List of Famous people born in Sweden
Bibi Johns
Bibi Johns is a Swedish singer and film actress active in Germany.
Jonas Eriksson
Jonas Eriksson is a Swedish former football referee. He was a full international referee for FIFA between 2002 and 2018.
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
Princess Madeleine of Sweden, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, is the second daughter and youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. Upon her birth, she was third in line of succession to the Swedish throne. She is currently seventh in the line of succession. Princess Madeleine is married to British-American financier Christopher O'Neill. They have three children, Princess Leonore, Prince Nicolas and Princess Adrienne.
Eagle-Eye Cherry
Eagle-Eye Lanoo Cherry is a Swedish singer and stage performer from Stockholm. His 1997 single "Save Tonight" achieved commercial success in Ireland, the United States and the United Kingdom, and was voted song of the year in New Zealand.
Christian Quadflieg
Christian Urs Quadflieg is a German television actor and director. He has lived in Hamburg since 1991. His father was the German actor Will Quadflieg.
Basshunter
Jonas Erik Altberg, better known by his stage name Basshunter, is a Swedish singer, record producer and DJ. He began producing music under the stage name "Basshunter" in 2001.
Mikael Lustig
Carl Mikael Lustig is a Swedish footballer who plays as a right or centre back for AIK and the Sweden national team. A full international for Sweden since 2008, he represented the country at UEFA Euro 2012, UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Victor Hedman
Victor Erik Olof Hedman is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). Hedman was selected second overall by the Lightning in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
Tomas Lindahl
Tomas Robert Lindahl FRS FMedSci is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
David F. Sandberg
David F. Sandberg is a Swedish filmmaker. He is best known for his collective no-budget horror short films under the online pseudonym ponysmasher and for his 2016 directorial debut Lights Out, based on his 2013 acclaimed horror short of the same name. He also directed The Conjuring Universe spin-off horror film Annabelle: Creation (2017), Shazam! (2019), the seventh installment in the DC Extended Universe, and the experimental film I Flip You Off for Four Hours (2020).