25 Notable alumni of
Linkoping University
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Linkoping University is 2129th in the world, 704th in Europe, and 15th in Sweden by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Linkoping University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Anders Tegnell
- Enrolled in Linkoping University
- Graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physiciancivil servantepidemiologist
- Biography
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Nils Anders Tegnell is a Swedish civil servant and physician specialising in infectious disease. From 2013 until his resignation in March 2022 he was Sweden's state epidemiologist.
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Andreas Norlén
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherjurist
- Biography
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Per Olof Andreas Norlén is a Swedish politician and member of the Moderate Party who has served as Speaker of the Riksdag since September 2018. He has been a member of parliament (MP) for Östergötland County since October 2006. Norlén has previously been a member of the Committee on the Constitution, 2014–2018 as chair of the committee.
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Gustav Fridolin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Per Gustav Edvard Fridolin is a Swedish journalist, author, teacher and former politician who served as Minister for Education from 2014 to 2019 and as one of two spokespersons of the Green Party from 2011 to 2019.
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Carl-Henric Svanberg
- Occupations
- entrepreneureconomistengineer
- Biography
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Carl-Henric Svanberg is a Swedish businessman and chairman of Volvo. He was chairman of BP for eight years, from 2010 to 2018. In December 2023, Svanberg was appointed commission chair to the AI Commission to the Swedish Government
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Perseus Karlström
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Perseus Karlström is a Swedish male racewalker. He competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics. He also competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, but did not finish. He was bronze medallist at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Qatar 2019.
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Veronica Palm
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anna Veronica Helen Palm is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. She has been a Member of the Swedish Riksdag since 2002 and is chairman of the Stockholm Labour Commune since 2009.
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Björn von Sydow
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Björn Gustaf von Sydow is a former speaker (talman) of the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament. He held this office following the 2002 election, when he succeeded Birgitta Dahl, until he was replaced on 2 October 2006. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, he had been Minister of Defence in Göran Persson's government between 1997 and 2002, preceded by a short term as Minister of Commerce and Industry.
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Åsa Lindhagen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Åsa Maria Lindhagen, is a Swedish politician for the Green Party. She served as Minister for Financial Markets from February to November 2021 and previously served as Minister for Gender Equality from 2019 to 2021.
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Victoria Kawesa
- Occupations
- politicianactivist
- Biography
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Victoria Kawesa is a Swedish politician and former leader of the Feminist Initiative party. In March 2017, she was elected the leader of the party, along with Gudrun Schyman. Kawesa was the first black party leader in Swedish history. In September 2017, she resigned, citing personal reasons. Kawesa was charged and found guilty of copyright violation. She is a former lecturer at Södertörn University.
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Rebecka Le Moine
- Enrolled in Linkoping University
- Studied in 2009-2012
- Studied in 2015-2017
- Occupations
- biologistpolitician
- Biography
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Rebecka Le Moine is a Swedish politician. Since September 2018, she serves as Member of the Riksdag representing the constituency of Östergötland County. She is affiliated with the Green Party.
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Ola Tunander
- Occupations
- historianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Göran Ola Tunander is a research professor emeritus at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO, Norway). He worked as a researcher at PRIO in the period 1987-2016. He is the son of Museum Director Ingemar Tunander and his first wife Gunvor (born Lilja). Tunander is married to the Chinese scholar Yao Xiaoling. He has written and edited 12 books and a number of articles on security politics, naval strategy, submarine operations, geopolitics, dual state, psychological operations (PSYOP) and Cold War history.
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Markus Wiechel
- Enrolled in Linkoping University
- Studied in 2007-2009
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Markus Wiechel is a Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) of Sweden following the resignation of Lars Isovaara on 29 November 2012. He's currently serving as member for the Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as Deputy for the Committee on European Union Affairs. Wiechel is currently part of three international parliamentary delegations: NATO-PA as a deputy member, the OSCE-PA and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Wiechel is the chairman of the Swedish PACE-delegation and holds the seat as vice president of the Assembly.
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Linda Westerlund Snecker
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Linda Westerlund Snecker is a Swedish politician. Since September 2014, she serves as Member of the Riksdag representing the constituency of Östergötland County. She is affiliated with the Left Party.
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Johan Danielsson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Johan Danielsson is a Swedish trade unionist and politician of the Social Democratic Party who has served as Minister for Housing and Deputy Minister for Employment in cabinet of Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson until Magdalena Andersson did not get reelected.
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Mehemed Malmîsanij
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Mehmet Tayfun alias Malmîsanij is a Kurdish author and linguist. He mostly writes in Zazaki. He often writes under the pseudonym Malmîsanij.
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Jonas F. Ludvigsson
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 56)
- Enrolled in Linkoping University
- Studied in 1989-1995
- 1996-2001 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Jonas Filip Ludvigsson is a Swedish physician and epidemiologist. He is a professor at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and a senior paediatrician in the Department of Pediatrics at Örebro University Hospital, Sweden. Ludvigsson is known for being one of the 47 initial signees of the Great Barrington Declaration.
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Cecilia Widegren
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cecilia Widegren is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She was a member of the Riksdag from 2002 to 2022.
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Jonas Arnell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jonas Henry Arnell-Szurkos, is a Swedish phaleristician and heraldist. Since January 1, 2023, he is Herald at the Chancery of the Swedish Royal Orders of Knighthood.
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Helena Höij
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Helena Margareta Höij is a Swedish politician and civil servant who currently serves as Governor of Dalarna County since 1 November 2022.
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Arne Kaijser
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- historian of scienceuniversity teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Arne Kaijser is a professor emeritus of history of technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a former president of the Society for the History of Technology.
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Jan-Eric Sundgren
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Jan-Eric Sundgren, is a Swedish engineer who served as senior vice president at Volvo Group from 2006 until 2013. Prior to that, he was a professor of physics at Linköping University, and served as rector at Chalmers University of Technology from 1998 until 2006.
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Jonas Andersson
- Enrolled in Linkoping University
- In 2018 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jonas Peter Andersson is a Swedish politician. He has been a member of the Riksdag for the Sweden Democrats since 2018.
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Yvonne Andersson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yvonne Andersson, born 1951, is a Swedish Christian democratic politician. She was especially active in academic debates. She has been a member of the Riksdag from 1998 to 2014.
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Lars Hultman
- Occupations
- physicistresearcher
- Biography
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Lars Hultman is a professor of materials science and head of the Division of Thin Film Physics at Linköping University.
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Jan Malm
- Years
- 1950-2004 (aged 54)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Jan Malm was CEO of the Swedish telecom company Ericsson in China 2000–2004.
