List of Famous people born in Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan John Skarsgård is a Swedish actor. He is known for his roles as Jan Nyman in Breaking the Waves (1996), Captain Tupolev in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Professor Gerald Lambeau in Good Will Hunting (1997), Bootstrap Bill Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), Bill Anderson in Mamma Mia! (2008) and the sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018), Commander Maximilian Richter in Angels and Demons (2009), Martin Vanger in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Dr. Erik Selvig in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor (2011), The Avengers (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), The Grand Duke in Cinderella (2015), and Boris Shcherbina in the HBO/Sky UK television miniseries Chernobyl (2019). He is set to star in the Andor series (2022).
Alicia Vikander
Alicia Amanda Vikander is a Swedish actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and three British Academy Film Awards.
Björn Ulvaeus
Björn Kristian Ulvaeus is a Swedish singer-songwriter, producer, a member of the Swedish musical group ABBA, and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!. He co-produced the films Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again with fellow ABBA member and close friend Benny Andersson.
PewDiePie
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, known online as PewDiePie, is a Swedish YouTuber and comedian, known primarily for his Let's Play videos and comedic formatted shows.
Jack Hermansson
Jack Berndhard Hermansson is a Swedish professional mixed martial artist, who competes in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is the former champion in Cage Warriors and Warrior Fight Series. In 2012–2013, he fought in the United States in the Bellator MMA promotion. On the European circuit, he held notable victories over UFC veteran Karlos Vemola and Bellator veteran Norman Paraisy among others. As of December 7 2020, he is #6 in the UFC middleweight rankings.
Anna von Hausswolff
Anna Michaela Ebba Electra von Hausswolff is a Swedish musician, composer, pipe organist and songwriter.
Peter Sunde
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, alias brokep, is a Swedish entrepreneur and politician. Sunde is of Norwegian and Finnish ancestry. He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine. He is an equality advocate and has expressed concerns over issues of centralization of power to the European Union in his blog. Sunde also participates in the Pirate Party of Finland and describes himself as a socialist. As of April 2017, Sunde has been working on a new venture called Njalla, a privacy oriented domain name registrar.
Henrik Stenson
Henrik Olof Stenson is a Swedish professional golfer who plays both on the PGA and European Tours.
Anki Lidén
Anna Catarina Lidén is a Swedish actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1971. She is the mother of musician and DJ, Tim Bergling, who was better known as Avicii.
Isabel Edvardsson
Isabel Emilia Edvardsson is a Swedish dancer.
Jonas Jerebko
Jonas Jerebko is a Swedish professional basketball player. He was selected as the 39th overall pick in the second round of the 2009 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons, becoming the second Swedish-born basketball player to be selected in the NBA draft. Jerebko played a total of 10 seasons in the NBA with four different teams. After the last season, that led all the way to the final series, Jerebko moved to Russia to play in the Moscow club BC Khimki. He played there during two seasons, but broke the contract on January 23, 2021, due to personal reasons, and he is currently a free agent.
Amine Gülşe
Amine Gülşe Özil is a Turkish actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder born and raised in Sweden. She was crowned Miss Turkey 2014 and represented her country at the Miss World 2014 pageant.
Stig Anderson
Stig Erik Leopold Anderson, better known as Stikkan Anderson, was a Swedish music manager, lyricist and music publisher. He was the co-founder of Polar Music, and is best known for managing the Swedish pop band ABBA.
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.
Alida Morberg
Alida Indra Jasmin Morberg is a Swedish actress. The daughter of actor Per Morberg, she grew up in Lilla Edet.
Robin Lehner
Robin Lehner is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously also played in the NHL with the Ottawa Senators, Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders, and Chicago Blackhawks.
Mikkey Dee
Micael Kiriakos Delaoglou known by his stage name Mikkey Dee, is a Swedish rock musician and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the drummer for the British rock band Motörhead from 1991 until the band disbanded in December 2015, due to the death of founder and frontman Lemmy. Dee is currently the drummer for the German rock band Scorpions with whom he became a permanent band member in September 2016.
Pia Sundhage
Pia Mariane Sundhage is a Swedish football coach and former professional player. She is the current head coach of the Brazil women's national football team. As a player, Sundhage played most of her career as a forward and retired as the top scorer for her national team, but she also had stints playing as a midfielder and a sweeper.
Gunilla Hutton
Gunilla Hutton is a Swedish-born American actress and singer, perhaps best known for her roles as the second Billie Jo Bradley (1965–1966) on Petticoat Junction and as a regular cast member in the television series Hee Haw until 1992. She was raised in Fort Worth, Texas.
Märta Strömberg
Märta Strömberg was a Swedish archaeologist.