List of Famous people born in Sweden
Charlotte Söderström
Charlotte Söderström is a Swedish billionaire. She is an heir of the fashion company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), which was founded by her grandfather Erling Persson in 1947. As of June 2020, her net worth is estimated at US$1.5 billion.
Finn Rausing
Finn Rausing is a Swedish billionaire heir and businessman, a co-owner of Tetra Laval, the packaging company.
Jörn Rausing
Jörn Rausing is a Swedish heir and businessman, a co-owner of Tetra Laval, the packaging company.
Sanna Lundell
Sanna Cecilia Lundell is a Swedish freelance journalist and television presenter. She is the daughter of the singer Ulf Lundell. She has done journalistic work for the magazines Mama, M-Magasin, Hennes, and the Aftonbladet newspaper. She has also been working as a television presenter at TV3 with shows such as Sanning och konsekvens along with Robert Aschberg, and Stalkers with Hasse Aro. Since June 2013 she has been presenting the documentary series TV3 Dokumentär. She participates as a celebrity dance in Let's Dance 2019, which is broadcast on TV4
Göran Persson
Hans Göran Persson is a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.
Jakob Eklund
Jakob Anders Eklund is a Swedish film, television and stage actor. He portrayed the fictional police officer Johan Falk in 20 movies.
Gösta Pettersson
Gösta Artur Roland Pettersson is a retired Swedish cyclist. As an amateur, he competed in the individual and team road events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one silver and two bronze medals, in 1964 and 1968. In 1968 he also took part in two track events: individual and team 4000 m pursuit.
Tomas Alfredson
Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson is a Swedish film director who is best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In and 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Alfredson has received the Guldbagge award for Best Direction twice; in 2005 for Four Shades of Brown, and in 2008 for Let the Right One In.
Marika Lagercrantz
Marika Karin Louise Lagercrantz is a Swedish actress. Since 2011, she has been Sweden's cultural attaché at the Berlin embassy in Germany.
Lisa Ekdahl
Lisa Ekdahl is a Swedish popular music singer and songwriter. She has so far released 10 albums, most of them in Swedish but some entirely in English. Her voice has been described as "child-like" and "soft, supple and smooth".