- 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.
- Ludmila Engquist
Ludmila Engquist (born April 21, 1964 in Tambov Oblast, Russia) is a Swedish athlete who won gold medals in 100m hurdles at the 1991 World Championships (for the Soviet Union under the name Ludmila Narozhilenko) and 1997 World Championships as well as the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. For her 1997 victory in Athens, Engquist received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, the first non-native Swede to win the honor.
- 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.
- Gunnar Nordahl
Gunnar Nordahl was a Swedish football player, best known for his play in AC Milan 1949-1956. Nordahl started out at Degerfors in Sweden before moving to IFK Norrköping. He won four Swedish championships with Norrkoping and once scored seven goals in one game. During his time in Swedish clubs, Nordahl scored 149 goals in 172 matches. Nordahl transferred to AC Milan on January 22, 1949. Later, he would team up with his national team strike partners, …
- 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.
- Ingemar Johansson
Ingemar Johansson (born 22 September,1932 -) is a Swedish former boxer and heavyweight champion of the world.
- Ingemar Johansson
Bror Ingemar T. Johansson (born April 25, 1924) was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 10 kilometer walk. He competed for a Sweden in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 10 kilometer walk where he won the silver medal.
- Gert Fredriksson
Gert Fredriksson (November 21, 1919 - July 5 2006) was a Swedish kayaker. He was the most successful male canoeist ever, having gained medals in a succession of Swedish, Nordic, World and Olympic championships from 1942 - 1960. Fredriksson remains the most successful Swede at the Olympics, winning six gold medals at four Olympics. Fredriksson won his first Olympic gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics winning the 1,000 and 10,000 metre events.
- Hanna Ljungberg
Hanna Ljungberg is a Swedish football (soccer) player, playing the position of forward. She plays for the club side Umeå IK and for the Swedish national team. Hanna Ljungberg is one of only two Swedish professional players in the Swedish women's league, Damallsvenskan. She was chosen as Swedish Player of the Year in 2002, winning the Diamond Ball (Diamantbollen).
- Anna Lindberg
Anna Lindberg (born November 16 1981 in Karlskoga, Sweden) is a Swedish diver. She won the 1m and 3m Springboard events at the 2006 European Championships in Aquatics. She is daughter to former Swedish divers Ulrika Knape and Mathz Lindberg. Lindberg has competed in three Olympic Summer Games, 1996, 2000 and 2004. Her best result is a 5th place on the 3m Springboard in 2000.
- Peter Johansson
Peter Johansson is a former Swedish figure skater. He was a national champion and competed at the European Figure Skating Championships, the World Figure Skating Championships and the 1988 Winter Olympics. Johansson currently works as a coach at the Skating Club of Boston. With Mark Mitchell, he coaches many top-level skaters, including 2003 US National pewter medalist Scott Smith, and 2007 World Junior champion Stephen Carriere.
- Petter Stymne
Petter Stymne is a Swedish swimmer from Skövde, representing SK Neptun from Stockholm. He competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Stymne became gold medalist and world record holder in the 4x50 meters freestyle together with Stefan Nystrand, Marcus Piehl and Jonas Tilly with the time of 1:24.89 on December 10 2006 at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Helsinki, Finland.
- Eric Lemming
Eric Valdemar Lemming (February 22, 1880 - June 5, 1930) was a Swedish athlete who competed in a wide variety of events. Eric won a total of 7 Olympic medals over three Olympics including 4 golds. His Olympic experience began at the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He picked up four medals here, a bronze in the tug of war with the Swedish national team, a second bronze in the shot put, …
- 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.
- Agneta Andersson
Agneta Andersson (born April 25 1961) is a Swedish canoeist. Andersson was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1996, jointly with Susanne Gunnarsson.
- Rune Larsson
Carl Rune Larsson (born 17 June,1924) was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metre hurdles. He competed for Sweden in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 400 metre hurdles where he won the bronze medal. He then ran with Kurt Lundquist, Lars Wolfbrandt and Folke Alnevik as the Swedish 4 x 400 metre relay team that also won a bronze medal. Larsson won the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1951.
- Kristin Bengtsson
Kristin Bengtsson is a women's soccer player, who currently plays for Djurgården/Älvsjö. She holds the record for the most capped player in the Swedish women's national team, with 157 caps. Bengtsson has appeared in three World Cups, the 1995, 1999 and 2003 competitions. She netted one goal in the 1999 competition against Australia. Bengtsson has also appeared in four UEFA Championships with Sweden, the 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2005 competitions.
- Malin Moström
Malin Sofi Moström is a Swedish former football player (midfielder), from 2001 to 2006 she was the captain of the Sweden women's national football team. Starting her career in Hägglunds IoFK in her native Örnsköldsvik, she joined Umeå IK in 1995, playing in Damallsvenskan, the highest division of women's football in Sweden. In 2000 she won her first Swedish Championship with the club, and in the following year received the "Diamantbollen", …
- Hjalmer Mellander
Hjalmer Mellander (December 14, 1880 - October 3, 1919) is a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the Pentathlon. He competed for a Sweden in the 1906 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece in the Pentathlon where he won the Gold medal.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jonas Bergqvist
Jonas Bergqvist was a Swedish ice hockey right winger, who twice won an Olympic medal in his career. Bergqvist played for Rögle BK and Leksands IF between 1981 and 1989. He played 22 games in the NHL for the Calgary Flames in 1989-90. He then played in Germany for Mannheimer ERC before returning to Leksands IF in 1991, where he played until 1998. He won the Golden Puck as the top player in Sweden in 1995-96. In 1998-99 he played for VEU Feldkirch in Austria, …
- Hanna Marklund
Hanna Marklund, "Hanna Gunilla Marklund", born November 26 1977 in Skellefteå, is a Swedish football player. She plays as a defender, and her shirt number is 4. Marklund started playing in Varuträsk IF near Skellefteå, where she grew up. She moved on to play in Damallsvenskan with Sunnanå SK. In 2000 she joined Umeå IK, with who she won Damallsvenskan with three years in a row (2000-2002).
- 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.
- Oscar Swahn
Oscar Gomer Swahn (October 20, 1847 - May 1, 1927) was a Swedish shooter who competed at three olympic games, and won several medals. At the 1908 Summer Olympics, Oscar Swahn won two gold medals in the running deer, single shot events (individual and team), and a bronze medal in the running deer double shot individual event. He was 60 years old, only a year younger than Joshua Millner, the oldest golden medalist ever at that time.
- Ulrich Salchow
Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow (August 7, 1877 - April 19, 1949) was a Swedish figure skater, who dominated the sport in the first decade of the 20th century. Salchow won the World Figure Skating Championships no fewer than ten times, from 1901 to 1905, and from 1907 to 1911. This is still a record, which he shares with Sonja Henie, who also won 10 titles in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Malin Baryard-Johnsson
Malin Birgitta Baryard is a Swedish horse rider. Baryard started to ride at the age of six, when she accompanied her older sister to a riding school, and went on to be a very accomplished show jumper. She won a gold medal in the Swedish Championships at the age of just 14. She married Swedish TV presenter Henrik Johnsson in the summer of 2004, and made her TV-presenting debut in the autumn of 2004 on the SVT show "Barbacka".
- Susanne Ljungskog
Susanne Ljungskog (born March 16, 1976 in Halmstad) is a Swedish cyclist. A three time Olympian (1996, 2000 and 2004), she won the World Road Race Championship two years in succession (2002 and 2003). The same years, she was UCI Points champion. She has also won two World Cup races in her career. Ljungskog received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 2002.
- Bo Ekelund
Bo Daniel Ekelund was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the high jump. He competed for a Sweden in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium in the high jump where he won the bronze medal. He instituted the Swedish sport award Stora Grabbars Märke in 1928.
- Sven Lundgren
Sven Emil Lundgren (born September 29, 1896 - died June 18, 1960) was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 3000 metre team. He competed for a Sweden in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium in the 3000 metre team where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Eric Backman and Edvin Wide.
- Wilhelm Wilkens
Wilhelm "Willie" Wilkens (born 1893 - died January 1967) was a Swedish rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was the coxswain of the Swedish boat, which won the silver medal in the coxed fours, inriggers. Also he was the coxswain of the Swedish boat in the men's eights tournament, which was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
- Susanne Gunnarsson
Susanne Gunnarsson is a Swedish canoeist. She was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1996, jointly with Agneta Andersson.
- Hugo Wieslander
Karl Hugo Wieslander (born 11 June 1889 - died 24 May 1976) was a Swedish athlete, who competed in combined events. He set the inaugural world record in the pentathlon in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1911 with a score of 5516 points. The following year he competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. He finished second in the decathlon, behind American Jim Thorpe by 688 points.
- Anja Pärson
Anja Sofia Tess Pärson (born April 25, 1981, in Umeå, Sweden) is a Swedish alpine skier, the winner of seven World Championships gold medals and two Overall Alpine Skiing World Cup titles. She is also the reigning Olympic champion in the slalom, after her victory at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Pärson was introduced to ski racing by her sister, Frida, and is now trained by her father, Anders.
- Ruth Svedberg
Ruth A. Svedberg (April 14, 1903 - July 27, 2002) was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the Discus. She competed for Sweden in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the Discus where she won the bronze medal.
- Linda Haglund
Linda Haglund is a former Olympic sprinter from Sweden. She placed fourth in the 100 meters at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In 1981, she was found guilty of doping and served an 18-month suspension. In the early 1990s she was married to American sprinter Houston McTear.
- Markus Näslund
Markus Näslund is a professional Swedish ice hockey player and is currently the captain of the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL. He is often referred to as "Nazzy" by Canucks fans, while he is nicknamed "Macke" and "Mackan" in his native Sweden.
- Nicklas Lidström
Nicklas Erik Lidström is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman who has played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Detroit Red Wings. In his 15-year tenure, Lidström has won three Stanley Cups, various NHL trophies and has been voted into nine NHL All-Star Games. Representing Sweden, Lidström won the World Championships in 1991. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Lidström was a major factor in Sweden's win over Finland in the finals, …
- Tommy Albelin
Tommy Albelin (born May 21, 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish ice hockey defenseman who is currently an Unresticted free agent. He most recently played for the New Jersey Devils in the NHL.
- 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.