List of Famous people born in Skåne County, Sweden

Dieterich Buxtehude was a Danish-German organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and in church services. He composed in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental idioms, and his style strongly influenced many composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach, his student. Today, Buxtehude is considered one of the most important composers in Germany of the mid-Baroque.

Mats Ek is a Swedish dance and ballet choreographer, dancer and stage director. He was the manager of the Cullberg Ballet from 1985 to 1993.

Inge Danielsson was a Swedish footballer who played as a forward. He played for Ifö/Bromölla IF, Helsingborgs IF, AFC Ajax and IFK Norrköping. Danielsson also played 17 international games for Sweden, scoring 8 goals.

Jan Wilhelm Malmsjö is a Swedish stage and film actor, musical star and singer. He is married to Marie Göranzon and father to Jonas Malmsjö.

Lars-Erik Skiöld was a Swedish wrestler. He was born in Malmö. He won an Olympic bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1980. He also competed at the 1976 Olympics, placing fourth. He won a silver medal at the 1977 World Wrestling Championships.

Johan Christoffer Boklund was a Swedish history, genre, and portrait painter from Kulla-Gunnarstorp in Scania. He was the son of a gardener. At the age of fifteen, Boklund came to Lund, where he worked on illustrations for Sven Nilsson's works on Scandinavian fauna. He then became a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where J. L. Lund was his teacher.

Else Marie Fisher-Bergman, born in Melbourne, Australia, was a Swedish choreographer, dancer, theatre director, and writer.

Jarl Lage Kulle was a Swedish film and stage actor and director, and father of Maria Kulle.

Karl Fredrik Lukas Moodysson is a Swedish novelist, short story writer and film director. First coming to prominence as an ambitious poet in the 1980s, he had his big domestic and international breakthrough directing the 1998 romantic film Show Me Love. He has since directed a string of films with different styles and public appeal, as well as continued to write both poetry and novels. In 2007, The Guardian ranked Moodysson eleventh in its list of the world’s best directors, describing his directorial style as “heartfelt and uncompromising.”