List of Famous people born in Sweden

Zara Larsson

Zara Maria Larsson
First Name Zara
Last Name Larsson
Born on December 16, 1997 (age 28)
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Zara Maria Larsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter. At the age of 10, she achieved national fame in Sweden for winning the 2008 season of the talent show Talang, the Swedish version of the Got Talent format. Four years later, in 2012, Larsson signed with the record label TEN Music Group and subsequently released her debut compilation recording, the extended play Introducing, in January 2013.

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Alexander Isak

First Name Alexander
Last Name Isak
Born on September 21, 1999 (age 26)
Height 190 cm | 6'3

Alexander Isak is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Real Sociedad and the Sweden national team.

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Gottfrid Svartholm

First Name Gottfrid
Born on October 17, 1984 (age 41)
Born in Sweden

Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, alias anakata, is a Swedish computer specialist, known as the former co-owner of the web hosting company PRQ and co-founder of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde.

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Peter Sunde

First Name Peter
Last Name Sunde
Born on September 13, 1978 (age 47)

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, alias brokep, is a Swedish entrepreneur and politician. Sunde is of Norwegian and Finnish ancestry. He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine. He is an equality advocate and has expressed concerns over issues of centralization of power to the European Union in his blog. Sunde also participates in the Pirate Party of Finland and describes himself as a socialist. As of April 2017, Sunde has been working on a new venture called Njalla, a privacy oriented domain name registrar.

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Fredrik Neij

First Name Fredrik
Born on April 27, 1978 (age 48)

Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij alias TiAMO is the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, and the Swedish Internet service provider and web hosting company PRQ. Neij was one of the defendants in The Pirate Bay Trial which began on 16 February 2009. He and other operators of The Pirate Bay were charged with assisting users in copyright infringing practices. His time during the aforementioned trial has been captured in the documentary film TPB AFK by Simon Klose.

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Daniel Ek

First Name Daniel
Last Name Ek
Born on February 21, 1983 (age 43)
Net Worth $4.6B

Daniel Ek is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and technologist. Ek is known for being the co-founder and CEO of music streaming service Spotify.

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Giovanni di Lorenzo

First Name Giovanni
Last Name Lorenzo
Born on March 9, 1959 (age 67)

Giovanni di Lorenzo is an Italian-German journalist. Editor-in-chief of German nationwide weekly newspaper Die Zeit and former editor-in-chief of Berlin's liberal daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Additionally di Lorenzo is a prominent talk show host for the Radio Bremen show 3nach9 airing monthly on NDR.

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Malena Ernman

Sara Magdalena Ernman
First Name Malena
Born on November 4, 1970 (age 55)

Sara Magdalena Ernman is a Swedish opera singer. Besides operas and operettas, she has also performed chansons, cabaret, jazz, and appeared in musicals. She is a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Ernman represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow.

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Ulrika Jonsson

First Name Ulrika
Born on August 16, 1967 (age 58)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Ulrika Eva Jonsson is a Swedish-British television presenter and model. She became known as a TV-am weather presenter, moved on to present the ITV show Gladiators, and as a team captain of the BBC Two show Shooting Stars.

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Svante Thunberg

Svante Fritz Vilhelm Thunberg
First Name Svante
Born on June 10, 1969 (age 57)

Sara Magdalena Ernman is a Swedish opera singer. Besides operas and operettas, she has also performed chansons, cabaret, jazz, and appeared in musicals. She is a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Ernman represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow.

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