- Anthony Stockholm
Anthony Stockholm was the first president of the New York Stock Exchange.
- René Descartes
René Descartes (March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650), also known as "Renatus Cartesius" (latinized form), was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer. Dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy", and the "Father of Modern Mathematics", much of subsequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day.
- Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element Nobelium was named after him.
- Elin Nordegren
Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren (born January 1, 1980, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a former model, better known as the wife of pro golfer Tiger Woods. Elin's mother, Barbro Holmberg, is a politician and former migration and asylum policy minister of Sweden, while her father, Thomas, is a radio journalist who has served as bureau chief in Washington, D.C. for the Swedish Broadcasting media.
- Stina Nordenstam
Stina Nordenstam (born "Kristina Marianne Nordenstam" March 4, 1969 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish Experimental Pop singer, songwriter and musician. Stina's distinctive, breathy voice led to early comparisons with artists like Rickie Lee Jones and Björk. Her early albums, "Memories Of A Colour" and "And She Closed Her Eyes" were significantly jazz-influenced with only subtle elements of alternative rock.
- Orup
Orup (born Thomas Eriksson on November 29 1958 in Stockholm) is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter and guitarists who enjoyed major success in his native country Sweden in the late 1980s with songs like "Då står pojkarna på rad", "Magaluf" and "Regn hos mig". Orup is also a songwriter and has written songs for Lena Philipsson among others.
- Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 - April 15, 1990) was a Swedish-born actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age. Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1955 Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances" and was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
- Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (August 29 1915 - August 29 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Swedish actress. She also won one of the original Tony Awards. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
- Vendela Kirsebom
Vendela Maria Kirsebom Thomessen (born January 12, 1967) is a Norwegian fashion model. Born in Stockholm, Sweden to a Norwegian mother and a Turkish father, Kirsebom was discovered in Sweden at age 13 while eating in a restaurant with her parents. By the age of 18, she graduated from the Rudolf Steiner School and moved to Italy to pursue a career in modeling under the guidance of the famous Ford Models.
- Lena Olin
Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born March 22, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an internationally acclaimed Academy Award-nominated Swedish actress.
- Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He worked to save the lives of many Hungarian Jews in the later stages of World War II by issuing them protective passports from the Swedish embassy. These documents identified the bearers as Swedish nationals awaiting repatriation. It is impossible to determine exactly how many Jews were rescued by his actions.
- Neneh Cherry
Neneh Marianne Karlsson Cherry (born March 10, 1964 in Stockholm) is a Swedish born Singer, Songwriter, Rapper, DJ and sometime Broadcaster. Cherry blended hip hop with other influences, and experienced some mainstream success with several of her recordings.
- Michael Nylander
Michael Nylander (born October 3, 1972, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player, playing as center for the Washington Capitals of the NHL.
- Filippa Reinfeldt
Filippa Desiree Amanda Cay Reinfeldt is a Swedish Moderate Party politician. She has been Municipal Commissioner of Täby, Uppland, since 2002 and Mayor and Chairperson of the Täby Municipal Executive since 2005. Previously Reinfeldt was an appointed to various posts ("förtroendevald") in the Stockholm City Council from 1991 to 1994 and councillor in the Stockholm County Council from 1994.
- Eric Prydz
Eric Prydz is a Swedish DJ and producer best known for his 2004 hit single "Call on Me", a remake of Steve Winwood's hit "Valerie", which topped the UK singles charts for five weeks. "Call On Me" was also number one on the German Top100 for six consecutive weeks.
- Therese Alshammar
Therese Alshammar (born August 26, 1977 in Solna) is a Swedish swimmer. Standing at 1.80 m, she is a specialist of fast races in freestyle and butterfly stroke. She first appeared on the international scene after the 1994 World Aquatics Championships where she made the semifinals in the 100m backstroke. In the 1996 Olympics, she also participated in this event but did not reach beyond the semifinals.
- 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.
- Jenny Lind
Johanna Maria Lind (October 6 1820 - November 2, 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish-born opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". She is known for her performances in soprano roles in Sweden and Europe, as well as for an extraordinarily popular tour of America beginning in 1850, and for her philanthropic work. Lind was the illegitimate daughter of a schoolteacher named Anne Marie Felborg, …
- Helle Klein
Helle Louise Klein is a Swedish journalist and political commentator. Helle Klein was born in Enskede in southern Stockholm. She is the granddaughter of the physicist Oskar Klein and the great granddaughter of the rabbi Gottlieb Klein. Helle Klein served as political editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Örebro-Kuriren" from 1991 to 1995. In 1995 she started to work as an editorial writer for "Aftonbladet", the largest newspaper in Sweden, …
- Johan Norberg
Johan Norberg (born August 27 1973) is a Swedish writer devoted to promoting economic globalisation and individual liberty. He is the author of the much celebrated "In Defense of Global Capitalism". He also presented the British Channel 4 documentary "Globalisation is Good", which is based on his book. Since March 15 2007 he is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.
- Per Ahlmark
Per Axel Ahlmark (born January 15, 1939, Stockholm) is a Swedish writer and former leader of the Liberal People's Party. He received his BA in Political Science at the University of Stockholm in 1964. Ahlmark was the leader of the Swedish Liberal Youth of Sweden 1960-1962 and a member of the Board of the Liberal People's Party 1960-1978. He served as a Member of the Riksdag from 1967 to 1978 and as Leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1975 to 1978.
- Carl Larsson
Carl Larsson (May 28, 1853-January 22, 1919) was a Swedish painter and interior designer. The Swedish artist Carl Larsson was born in Gamla stan, the old town in Stockholm. His parents were extremely poor and his childhood was not happy. However, at the age of thirteen his teacher at the school for poor children urged him to apply to the "principskola" of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and he was admitted. During his first years there, Larsson felt socially inferior, …
- Harry Flam
Harry Flam is a Jewish-Swedish economist. He is a professor of international economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. During the years of 2004 and 2006, he was Dean of the School of Business at Stockholm University.
- Gustav Vi Adolf Of Sweden
Gustav VI Adolf (11 November 1882 - 15 September, 1973) was King of Sweden from 1950 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Gustaf V and his wife Victoria of Baden. He was born in Stockholm and at birth created Duke of Skåne. On 29 October 1950, he succeeded his father on the throne. His personal motto was "Plikten framför allt", "The duty before everything else". He married, firstly, Princess Margaret of Connaught on 15 June 1905.
- Charles XV of Sweden XV of Sweden
Karl XV (Karl Ludvig Eugen) (May 3, 1826 - September 18, 1872) was King of Sweden and Norway (where he was known as Karl IV) from 1859 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Oscar I and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. On June 19, 1850 he married Louise of the Netherlands, granddaughter of William I of the Netherlands.
- Rami Shaaban
Rami Shaaban (born 30 June 1975 in Fisksätra, Stockholm) is a Swedish professional football player. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Fredrikstad. He is the son of an Egyptian father and a Finnish mother. Prior to joining Arsenal in 2002, he also worked as a Mountains Explosives Specialist.
- Veronica Wagner
Isabella Minna Veronica Wagner, better known as Veronica, (born July 7 1987 in Stockholm, Sweden), is a Gymnast who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of the Swedish Olympic team. Veronica started Gymnastics at the age of 5 and progress quickly through the sports levels, qualifying as an International Elite at the age of 12. Veronica is Sweden's most successful gymnast, having won the national title 4 times (2002, …
- Magnus Uggla
Per Allan Magnus Claesson Uggla (born June 18, 1954 in Stockholm) is a Swedish artist and composer known for his satirical lyrics. He is a member of the Swedish nobility and a descendant of several European rulers, among which John III of Sweden, Gustav Vasa, and Charlemagne. Povel Ramel awarded him the Karamelodiktstipendiet in 1991. In 1979, he was one of the members in Magnus Uggla Band.
- Kristian Luuk
Ants Robert Kristian Luuk (born June 14, 1966 in Stockholm to Estonian parents) is a Swedish comedian and talk show-host. A graduate of the Stockholm School of Economics, he is currently working for the TV4 network after previous spells at ZTV and SR public radio. He is in a relationship with television personality Carina Berg. Luuk has made himself famous, mainly for his talents as an interviewer.
- Carl Lindhagen
Carl Albert Lindhagen was a Swedish lawyer, socialist politician, and pacifist. Carl Lindhagen was the Chief Magistrate ("Borgmästare") of Stockholm 1903 – 1930. His office was more senior than mayor, as it was an unelected gubernatorial and judicial office under the Swedish government, and not the Municipality of Stockholm. As a lawyer, Lindhagen participated as adviser for the executives of the testament of Alfred Nobel.
- Johan Garpenlöv
Johan Garpenlöv is a former National Hockey League left wing. He also starred for several years in his native Sweden. He was drafted in the fifth round, 85th overall, by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft. The Stockholm native began with the Nacka HK squad in the second division and represented Sweden at the European Junior Championships in 1985 and 1986.
- Gustav V of Sweden V of Sweden
Gustav V (Oscar Gustav Adolf) (June 16, 1858 - October 29, 1950) was King of Sweden from 1907 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway and Sophia of Nassau.
- Zak Tell
Zak Nikolas Tell is a Swedish musician and the lead vocalist of the rap metal band Clawfinger. Tell was born in Stockholm, Sweden. From an early age, Tell and his family later moved to Bristol in England for several years (where he mastered the English language better) before relocating back into Sweden in 1982.
- Patrik Ringborg
Patrik Ringborg is a Swedish conductor. After studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and with Maestro Kurt Bendix, Patrik Ringborg was a répétiteur at the Royal Opera in Stockholm from 1989 to 1993, also assisting the Music Director and conducting performances in the Royal Opera House. He also assisted the Music Directors at the Semperoper in Dresden (1988) and at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto (1992).
- Sara Sommerfeld
Sara Anita Sommerfeld (born October 28, 1977) is a Swedish actress. Sara Sommerfeld was born in Sollentuna north of Stockholm as the daughter of Polish-Jewish parents who came to Sweden in 1968. She started as a child actress at the age of ten. Since she graduated from the Swedish National Theatre Academy in Gothenburg in 2001, she have starred in several feature films, TV series, radio shows and voice overs, and performed at different theatres around Sweden.
- Franz Berwald
Franz Adolf Berwald (born in Stockholm on July 23, 1796 and died there on April 3, 1868) was a Swedish Romantic composer who was generally ignored during his lifetime and had to make his living as an orthopedic surgeon and, later, as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory. He is now considered the finest Swedish composer of the 19th century, indeed probably the finest Swedish composer of any century.
- Arne Tiselius
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius (10 August 1902 - 29 October 1971) was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948.
- Lennart Eriksson
Lennart Eriksson, born in 1956 was the bass player in the rebellious Swedish punk rock band Ebba Grön. Fjodor grew up in the poor working-class suburb Rågsved outside Stockholm. Fjodor had several petty jobs to get by, but he wanted to play music. His first band was called "Urin" but in 1976 he was one of the founders of Ebba Grön, which would be one of the most successful rock bands in Swedish history.
- Felix Gmelin
Felix Gmelin is an artist based in Stockholm. He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including "Always Already Passé" at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York, "Storm From Paradise" at Arnolfini in Bristol, "Painting Modernism Black" at Galleri Olsson in Stockholm, "Delays and Revolutions" at the 2003 Venice Biennale and "Balancing Acts" at Centre Culturel Suedois in Paris. He is represented by Milliken Gallery in Stockholm.
- Oscar II of Sweden II of Sweden
King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (January 21, 1829 - December 8, 1907), born Oscar Frederik, ruled Norway from 1872 until 1905 and Sweden from 1872 until his death. 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.