List of Famous people born in Kronoberg County, Sweden

Ingvar Kamprad

Ingvar Kaamprad
First Name Ingvar
Born on March 30, 1926
Died on January 27, 2018 (aged 91)

Feodor Ingvar Kamprad was a Swedish billionaire business magnate best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture. He lived in Switzerland from 1976 to 2014.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Nilsson Linnaeus
First Name Carl
Last Name Linnaeus
Born on May 23, 1707
Died on January 10, 1778 (aged 70)

Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus.

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Truls Möregårdh

First Name Truls
Born on February 16, 2002 (age 22)

Truls Carl Eric Möregårdh is a Swedish table tennis player. He won bronze with the Swedish team at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in 2018, as well as at the 2019 European Table Tennis Championships. In 2021, he won silver at the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships. He is right-handed and uses the European shakehand style to hold his racket.

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Christian Quadflieg

First Name Christian
Last Name Quadflieg
Born on April 11, 1945 (age 79)

Christian Urs Quadflieg is a German television actor and director. He has lived in Hamburg since 1991. His father was the German actor Will Quadflieg.

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Mats Wilander

Mats Arne Olof Wilander
First Name Mats
Born on August 22, 1964 (age 60)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Mats Arne Olof Wilander is a former world No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 to 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles, and one Grand Slam men's doubles title. His breakthrough came suddenly and unexpectedly when he won the 1982 French Open. This occurred, more or less, simultaneously with countryman Björn Borg's decision to quit tennis.

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Emil Krafth

Emil Henry ­Kristoffer Krafth
First Name Emil
Born on August 2, 1994 (age 30)
Height 184 cm | 6'0

Emil Henry Kristoffer Krafth is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Newcastle United and the Sweden national team.

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Jonas Björkman

Jonas Lars Björkman
First Name Jonas
Last Name Björkman
Born on March 23, 1972 (age 52)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Jonas Lars Björkman is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He is a former world No. 1 in doubles, and also a former world No. 4 in singles. Björkman retired from professional tennis after competing at the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup doubles championships. As of 2019, he is ranked in the top 40 on the all-time ATP prize money list with over 14 million dollars.

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Nattramn

Born on September 7, 1977 (age 47)

Nattramn, whose birth name is speculated to be Mikael Nilsson, is a Swedish musician and author. He is best known for his vocal performance in the band Silencer. On Silencer's sole album, Death - Pierce Me, Nattramn utilized a bizarre style consisting of high-pitched shrieking and other extreme vocal techniques, allegedly exacerbated by self-harming while recording.

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Sven Nykvist

First Name Sven
Born on December 3, 1922
Died on September 20, 2006 (aged 83)

Sven Vilhem Nykvist was a Swedish cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. He won Academy Awards for his work on two Bergman films, Cries and Whispers (1973) and Fanny and Alexander (1983), and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for The Unbearable Lightness of Being. He is also known for his collaborations with Woody Allen for Crimes and Misdemeanors, Another Woman, New York Stories, and Celebrity.

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Jonas Jonasson

First Name Jonas
Last Name Jonasson

Pär-Ola Jonas Jonasson is a Swedish journalist and writer, best known as the author of the best-seller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

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