List of Famous people born in Sweden
Erik Johansson
Erik Johansson is a Swedish-born artist based in Prague who creates surreal images by recombining photographs and other materials. He captures ideas by combining images in new ways to create what looks like a real photograph, yet with logical inconsistencies to impart an effect of surrealism.
Pehr G. Gyllenhammar
Pehr Gustaf Gyllenhammar is a Swedish businessman. He is mainly known for his 24 years as CEO and chairman of Volvo, between 1970 and 1994. In the early 1980s he took the initiative for the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT).
Jens Cajuste
Jens-Lys Michel Cajuste, better known as Jens Cajuste, is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Midtjylland and the Sweden national team.
Amanda Zahui
Amanda Zahui Bazoukou, known professionally as Amanda Zahui B., is a Swedish basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). After playing basketball in Sweden, Bazoukou was drafted by the Tulsa Shock with the second overall pick in the 2015 WNBA draft.
Margot Wallström
Margot Elisabeth Wallström is a Swedish politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from October 2014 to 2019. She also served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs for Sweden from October 2014 until she resigned on 5 September 2019.
Christian Folin
Carl Christian Folin is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing with the Växjö Lakers of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He previously played for the Minnesota Wild, Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers and Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Princess Adrienne, Duchess of Blekinge
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, currently she is eighth. Princess Madeleine is married to British-American financier Christopher O'Neill. They have three children, Princess Leonore, Prince Nicolas and Princess Adrienne.
Oscar Hiljemark
Oscar Karl Niclas Hiljemark is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Danish Superliga club AaB. A full international for Sweden since 2012, he has represented his country at UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Filippa Reinfeldt
Filippa Désirée Amanda Cay Reinfeldt is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She served as Health Service Commissioner of Stockholm County from 2006 to 2014, with responsible for health care, social affairs and hospitals. She was previously mayor of Täby Municipality from 2005 to 2006. In July 2019, she was appointed the Moderate Partys spokesperson on LGBT-issues.
Lennart Hjulström
Lennart Hjalmar Hjulström is a Swedish actor and director. He is married to Gunilla Nyroos, father of Niklas and Carin Hjulström. His father is Filip Hjulström.