- 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, …
- Anders Eklund
Anders Eklund is a former boxer from Sweden, who competed in the Heavyweight division (91 kg) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. There he was defeated in the quarter finals. He was nicknamed "Lillen", and made his pro debut on October 7, 1982 in Copenhagen. Eklund won the European (EBU) Heavyweight Title on March 9, 1985 by beating Steffen Tangstad, but lost the belt in his next fight, against Britain's Frank Bruno.
- Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the 20th century.
- Basshunter
BassHunter is the pseudonym of the Swedish musician and DJ Jonas Erik Altberg, born December 22, 1984, in Halmstad, Sweden. BassHunter describes his own music as Eurodance, but others also classify it as Hard Dance. According to Altberg, he makes the music on his own computer using the program FL Studio. He started making music in 1999 and released his first album, "The Bassmachine", through his own home page in 2004.
- O. A.
Oskar Emil "O.A." Andersson was a Swedish cartoonist and one of Sweden's first true comic creators. At the age of twenty, Andersson debuted with his cartoons in the "Söndags-Nisse" magazine, where he soon got an employment. Inspired by the early comic artists from the United States and England in the late 19th century, …
- 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, …
- Per T. Ohlsson
Per T. Ohlsson is a Swedish journalist and author. He was correspondent in the USA 1985-1988, political editor-in-chief at Sydsvenska Dagbladet in Malmö 1990-2005, and is senior columnist there since 2005. He has published, among other books, "100 år av tillväxt. Johan August Gripenstedt och den liberala revolutionen" (Brombergs, 1994) and "Gudarnas ö. Om det extremt svenska" (Brombergs, 1993).
- 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).
- Mona Sahlin
Mona Ingeborg Sahlin is a Swedish politician and the current leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. Sahlin has held various minister posts in Social Democratic cabinets from 1990 to 2006. She was elected new leader of the Social Democratic Party at an extra party congress on March 17, 2007, following the resignation of Göran Persson and the loss of government in the 2006 general election.
- Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She wrote the Pippi Longstocking books.
- September
September is the artist name of Swedish singer Petra Marklund, born 1984. In 2003, at the age of 18, she had her first hit in Sweden with "La La La (Never Give It Up)". This was followed by "We Can Do It" (2003), "September All Over" (2004), "Satellites" (2005) and "Looking For Love" (2005). She is now preparing to release and promote her music in over 50 countries, starting with the single "Satellites" later this year.
- Carolina Klüft
Carolina Evelyn Klüft (born February 2, 1983) is a Swedish athlete competing in heptathlon, long jump and pentathlon. She is the current Olympic, World (twice) and European (twice) heptathlon champion and is regarded as one of the best female athletes in the world. Since 16/09/2002, Klüft has been continuously ranked as the world's leading heptathlete, by the IAAF. This is currently the longest of any athlete.
- Göran Persson
Hans Göran Persson (born January 20 1949) was the thirty-first Prime Minister of Sweden (1996 - 2006). He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and a member of the Riksdag. Conceding defeat in the Swedish general election on September 17, 2006, he announced that he would resign as party leader. At an extra Party Congress in March 17, 2007 he was succeeded by Mona Sahlin. From August 2007 he is working as part time corporate lobbyist for the JKL Group.
- Göran Persson
Göran Persson, born 1960, is a Swedish social democratic politician who has been a member of the Riksdag since 2002.
- Henrik Larsson
Henrik Edward Larsson MBE (born September 20, 1971 in Helsingborg, Skåne) is a Swedish footballer. Larsson is best known for seven successful years with Scottish club Celtic. He subsequently had a two-year spell at Barcelona of Spain, where he won the Champions League. Having left Barcelona in the summer of 2006, he returned to his home town club of Helsingborgs IF. He later joined Manchester United on a short term loan in January 2007, …
- 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).
- Jonas Björkman
Jonas Lars Björkman (born March 23, 1972, Alvesta, Sweden) is a Swedish professional male tennis player and former World No. 4 in singles and World No. 1 in doubles. He is as of the 2006 season the oldest player in the ATP Top 100 (singles).
- Håkan Hellström
Håkan Hellström (born April 2, 1974, in Älvsborg, Gothenburg) is a Swedish musician. He made his big break in Sweden in the year 2000 with the song "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg" ("Don't feel sorry for me, Gothenburg"). In 2005, Hellström released his fourth album, "Nåt gammalt, nåt nytt, nåt lånat, nåt blått" (literally: Somethin' old, somethin' new, somethin' borrowed, somethin' blue), …
- 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.
- Carl Bildt
Nils Daniel Carl Bildt, KCMG (born July 15, 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat, currently serving as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt. Bildt was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994, and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999. He has also been active as a mediator in the Balkan conflict.
- Thomas Johansson
Thomas Johansson is a professional tennis player. He joined the pro tour for the first time in 1994 and has won 9 top-level singles titles and 1 doubles title, including the 1999 Canada Masters (df. Yevgeny Kafelnikov) and the 2002 Australian Open Grand Slam championship, which he unexpectedly won (on his 25th attempt at winning a Grand Slam title) after defeating his heavily favored opponent, Marat Safin, in four sets, 3-6 6-4 6-4 7-6.
- 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.
- Jan Guillou
Jan Oscar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (pron. ; born January 17, 1944) is one of the most famous Swedish authors and journalists. Among his many books, the most well-known are the novels about Swedish spy Carl Hamilton and the trilogy about Knight Templar Arn Magnusson. Guillou's daughter Ann-Linn is a journalist and feminist commentator. Guillou rose to fame following his exposure of a secret intelligence scandal in 1973 (known as the "IB affair"), …
- Susanna Kallur
Susanna Elisabeth Kallur (born February 16, 1981 in Huntington, New York, USA) is a Swedish 100m (60m for indoor) hurdler runner who is a resident of Falun, Dalarnas län, and trains with Falu IK. Her twin sister Jenny Kallur, who she is 4 minutes younger than, is also a 100m hurdler. They are daughters of the ice hockey player Anders Kallur who won four Stanley Cup championships with the New York Islanders. She is 5'6" (1.69m) and weighs 61kg (134lbs, 9st 8lbs), …
- Per Johnsson
Per Johnsson, is a professional Swedish ice hockey player. He is currently playing for Färjestads BK in the Swedish Elite League. He made his debut with Färjestad during the 2006/07 season, playing a total of 11 games and scoring 1 point. He was drafted by the Calgary Flames in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft as the 209th pick overall. His father, Per-Erik Johnsson, was the coach of Färjestads BK when they won the Swedish Championship in 2006.
- Shirley Clamp
Shirley Natasja Clamp is a Swedish pop singer. Because her mother is Swedish and her father is British, Shirley has dual nationality. Her career began as a backing singer for various singers and groups, including Antique. She started her solo career in 2003, when she took part in Melodifestivalen 2003 with the song "Mr. Memory". Finishing in 6th place in her semifinal, she lost the chance to qualify for the final.
- Sofia Talvik
Sofia Talvik, born 24 november 1978 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish musician, singer and singer/songwriter. Talvik's debut album "Blue Moon" was released in 2005. "Blue Moon" was recorded and produced entirely by Sofia Talvik herself and took exactly 40 hours to record. "It's Just Love", the first single to be released from her second album "Street of Dreams" (2007), features Bernard Butler, guitarist in former British band Suede.
- Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for "Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige" (a story for children, in translation "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils"), she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1909 "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings."
- Björn Ulvaeus
Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (born April 25, 1945) is a Swedish musician and composer, most notable as a member of ABBA. Ulvaeus was born in Gothenburg, but as a child he moved with his family to Västervik. Ulvaeus studied Business and Law at the Lund University after doing his Military Service with stand-up comedian Magnus Holmström Prior to gaining international recognition as a member of ABBA, Björn was a member of the Hootenanny Singers.
- Richard S. Johnson
Richard S. Johnson (born October 15, 1976) is a Swedish professional golfer. Johnson was born in Stockholm. He played on the European Tour and won the ANZ Championship in 2002. He joined the PGA Tour in 2003 after successfully negotiating qualifying school. He has managed to gain at least partial status on the tour every year since, with a best finish of second in 2006. He placed in the top 50 of the money list in 2006.He was formerly a pro skateboarder.
- Carolina Gynning
Carolina Gynning is a Swedish model and television personality. She became famous in Sweden in 2004 when she won the television game show "Big Brother". She has written a book called "Ego girl", in which she described how she became a model at 17 and got lost into a world of drugs and sex before straightening out her life. Gynning is now a host for tv4 show "Förkväll".
- Per Gessle
Per Håkan Gessle (born January 12, 1959, in Halmstad, Sweden) is the songwriter and male lead singer of the Swedish bands Gyllene Tider and Roxette. He is also a guitarist. He was a founding member of Gyllene Tider in 1978, and together with a friend, singer Marie Fredriksson, began Roxette in 1986.
- Anna Ternheim
Anna Ternheim (born on May 31 1978) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She performs in English, and released her debut album "Somebody Outside" in 2004. "To Be Gone", "My Secret" and the cover of the Broder Daniel song "Shoreline", are among her most popular songs. Following the release of "Somebody Outside" she won a Swedish Grammy Award for Best Newcomer, and was nominated for Best Female Artist, Best Lyricist and Best Songwriter 2005.
- Linda Bengtzing
Linda Bengtzing is a Swedish pop singer, famous for her participation in the fourth season of Fame Factory in Sweden and for her entries at Melodifestivalen 2005 and 2006.
- Lars Winnerbäck
Lars Winnerbäck, "Lars Mattias Winnerbäck (born Nilsson)", (born October 19, 1975), often called "Lasse", is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He was born in Stockholm but spent his childhood in Linköping, where he attended Katedralskolan, before moving back to Stockholm in 1996, the same year he released his first album, "Dans med svåra steg" ("Dance With Difficult Steps"). He is now one of Sweden's most popular artists.
- 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.
- Robin Söderling
Robin Söderling is a Swedish tennis player. He wears Adidas clothing and uses a Head Liquidmetal Radical MP racquet. Robin Söderling made his first steps in international tennis in November 1998 in Luxembourg, when at age of 14 he played his official junior tournament, losing the opening match to the Dutch Fred Jr. Hemmes (who ironically he trails also in the men's tour, even though he's never been a top 150 player, and has only one ATP victory - over Robin).
- Benny Andersson
Göran Bror Benny Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group, ABBA (1972-1982), and co-composer of the musicals "Chess", "Kristina från Duvemåla", and "Mamma Mia!". Currently active with his own band Benny Anderssons Orkester (BAO!), and co-producing forthcoming film "Mamma Mia!".
- Margot Wallström
Margot Elisabeth Wallström (born 28 September 1954 in Skellefteå) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy. She is also the first of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission.
- Lars Lagerbäck
Lars "Lasse" Lagerbäck [laːʂ 'lɑsɛ 'laːgɛrbɛk] (born 16 July 1948) is a football manager. After Euro 2004, he became the sole manager for the Sweden national football team. He first joined the national team's coaching staff in 1997 as an assistant to Tommy Söderberg, and was promoted to joint coach in 2000. The pair led Sweden through the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004; after the latter event, …