born and raised in the Outer Hebrides. His novels, A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde and best-selling debut, The Stornoway Way , were both published to widespread critical acclaim...

    , novelist,poet and playwright. Former Writer in Residence at Uppsala.

Music

  • Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland
    Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland
    Prince Frans Gustaf Oscar of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Uppland was the second son of Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg and younger brother to Prince Charles.Prince Gustaf was a trained musician and composer...

     (1827–1852), song composer, matriculated 1844 and studied several semesters in Uppsala
  • Gunnar Wennerberg
    Gunnar Wennerberg
    Gunnar Wennerberg , Swedish poet, composer and politician. His niece Sara Wennerberg-Reuter was also a well-known musician; she was an organist and composer....

    , composer, politician and civil servant
  • Jacob Axel Josephson, studied in Uppsala, composer, director musices of Uppsala University
  • Hugo Alfvén
    Hugo Alfvén
    was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.- Violinist :Alfvén was born in Stockholm and studied at the Music Conservatory there from 1887 to 1891 with the violin as his main instrument, receiving lessons from Lars Zetterquist. He also took private composition lessons from Johan...

    , composer, director musices of Uppsala University
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.-Biography:Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in music. He became a glowing admirer of German music, particularly that of Richard...

    , composer, director musices of Uppsala University
  • Lars-Erik Larsson
    Lars-Erik Larsson
    Lars-Erik Larsson was a notable Swedish composer of the 20th century.-Biography:Lars-Erik Vilner Larsson was born in Åkarp in 1908...

    , composer, director musices of Uppsala University
  • Herbert Blomstedt
    Herbert Blomstedt
    Herbert Blomstedt is a Swedish conductor.Herbert Blomstedt was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and two years after his birth, his Swedish parents moved the family back to their country of origin...

    , orchestral conductor
  • Petter Askergren
    Petter Askergren
    Petter Alexis Askergren, , who simply uses his given name Petter as a stage name, is a rap artist from Stockholm, Sweden, rapping in Swedish. He debuted in 1998 with the album Mitt sjätte sinne , which became a success and started the Swedish hip hop boom in the late 1990s and early 2000s...

    , (known as "Petter"), Swedish rap artist
  • Rickard Westman, member of folk music group Garmarna
    Garmarna
    Garmarna is a Swedish folk rock band. Their songs are mainly old Scandinavian ballads.- Biography :Garmarna was founded in 1990. Stefan Brisland-Ferner, Gotte Ringqvist and Rickard Westman were inspired by old Swedish music, which they had heard in a theatre. They began searching for old tunes and...


Theatre and entertainment

  • Svante Hedin (1822–1896), studied 1840–45, actor in the Royal Theatre in Stockholm
  • Tage Danielsson
    Tage Danielsson
    Tage Danielsson was a Swedish author, actor, poet and film director. He was born in Linköping and died in Stockholm...

    , writer and entertainer (matriculated 1949, MA 1955, was vice chairman of Uppsala Student Union
    Uppsala Student Union
    Uppsala Student Union is one of two students' unions at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.According to Swedish law, university students are no longer required to be members of a students' union since 2010...

    )
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