List of Famous people born in Sweden
Emily Baldoni
Emily Baldoni is a Swedish actress currently living in Los Angeles. Before her marriage, she was credited under the name Emily Foxler, a variant spelling of her birth name, Emily Fuxler. She is best known for her leading role in the 2013 film Coherence.
Kári Árnason
Kári Árnason is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays for Icelandic club Víkingur and the Iceland national team. He has previously played for Djurgården, AGF Aarhus, Esbjerg fB, Plymouth Argyle, Aberdeen, Rotherham United, Malmö FF, Omonia and Gençlerbirliği. Capable of playing in midfield or defence, Kári has represented Iceland at senior level since 2005, making 87 appearances and scoring 6 goals in the process.
Gunnar Andersson
Gunnar Andersson was a footballer. He is widely considered as one of Olympique de Marseille's best strikers, and is the highest scorer of the club. Born in Sweden, he represented the France national football B team once.
Patric Hörnqvist
Patric Gösta "Horny" Hörnqvist is a Swedish professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League. He has also played for the Nashville Predators and Pittsburgh Penguins.
Lias Andersson
Lias Andersson is a Swedish professional ice hockey forward for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the New York Rangers, seventh overall, in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. Andersson's father Niklas played 763 SHL games and 165 NHL games, and his uncle Mikael played 761 NHL games.
Sara Skyttedal
Sara Magdalena Skyttedal is a Swedish politician for the Christian Democrats party. She was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden.
Sara McManus
Sara McManus is a Swedish curler from Gävle. She currently plays third on Team Anna Hasselborg. With the Hasselborg rink, she won the gold medal in women's curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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.
The Tallest Man on Earth
Kristian Matsson is a Swedish singer-songwriter who performs under the stage name The Tallest Man on Earth. Matsson grew up in Leksand, and began his solo career in 2006, having previously been the lead singer of the indie band Montezumas. His music has often drawn comparisons to the music of Bob Dylan.
Jesper Blomqvist
Lars Jesper Blomqvist is a Swedish former footballer who played as a left midfielder or left winger.