List of Famous people born in Sweden
Marcus Schenkenberg
Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop, better known as Marcus Schenkenberg, is a Swedish model, actor, singer, writer and television personality. He is regarded as one of the highest paid per-year male model and the first male supermodel.
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman.
Jan Ohlsson
Jan Ohlsson is a Swedish former child actor. He is well known for his role as Emil in Emil i Lönneberga, Nya hyss av Emil i Lönneberga and Emil och griseknoen. Now he works as a computer engineer.
Hanna Öberg
Hanna Öberg is a Swedish female biathlete.
Ola Toivonen
Nils Ola Toivonen is a Swedish footballer, who plays as an attacking midfielder or striker for Malmö FF.
Robyn
Robin Miriam Carlsson, known as Robyn, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, record producer and DJ. She arrived on the music scene with her 1995 debut album, Robyn Is Here, which produced two US Billboard Hot 100 top-10 singles: "Do You Know " and "Show Me Love". Her second and third albums, My Truth (1999) and Don't Stop the Music (2002), were released in Sweden.
Mikael Ymer
Mikael Ymer is a Swedish tennis player with an Ethiopian background. He is the younger brother of fellow tennis player Elias Ymer. Mikael played the 2015 Wimbledon junior boys final where he was defeated by American Reilly Opelka.
Annika Sörenstam
Annika Charlotta Sörenstam is a retired Swedish professional golfer. She is regarded as one of the best golfers in history. Before stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she had won 90 international tournaments as a professional, making her the female golfer with the most wins to her name. She has won 72 official LPGA tournaments including ten majors and 18 other tournaments internationally, and she tops the LPGA's career money list with earnings of over $22 million—over $2 million ahead of her nearest rival while playing 149 fewer events. Since 2006, Sörenstam has held dual American and Swedish citizenship.
Lena Olin
Lena Maria Jonna Olin is a Swedish actress. She has been nominated for several acting awards, including a Golden Globe for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) and an Academy Award for Enemies, A Love Story (1989). Other well-known films in which she has appeared include After the Rehearsal (1984) by Ingmar Bergman, Chocolat (2000), directed by her husband Lasse Hallström, Queen of the Damned (2002), Casanova (2005), and The Reader (2008). Olin was also a main cast member in the second season of the television series Alias, and starred in the American-Swedish sitcom Welcome to Sweden.
Daniel Sedin
Daniel Hans Sedin is a Swedish former professional ice hockey winger who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Vancouver Canucks, from 2000–2018. Born and raised in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, Daniel and his identical twin brother Henrik played together throughout their careers; the pair were renowned for their effectiveness as a tandem. During his career, Daniel was known as a goal-scorer, while Henrik was known as a playmaker. Daniel tallied 393 goals and 648 assists in 1,306 games played in the NHL, ranking him as the Canucks' second-highest points scorer all time.