100 Notable alumni of
Lund University
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Lund University is 285th in the world, 100th in Europe, and 3rd in Sweden by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Lund University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with Lund University won Nobel Prizes in Physics.
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Carl Linnaeus
- Enrolled in Lund University
- In 1727 studied medicine
- Occupations
- entomologistphysiciannaturalistmycologistornithologist
- Biography
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Carl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as Carolus a Linné.
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Björn Ulvaeus
- Occupations
- screenwriterlibrettistcomposerrecord producerguitarist
- Biography
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Björn Kristian Ulvaeus is a Swedish musician, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a member of the musical group ABBA. He is also the 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. He is the oldest member of the group.
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Sofia Helin
- Occupations
- film actor
- Biography
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Sofia Margareta Götschenhjelm-Helin is a Swedish actress. She was nominated for a Guldbagge Award for her role in Dalecarlians, and stars as Saga Norén in the Danish/Swedish co-produced TV series The Bridge.
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Jimmie Åkesson
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1998-2005
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianblogger
- Biography
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Per Jimmie Åkesson is a Swedish politician and author, serving as leader of the Sweden Democrats since 2005. He has been a member of the Riksdag (SD) for Jönköping County since 2010. He previously served as leader of the Sweden Democratic Youth from 2000 until 2005.
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Roy Andersson
- Occupations
- film directorfilm producerscreenwriterdirectorwriter
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Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival.
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Lars Vilks
- Occupations
- art theoristart criticsculptorpaintercaricaturist
- Biography
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Lars Endel Roger Vilks was a Swedish visual artist and activist who was known for the controversy surrounding his drawings of Muhammad. Many years earlier he had created the sculptures Nimis and Arx, made of driftwood and rock, respectively. The area where the sculptures are located was proclaimed by Vilks as an independent country, "Ladonia".
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Tage Erlander
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1928
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tage Fritjof Erlander was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of Sweden and leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1946 to 1969. Previously, he served as minister of education from 1945 to 1946, and was a member of the Riksdag from 1932 to 1973. During his premiership, Sweden developed into one of the world's most advanced welfare states, with the "Swedish Model" at the peak of its acclaim and notoriety. His uninterrupted tenure of 23 years as head of the government is the longest ever in Sweden and in any modern Western democracy.
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Andrii Melnyk
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Andriy Yaroslavovych Melnyk is a Ukrainian diplomat who has served as the Ukrainian ambassador to Brazil since June 2023. He previously held the position of deputy minister of foreign affairs from November 2022 to July 2023 and Ukrainian ambassador to Germany from December 2014 to October 2022.
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Annie Lööf
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Annie Marie Therése Lööf is a Swedish politician and lawyer. She was Member of the Riksdag, representing her home constituency of Jönköping County, from 2006 to 2023, and leader of the Centre Party from September 2011 to February 2023. Lööf served as Minister for Enterprise from 2011 to 2014, in the Reinfeldt Cabinet.
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Hans Alfredson
- Occupations
- cartoonistfilm directorcomposeractorcomedian
- Biography
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Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson was a Swedish actor, film director, writer, and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson as the duo Hasse & Tage and their production company AB Svenska Ord ("Swedish Words Ltd"). His most celebrated contribution to their brand of humorist humanism was his ability to extemporize wildly absurd comic situations, for example in the Lindeman dialogues.
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Ingvar Carlsson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gösta Ingvar Carlsson is a Swedish politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Sweden, first from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1986 to 1996. He led Sweden into the European Union.
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Anders Tegnell
- 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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Pehr G. Gyllenhammar
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Pehr Gustaf Gyllenhammar was a Swedish businessman. He is mainly known for his 24 years as CEO and chairman of Volvo between 1970 and 1994. In the early 1980s he took the initiative for the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT).
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Jesper Rönndahl
- Occupations
- actorradio personalityscreenwritertelevision presentercomedian
- Biography
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Jesper Rönndahl is a Swedish TV-host, stand-up comedian and radio personality.
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Ylva Johansson
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1983-1988
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ylva Julia Margareta Johansson is a Swedish politician who served as European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Sweden's European Commissioner in the von der Leyen Commission from 1 December 2019 to 30 November 2024.
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Hans Rausing
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1948
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Hans Anders Rausing, KBE was a Swedish industrialist and philanthropist based in the United Kingdom. He made his fortune from his co-inheritance of Tetra Pak, a company founded by his father Ruben Rausing, and the largest food packaging company in the world. In the early 1980s Rausing moved to the United Kingdom to avoid Swedish taxes, in 1995 he sold his share of the company to his brother, Gad. In the Forbes world fortune ranking, Rausing was placed at number 83 with an estimated fortune of US$10 billion in 2011. According to Forbes, he was the second richest Swedish billionaire in 2013. By the time of his death in August 2019, Forbes estimated the net worth of Rausing and his family to be $12 billion.
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Anne L'Huillier
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Anne Geneviève L'Huillier is a French physicist. She is a professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden.
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Kazunori Yamanoi
- Occupations
- social workerpoliticianchemist
- Biography
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Kazunori Yamanoi is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, who serves as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Osaka, he attended Kyoto University as both undergraduate and graduate. He also studied at Lund University in Sweden for two years. Yamanoi was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000 and served as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in the Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan Cabinets from 2009 to 2010.
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Pehr Henrik Ling
- Occupations
- physiciangymnastics theoreticianwriterteachergymnast
- Biography
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Pehr Henrik Ling pioneered the teaching of physical education in Sweden. Ling is credited as the father of Swedish massage.
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Antje Jackelén
- Enrolled in Lund University
- In 1999 graduated with Doctor of Theology
- Occupations
- pastortheologian
- Biography
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Antje Jackelén is archbishop emerita and primate emerita (prima inter pares) of the Church of Sweden, the national church. On 15 October 2013, she was elected the 70th Archbishop of Uppsala and formally received through a service in Uppsala Cathedral on 15 June 2014, making her Sweden's first foreign-born archbishop since the 12th century, and the first female archbishop.
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Kaveh Madani
- Occupations
- engineerenvironmental scientistenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Kaveh Madani is a scientist, activist, and former Iranian politician. He previously served as the Deputy Head of Iran's Department of Environment (also Iran's Deputy Vice President). He also served as the Vice President of the United Nations Environmental Assembly Bureau from 2017 to 2018.
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Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
- Occupations
- writeradvokat
- Biography
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Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, born Nils Fritiof Adam Nilsson was a Swedish author and lawyer, from the south-most province Skåne, which plays an important role in many of his books.
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Rupiah Banda
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Rupiah Bwezani Banda was a Zambian politician who served as the fourth president of Zambia from 2008 to 2011, taking over from Levy Mwanawasa. Banda was an active participant in politics from early in the presidency of Kenneth Kaunda, during which time he held several diplomatic posts.
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Esaias Tegnér
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1802
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterpoetpriest
- Biography
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Esaias Tegnér was a Swedish writer, professor of the Greek language, and bishop. He was during the 19th century regarded as the father of modern poetry in Sweden, mainly through the national romantic epic Frithjof's Saga. He has been called Sweden's first modern man. Much is known about him, and he also wrote openly about himself.
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Viktor Rydberg
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1851-1852
- Occupations
- university teacherwriteropinion journalistart historian
- Biography
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Abraham Viktor Rydberg was a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy, 1877–1895. "Primarily a classical idealist", Viktor Rydberg has been described as "Sweden's last Romantic" and by 1859 was "generally regarded in the first rank of Swedish novelists."
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Björn Ranelid
- Occupations
- poetopinion journalistuniversity teacherwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Per Björn Sigvardson Ranelid is a Swedish author from Malmö. Since the beginning of his career in 1983, Ranelid has published twenty novels and written about five hundred articles in different magazines and newspapers. The author has also made numerous speeches throughout the years since his debut. He has been living in Stockholm since 1989.
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Bertil Ohlin
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1915
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Bertil Gotthard Ohlin 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 People's Party, a social-liberal party which at the time was the largest party in opposition to the governing Social Democratic Party, from 1944 to 1967. He served briefly as Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1944 to 1945 in the Swedish coalition government during World War II. He was President of the Nordic Council in 1959 and 1964.
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Arvid Carlsson
- Occupations
- physicianpharmacistneuroscientistpharmacologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Arvid Carlsson was a Swedish neuropharmacologist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease. For his work on dopamine, Carlsson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, together with Eric Kandel and Paul Greengard.
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Hans Mosesson
- Occupations
- musicianactortheatrical director
- Biography
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Hans Kristoffer Mosesson was a Swedish actor and musician.
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Anders Arborelius
- Occupations
- Catholic priestfriarCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Lars Anders Arborelius OCD is a Swedish Catholic cardinal. He has been Bishop of Stockholm since 1998. Pope Francis made him a cardinal, the first ever from Sweden and Scandinavia, on 28 June 2017.
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Kent Ekeroth
- Enrolled in Lund University
- 2000-2006 graduated with civilekonom
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Kent Alexander Ekeroth is a Swedish politician and economist, who represented the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from 2010 to 2018.
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Märta Stenevi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anna Märta Viktoria Stenevi, née Wallin is a Swedish politician for the Green Party. She served as Minister for Gender Equality and as Minister for Housing from February to November 2021, and was co-spokesperson for the Green Party from January 2021 to February 2024.
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Paul St-Pierre Plamondon
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Paul St-Pierre Plamondon MNA is a Canadian lawyer, media personality, and politician.
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Ann Heberlein
- Enrolled in Lund University
- In 2005 graduated with Doctor of Theology in ethics
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Ann Helen Heberlein is a Swedish academic and author, who writes extensively on theology and ethics. She is best known for her autobiographical account of life with bipolar disorder, Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva (2008; "I don't want to die, I just don't want to live").
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Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Count Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld was a Swedish Field Marshal (fältmarskalk) and Royal Councillor. He was mentor and chief military advisor to King Charles XII of Sweden, and served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Carolean Army, an army he assisted both in its education and development.
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Tobias Billström
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Graduated with Master of Philosophy in study of history
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tobias Lennart Billström is a Swedish former politician of the Moderate Party. He served as Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy from 2006 to 2014, briefly as Minister for Employment in 2010 and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2024.
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Bertil Hult
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Bertil Eric Hult is a Swedish billionaire, known for founding educational and language school company EF Education First in 1965, and for being the patron and namesake of Hult International Business School. In 1971, he moved from Sweden to Germany, and in 1977, he established EF's head office in Lucerne, Switzerland, where he now lives. He was the company's CEO until 2002, and chairman until 2008. Today, he is semi-retired. Two of his four sons work in the company; his oldest son, Philip Hult, is company chairman and his third son, Edward Hult, is CEO for North America. Under Bertil Hult's supervision, EF grew to a multi-billion dollar corporation with more than 40,000 employees in 53 countries.
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Leif Silbersky
- Occupations
- writerjuristadvokatpoet lawyer
- Biography
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Leif Silbersky was a Swedish lawyer and author, living in Stockholm.
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Anders Jansson
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actortelevision directoractor
- Biography
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Lars Anders Jansson,, is a Swedish comedian known for such TV-shows as Hipp Hipp and the Swedish version of QI.
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Eva Brunne
- Occupations
- priesttheologian
- Biography
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Gerd Eva Cecilia Brunne is a bishop in the Church of Sweden. She served as the Bishop of Stockholm from 2009 till 2019. She is the first openly lesbian bishop of a mainstream church in the world and the first bishop of the Church of Sweden to be in a registered same-sex partnership.
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Per-Ingvar Brånemark
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- anatomistphysicianscientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Per-Ingvar Brånemark was a Swedish physician and researcher, known as the "father of modern dental implantology". The Brånemark Osseointegration Center (BOC), named after its founder, was founded in 1989 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Louise Epstein
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Dina Louise Epstein, is a Swedish journalist and author.
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Björn Söder
- Occupations
- politicianbloggerengineerIT consultant
- Biography
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Björn Olof Söder is a Swedish Sweden Democrats politician who served as Second Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag from September 2014 to September 2018. He has been a Member of the Riksdag (SD) for Stockholm County since October 2010. He previously served as Leader of the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from 2010 to 2014 and Secretary of the Sweden Democrats from 2005 to 2015.
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Manne Siegbahn
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy".
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Frans G. Bengtsson
- Occupations
- biographerpoetwritertranslatorchess player
- Biography
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Frans Gunnar Bengtsson was a Swedish novelist, essayist, poet and biographer. He was born in Tåssjö (now in Ängelholm Municipality) in Scania and died at Ribbingsfors Manor in northern Västergötland.
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Johannes Rydberg
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Johannes Robert Rydberg ( Swedish: [ˈrŷːdbærj]; 8 November 1854 – 28 December 1919) was a Swedish physicist mainly known for devising the Rydberg formula, in 1888, which is used to describe the wavelengths of photons (of visible light and other electromagnetic radiation) emitted by changes in the energy level of an electron in a hydrogen atom.
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Frederik Paulsen Jr
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- businesspersonchemist
- Biography
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Frederik Paulsen OBE is a Swedish billionaire businessman and non-executive chairman of Ferring Pharmaceuticals.
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Gad Rausing
- Occupations
- businesspersonarchaeologistmind gamer
- Biography
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Gad Rausing was a Swedish industrialist and archaeologist. Together with his brother Hans he inherited the Swedish packaging company Tetra Pak, founded by their father Ruben Rausing and by 2011 the largest food packaging company in the world by sales. In 1995 Gad bought out his brother's interest in the company in what was at the time the most extensive private buyout in Europe.
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Gunnar Wetterberg
- Occupations
- historianwriter
- Biography
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Per Gunnar Wetterberg, is a Swedish author and historian.
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Lennart Geijer
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1933
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Johan Lennart Geijer was a Swedish politician and lawyer. He is mainly remembered for his role in the Geijer affair and for being the Minister for Justice who himself negotiated with the robbers and terrorists in the Norrmalmstorg robbery, the aircraft hijacking at Bulltofta and the bombing of the West German embassy.
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Aida Hadzialic
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 2010
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aida Hadžialić is a Bosnian-born Swedish politician and a member of the Social Democrats. She served as Minister for Upper Secondary School, Adult Education and Training from 3 October 2014 until her resignation on 15 August 2016. Prior to joining the government she served as deputy mayor 2010–2014 in Halmstad, Halland.
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Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1671
- Occupations
- military personneljurist
- Biography
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Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt was a Swedish general, particularly known for his participation in the Great Northern War.
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Mauricio Rojas
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in economic history
- Graduated with licentiate in philosophy
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Mauricio José Rojas Mullor is a Chilean-Swedish politician and political economist, member of the Riksdag between 2002 and 2006. He served as Minister of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile for four days, since August 10 2018 until August 13, under the presidency of Sebastián Piñera.
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Mattias Karlsson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hans Kennert Mattias Hedarv Karlsson is a Swedish politician, writer and public commentator who served as Leader of the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from September 2014 to November 2019. He has been a Member of the Riksdag (SD) since October 2010. He previously served as temporary Leader of the Sweden Democrats from 2014 to 2015.
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CajsaStina Åkerström
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied archaeology
- Occupations
- recording artistsinger
- Biography
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Cajsa Stina Åkerström, (born 16 August 1967) is a Swedish singer-songwriter, painter and author. She is the daughter of singer Fred Åkerström.
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Herman Bernhard Lundborg
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- neurologistphysicianrace theoristbiologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Herman Bernhard Lundborg was a Swedish physician and a race biologist.
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Marianne Ahrne
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1965
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterfilm directoruniversity teacherfilm critic
- Biography
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Siv Marianne Ahrne is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. She has directed ten films between 1970 and 1997. Her 1976 film Near and Far Away won the award for Best Director at the 13th Guldbagge Awards. Her 1978 film The Walls of Freedom was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. According to film historian Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Ahrne was one of the first women to make documentary films in Sweden, and Foster noted that Ahrne's films have received little attention in the United States.
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Hjalmar Gullberg
- Occupations
- translatorpoetwriterlinguistcomposer
- Biography
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Hjalmar Gullberg was a Swedish poet and translator.
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Bo Strömstedt
- Occupations
- publisher
- Biography
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Bo Eugén Strömstedt was a Swedish author and journalist.
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Sven Otto Littorin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sven Otto Julius Littorin is a Swedish former politician and architect of major structural reforms. As Minister for Employment in the cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt, he was in charge of the major overhaul of Swedish labor policies between 2006-2010. As President of the European Council of Ministers, in its Epsco formation, he oversaw the European Union response to labor market effects during the financial crisis of 2008-09. As party secretary of the Moderate Party 2002-2006, he played a major role in restructuring the party. As chief of staff to Minister for Fiscal and Financial Affairs during the Swedish banking crisis of 1992, he was one of the architects behind the Swedish banking rescue that Paul Krugman later proposed as a model for solving the Financial crisis of 2007–2008.
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Katarina Mazetti
- Occupations
- short story writerjournalistpoetwriterchildren's writer
- Biography
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Katarina Mazetti is a Swedish author and journalist. She made her debut as a writer in 1988 with the picture book "Här kommer tjocka släkten!". She worked as a producer and presenter at Sveriges Radio between 1989–2004.
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Elias Magnus Fries
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1811
- Occupations
- botanistpteridologistuniversity teacherbryologistmycologist
- Biography
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Elias Magnus Fries FRS FRSE FLS was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. He is sometimes called the "Linnaeus of Mycology". In his works he described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and lichen species, many of which remain authoritative today.
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Lars Hörmander
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1948-1955
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lars Valter Hörmander was a Swedish mathematician who has been called "the foremost contributor to the modern theory of linear partial differential equations". Hörmander was awarded the Fields Medal in 1962 and the Wolf Prize in 1988. In 2006 he was awarded the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for his four-volume textbook Analysis of Linear Partial Differential Operators, which is considered a foundational work on the subject.
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Richard Hobert
- Occupations
- screenwritercomposerfilm directorjournalist
- Biography
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Richard Hobert is a Swedish scriptwriter and film director.
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Michael Treschow
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Graduated with Master of Engineering
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Niels Michael Aage Treschow is a Swedish businessman. As chairman of the board of both Unilever since 2007 and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, and former chairman of Ericsson, Treschow is one of the most influential people in Swedish business today.
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Carin Mannheimer
- Occupations
- screenwritertheatrical directorauthorfilm director
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Carin Mannheimer was a Swedish dramatist, screenwriter, author and film director, born in Osby, Sweden. She garnered acclaim with Rapport om kvinnor (swedish: Report on Women), which was published in 1969. The book is a collection of interviews with Swedish women from the working class. This was during a time period of awakening feminism in Sweden when women were assumed to want to work outside the home. The interviews, however, revealed that many women did not want to work outside the home, would have preferred to care for their children but had no economic choice. For this reason, Mannheimer was criticized by the women's movement in Sweden, and the book established her reputation as a social critic.
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Torgny Segerstedt
- Occupations
- theologianhistorianjournalistediting staff
- Biography
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Torgny Karl Segerstedt was a Swedish professor and scholar of comparative religion, who later became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning. He is most remembered for his uncompromising anti-Nazi stance and his efforts to alert the Swedish public to the threat of Fascism during the 1930s.
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Bengt I. Samuelsson
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicianbiochemistchemist
- Biography
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Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson was a Swedish biochemist. He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances.
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Ernst Wigforss
- Occupations
- linguistpolitician
- Biography
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Ernst Johannes Wigforss was a Swedish politician and linguist (dialectologist), mostly known as a prominent member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party and Swedish Minister of Finance. Wigforss became one of the main theoreticians in the development of the Swedish Social Democratic movement's revision of Marxism, from a revolutionary to a reformist organization. He was inspired and stood ideologically close to the ideas of the Fabian Society and guild socialism and inspired by people like R. H. Tawney, L.T. Hobhouse and J. A. Hobson. He made contributions in his early writings about industrial democracy and workers' self-management.
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Amelia Andersdotter
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amelia Anna Matilda Katarina Andersdotter is a Swedish politician and former Member of the European Parliament (2011–2014), elected on the Pirate Party list in the 2009 election.
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Göran Therborn
- Occupations
- university teachersociologist
- Biography
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Göran Therborn FAcSS is a professor of sociology at Cambridge University and is amongst the most highly cited contemporary Marxian-influenced sociologists.
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Henrik Jönsson
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1997-2000
- Occupations
- entrepreneuropinionistYouTuber
- Biography
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Henrik Olov Rickard Jönsson is a Swedish entrepreneur and right-wing public debater. He has described himself as a libertarian.
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Bo Lundgren
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bo Axel Magnus Lundgren is a Swedish politician who served as the leader of the Moderate Party from 1999 to 2003. Lundgren also served as Minister for Sports from 1991 to 1994 and Director-General of the Swedish National Debt Office from 2004 to 2013.
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Ilan Sadé
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Ilan Sadé is a Swedish lawyer, debater, and politician with former affiliations with the Centre Party. Since 2016 he has been the party leader for Citizens' Coalition. Sadé owns the online newspaper Nyheter Idag and the blog Ledarsidorna.
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Maria Malmer Stenergard
- Occupations
- politiciantax collector
- Biography
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Eva Maria Louise Malmer Stenergard is a Swedish politician and jurist. Since September 2024, she is the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Kristersson cabinet, having previously served as Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy from 2022 to 2024. She has also been a Member of the Riksdag since 2014.
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K. G. Hammar
- Enrolled in Lund University
- In 1972 graduated with Doctor of Theology
- Occupations
- theologianuniversity teacherpriest
- Biography
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Karl Gustav Hilding Hammar, commonly referred to as K. G. Hammar, is a Swedish clergyman. He was Archbishop of Uppsala, primate of the Church of Sweden, from 1997 to 2006. During his tenure as archbishop he was a highly divisive figure, who gained strong support from some and drew heavy criticism from others, and he oversaw the separation of church and state in Sweden on 1 January 2000. He holds a PhD and is the author of several books on theology.
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Dan Olofsson
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Dan Olof Olofsson is a Swedish entrepreneur, business leader and philanthropist.
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Alice Teodorescu
- Occupations
- lobbyistpoliticianjuristdebater
- Biography
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Alice Alexandra Teodorescu Måwe is a Swedish politician and former legal professional with the Företagarna organisation of Swedish entrepreneurs and a liberal-conservative commentator on social and political issues. Since 2024, she is a Member of the European Parliament.
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P.M. Nilsson
- Occupations
- journalistsecretary of state
- Biography
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Peter Magnus Nilsson is a Swedish journalist and official.
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Axel von Fersen the Elder
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1734
- Occupations
- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Count Fredrik Axel von Fersen was a Swedish statesman and soldier of Baltic German descent. He served as Lord Marshal of the Riksdag of the Estates, and although he worked closely with King Gustav III before and through the Revolution of 1772, he later opposed the king.
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Olof von Dalin
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1721
- Occupations
- writerhistorianpoetliterary critic
- Biography
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Olof von Dalin was a Swedish nobleman, poet, historian and courtier. He was an influential literary figure of the Swedish Enlightenment.
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Östen Undén
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1905
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Bo Östen Undén was a Swedish academic (J.D.), civil servant and Social Democratic politician who served as acting Prime Minister of Sweden 6–11 October 1946, following the death of Per Albin Hansson (1885-1946).
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Bo Rothstein
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Bo Abraham Mendel Rothstein is a Swedish political scientist. He currently holds the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, and is a former Professor of Government and Public Policy at the University of Oxford.
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Torsten Hägerstrand
- Occupations
- geographeruniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Torsten Hägerstrand was a Swedish geographer. He is known for his work on migration, cultural diffusion and time geography.
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Rune Elmqvist
- Occupations
- inventorengineer
- Biography
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Rune Elmqvist was a Swedish physician turned engineer who developed the first implantable pacemaker in 1958, working under the direction of Åke Senning, senior physician and cardiac surgeon at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Sweden.
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Torsten Nothin
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Torsten Karl Viktor Nothin was a Swedish official and social democratic politician. He was Minister for Justice from 1924 to 1926 and Governor of Stockholm from 1933 to 1949.
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Sven-Eric Liedman
- Occupations
- writerhistoriantranslatorphilosopher
- Biography
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Sven-Eric Liedman is a Swedish author and Professor Emeritus of history of ideas at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Arvid Posse
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1835
- Occupations
- estate ownerpolitician
- Biography
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Arvid Rutger Fredriksson Posse was a Swedish noble and statesman, serving as the Prime Minister of Sweden between 1880–1883.
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Gunnar Hökmark
- Occupations
- politicianeconomistblogger
- Biography
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Anders Gunnar Hökmark is a Swedish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019. He is member of the Moderate Party, part of the European People's Party. He previously served as Secretary of the Moderate Party from 1991 to 1999 and Member of the Riksdag (MP) for Stockholm County from 1982 to 2004.
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Heinz Hopf
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Heinz Willy Gustav Hopf was a Swedish actor.
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Allan Larsson
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionistcivil servantjournalist
- Biography
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Yngve Allan Gillis Larsson is a former Swedish Social Democratic politician. From 1990 to 1991 he served as Minister for Finance.
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Christian Günther
- Occupations
- diplomatwriter
- Biography
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Christian Ernst Günther was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Hansson III Cabinet. The unity government was formed after the Soviet attack on Finland in November 1939, the Winter War, and it was dissolved on 31 July 1945.
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Carl Jakob Sundevall
- Occupations
- entomologistornithologistuniversity teacherarachnologistzoologist
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Carl Jakob Sundevall was a Swedish zoologist. Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as a Doctor of Medicine in 1830.
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Anders Retzius
- Occupations
- anatomistanthropologistbiologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Anders Adolph Retzius, was a Swedish professor of anatomy and a supervisor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
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Grégoire Orlyk
- Occupations
- diplomatmilitary officer
- Biography
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Grégoire Orlyk, also Hryhor Orlyk, was a French military commander, special envoy and member of Louis XV's secret intelligence service. Grégoire Orlyk was born in Ukraine, the son of Ukrainian hetman in exile Pylyp Orlyk and Hanna Hertsyk. He received a good education in Sweden, served in Poland and Saxony, and participated in the secret efforts of France to restore Stanisław Leszczyński to the Polish throne. He later commanded the king's regiment of Royal suédois. For his intelligence work and military exploits he was given the title of comte and promoted to the general's rank of Maréchal de camp. Grégoire Orlyk was an acquaintance of the French philosopher Voltaire, and championed the Ukrainian cause in France and other countries.
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Anna Lindstedt
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Anna Kerstin Erica Lindstedt was the Swedish Ambassador to Beijing from 2016 to early 2019.
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Sverker Johansson
- Enrolled in Lund University
- Studied in 1979-1982
- Occupations
- programmerphysicistlinguistnon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sverker Johansson is a Swedish physicist, linguist, textbook author and university professor. He created Lsjbot, a Wikipedia bot.
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Erik Acharius
- Occupations
- lichenologistbotanistnaturalistmycologistphysician
- Biography
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Erik Acharius was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the taxonomy of lichens and is known as the "father of lichenology". Acharius was famously the last pupil of Carl Linnaeus.
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Gunnar Jarring
- Occupations
- explorerphilologistdiplomatlinguist
- Biography
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Gunnar Valfrid Jarring was a Swedish diplomat and Turkologist.
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Peter Gärdenfors
- Enrolled in Lund University
- In 1970 graduated with Bachelor of Science in mathematics, philosophy, and computer science
- In 1974 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy
- Occupations
- cognitive scientisteconomistphilosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Björn Peter Gärdenfors is professor of cognitive science at the University of Lund, Sweden.
