- Stefan Holm
Stefan Christian Holm (born May 25, 1976) is a Swedish athlete competing in the high jump. He has won 1 Olympic gold medal, 3 gold and 1 silver medal in the World Championships, 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals in the European Championships. His personal record in high jump is 2.40 m (indoors 2005) and 2.36 m (outdoors 2004).
- Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg is a Swedish-born professional hockey player currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings. His natural position is center, but he has mostly played left wing since coming to the NHL in the 2002-03 NHL Season. He wears #40 in Detroit and wore #20 for Timrå IK.
- Mats Sundin
Mattias Johan Sundin (born February 13, 1971, in Bromma, Sweden) is a Swedish professional ice hockey centre and captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League. His Swedish nickname "Sudden" (in reference to his surname) and Toronto nickname "Captain Clutch", come from his ability to perform in high-pressure situations, such as overtime. Sundin is currently the all-time leader in overtime goals with 15, the latest coming on October 14, 2006, …
- Peter Forsberg
Peter Mattias Forsberg is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is currently a free agent. His 17-year professional career includes 11 years in the National Hockey League (NHL), where he won two Stanley Cups and numerous individual honors. Internationally, with the Swedish national men's ice hockey team, he won two World Championships and two Olympic hockey gold medals.
- Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren (born Hans Lundgren, November 3, 1959) is a Swedish actor, director and karateka. His breakthrough came when he starred in "Rocky IV" in 1985. Since then, he starred in more than 30 pictures, mostly action movies. Dolph belongs to a generation of film actors who epitomise the muscular movie action hero including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris, …
- Christian Olsson
Christian Olsson (born January 25, 1980 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is an athlete competing in high jump and triple jump. He has won 1 Olympic gold medal, 3 gold and 1 silver medal in the world championships and 2 gold medals in the European championships. He also won the overall Golden League-jackpot in 2004 where he cashed in 500.000 dollars (after splitting the million dollar pot with Tonique Williams-Darling).
- Daniel Alfredsson
Daniel Alfredsson is a professional Swedish ice hockey player. He is the Captain of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League. He currently resides in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Särö, Sweden. A right winger with the Senators, Alfredsson usually plays on the first line with centre Jason Spezza and left winger Dany Heatley.
- Mikael Samuelsson
Mikael Samuelsson (born December 23, 1976 in Mariefred, Sweden) is a professional ice hockey right winger who currently plays for the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL.
- Jan Andersson
Jan Andersson is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a substitute for the temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013, …
- Henrik Sedin
Henrik Sedin is a Swedish professional ice hockey player for the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks. His identical twin brother Daniel Sedin also plays for the Canucks. Fans commonly refer to Henrik and Daniel as the Sedin Twins.
- Daniel Sedin
Daniel Sedin is a professional ice hockey player for the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks. His identical twin brother Henrik Sedin also plays for the Canucks. Both played on a line with Anson Carter in 2005-06, sometimes known colloquially as the 'Brothers Line'. In that season, the Brother Line was the Canucks top-scoring line, passing the Markus Naslund/Todd Bertuzzi/Brendan Morrison line in points.
- Daniel Carlsson
Daniel Carlsson (born November 14 1976 in Botkyrka) is a former swimmer from Sweden. He won gold medals in 4x50 m medley relay at European SC Championships 1998 and 1999 (making a new world best time the first time) and 4x50 m freestyle at 1999. He won also a bronze medal in 50 m Backstroke at European SC Championships 1998.
- Kajsa Bergqvist
Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist (born October 12, 1976, in Sollentuna, Sweden) is an athlete competing in the high jump. She has won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships. Her personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003, is also a Swedish record. Her indoor record at 2.08 m, set in Germany in 2006, is also the world indoor record.
- Anita Ekberg
Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (born on September 29, 1931) is a Swedish model, actress and cult sex symbol.
- Tommy Salo
Thomas "Tommy" Mikael Salo (born February 1, 1971 in Surahammar) is a former professional ice hockey goaltender from Sweden. His parents are both Finnish, which explains his non-Swedish last name.
- Anders Wijkman
Anders Ivar Sven Wijkman (born 30 September 1944 in Stockholm) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Christian Democrats, part of the European People's Party - European Democrats group. He sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Development, a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, …
- Jan-Ove Waldner
Jan-Ove (JO) Waldner (nicknamed Lao Wa in China) is a Swedish table tennis player, born October 3, 1965. He is known as the Mozart of table tennis and is a legend in both his native Sweden as well as in China. Waldner's potential was recognized at an early age and was displayed in 1982 as a 17 year old when he reached the final of the European Championship, losing to teammate Mikael Appelgren.
- Fredrik Modin
Fredrik Modin (born October 8, 1974 in Sundsvall, Medelpad) is a Swedish ice hockey left winger who is known for having one of the hardest slap shots in the NHL. Currently playing for Columbus Blue Jackets.
- Mikael Tellqvist
Mikael Tellqvist (born September 19, 1979, in Sundbyberg, Sweden) is a professional Swedish ice hockey goaltender, currently with the Phoenix Coyotes in the NHL.
- Kim Martin
Kim Martin is a Swedish national ice hockey goaltender. She plays her club hockey with AIK's women's team and has also played with Hammarby IF's junior men's team. As of the 2005-06 season she belongs to Malmö Redhawks of the men's second tier league, and she was scheduled to make her debut at that level on March 8, 2006, as the first woman ever in Sweden.
- Anette Norberg
Anette Norberg is a Swedish curler from Saltsjo Boo. She, and her team are the current Olympic women's curling champions having won the 2006 Women's Curling tournament in Turin over Mirjam Ott's Swiss team. Since her debut on the international circuit, Norberg has won six European Curling Championships (1988, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2005) and two World Curling Championships (2005&2006).
- Christofer Fjellner
Gustav Christofer Ingemar Fjellner is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Moderate Party, part of the European People's Party - European Democrats group. He sis a memer of the European Parliament's Committee on International Tradeand its Committee on Budgetary Control. He is also a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a member of the delegation for relations with Belarus, …
- Nils Persson
Nils Persson (born February 11, 1879 - died February 4, 1941) was a Swedish sailor who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the Swedish boat "Erna Signe", which won the silver medal in the 12 metre class.
- Anna Carin Olofsson
Anna Carin Olofsson (born 1 April 1973 in Sveg) is a Swedish biathlete who won a silver medal at the 7.5 km sprint and a gold medal at the 12.5 km mass start event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Originally a cross-country skier, Olofsson competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics, but in the three events she took part in she made the top 30 once (15 km freestyle), and the following season she switched to biathlon. IBU Profil
- Magnus Petersson
Magnus Petersson (born June 17, 1975 in Gothenburg) is an athlete from Sweden, who competes in archery. He is also an experienced Olympian, having won a silver medal in 1996. Petersson advanced to the semifinals in archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but was defeated there by Vic Wunderle. In the consolation bronze medal match, he again lost, this time to Wietse van Alten. The Swedish team, of which he was a member, placed 6th.
- Anna Dahlberg
Anna Dahlberg (born May 1, 1976) is a Swedish cross country skier who has competed since 1996. She won a gold medal in the Team Sprint (With Lina Andersson) at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turinand also finished 10th in the Individual Sprint in those same games. Dahlberg's best individual finish at the Nordic skiing World Championships was a 4th in the Individual Sprint in 2005. She also has twenty individual victories at all levels at various distances since 2000.
- Gunnar Larsson
Gunnar Larsson (born May 12 1951) is a former medley swimmer from Sweden. He won the 400 m individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics by 0.002 seconds over American Tim McKee. He also won the 200 m individual medley event at the same Olympic Games.Two years earlier, Larsson recevied the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. A year later, Larsson won the 200 m individual medley at the first official FINA World Championships in Belgrade.
- Gunnar Larsson
Gunnar Larsson was a Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the 1960's. He won the 4 x 10km silver and the 15km bronze at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble
- Magdalena Forsberg
Magdalena "Magda" Forsberg is a Swedish cross country skier and biathlete. She has been married to Henrik Forsberg since 1996, also a biathlete and cross country skier.
- Bengt Bengtsson
Bengt Folke Bengtsson (born September 30, 1897 - died October 10, 1977) was a Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Swedish team, which was able to win the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, Swedish system event in 1920.
- Nils Liedholm
Nils Liedholm (born October 8, 1922 in Valdemarsvik) is a Swedish retired football midfielder and coach, famous for being part of Sweden's "Gre-No-Li" trio of strikers along with Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl at A.C. Milan and the Swedish national team. He is the only member of the three still living. As a coach, he was in charge of several teams in Italy, managing for nearly four decades.
- Maria Rooth
Maria Rooth is a Swedish female ice hockey player. Rooth is alternate captain and one of the most experienced players on the Swedish national team, which she has been a part of since 1996.
- Bengt Baron
Bengt Baron (born March 6, 1962) was a backstroke swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100 m Backstroke at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and was a member of the bronze winning team from Sweden in the 4x100m Freestyle at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. An undergraduate student from the University of California, Baron was named into its Hall of Fame in 1999. In the years 1979-1985 he won a total number of 33 Swedish titles.
- Josefin Lillhage
Josefin Lillhage is a freestyle swimmer from Sweden, who won the bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montréal. She represented her country three times at the Olympic Games: in 1996, 2000 and 2004. Lillhage is a highly respected member of the relay teams from Sweden.
- Maria Carlshamre
Maria Carlshamre is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She was elected as a member of the Liberal People's Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. However, on March 1 2006, she defected to the Feminist Initiative. She sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
- Carl Schlyter
Carl Schlyter (born 7 January 1968 in Danderyd) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Green Party, which is part of the European Greens, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Fisheries, …
- Gunilla Andersson
Gunilla Andersson is an ice hockey player from Sweden. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
- Mika Hannula
Mika Stefan Hannula (born April 2, 1979, in Huddinge, Sweden to a Swedish mother and a Finnish father (hence the Finnish name)) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player, currently with SKA Saint Petersburg in the Russian Super League.
- Marit Paulsen
Marit Eli Paulsen (born 24 November 1939 in Oslo) is a Swedish politician, and a former Member of the European Parliament for the Liberal People's Party 1999-2004. She is a well-known figure in the Swedish public debate, and was an avid proponent of Swedish membership in the European Union during the EU membership referendum campaign in 1994. In 1998 she joined the Liberal People's Party, and currently (as of 2005) she is a member of the party board.
- Cecilia Andersson
Cecilia Andersson (born October 4, 1982) is an ice hockey goaltender from Sweden. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She currently lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. FACTS: BORN: Vaddo, Sweden, October 4, 1982. HOME: Montreal, Quebec. HEIGHT: 5'11". WEIGHT: 155 lbs. UNIFORM #: 1 (Sweden). CATCHES: Left