Stockholm University (Swedish: Stockholms universitet) is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 36,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world....
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Ebba Witt-Brattström
Ebba Witt-Brattström (born 1953) is a Swedish scholar in comparative literature. She is Professor of Literature and head of department at Södertörn University outside Stockholm, and a well-known feminist. In the 1970s she was a member of the...
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- 1988
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Christer Fuglesang
Dr. Arne Christer Fuglesang (born March 18, 1957 in Stockholm) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on December 10, 2006, at 01:47 GMT, making him the first Swedish citizen in...
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- 1987
Gunnar Myrdal
Karl Gunnar Myrdal (6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory...
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- 1923
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɪŋmar ˈbærjman] ( listen); 14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all...
Eilhard Mitscherlich
Eilhard Mitscherlich (7 January 1794 – 28 August 1863) was a German chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his law of isomorphism (1819), which states that compounds crystallizing together probably have similar structures and compositions...
Kai Siegbahn
Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (20 April 1918 – 20 July 2007) was a Swedish physicist.
He was born in Lund, Sweden, and his father Manne Siegbahn also won the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1924. Siegbahn earned his doctorate at the University of Stockholm in...
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
Heinrich Gustav Magnus (2 May 1802 – 4 April 1870) was a notable experimental scientist. His training was mostly in chemistry but his later research was mostly in physics. He spent the great bulk of his career at the University of Berlin, where he...
Svante Arrhenius
Svante August Arrhenius (19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist, originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry...
Sigurdur Thorarinsson
Sigurður Þórarinsson (January 8, 1912–February 8, 1983) was an Icelandic geologist, volcanologist, glaciologist, professor and lyricist. He is considered a pioneer in the field of tephrochronology, and he made significant contributions in many areas...
Bertil Ohlin
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈbærtil uˈliːn]) (23 April 1899 – 3 August 1979) was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965. He was also leader of the...
Oskar Klein
Oskar Benjamin Klein (September 15, 1894 – February 5, 1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist.
Klein was born in Danderyd outside Stockholm, son of the chief rabbi of Stockholm, Dr. Gottlieb Klein from Homonna in Hungary and Antonie (Toni) Levy....
Fredrik Reinfeldt
John Fredrik Reinfeldt (pronounced [ˈfreːdrɪk ˈrajnˌfɛlt] ( listen); born 4 August 1965) is the Prime Minister of Sweden, leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party and former President of the European Council.
A native of Stockholm County,...
Harald Cramér
Harald Cramér (September 25, 1893 – October 5, 1985) was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. He was once described by John Kingman as "one of the giants of...
Peter L. Hurd
Peter L. Hurd is an academic specialising in biology. He is currently an Associate Professor aligned to both the Department of Psychology's Biocognition Unit, and the University's Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Alberta. His research...
Bo I. Andersson
Bo I. Andersson was promoted to GM group vice president of global purchasing and supply chain on April 1, 2007. Prior to this assignment, Andersson was vice president of global purchasing and supply chain from 2001-2007. He oversees GM's global...
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Antonia Ax:son Johnson
Antonia Ax:son Johnson (surname pronounced Axelson Johnson), born in New York City in 1943, is the fourth generation of the family company The Axel Johnson Group, founded by her great grandfather in 1873. In 1982 she succeeded her father as chairman...
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Antonia Ax:son Johnson
Antonia Ax:son Johnson (surname pronounced Axelson Johnson), born in New York City in 1943, is the fourth generation of the family company The Axel Johnson Group, founded by her great grandfather in 1873. In 1982 she succeeded her father as chairman...
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Torbjörn Caspersson
Professor Torbjörn Oskar Caspersson (15 October 1910 – 7 December 1997) was a Swedish cytologist and geneticist. He was born in Motala and attended the University of Stockholm, where he studied medicine and biophysics.
Caspersson made several key...
Johan Staël von Holstein
Lars Johan Magnus Staël von Holstein (born 5 May 1963 in Halmstad, Sweden) is an author and co-founder of dot-com companies such as Icon Medialab and LetsBuyIt during the dot-com boom in Sweden.
In the late 1990s he became a public figure and...
Barbro Sachs-Osher
Barbro Sachs-Osher (born 21 May 1940 in Stockholm) is the Swedish Consul General in San Francisco and a well-known philanthropist, chairman of the Bernard Osher Foundation and of the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. Together with her husband...
Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈtʊːmas ˈjœsˈta ˈtrɑːnˈstrœmər]; born 15 April 1931) is a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems capture the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric...
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
Princess Madeleine of Sweden, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (Madeleine Thérèse Amélie Joséphine; born Drottningholm, 10 June 1982), is the youngest child and second daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden. Upon her birth...
George Papandreou jr.
Georgios A. Papandreou (Greek: Γεώργιος Α. Παπανδρέου, [ʝe̞ˈo̞ɾʝio̞s papanˈðɾe̞u]; born 16 June 1952), commonly anglicised to George and shortened to Γιώργος (Yórgos, [ˈʝo̞ɾɣo̞s]) in Greek, is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of...
Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld ( [dɑːg ˈhamːarɧœld] (help·info)) (29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. The second Secretary-General of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a...
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Со́фья Васи́льевна Ковале́вская) (15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1891), was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to...
Olof Palme
Sven Olof Joachim Palme (Swedish: Olof Palme) (30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician. A longtime protegé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 to his assassination, and was a...
Horace Engdahl
Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl (born December 30, 1948) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, i.e. its spokesman, from 1999 to June 2009...
Maciej Zaremba
Maciej Zaremba Bielawski (born 12 March 1951) is a Swedish journalist and author.
Zaremba was born in Poznań, Poland. He came to Sweden in 1969 where he worked as a construction worker during the 1970s. In his youth, he was active in the League...
Jerome B. Simandle
Jerome B. Simandle (born 1949) is the chief United States federal judge serving on the District of New Jersey. He was born in Binghamton, New York.
After graduating from law school, Simandle served as a law clerk to judge John F. Gerry of the...
Lars E. O. Svensson
Lars E. O. Svensson, born 1947, is an Swedish economist on the faculty of Princeton University. He has published significant research in macroeconomics, especially monetary economics, international trade and general equilibrium theory. He is among...
Anna Kinberg Batra
Anna Maria Kinberg Batra (born Anna Maria Kinberg on 14 April 1970) is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She served as a substitute Member of Parliament in 2000, representing Stockholm University. She served as Member of Parliament from...
Dilsa Demirbag Sten
Dilsa Demirbag Sten (pronounced "Dilsha") (born Dilşa Demirbağ, 10 October 1969) is a Swedish author and journalist. A self-described liberal atheist, she is a frequent commentator on topics such as integration, honor violence, religious oppression...
Germund Dahlquist
Germund Dahlquist (January 16, 1925 – February 8, 2005) was a Swedish mathematician known primarily for his early contributions to the theory of numerical analysis as applied to differential equations.
Dahlquist began to study mathematics at...
Niklas Wykman
Niklas Åke Wykman (born 10 March 1981 in Kalmar) is a Swedish politician and former chairman of the Moderate Youth League, the youth wing of the Swedish liberal-conservative Moderate Party.
Wykman joined the Moderate Youth League in 1997 and was...
Olle Wästberg
Olof "Olle" Mattias Wästberg (born 6 May 1945) is a Swedish journalist, politician and diplomat, currently serving as Director-General of the Swedish Institute.
Olle Wästberg was born in Stockholm, the son of Erik Wästberg and his wife Greta née...
Pontus Hultén
Karl Gunnar Vougt Pontus Hultén (21 June 1924 – 26 October 2006) was a Swedish art collector and museum director. Pontus Hultén is regarded as one of the most distinguished museum professionals of the twentieth century. He was the pioneering former...
Göran Malmqvist
Professor Nils Göran David Malmqvist (Chinese: 馬悅然, (born 6 June 1924 in Jönköping) is a Swedish linguist, member of the Swedish Academy (Chair No.5), literary historian, sinologist and translator.
Göran Malmqvist was born in 1924 in Jönköping....
Anders Borg
Anders Erik Borg (born 11 January 1968) is a Swedish economist and politician, who serves as Minister for Finance in the Swedish government. He is a member of the Moderate Party.
Borg was born in Stockholm but grew up in Norrköping, Östergötland...
Urban Bäckström
Urban Bäckström (born 1955, Sollefteå, Västernorrlands län) is a Swedish economist who is the current CEO of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. He is a former Governor of the Bank of Sweden.
Born in Sollefteå, Bäckström grew up in Visby and...
Philip Haglund
Philip Haglund (born March 22, 1987 in Stockholm) is a Swedish footballer who currently plays for IFK Göteborg.
The midfielder began his career with IF Brommapojkarna during the successful 2006 season, which saw the team qualify for Allsvenskan. He...
Dotun Adebayo
Oludotun Adebayo MBE (born 25 August 1960) is a Nigerian-born, British radio presenter, writer and publisher. He is best known for his work on Up All Night on BBC Radio 5 Live, as well as the obituary programme Brief Lives.
Dotun Emmanuel Adebayo...
Leif Thorsson
Leif Thorsson, born July 4, 1945 in Malmö, Sverige. A Swedish jurist specialized in corporate law. Judge in the Supreme Court of Sweden since September 9, 1993. Education: law degree (Jur. kand.). Leif Thorsson is also the recipient of a honorary...
Britta Lejon
Britta Lejon (born November 2, 1964 in Järfälla Municipality) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. She was a member of the Riksdag, and the cabinet of Göran Persson. Lejon is the daughter of former Minister of Justice, Anna-Greta Leijon.
After...
Tiina Rosenberg
Tiina Rosenberg (born 1958 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Professor of Gender Studies at Lund University in Sweden. She was formerly professor of Theatre Studies and lecturer of Gender Studies at Stockholm University. She received her Ph.D. in 1993....
Åke Pleijel
Åke Pleijel (10 August 1913 – 24 September 1989) was a Swedish mathematician.
He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at Stockholm University in 1940 (with Torsten Carleman as supervisor), and later became Professor of Mathematics at Uppsala...
Pehr Gyllenhammar
Pehr Gustaf Victor Gyllenhammar (23 April 1901, Gothenburg – 22 November 1988, Gothenburg) was a Swedish insurance company executive. He completed a law degree from Stockholm University in 1925, and became CEO of the insurance company Svenska...
Sven Hagströmer
Sven Johan Gösta Barthen Hagströmer (born November 30, 1943) is a Swedish financier and businessman. Together with his business partner Mats Qviberg, he controls a group of companies including HQ Bank, Avanza Bank and Investment AB Öresund....
Annika Falkengren
Annika Falkengren née Bolin (born 1962) is President and Group Chief Executive of the Swedish bank Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) since November 2005.
Falkengren holds a degree in economics from Stockholm University. She has worked for SEB...
Mattias Gardell
Hans Bertil Mattias Gardell (born 10 August 1959) is a Swedish scholar of comparative religion. He is the current holder of the Nathan Söderblom Chair of Comparative Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Mattias Gardell was born in Solna,...
Claes Elfsberg
Claes-Gösta Elfsberg (born 26 November 1948) is a Swedish television journalist.
Elfsberg grew up in the district of Svedmyra in southern Stockholm. He received his upper-secondary education at Norra Real in Stockholm and then studied at the...
Thomas Hakon Grönwall
Thomas Hakon Grönwall or Thomas Hakon Gronwall (January 16, 1877, Dylta bruk, Sweden - May 9, 1932, New York, USA) was a Swedish mathematician. He studied at the University College of Stockholm and Uppsala University and completed his Ph.D. at...
Ivar Otto Bendixson
Ivar Otto Bendixson (August 1, 1861 – 1935) was a Swedish mathematician.
Bendixson was born August 1, 1861 in Djurgårdsbrunn, Stockholm Sweden to a middle class family. His father Vilhelm Emanuel Bendixson was a merchant, and his mother was Tony...
Farhad Shakely
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Ferhad Shakely (born 1951) is a prominent Kurdish writer, poet and researcher. He is one of the founders of modern Kurdish poetry in the post-Goran period. He was born in 1951 in the province of Kirkuk in Iraq. He...
Thomas Karlsson
Thomas Karlsson is a Swedish occultist and an esoteric author. In 1989, he and six other magicians founded Dragon Rouge, a Left-Hand Path initiatory organization and a Draconian Tradition Order, led by Karlsson. As a book author he concentrates on...
Antony Burgmans
Antony Burgmans (February 13, 1947) was formerly the non-executive Chairman of the Anglo-Dutch food and health products giant Unilever.
Burgmans studied business administration at Nyenrode in the Netherlands and political and social sciences at...
Gustaf Nordenskiöld
Gustaf Nordenskiöld (29 June 1868 - June 6, 1895), Swedish scholar of Finnish descent, a member of the Nordenskiöld family of scientists and the eldest son of polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and Anna Maria Mannerheim. He was the first to...
Bernt Carlsson
Bernt Wilmar Carlsson (21 November 1938 – 21 December 1988) was Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations and United Nations Commissioner for Namibia from July 1987 until he died on Pan Am Flight 103, which was blown up over Lockerbie,...
Sven Lindqvist
Sven Lindqvist (born April 28, 1932) is a Swedish author, whose works include A History of Bombing.
Luis Eduardo Luna
Luis Eduardo Luna, anthropologist and noted ayahuasca researcher. Dr. Luna was born in 1947, in Florencia, Colombia. He received his doctorate in 1989 from the Institute of Comparative Religion at Stockholm University, as well as an honorary...
Bergur Sigurbjörnsson
Bergur Sigurbjörnsson (May 20, 1917 – July 28, 2005) was an Icelandic magazine editor and politician.
He studied business in the University of Iceland, and later went on to study economics in Stockholm University. He founded the weekly magazine,...
