List of Famous people born in Sweden
Eva Melander
Eva Melander is a Swedish actress. She has appeared in over a dozen feature films and TV-series and gained significant attention for the role of Tina in the dark fantasy drama Border.
Sofia Jakobsson
Eva Sofia Jakobsson is a Swedish footballer who plays for Real Madrid of the Spanish Primera División. She made her debut for the Sweden women's national football team in 2011 and won her 100th cap in 2019. Jakobsson represented her country in the 2013 edition of the UEFA Women's Championship, as well as at the 2011, 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cups. She also played at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Football Tournaments.
Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland
Princess Estelle of Sweden, Duchess of Östergötland is the elder child and only daughter of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland. She is the eldest grandchild of King Carl XVI Gustaf, and is second in line of succession to the Swedish throne.
Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne
Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Skåne is the younger child and only son of Crown Princess Victoria and her husband Prince Daniel. He is a grandson of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia and is third in the line of succession to the Swedish throne, after his mother and his sister, Princess Estelle.
Mattias Hargin
Mattias Hargin, born 7 October 1985 in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish former World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Stockholm, he competed mainly in slalom, and is the younger brother of Janette Hargin, who also raced for Sweden. Hargin was married to Swedish alpine free-skier Matilda Rapaport, who died in an avalanche in Chile in July 2016.
Jan-Ove Waldner
Jan-Ove Valdner, better known as Jan-Ove Waldner, is a Swedish former table tennis player. He is often referred to as "the Mozart of table tennis," and is widely regarded as one of the greatest table tennis players of all time. A sporting legend in his native Sweden as well as in China, he is known in China as 老瓦 Lǎo Wǎ or 常青树 Cháng Qīng Shù, because of his extraordinary longevity and competitiveness.
Astrid of Sweden
Astrid of Sweden was the Queen of the Belgians as the first wife of King Leopold III. Originally a princess of Sweden of the House of Bernadotte, Astrid became the Duchess of Brabant after her marriage to Leopold in November 1926. She became queen of the Belgians after the accession of her husband on 17 February 1934 until her death. Astrid's only daughter, Joséphine-Charlotte, later became Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg, while both of her sons reigned as King of the Belgians. Astrid was also a sister of Crown Princess Märtha of Norway and a maternal aunt of King Harald V of Norway.
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist specialising in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the neanderthal genome. Since 1997, he has been director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Nilla Fischer
Åsa Nilla Maria Fischer is a Swedish footballer for Linköpings FC and the Swedish national team. She was previously the captain of FC Rosengård.
Marcus Olsson
Marcus Jonas Munuhe Olsson is a Swedish professional footballer who plays for Helsingborgs IF as a midfielder and a left back.