List of Famous people born in Västernorrland County, Sweden

Johan Niklas Edin is a Swedish curler from Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. He is a four-time World champion and, thus, the only curler in history since the World Men's Curling Championship expanded to six teams in 1964 to skip his teams to four gold medals. He has also won more international medals as skip than any other skip in history. In addition to his World Championship gold medals, he has won a silver medal (2017) and two bronze medals. He is also a seven-time European Curling Champion, additionally winning two silver medals in those championships. He has won two Olympic medals, winning a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the bronze medal the 2014 Winter Olympics. He has also made the playoffs in thirty-two Grand Slam of Curling events and skipped his team to become the first non-Canadian men's team to win any Slam, as well as the first and only men's team to win more than one Slam and the Pinty's Cup. With the same lineup in 2019, Edin and his teammates also became the first men's curling team since 2003 to win back-to-back World Curling Championships. Edin has played exclusively in the position of skip since 2007. The team bearing his name has been ranked on the World Curling Tour as high as No. 1, including for most of the 2017–18 season. Under the current World Curling Federation rankings, Team Edin is ranked among the Top 10 teams in the world.

Per Vilhelm Rudolf "Preven" Svedberg was a welterweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Sweden. He won gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics and 1935 European Championships, finishing second in 1938. Between 1934 and 1944 he won ten national titles.

Åke Nordin was a Swedish entrepreneur. He was the founder of Fjällräven, a company that specializes in outdoor equipment, mainly clothing and the parent company Fenix outdoors.

Jan Fredrik Ericsson was a Swedish mountaineer and extreme skier. He grew up in Umeå in the northern part of Sweden, but spent most of his time in Chamonix, in the French Alps.

Peter Lundgren is a former professional male tennis player and tennis coach from Sweden. He preferred playing indoors, hardcourt and on grass to clay.

Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius was a Swedish naturalist who is known as the "father of ichthyology".

Andreas (Andres) Berlin was a naturalist, one of the "apostles of Linnaeus", though not among the more successful.

Pehr Kalm, also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus.