List of Famous people born in Sweden
Eva Andersson
Eva Andersson-Dubin is a Swedish physician born in 1961. She is also the founder of the Dubin Breast Center at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She is married to hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, and dated Jeffrey Epstein. She worked as a model and won the Miss Sweden contest in 1980.
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland
Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, is a member of the Swedish royal family. Before marrying Prince Carl Philip and becoming a princess of Sweden in 2015, Sofia was a glamour model and reality television contestant. They have two children, Prince Alexander and Prince Gabriel, who are fifth and sixth in the line of succession to the Swedish throne, respectively.
David Teymur
David Teymur is a Swedish professional mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Pernilla Lindberg
Pernilla Lindberg is a Swedish professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour. Her only professional win to date came at the ANA Inspiration, a major championship, in April 2018.
Maiko Kawakami
Maiko Kawakami is a Swedish-born Japanese actress who has starred in numerous movies and TV serials. She is a graduate of Keio University through distance education.
Ola Källenius
Ola Källenius is a Swedish business executive. He is the chairman of the board of management of Daimler AG, and head of Mercedes-Benz. He is the first non-German in both positions.
Harpo
Jan Torsten Svensson, known professionally as Harpo, is a Swedish pop singer. He was popular in Sweden and around Europe in the 1970s and is best known for his worldwide hits "Moviestar" (1975) and "Horoscope" (1976). Harpo continued to work in the music business into the 2000s, releasing an album of new material in 2005 and continued to tour. He remains popular in Germany and has toured there since 2007.
Fredrik Eklund
Fredrik Eklund is a Swedish New York City-based real estate broker, a Bravo TV reality star, a former IT entrepreneur in his native Sweden, and the author of The Sell.
Björn Gustafson
Björn Herman Leonard Gustafson is a Swedish actor. He was born in Stockholm and has appeared in 93 films and television shows since 1956. He starred in the 1965 film Love 65, which was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.
Anna Bågenholm
Anna Elisabeth Johansson Bågenholm is a Swedish radiologist from Vänersborg, who survived after a skiing accident in 1999 left her trapped under a layer of ice for 80 minutes in freezing water. During this time she became a victim of extreme hypothermia and her body temperature decreased to 13.7 °C (56.7 °F), one of the lowest survived body temperatures ever recorded in a human with accidental hypothermia. Bågenholm was able to find an air pocket under the ice, but suffered circulatory arrest after 40 minutes in the water.