List of Famous people born in Sweden
Per Olsson
Per "Pelle" Olsson is a Swedish football manager in charge of Sandvikens IF. He started out playing for his hometown club Skutskärs IF. During his injury-filled playing career he also represented Gefle IF, Malmö FF, Halmstads BK and the Sweden national under-21 football team. In his managerial career he is influenced by the managers who he previously played for like Roy Hodgson, Stuart Baxter and Benny Lennartsson. Before the start of the 2012 Allsvenskan season he was named the best manager in the league by newspaper Aftonbladet due to his ability to build a low-budget team that is greater than its individual parts.
Johan Garpenlöv
Johan Kjell Garpenlöv is a Swedish former ice hockey left winger. He also starred for several years in his native Sweden. He was drafted in the fifth round, 85th overall, by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft.
Christer Sjögren
Hans Christer Sjögren is a Swedish dansband and rock singer. Most people know him as the singer in the Swedish dansband Vikingarna.
Douglas Johansson
Sten Gunnar Douglas Johansson is a Swedish actor, best known as Jan Martinsson in the films about Kurt Wallander.
Tommy Prim
Tommy Prim is a retired Swedish professional cyclist who rode for the Italian Bianchi team between the years of 1980 and 1986. In 1983 he became the first Scandinavian rider to win a classic race when he was victorious in Paris–Brussels, his other career highlights include winning Tirreno–Adriatico and the Tour de Romandie as well as twice finishing runner up in the Giro d'Italia in 1981 and 1982.
Glenn Ljungström
Glenn Ljungström is a Swedish co-guitarist from Nödinge-Nol, for a Swedish band called The Resistance, since 2011. He was also an ex-guitarist and composer in a few other Swedish bands. He was most notably in melodic death metal band In Flames from 1993 to 1997, for which he was also an original member. He quit In Flames to support his family with a more stable job. The other two bands that which he took part in 1995 were in HammerFall until 1997 and lastly a side project he co-founded with Jesper Strömblad called Dimension Zero, which he remained in until 2003, after which he quit that band as well.
Catrine Bengtsson
Catrine Bengtsson is a retired female badminton player from Sweden.
Björn Lind
Björn Johan Lind is a Swedish former cross-country skier who competed since 2000. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won gold medals in both the Individual and Team sprint events at Turin in 2006.
Roine Stolt
Roine Stolt is a Swedish guitarist, vocalist and composer. A major figure in Sweden's rock history, Stolt led two of his country's most successful progressive rock bands: Kaipa in the 1970s and The Flower Kings in the 1990s onward.
Daniel Freyberg
Daniel Freyberg is a Swedish-born Finnish heavy metal guitarist, best known as a former guitarist for Finnish metal band Children of Bodom. He is the current vocalist and guitarist of Naildown and guitarist and de facto frontman of Bodom After Midnight. He is also a former guitarist for Norther.