List of Famous people born in Skåne County, Sweden
Arne Weise
Arne Georg Fredrik Weise was a Swedish journalist and television personality, one of the presenters for Sveriges Television (SVT). He worked at Sveriges Radio from 1952 and started working for SVT in 1979.
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test. In 2011, he founded the Oxford Martin Program on the Impacts of Future Technology, and is the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. In 2009 and 2015, he was included in Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers list.
Hilda Nilsson
Hilda Nilsson was a Swedish serial killer from Helsingborg who became known as "the angel maker on Bruks Street". She is one of Sweden's most notorious female serial killers.
Nooshi Dadgostar
Mehrnoosh "Nooshi" Dadgostar is a Swedish politician, a member of the Swedish parliament since 2014, deputy chairman of the Swedish Left Party from 2018 to 2020, and the chairman since 2020.
Paweł Cibicki
Paweł Cibicki is a professional footballer who plays for Pogoń Szczecin. His preferred position is striker but he can also play as a winger. His parents were born in Poland. He represented Sweden U21s.
Birgit Nilsson
Märta Birgit Nilsson was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide repertory of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Her voice was noted for its overwhelming force, bountiful reserves of power, and the gleaming brilliance and clarity in the upper register.
Karl Kruszelnicki
Karl Kruszelnicki, often referred to as "Dr Karl", is an Australian science communicator and popularizer, who is known as an author, and as a science commentator on Australian radio and television.
Mark Weinberg
Mark Samuel Weinberg is a former judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria from July 2008 to May 2018. He is a former judge of the Federal Court of Australia who served from July 1998 to July 2008.
Gustaf Håkansson
Nils Gustaf Håkansson,, became famous as the Stålfarfar after cycling the Sverigeloppet, a race covering the length of Sweden in July 1951, at 66 years of age.
Annie Åkerhielm
Anna Vilhelmina Elisabet Åkerhielm was a Swedish writer and journalist. She wrote numerous novels, as well as for Swedish newspapers throughout her career. Her 1900 verse novel Bröderna won her a Mindre guldmedaljen award from the Swedish Academy. Åkerhielm was known as an active campaigner against women's suffrage and democracy.