List of Famous people born in Sweden

Marcus Schenkenberg

First Name Marcus
Last Name Schenkenberg
Born on August 4, 1968 (age 57)
Height 193 cm | 6'4

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.

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Art Spiegelman

Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman
First Name Art
Born on February 15, 1948 (age 78)

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.

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Jan Ohlsson

Jan Torsten Olsson
First Name Jan
Last Name Ohlsson
Born on June 3, 1962 (age 64)

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.

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Hanna Öberg

First Name Hanna
Last Name Öberg
Born on November 2, 1995 (age 30)

Hanna Öberg is a Swedish female biathlete.

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Ola Toivonen

First Name Ola
Born on July 3, 1986 (age 39)
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Nils Ola Toivonen is a Swedish footballer, who plays as an attacking midfielder or striker for Malmö FF.

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Robyn

Robin Miriam Carlsson
Born on June 12, 1979 (age 47)
Height 160 cm | 5'3

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.

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Mikael Ymer

First Name Mikael
Last Name Ymer
Born on September 9, 1998 (age 27)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

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.

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Annika Sörenstam

First Name Annika
Born on October 9, 1970 (age 55)

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.

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Lena Olin

Lena Maria Jonna Olin
First Name Lena
Last Name Olin
Born on March 22, 1955 (age 71)
Height 176 cm | 5'9

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.

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Daniel Sedin

First Name Daniel
Last Name Sedin
Born on September 26, 1980 (age 45)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

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.

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