List of Famous people born in Sweden
Håkan Wåhlstedt
Conny Karlsson
Conny Karlsson is a Swedish football manager who currently is coaching the women's team of Stattena IF.
Göran Fristorp
Dhani Lennevald
John Dhani Lennevald is a Swedish Pop/R&B dancer and singer. He is a former member of the pop group A-Teens.
Jonas Ljungblad
Jonas Ljungblad is a Swedish road racing cyclist, currently riding for Team Differdange–Geba. He began his professional career with the Amore & Vita team in 2002 as a young helper but after spending a season with Team Bianchi his career began to skyrocket with a very successful Australian excursion in 2004 winning the Tour of Queensland and the Herald Sun Tour.
Eddie Axberg
Jan Eddie Axberg is a Swedish actor and audio engineer. He has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1959. At the 8th Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Best Actor for his roles in The Emigrants and The New Land.
Torbjörn Nilsson
Torbjörn Anders Nilsson is a Swedish former football striker. He is considered to be one of the best Swedish footballers of all time, having won the Swedish championship twice and the UEFA Cup once with IFK Göteborg, where he spent most of his career. He also had a less successful spell in the Netherlands with PSV Eindhoven and a better one in Germany with 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
Mijailo Mijailović
Mijailo Mijailović is the self-confessed and convicted assassin of the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh, whom he stabbed on 10 September 2003 at the NK department store in Stockholm. Lindh died early the following day after unsuccessful surgical treatment to try to save her life.
Jörgen Elofsson
Kjell Åke Jörgen Elofsson is a Swedish Grammy-nominated, Brit Award-nominated, Daytime Emmy Award-nominated & Ivor Novello Award-winning songwriter.
Stefan Olsson
Stefan Olsson is a Swedish wheelchair tennis player. Olsson is the former world number two singles player. He has won two Grand Slam titles in doubles, the 2009 US Open and the 2010 Wimbledon titles, and two in singles, at Wimbledon in 2017 and 2018. Olsson has won both the singles and doubles events at the year end Masters and is one half of the reigning men's doubles champion at the Paralympic Games. He started playing tennis at the age of seven.