List of Famous people born in Skåne County, Sweden

John-Axel Nannfeldt, born 18 January 1904 in Trelleborg and deceased 4 November 1985 in Uppsala, was a Swedish botanist and mycologist.

Johan Patrik Mattias Liiva is a Swedish extreme metal vocalist, most widely recognized as the founding vocalist of popular melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, as well as a former member of Carnage, Furbowl and NonExist. He is currently working as vocalist with Hearse.

Sven-Åke Nilsson is a Swedish retired road racing cyclist. His sporting career began with CK Ringen Malmö. He was a professional cyclist from 1977 until his retirement in 1984. Early in his career he was among the strongest GC Contenders and often among the top 10 overall during the Tour de France while riding for the very strong Miko-Mercier squads, who also included riders like Christian Seznec, Raymond Martin and Joop Zoetemelk. He had a stage win and 3rd place in the Overall classification in the Vuelta a España and two stage wins in Paris–Nice as career highlights. He also competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and 1976 Summer Olympics.

Lena Janet Yvonne Ågren is a Swedish former actress and model. She starred primarily in exploitation films.

Andrée Alexander Jeglertz is a Swedish football manager and former professional player. He is an assistant coach for the Canadian women's national team.

Maria Bengtsson is a badminton player from Sweden.

Marcus Lantz is a Swedish former professional footballer, who played as a holding midfielder. He is the manager of Mjällby AIF. He has played six matches for the Sweden national football team.

Ann Christin Linde is a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven since 10 September 2019.

Per Gustav Edvard Fridolin is a Swedish journalist, author, teacher and former politician who served as Minister for Education from 2014 to 2019 and as one of two spokespersons of the Green Party from 2011 to 2019.