List of Famous people named Folke

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II he negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps, including 450 Danish Jews from the Theresienstadt camp. They were released on 14 April 1945. In 1945 he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected.

Bror Axel Folke Per Rogard was a Swedish lawyer, chess official, player and arbiter.

Folke the Fat, according to Gesta Danorum by the 12th century Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, was the most powerful man in Sweden around 1100. He married Ingegerd Knutsdotter of Denmark, daughter of the Danish king Canute IV who was murdered in 1086. Folke and Ingrid had the sons Knut and Benedict according to Saxo. The chronicler furthermore reports that Folke was the paternal grandfather of Birger Brosa, who still was alive at the time he wrote.

Folke Sundquist was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 21 films between 1951 and 1968. He remains perhaps best-known for his starring part in the 1951 "scandal film" One Summer of Happiness (1951), which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, and his supporting role as one of the hitchhikers in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957).