List of Famous people born in Sweden
Josefin Ljungman
Josefin Sofia Isabelle Ljungman is a Swedish actress.
Sara Stridsberg
Sara Brita Stridsberg is a Swedish author and playwright. Her first novel, Happy Sally was about Sally Bauer, who in 1939 had become the first Scandinavian woman to swim the English Channel.
Anna Asp
Anna Asp is a Swedish production designer and art director. She won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 1983 with Susanne Lingheim for her work in Fanny and Alexander. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards she won the Creative Achievement award.
Astrid Crabo
Astrid Crabo is a retired female badminton player from Sweden. She won a bronze medal at the 1995 IBF World Championships in mixed doubles with Jan-Eric Antonsson, with whom she won the 1993 and 1996 Dutch Open tournaments. They competed in badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics, but lost in round 16 to Trikus Heryanto and Minarti Timur from Indonesia. Crabo was named 1989 Swedish Junior player of the year.
Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh
Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh was a Swedish palaeontologist and geologist. Säve-Söderbergh was born at Falun, the son of the neurologist Gotthard Söderbergh and Inga Säve. He passed his G.C.E. at Gothenburg in 1928 and took bachelor's and licentiate's degrees at Uppsala University in 1931 and 1933, respectively. He was appointed professor of geology, historical geology in particular, at Uppsala in 1937.
Jörgen Persson
Jörgen Persson is a Swedish cinematographer. He has worked on 60 films since 1965. At the 22nd Guldbagge Awards he won the Special Achievement award. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards he was nominated for the Best Cinematography award for the film The Best Intentions.
Sture Lindgren
Jens Bergensten
Jens Peder Bergensten, also known as Jeb, is a Swedish video game programmer. He is best known as the lead designer of Minecraft. In 2013, he, along with Minecraft creator Markus Persson, was named as one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world. As an employee of Mojang Studios, he had been co-developing Minecraft with Persson since 2010, became the lead designer in 2011, and assumed full control in 2014, when Persson left the company after its acquisition.
Vendela Kirsebom
Vendela Maria Kirsebom is a Norwegian-Swedish model and actress.
Peter Eriksson
Lars-Johan Peter Eriksson is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for International Development Cooperation from January 2019 to December 2020. He previously served as Minister for Housing and Digital Development from 2016 to 2019 and was a member of Swedish Parliament and European Parliament 2014-2016. Between 2002 to 2011, he was spokesperson for the Green Party.