List of people connected to Stockholm
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A list of people connected to 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...

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Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

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  • Per Ahlmark
    Per Ahlmark
    Per Axel Ahlmark is a Swedish writer and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1975 to 1978, and Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister in the Swedish government from 1976 to 1978...

  • Knut Ahnlund
    Knut Ahnlund
    Knut Emil Ahnlund is a Swedish literary historian, writer, and member of the Swedish Academy.Ahnlund is an expert on 19th and 20th century Nordic, especially Danish, literature. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Henrik Pontoppidan, and has later written on Gustav Wied and Sven Lidman, among...

  • 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...

  • Lars Amble
    Lars Amble
    Lars Anders Amble-Næss is a Swedish actor and director. He is son to Leif Amble-Næss and Maritta Marke. After finishing theater school in Stockholm 1963-65, he was hired by the Royal Dramatic Theater until 1969, after which he has played parts in various theater plays, musicals, TV shows and...

  • Ellen Ammann
    Ellen Ammann
    Ellen Aurora Elisabeth Morgenröte Ammann was a German politician and activist, representative of the Bavarian People's Party....

  • Benny Andersson
    Benny Andersson
    Göran Bror "Benny" Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!...

  • Bibi Andersson
    Bibi Andersson
    Bibi Andersson is a Swedish actress.-Early life:Bibi Andersson was born as Berit Elisabeth Andersson in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, the daughter of Karin , a social worker, and Josef Andersson, a businessman...

  • Harriet Andersson
    Harriet Andersson
    Harriet Andersson is a Swedish actress, known outside Sweden for being part of one of director Ingmar Bergman's stock company....

  • Leif Erland Andersson
    Leif Erland Andersson
    Leif Erland Andersson was a Swedish astronomer.Leif Andersson studied at Lund University, but received a scholarship to an observatory in Sicily in 1968, after which he went to Indiana University Bloomington to complete his Ph.D. degree. He later worked at the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory of the...

  • Max Andersson
    Max Andersson
    Max Andersson is a Swedish comic creator and film maker, mostly doing "underground style" and "artistic" comics. His comics have mainly been published in Swedish albums, and in the Swedish art magazine Galago....

  • Björn Andrésen
    Björn Andresen
    Björn Johan Andrésen is a Swedish actor and musician. He is best known for playing the fourteen-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation of the Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice....

  • Johan Jacob Anckarström
  • Mikael Appelgren
    Mikael Appelgren
    Mikael Appelgren is a Swedish table tennis player. He was 4-times World Champion, 9-times European Champion, 2-times Europe Top-12 winner, and World Cup winner....

  • Tor Aulin
    Tor Aulin
    Tor Aulin was a Swedish violinist, conductor and composer.-Biography:Aulin studied music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and then in the Conservatory of Berlin with Émile Sauret and Philipp Scharwenka...

  • Sven-Erik Bäck
    Sven-Erik Bäck
    Sven-Erik Bäck was a Swedish composer of classical music. He was born in Stockholm.Bäck studied from 1939 until 1943 in the King's Music-Academy and from 1940 until 1945, was a composition student of Hilding Rosenberg...

  • 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....

  • Natanael Berg
    Natanael Berg
    Carl Natanael Rexroth-Berg was a Swedish composer.Berg trained in veterinary medicine and began learning music by teaching himself. He later studied at the Stockholm Conservatory as the pupil of Johan Lindegren...

  • Bo Bergman
    Bo Bergman
    Bo Bergman was a Swedish writer, literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy, sitting in Seat 12 from 1925 until his death...

  • Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...

  • Sune Bergström
    Sune Bergström
    Karl Sune Detlof Bergström was a Swedish biochemist.In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden....

  • Folke Bernadotte
    Folke Bernadotte
    Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945...

  • Robyn
    Robyn
    Robin Miriam Carlsson , better known by her stage name Robyn, is a Swedish recording artist, singer, and songwriter. Robyn became known in the late nineties for her worldwide dance-pop hit "Do You Know " from her debut album Robyn Is Here . She co-wrote the song "Du gör mig hel igen" for...

  • Lennart Bernadotte
  • Franz Berwald
    Franz Berwald
    Franz Adolf Berwald was a Swedish Romantic composer who was generally ignored during his lifetime. He made his living as an orthopedic surgeon and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory....

  • Johan Fredrik Berwald
    Johan Fredrik Berwald
    Johan Fredrik Berwald was a Swedish violinist, conductor and composer. He was cousin of Franz Berwald and August Berwald.-Biography:...

  • Elsa Beskow
    Elsa Beskow
    Elsa Beskow was a Swedish author and illustrator of children's books...

  • Ivan Betskoy
    Ivan Betskoy
    Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi or Betskoy was a Russian school reformer who served as Catherine II's advisor on education and President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for thirty years...

  • Carl Bildt
    Carl Bildt
    , Honorary KCMG is a Swedish politician, diplomat and nobleman. Formerly Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999, Bildt has served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs since 6 October 2006...

  • Hugo Birger
    Hugo Birger
    Hugo Birger was a Swedish painter.Born in Stockholm, his father was printmaker S. A. Peterson. Birger studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts from 1870 to 1877. In 1877, he was awarded with the "Royal medal" for his painting Syndafallet...

  • August Theodor Blanche
  • Per Conrad Boman
  • Joakim Bonnier
    Joakim Bonnier
    Joakim "Jo" Bonnier was a Swedish sportscar racing and Formula One driver who raced for various teams.-Early life:...

  • Björn Borg
    Björn Borg
    Björn Rune Borg is a former world no. 1 tennis player from Sweden. Between 1974 and 1981 he won 11 Grand Slam singles titles. He won five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles and six French Open singles titles...

  • Ali Boulala
    Ali Boulala
    Ali Boulala is a professional skateboarder who rides for Flip Skateboards, Flip Clothing, Independent trucks and Flip wheels...

  • Sophia Elisabet Brenner
    Sophia Elisabet Brenner
    Sophia Elisabet Brenner was a Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess, and was regarded in her country as a pioneer in each of these fields.- Biography :...

  • Oscar Byström
    Oscar Byström (composer)
    Oscar Fredrik Bernadotte Byström was a Swedish composer and scholar.Born in Stockholm into the family of a military officer, he followed his father in a military career and rose to the rank of captain by 1857. However, already in the 1840s he gained recognition as both a pianist and song composer,...

  • Cäcilie von Oldenburg
  • William Chambers
    William Chambers
    William Chambers may refer to:*William Chambers , 18th century Scottish architect*William Chambers *William Lee Chambers, judge*William Chambers , illegitimate son of the above...

  • Eagle-Eye Cherry
    Eagle-Eye Cherry
    Eagle-Eye Lanoo Cherry is a Swedish musician of African-American descent.-Life and career:Cherry was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of African American jazz artist Don Cherry and Swedish painter/textile artist Monika "Moki" Cherry . He is half-brother of singer Neneh Cherry, his mother's...

  • Neneh Cherry
    Neneh Cherry
    Neneh Mariann Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, and occasional DJ and broadcaster...

  • Queen Christina
    Christina of Sweden
    Christina , later adopted the name Christina Alexandra, was Queen regnant of Swedes, Goths and Vandals, Grand Princess of Finland, and Duchess of Ingria, Estonia, Livonia and Karelia, from 1633 to 1654. She was the only surviving legitimate child of King Gustav II Adolph and his wife Maria Eleonora...

  • Erik Jonsson Dahlberg
  • Birger Dahlerus
    Birger Dahlerus
    Johan Birger Essen Dahlerus was a Swedish businessman, amateur diplomat, and friend of Hermann Göring who tried through diplomatic channels to prevent the Second World War...

  • Isidor Dannström
  • Tommy Denander
    Tommy Denander
    Tommy Denander is a guitarist and producer.He has appeared on more than 2000 albums with artists such as: Michael jackson, Paul Stanley, Alice Cooper, Ricky Martin, BB King, Don Henley, Sheryl Crow, David Coverdale, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Toto, Fee Waybill, Richard Marx, Robin...

  • Queen Viktoria
  • Ernst Didring
    Ernst Didring
    Ernst Didring was an early 20th century author who wrote mainly of life in his home country of Sweden .-Biography:...

  • Britt Ekland
    Britt Ekland
    Britt-Marie Ekland is a Swedish actress and singer, and a long time resident of the United Kingdom. She is best known for her roles as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun, and in the British cult horror film The Wicker Man, as well as her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and her...

  • Per-Erik Eklund
  • Emilia Rydberg
    Emilia Rydberg
    Emilia Rydberg is a Swedish pop music and soul singer, mostly known for her hit, "Big Big World". Emilia was discovered in 1996 by Lars Anderson, son of ABBA's manager, Stig Anderson....

  • Mats Ericson
  • Erik XIV of Sweden
  • Ulf von Euler
    Ulf von Euler
    Ulf Svante von Euler was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist. He won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters.-Life:...

  • 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...

  • Greta Garbo
    Greta Garbo
    Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...

  • Anders Gärderud
    Anders Gärderud
    Sven Anders Gärderud is a Swedish former athlete, winner of 3000 m steeplechase at the 1976 Summer Olympics....

  • Magnus Hedman
    Magnus Hedman
    Magnus Carl Hedman is a Swedish former football goalkeeper. He played 58 matches for the Sweden national football team, and represented his country at two FIFA World Cup and two European Championship tournaments....

  • Nicolai Gedda
    Nicolai Gedda
    Nicolai Gedda is a Swedish operatic tenor. Having made some two hundred recordings, Gedda is said to be the most widely recorded tenor in history...

  • Axel Greve
  • Gustav II Adolf
  • Gustav III of Sweden
    Gustav III of Sweden
    Gustav III was King of Sweden from 1771 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Adolph Frederick and Queen Louise Ulrica of Sweden, she a sister of Frederick the Great of Prussia....

  • Gustav IV Adolf
  • 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...

  • Ivar Christian Hallström
    Ivar Christian Hallström
    Ivar Christian Hallström, born Stockholm, 5 June 1826, died in that city on 11 April 1901 was a Swedish composer, particularly of opera.Although he learnt the piano, Hallström was self-taught as a composer. He studied law in Uppsala and in 1853 was appointed librarian to Prince Oscar which assisted...

  • Lasse Hallström
    Lasse Hallström
    Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström is a Swedish film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for My Life as a Dog and later for The Cider House Rules .-Life and career:...

  • Kurt Hamrin
    Kurt Hamrin
    Kurt Roland Hamrin is a former Swedish footballer. He is currently the seventh highest goalscorer of all-time in Italy's Serie A with 190 goals. He was best known as goal scoring winger with incredible dribbling ability.-Career:Hamrin first played for AIK in Sweden, whom he joined in the 1952-53...

  • Eli Filip Heckscher
  • 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...

  • Anders Hilborg
  • Ted Harris (pastor)
    Ted Harris (pastor)
    Edward "Ted" Harris is a Swedish-Barbadian Doctor of Divinity, writer and pastor.Dr. Harris also leads workshops in existential questions, arranges retreats and pilgrimages...

  • Hans Holmér
    Hans Holmér
    Hans Holmér, , Chief of the Swedish National Security Service and later Stockholm county administrative chief of police. He became well known during his tenure, spanning barely a year, as Chief of the special investigation unit into the assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme...

  • Carola Häggkvist
    Carola Häggkvist
    Carola Maria Häggkvist , better known as simply Carola, is a Swedish singer and occasional songwriter. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s, and has released albums ranging from pop and disco to hymns and folk music...

  • Ingrid von Schweden
  • Lennart Johansson
    Lennart Johansson
    Lennart Johansson was the president of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations from 1990 until 2007. Johansson is probably most famous for starting the UEFA Champions League and for bringing the UEFA European Football Championship to his native Sweden.He started as a bandy leader in AIK...

     president of UEFA
    UEFA
    The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

  • Erland Josephson
    Erland Josephson
    Erland Josephson is a Swedish actor and author. He is best known to international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Theodoros Angelopoulos.-Biography:...

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  • Jacob Axel Josephson
  • Charles IX of Sweden
    Charles IX of Sweden
    Charles IX of Sweden also Carl, was King of Sweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son of King Gustav I of Sweden and his second wife, Margaret Leijonhufvud, brother of Eric XIV and John III of Sweden, and uncle of Sigismund III Vasa king of both Sweden and Poland...

    , King 1604 – 1611
  • Charles XI of Sweden
    Charles XI of Sweden
    Charles XI also Carl, was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death, in a period in Swedish history known as the Swedish empire ....

  • Charles XII of Sweden
    Charles XII of Sweden
    Charles XII also Carl of Sweden, , Latinized to Carolus Rex, Turkish: Demirbaş Şarl, also known as Charles the Habitué was the King of the Swedish Empire from 1697 to 1718...

  • Charles XIII of Sweden
    Charles XIII of Sweden
    Charles XIII & II also Carl, , was King of Sweden from 1809 and King of Norway from 1814 until his death...

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  • 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....

    , King 1859 – 1872
  • Charles XVI of Sweden,
  • Oskar Klein
    Oskar Klein
    Oskar Benjamin Klein was a Swedish theoretical physicist.Klein was born in Danderyd outside Stockholm, son of the chief rabbi of Stockholm, Dr. Gottlieb Klein from Homonna in Hungary and Antonie Levy...

  • Erland von Koch
    Erland von Koch
    Erland von Koch was a Swedish composer.-Life and career:Born in Stockholm as the son of composer Sigurd von Koch , Erland von Koch studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1931 to 1935 and subsequently passed the advanced choirmaster and organist examinations...

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  • 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....

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  • Vendela Kirsebom
    Vendela Kirsebom
    Vendela Maria Kirsebom is a Norwegian-Swedish model and actress living in Nesodden, Norway.-Early life and career:Vendela Kirsebom was born in Stockholm, Sweden to a Norwegian mother; her Swedish father was of Turkish descent. At age 13, Kirsebom was discovered in a Stockholm restaurant by Eileen...

  • Carl Larsson
    Carl Larsson
    Carl Larsson was a Swedish painter and interior designer, representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes...

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  • Jonna Lee
    Jonna Lee (singer)
    Jonna Lee is a singer-songwriter from Linköping, Sweden, currently residing in Stockholm and London, UK.-Early life:Lee was born 1981 in Linköping and grew up in a small Swedish village in the country with her mother...

    , Singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

  • Jenny Lind
    Jenny Lind
    Johanna Maria Lind , better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she is known for her performances in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and for an extraordinarily...

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  • Erik Robert Lindahl
  • Christian Lindberg
    Christian Lindberg
    Christian Lindberg is a Swedish trombonist, conductor and composer.As a youth, Lindberg learned to play the trumpet, and subsequently began to learn the trombone at age 17. He originally borrowed a trombone to join his friends' Dixieland jazz group, inspired by records of Jack Teagarden...

  • Barbro Lindgren
  • Carl Lindhagen
    Carl Lindhagen
    Carl Albert Lindhagen was a Swedish lawyer, socialist politician, and pacifist.Carl Lindhagen was the Chief Magistrate of Stockholm 1903 – 1930...

  • Anna-Lena Löfgren
    Anna-Lena Löfgren
    Anna-Lena Löfgren was a Swedish singer from Stockholm. During the years 1962 and 1995, more than 40 of her songs made it onto Svensktoppen, the record chart of Sveriges Radio. Löfgren became one of the most best known schlager singers in Sweden during the 1960s.She made her first public...

  • Giovanni di Lorenzo
    Giovanni di Lorenzo
    Giovanni di Lorenzo is a German-Italian journalist. Editor-in-chief of German nationwide weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and former editor-in-chief of Berlin's liberal daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel...

  • Rolf Ludwig
  • Ulf Lundell
    Ulf Lundell
    Ulf Lundell is a Swedish writer, poet, songwriter, composer, musician and artist....

  • Dolph Lundgren
    Dolph Lundgren
    Dolph Lundgren is a Swedish actor, director, and martial artist. He belongs to a generation of film actors who epitomise the movie action hero stereotype including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.A graduate in chemical...

  • Egron Sellif Lundgren
  • Torbjörn Lundquist
  • Jeanette Fredrique Löf
  • Yngwie Malmsteen
  • Max Martin
    Max Martin
    Martin Karl Sandberg, known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. Raised in Stenhamra, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, he broke through as a producer and songwriter in the mid to late 1990s after crafting a string of hits for pop artists like the Backstreet Boys,...

  • Mijailo Mijailović
    Mijailo Mijailovic
    Mijailo Mijailović is the self-confessed and convicted assassin of the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh, whom he stabbed on 10 September 2003 at the NK department store in Stockholm...

  • Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
  • Alfred Nobel
    Alfred Nobel
    Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He is the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments...

  • Michael Nobel
    Michael Nobel
    Dr. Michael Nobel is most commonly known for his part in developing the Magnetic Resonance Imaging . At present, Nobel serves on several international boards that focus on scientific, medical and charitable initiatives. He is an advocate and authority on environmental issues and alternative energy...

  • H. C. Nordenflycht
    Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht
    Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht was a Swedish poet, feminist and salon hostess...

  • Lars Norén
    Lars Norén
    Lars Norén is a Swedish playwright, novelist and poet. He is considered Sweden's most prominent contemporary playwright of today.Born in Stockholm, Norén wrote his first play at age 19...

  • Ludvig Norman
    Ludvig Norman
    Ludvig Norman was a Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, and music teacher. Together with Franz Berwald and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, he ranks among the most important Swedish symphonists of the 19th century....

  • Mattias Norström
    Mattias Norström
    Erik Johan Mattias "Notan" Norström is a Swedish retired professional ice hockey defenceman, currently working for the AIK IF organization. Norström began his National Hockey League career with the New York Rangers. However, he is most noted for his ten seasons as a member of the Los Angeles...

  • Michael Nylander
    Michael Nylander
    Michael Nylander is a Swedish professional ice hockey centre who is currently a free agent.- Playing career :Nylander was drafted by the Hartford Whalers in the third round in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft...

  • Bobby Nystrom
  • Claes Oldenburg
    Claes Oldenburg
    Claes Oldenburg is a Swedish sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects...

  • Lena Olin
    Lena Olin
    Lena Maria Jonna Olin is a Swedish actress.-Early life:Olin was born the youngest of three children, in Stockholm, Sweden. She is the daughter of actress Britta Holmberg and the director Stig Olin...

  • Sigrid Onegin
    Sigrid Onégin
    Sigrid Onégin was a Franco-German operatic contralto who enjoyed a major international career prior to World War II . She was born in Stockholm, Sweden to a German father and a French mother....

  • Oskar II.
  • Anne Sofie von Otter
  • Olof Palme
    Olof Palme
    Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician. A long-time protegé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 to his assassination, and was a two-term Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet...

  • Jesper Parnevik
    Jesper Parnevik
    Jesper Bo Parnevik is a Swedish professional golfer. He spent 38 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings in 2000 and 2001.-Early years:...

  • Ulrika Pasch
    Ulrika Pasch
    Ulrika Fredrica Pasch , also known as Ulla Pasch, was a Swedish painter and miniaturist. She was one of few female artists known in Scandinavia before the 19th century...

  • Markus Persson
    Markus Persson
    Markus Alexej Persson is a Swedish indie game developer and founder of Mojang AB. He is best known for creating the sandbox building game Minecraft.- Biography :...

  • Torsten Persson
    Torsten Persson
    Torsten Persson is a Swedish economist and the director of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He has also taught in England, the United States, and Israel...

  • Nina Ramsby
    Nina Ramsby
    Nina Ramsby, born 1972, is a Swedish singer-songwriter and musician from Stockholm. During the 1990s she was the vocalist and guitarist for the alternative rock band Salt, She was also part of the bands Baxter and Grande Tone Music....

  • Johan Helmich Roman
    Johan Helmich Roman
    Johan Helmich Roman was a Swedish Baroque composer. He has been called "the father of Swedish music" or "the Swedish Handel."-Life:...

  • Keke Rosberg
    Keke Rosberg
    Keijo Erik Rosberg , nicknamed "Keke", is a Finnish former racing driver and winner of the Formula One World Championship. He was the first Finnish driver to compete regularly in the series. Rosberg grew up in Oulu and Iisalmi, Finland...

  • Karl Asmund Rudolphi
  • Johan Tobias Sergel
    Johan Tobias Sergel
    Johan Tobias Sergel , Swedish sculptor, was born in Stockholm.-Biography:After studying for some time in Paris he went to Rome, where he remained for twelve years and sculpted a number of groups in marble, including, besides subjects from classical mythology, a colossal representation of "History,"...

  • Harald Sicheritz
  • Ragnhild Sicheritz
  • Emma Sjöberg
    Emma Sjöberg
    Emma Wiklund is a Swedish fashion model and actress.Emma was born in Stockholm, Sweden....

  • Maj Sjöwall
    Maj Sjöwall
    Maj Sjöwall is a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for the collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm...

  • Lennart Skoglund
    Lennart Skoglund
    Karl Lennart "Nacka" Skoglund, , was a Swedish football player.-Biography:Nicknamed through-out his career as Nacka , Lennart Skoglund was a star of two Swedish World Cup sides in the 1950s. First as a young inside-left in 1950 and then as a mature left winger on home soil in 1958...

  • Kristina Söderbaum
    Kristina Söderbaum
    Kristina Söderbaum was a Swedish-born German film actress, producer and photographer.Her father, Professor Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum , was the permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences....

  • 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...

  • Annika Sörenstam
    Annika Sörenstam
    Annika Sörenstam is a Swedish-American professional golfer whose achievements rank her as one of the most successful golfers in history. Before stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she won 90 international tournaments as a professional, making her the female golfer...

  • Art Spiegelman
    Art Spiegelman
    Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Ulla Strömstedt
    Ulla Strömstedt
    Ulla Strömstedt was a Swedish-born actress who appeared in several films and television shows. Her credits include The Rat Patrol, I Spy and Flipper, as well as a couple of guest appearances on the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes.Strömstedt studied post-baccalaureate in Stockholm, language and art at...

  • Sara Fredrica Strömstedt-Torsslow
  • Mats Sundin
    Mats Sundin
    Mats Johan Sundin is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player. Originally drafted first overall in 1989, Sundin played his first four seasons in the NHL with the Quebec Nordiques. He was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1994, where he played the majority of his career, serving 11...

  • Anna Sundstrand
    Anna Sundstrand
    Anna Maria Carolina Sundstrand is a Swedish singer and model. She was a member of the Swedish pop group Play from the group's formation in 2001 when she was 12 until their breakup in 2005...

  • 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...

  • Annika Sörenstam
    Annika Sörenstam
    Annika Sörenstam is a Swedish-American professional golfer whose achievements rank her as one of the most successful golfers in history. Before stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she won 90 international tournaments as a professional, making her the female golfer...

  • Marie Taglioni
    Marie Taglioni
    Marie Taglioni was a famous Italian/Swedish ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance.-Biography:...

  • Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
  • Joakim Thåström
    Joakim Thåström
    Sven Joachim Eriksson Thåström , as an artist known as Thåström, is one of Sweden's best known rock musicians, he is mostly known for the bands Ebba Grön and Imperiet...

  • Ulrike I. Eleonore
  • Astrid Varnay
    Astrid Varnay
    Ibolyka Astrid Maria Varnay was an American dramatic soprano of Hungarian heritage and Swedish birth, who did most of her work in the United States and Germany. She was one of the best-known Wagnerian heroic sopranos of her generation...

  • Jan-Ove Waldner
    Jan-Ove Waldner
    Jan-Ove Waldner is a Swedish table tennis player. He is known as "the Mozart of table tennis" and is a legend in his native Sweden as well as in China. In China he is known as 老瓦 Lao Wa - "Old Wa" or 常青树 Chang Qing Shu - "Evergreen"...

  • Per Wästberg
    Per Wästberg
    Per Wästberg is a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.Wästberg was born in Stockholm, son of Erik Wästberg and his wife Greta née Hirsch, and holds a degree in literature from Uppsala University...

  • 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....

  • Geo Widengren
  • Beppe Wolgers
    Beppe Wolgers
    John Bertil "Beppe" Wolgers was a Swedish author, poet, translator, lyricist, actor, entertainer and artist.Wolgers was born in Stockholm...

  • Sophie Zelmani
    Sophie Zelmani
    Sophie Zelmani is a Swedish singer-songwriter who released her first single in 1995, called "Always You".-Early life:...

  • Mikael Åkerfeldt
    Mikael Åkerfeldt
    Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt is a Swedish musician who achieved fame as the lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Opeth as well as the lead vocalist of death metal band Bloodbath. He was the vocalist and guitarist for the band Sörskogen and the guitarist of the band Steel...

  • Jonas Åkerlund
    Jonas Åkerlund
    Jonas Åkerlund is a Swedish film and music video director, and drummer. He is best known for directing music videos, which are often mock forms of movie trailers and short films...

  • Philip Hannu
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