List of Famous people born in Sweden
Håkan Syrén
General Håkan Erik Gunnar Syrén is a retired officer of the Swedish Coastal Artillery/Swedish Amphibious Corps and former Chairman of the European Union Military Committee. He was the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1 January 2004 to 25 March 2009, and was the first Supreme Commander to come from the Navy.
Lennart Carleson
Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson is a Swedish mathematician, known as a leader in the field of harmonic analysis. One of his most noted accomplishments is his proof of Lusin's conjecture.
Gry Forssell
Gry Charlotta Forssell is a Swedish television host on TV4 and TV3 and radio talk-show host. She is the daughter of singer Tomas Forssell and niece to actor Johannes Brost.
Marie Bergman
Marie Bergman is a Swedish singer. Between 1969 and 1972, she was a member in the pop group Family Four, which represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1971 and 1972. She started her solo career in 1974. She has during the years released 13 own-written records and 2 jazz albums and has received numerous awards. In 1994 she again represented Sweden at the Eurovision, this time with Roger Pontare, setting a record as the singer who has represented Sweden at the ESC the most times. This was equalled by Carola Häggkvist in 2006. Marie has performed at the Roskilde Festival four times.
Karin Enström
Karin Märta Elisabeth Enström, previously Landerholm is a Swedish Moderate Party politician and military officer, who served as Minister for Defence in the Swedish government from 2012 to 2014.
Eric Walter Orbom
Eric Walter Orbom was an American art director. He won a posthumous Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Spartacus.
Lars Jakobson
Lars Jakobson is a Swedish author. Among the awards he won are the Svenska Dagbladet book prize and the Selma Lagerlöf Prize, both in 2006. For many years he lived in Stockholm.
Johanna Lind
Johanna Karin Lind Bagge became Miss Sweden in 1993 and represented her country at Miss Universe where she was placed 16th overall during the preliminary. She won over the 1st runner-up and later Playboy model Victoria Silvstedt.
Peter Englund
Peter Mikael Englund is a Swedish author and historian. Englund writes non-fiction books and essays, mainly about history, and especially about the Swedish Empire, but also about other historical events. He writes in a very accessible style, providing narrative details usually omitted in typical books about history. His books have gained popularity and are translated into several languages, such as German and Czech. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1 June 2009 to 31 May 2015, when he was succeeded by Sara Danius. In January 2019 Englund announced that he, and fellow academy member Espmark, would return as active members of the Swedish academy, where they had been inactive since April 2018.
Helena Ekholm
Helena Ekholm is a former Swedish biathlete. She was born in Helgum, Sollefteå Municipality. She is the 2009 world champion in pursuit and the 2011 world champion in individual. She also won the Women's Overall World Cup in the 2008-09 season.