List of Famous people born in Örebro County, Sweden
Lars Edvard Phragmén
Lars Edvard Phragmén was a Swedish mathematician.
Anders Örbom
Anders Örbom was a captain in the Swedish Army who was at the Surrender at Perevolochna and taken to Siberia as a prisoner of war for 13 years.
Jens Bergensten
Jens Peder Bergensten, also known as Jeb, is a Swedish video game programmer. He is best known as the lead designer of Minecraft. In 2013, he, along with Minecraft creator Markus Persson, was named as one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world. As an employee of Mojang Studios, he had been co-developing Minecraft with Persson since 2010, became the lead designer in 2011, and assumed full control in 2014, when Persson left the company after its acquisition.
Håkan Nesser
Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful novels, mostly but not only crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the prestigious Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into more than twenty languages.
Ace Wilder
Alice Kristina Ingrid Gernandt better known by her stage name Ace Wilder, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She first received public attention while taking part in Melodifestivalen 2014.
Helena Seger
Anna Lindberg
Anna Lindberg is a former Swedish diver. She won the 1m and 3m Springboard events at the 2006 European Aquatics Championships. She is the daughter of former Swedish divers Ulrika Knape and Mathz Lindberg.
Lars Andersson
Lars Andersson is a Swedish writer.
Jonas Wenström
Jonas Wenström was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He invented the three-phase electric power system, the basis for ASEA.
Olaus Petri
Olof Persson, sometimes Petersson, better known under the Latin form of his name, Olaus Petri, was a clergyman, writer, judge and major contributor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden. His brother, Laurentius Petri, became the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden.