100 Notable alumni of
Stockholm University
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Stockholm University is 208th in the world, 73rd in Europe, and 2nd in Sweden by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Stockholm University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 3 individuals affiliated with Stockholm University won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Ingmar Bergman
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- In 1937 studied literary studies and art
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilmmakertheatrical directoractor
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Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all time, his films have been described as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul". Among his most acclaimed works are The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966) and Fanny and Alexander (1982), which were included in the 2012 edition of Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time. He was also ranked No. 8 on the magazine's 2002 "Greatest Directors of All Time" list. Other notable works include Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), A Lesson in Love (1954), Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light and The Silence (both 1963), Shame (1968), Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973) and Autumn Sonata (1978).
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Olof Palme
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- Studied in 1949
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986.
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Dag Hammarskjöld
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticiandiplomateconomistpoet
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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. As of 2025, he remains the youngest person to have held the post, having been only 47 years old when he was appointed. He was a son of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917.
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Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- 2003-2006 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in ethnology, modern period, and art history
- Occupations
- aristocratphilanthropistsocialitediplomat
- Biography
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Princess Madeleine of Sweden, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland is the second daughter and youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. Upon her birth, she was third in line of succession to the Swedish throne; currently, she is eighth. Princess Madeleine is married to British-American financier Christopher O'Neill. They have three children, Princess Leonore, Prince Nicolas and Princess Adrienne.
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Svante August Arrhenius
- Occupations
- university teacherastronomerphysicistchemist
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Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist. Originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, Arrhenius was one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becoming the first Swedish Nobel laureate. In 1905, he became the director of the Nobel Institute, where he remained until his death.
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Petra Mede
- Occupations
- dancerjournalisttelevision presentercomedian
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Petra Maria Mede is a Swedish comedian, dancer, actress and television presenter. Mede is known for her several roles in comic shows and as a television presenter, and is best known outside of Sweden for hosting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013, 2016 and 2024, as well as co-hosting Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits in 2015.
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Sofia Kovalevskaya
- Occupations
- physicistwritercommunarduniversity teachernovelist
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Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world – the first woman to earn a doctorate (in the modern sense) in mathematics, the first woman appointed to a full professorship in northern Europe and one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. According to historian of science Ann Hibner Koblitz, Kovalevskaya was "the greatest known woman scientist before the twentieth century".
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Greg Poehler
- Occupations
- television producerfilm actorscreenwriterlawyertelevision actor
- Biography
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Gregory Milmore Poehler is an American actor, comedian, producer, writer, and attorney. He created and starred in the Swedish sitcom Welcome to Sweden.
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Leif G. W. Persson
- Occupations
- television presentercriminologisttelevision writerscreenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Leif Gustav Willy Persson is a Swedish criminologist and novelist. Persson has four children, one of whom, Malin Persson Giolito, is also a crime writer.
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Carl Bildt
- Occupations
- politicianwriterdiplomatforeign ministerblogger
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Nils Daniel Carl Bildt is a Swedish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He led the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999, appearing at its lead candidate in four general elections, before his appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt from 2006 to 2014. Bildt first entered the Riksdag in 1979, holding a seat until 2001. A member of the Bildt family, he is a great-great grandson of Baron Gillis Bildt, who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1888 to 1889.
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Giorgos Papandreou
- Occupations
- sociologistpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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George Andreas Papandreou is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as an MP for Movement for Change.
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Fredrik Reinfeldt
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
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John Fredrik Reinfeldt is a Swedish economist, lecturer, former Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and chairman of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015. He was the last rotating President of the European Council in 2009. He has been the chairman of the Swedish Football Association since 25 March 2023.
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Stefan Persson
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Carl Stefan Erling Persson is a Swedish billionaire businessman. In March 2013, Forbes reported Persson's net worth as $28 billion making him the richest of Sweden's 12 billionaires and the 17th richest person in the world; he has since dropped to number 50. Persson was the chairman of fashion company H&M until May 2020, when he was succeeded by his son. He remains the company's largest shareholder, owning a 36% stake. The company was founded by his father Erling Persson in 1947.
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Nooshi Dadgostar
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mehrnoosh "Nooshi" Dadgostar is a Swedish politician, a member of the Riksdag since 2014, deputy chair of the Left Party from 2018 to 2020, and the chair since 2020.
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Sven Hedin
- Occupations
- writerpoliticiangeographerexplorerphotographer
- Biography
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Sven Anders Hedin, KNO1kl RVO, was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia, he made the Transhimalaya known in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers. He also mapped lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin. In his book Från pol till pol (From Pole to Pole), Hedin describes a journey through Asia and Europe between the late 1880s and the early 1900s. While traveling, Hedin visited Turkey, the Caucasus, Tehran, Iraq, lands of the Kyrgyz people and the Russian Far East, India, China and Japan. The posthumous publication of his Central Asia Atlas marked the conclusion of his life's work.
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Gunnar Myrdal
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianeconomistsociologist
- Biography
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Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." When his wife, Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982, they became the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first and only to win independent of each other (versus a shared Nobel Prize by scientist spouses).
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Alice Bah Kuhnke
- Occupations
- politicianjournalisttelevision presenterathlete
- Biography
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Alice Bah Kuhnke is a Swedish politician for the Green Party who is currently a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. Previously she served as the Minister of Culture and Democracy From October 2014 to January 2019. Before going into politics, she was a television presenter. She also helped found the think tank Sektor3.
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Tomas Tranströmer
- Occupations
- translatorpoetwriterlinguistpsychologist
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Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long winters in Sweden, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension. He has been described as a Christian poet.
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Viveca Sten
- Occupations
- writeradvokatjuristbusinessperson
- Biography
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Viveca Sten is a Swedish writer and lawyer. She has a law degree from Stockholm University and has an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics. Previously, she worked at Scandinavian Airlines, has had a highly successful legal career as a lawyer and held the position as General Counsel at PostNord (the Swedish & Danish mail service), but left in 2011 to focus on her writing. Viveca lives with her family just north of Stockholm. Since 1917, Viveca´s family have spent all their summers at Sandhamn, a small settlement in the central-peripheral part of the Stockholm Archipelago where her crime fiction novels are set frequently. She is perhaps best known for the book series Sandhamn Murders.
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Hans Blix
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- politiciancivil servantjuristdiplomat
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Hans Martin Blix is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. As such, Blix was the first Western representative to inspect the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union on-site and led the agency's response to them. Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by Dimitris Perrikos. In 2002, the commission began searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, ultimately finding none. On 17 March 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush delivered an address from the White House announcing that within 48 hours, the United States would invade Iraq unless Saddam Hussein would leave. Bush then ordered all of the weapons inspectors, including Blix's team, to leave Iraq so that America and its allies could invade Iraq on 20 March. In February 2010, Blix became head of the United Arab Emirates' advisory board for its nuclear power program. He is the former president of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.
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Anna Kinberg Batra
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anna Maria Kinberg Batra is a Swedish politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Moderate Party from January 2015 to October 2017. She was a Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm County from September 2006 to September 2018. She served as parliamentary leader from October 2010 to January 2015.
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Katarina Frostenson
- Occupations
- translatorwriterdramaturgeplaywrightlinguist
- Biography
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Alma Katarina Frostenson Arnault is a Swedish poet and writer. She was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1992 to 2019. In 2003, Frostenson was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in France in recognition of her services to literature.
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Fernando Gabeira
- Occupations
- politicianwriteranthropologistjournalist
- Biography
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Fernando Paulo Nagle Gabeira is a Brazilian politician, author and journalist. He was a federal representative for the state of Rio de Janeiro from 1995 to 2011.
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George de Hevesy
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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George Charles de Hevesy was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals. He also co-discovered the element hafnium.
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Jens Lapidus
- Occupations
- crime fiction writergraphic novelistwritermodelcriminal defense lawyer
- Biography
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Jens Jacob Lapidus is a Swedish criminal defense lawyer and author known for his books about the Stockholm underworld.
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Magnus Härenstam
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- Studied in 1962-1970
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision presenteractor
- Biography
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Johan Herbert Magnus Härenstam was a Swedish television host, actor and comedian. Härenstam hosted the Swedish version of the game-show Jeopardy! for 14 years before being replaced by Adam Alsing. Härenstam is also known for hosting the children's TV-program Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter (with Brasse Brännström & Eva Remaeus), which was very popular and has been re-broadcast numerous times since it first aired. Härenstam participated in the music video for ABBA's hit song "When I Kissed the Teacher" where he played the teacher who got kissed by Agnetha Fältskog. Well known in Sweden for several decades, he was almost equally popular in Norway, having starred in the 1990s sitcom Fredrikssons fabrikk, playing the Swedish boss of a Norwegian textile workshop.
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Christer Fuglesang
- Occupations
- bloggerchildren's writerastronautphysicist
- Biography
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Arne Christer Fuglesang is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on 10 December 2006, making him the first Swedish citizen in space.
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Andreas Norlén
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherjurist
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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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Alva Myrdal
- Occupations
- politicianwriterdiplomatsociologist
- Biography
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Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She, along with Alfonso García Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924; he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974, making them the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first to win independent of each other (versus a shared Nobel Prize by scientist spouses).
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Maria Poonlertlarp
- Occupations
- actorsingerbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Maria Lynn Ehren, known professionally as Maria Poonlertlarp (Thai: มารีญา พูลเลิศลาภ, RTGS: Mariya Phunloetlap, pronounced [māː.rīː.jāː pʰūːn.lɤ̂ːt.lâːp]; born January 18, 1992), is a Swedish-Thai actress, model, activist and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Thailand 2017. She represented Thailand at Miss Universe 2017, where she reached the Top 5.
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Mikael Håfström
- Occupations
- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Jan Mikael Håfström is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the 2003 film Evil, and the movie adaptation of Stephen King's short story 1408.
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Horace Engdahl
- Occupations
- translatorliterary criticuniversity teacherwriterliterary historian
- Biography
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Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl 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 from 1999 to June 2009, when he was succeeded by Swedish author and historian Peter Englund.
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Ylva Johansson
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- Studied in 1991-1992
- 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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Humberto Fernández Morán
- Occupations
- politicianphysicianinventorphysicist
- Biography
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Humberto Fernández-Morán Villalobos was a Venezuelan research scientist born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, known for inventing the diamond knife or scalpel, significantly advancing the development of electromagnetic lenses for electron microscopy based on superconducting technology, and many other scientific contributions.
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Esbjörn Svensson
- Occupations
- composerjazz pianist
- Biography
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Bror Fredrik "Esbjörn" Svensson was a Swedish jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio, commonly known as e.s.t.
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Kassim Majaliwa
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Kassim Majaliwa Majaliwa is a Tanzanian politician who has been the Prime Minister of Tanzania since 2015. He was appointed by President John Magufuli after the 2015 general election. He is a member of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party and has been a Member of Parliament for Ruangwa.
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Anders Borg
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Anders Erik Borg is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Finance in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2014. He is a member of the Swedish Moderate Party.
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Sara Skyttedal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sara Magdalena Skyttedal is a Swedish politician previously of the Christian Democrats party. She was Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.
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Paul Josef Crutzen
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- In 1973 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in meteorology
- Occupations
- academic administratorchemistuniversity teachermeteorologistresearcher
- Biography
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Paul Jozef Crutzen was a Dutch meteorologist and atmospheric chemist. In 1995, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Mario Molina and Frank Sherwood Rowland for their work on atmospheric chemistry and specifically for his efforts in studying the formation and decomposition of atmospheric ozone. In addition to studying the ozone layer and climate change, he popularized the term Anthropocene to describe a proposed new epoch in the Quaternary period when human actions have a drastic effect on the Earth. He was also amongst the first few scientists to introduce the idea of a nuclear winter to describe the potential climatic effects stemming from large-scale atmospheric pollution including smoke from forest fires, industrial exhausts, and other sources like oil fires.
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Dagmar Lange
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- Graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- writerschool teacherscreenwriter
- Biography
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Dagmar Maria Lange was a Swedish author of crime fiction under the pen name Maria Lang. She was one of the first detective novelists in the Swedish language, and her books helped make the genre popular in Sweden.
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Amineh Kakabaveh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amineh Kakabaveh is a Swedish independent politician of Iranian Kurdish descent. Having been a member of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan since her youth, she took refuge in Sweden at the age of nineteen and has become a member of the Riksdag, Sweden's parliament.
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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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Barbro Holmberg
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Barbro Holmberg is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. On 10 October 2003 she was appointed Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy in the Swedish Government. As a consequence of the change of government following the 2006 government election, she left office on 6 October 2006, and in 2008 she was appointed the governor of Gävleborg County.
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri
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- screenwriteruniversity teachernovelistwriterplaywright
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a Swedish writer. He is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of essays, short stories and plays. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages. He has received the August Prize for fiction and a Village Voice Obie Award for best script. In 2017 he became the first Swedish writer to have a short story published in The New Yorker. Khemiri's novel The Family Clause (FSG) was awarded the French Prix Médicis and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Khemiri moved to New York in 2021 for a Cullman Fellowship at The New York Public Library and currently teaches in the Creative Writing program at NYU. In 2023 he was a Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bennington College.
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Lena Andersson
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- writerjournalistliterary critic
- Biography
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Lena Andersson is a Swedish author and journalist. She won the August Prize in 2013 for the novel Wilful Disregard. In the same year, the same book won her the Literature Prize given by the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
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Isabella Lövin
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Isabella Lövin is a Swedish politician for the Green Party. She served as Minister for International Development Cooperation from 2014 to 2019, as Minister for the Environment from 2019 to 2021 and as honorary Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden from 2016 to 2021. She led the Green Party as co-spokesperson from 2016 to 2021, sharing the task with Gustav Fridolin (2014-2019) and Per Bolund (2019-2021).
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Ann Linde
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ann Christin Linde is a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and Magdalena Andersson from 2019 to 2022.
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Bo Andersson
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in administration
- Occupations
- entrepreneurmanager
- Biography
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Bo Inge Andersson is a Swedish businessman, and former officer and diplomat.
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Lisbet Palme
- Occupations
- psychologistpolitician
- Biography
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Anna Lisbeth Christina Palme was a Swedish children's psychologist, UNICEF chairwoman and the wife of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, until his assassination in 1986.
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Anders Ygeman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anders Ingvar Ygeman is a Swedish politician of the Social Democrats. He has served as Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy, Minister for Integration and Minister for Sports between November 2021 and October 2022 He previously served in the Swedish Government as Minister for Energy and Minister for Digital Development from 2019 to 2021 and as Minister for Home Affairs from 2014 to 2017. He has been a member of the Riksdag since 1996 (as a standby since 1995).
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Johan Staël von Holstein
- Occupations
- bloggerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Lars Johan Magnus Staël von Holstein is a Swedish entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author who co-founded dot-com companies such as Icon Medialab and LetsBuyIt during the early dot-com boom in Sweden. He has been the CEO of the multi-level marketing company Crowd1, which has been identified as an illegal pyramid scheme in a number of countries. As of December 2020 he claims to have left Crowd1.
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Carolina Neurath Bengtsson
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Anna Carolina Neurath is a Swedish journalist and writer. She specializes in writing business articles for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. In 2016 her first work of fiction, Fartblinda, was published.
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Bertil Ohlin
- 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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Johan Rockström
- Occupations
- professoragronomisteconomisthydrologistenvironmental scientist
- Biography
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Johan Rockström is a Swedish scientist, internationally recognized for his work on global sustainability issues. He is joint director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany, together with economist Ottmar Edenhofer. Rockström is also chief scientist at Conservation International. He is Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam and Professor in Water Systems and Global Sustainability, Stockholm University.
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Antonia Ax:son Johnson
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Antonia Margaret Ax:son Johnson KmstkVO is the fourth-generation head of the family company Axel Johnson AB, founded by her great-grandfather in 1873. In 1982 she succeeded her father as chairman of the board for Axel Johnson AB, Sweden, and Axel Johnson Inc., Stamford, U.S.
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Klas Eklund
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Klas Eklund is a Swedish economist and author.
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Maria Gripe
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterauthorchildren's writer
- Biography
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Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter, was a Swedish author of books for children and young adults, which were often written in magical and mystical tone. She has written almost forty books, with many of her characters presented in short series of three or four books (e.g., the Hugo and Josephine books, the Shadow series, and the titles about Lotten). For her lasting contribution to children's literature, she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing in 1974.
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Thomas Bodström
- Occupations
- advokatassociation football playertelevision presenterpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Thomas Lennart Bodström is a Swedish former politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He is also a former footballer, and is best remembered for representing Allsvenskan side AIK between 1987 and 1989.
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Åsa Romson
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Åsa Elisabeth Romson is a Swedish politician who was the Minister for the Environment and ceremonial Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden in the Swedish Government from 2014 to 2016. She is a member of the Green Party and served as one of its spokespersons along with Gustav Fridolin between 2011 and 2016.
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Sune Bergström
- Occupations
- biochemistchemist
- Biography
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Karl Sune Detlof Bergström was a Swedish biochemist. In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden, and was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University, together with Bengt I. Samuelsson. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances.
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Per Bolund
- Occupations
- biologistpolitician
- Biography
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Per Bolund is a Swedish politician for the Green Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden (in a strictly ceremonial role) and as Minister for the Environment from February to November 2021, and was co-spokesperson of the Green Party from May 2019 until his resignation in November 2023.
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Aron Flam
- Occupations
- comedianscreenwriter
- Biography
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Aron Flam is a Swedish writer, stand-up comedian, podcaster, and occasional actor.
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Ebba Witt-Brattström
- Occupations
- university teacherman of lettersliterary scholar
- Biography
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Ebba Witt-Brattström 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.
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Vilgot Sjöman
- Occupations
- film directorcomics artistcinematographerwriterfilm editor
- Biography
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David Harald Vilgot Sjöman was a Swedish writer and film director. His films deal with controversial issues of social class, morality, and sexual taboos, combining the emotionally tortured characters of Ingmar Bergman with the avant garde style of the French New Wave. He is best known as the director of the films 491 (1964), I Am Curious (Yellow) (in Swedish, "Jag är nyfiken – gul") (1967), and I Am Curious (Blue) ("Jag är nyfiken – blå") (1968), which stretched the boundaries of acceptability of what could then be shown on film, deliberately treating their subjects in a provocative and explicit manner.
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Hédi Fried
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- Studied psychology
- Occupations
- writerpsychologistillustrator
- Biography
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Hédi Fried was a Swedish-Romanian-Hungarian author and psychologist. A Holocaust survivor, she passed through Auschwitz as well as Bergen-Belsen, coming to Sweden in July 1945 with the boat M/S Rönnskär.
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Theodor Kallifatides
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriteractorpoetwriter
- Biography
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Theodor Kallifatides is a writer. He is a Greek immigrant to Sweden, and writes in Swedish.
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Johan Norberg
- Occupations
- writerjournalistblogger
- Biography
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Johan Norberg is a Swedish author and historian of ideas, devoted to promoting economic globalization and what he describes as classical liberal positions. He is the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism (2001), Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016), and The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World (2023). Since 15 March 2007, he has been a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and since January 2017 an executive editor at Free To Choose Media, where he regularly produces documentaries for US public television.
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F. William Engdahl
- Occupations
- journalisteconomistpolitical scientistwriterconspiracy theorist
- Biography
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Frederick William Engdahl is an American writer based in Germany. He identifies himself as an "economic researcher, historian and freelance journalist." He is known for his views that the September 11 attacks, the Arab Spring and the theory of global warming are all conspiracies. He has written extensively for the LaRouche movement, Russia Today and GlobalResearch.
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Nina Stemme
- Occupations
- musicianopera singerperforming artist
- Biography
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Nina Maria Stemme is a Swedish dramatic soprano opera singer.
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Germain Henri Hess
- Occupations
- physicianchemistmineralogist
- Biography
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Germain Henri Hess was a Swiss-Russian chemist and doctor who formulated Hess' law, an early principle of thermochemistry.
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Joakim Palme
- Occupations
- sociologistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Per Joakim Palme is a Swedish political scientist and sociologist. He is the eldest son of Olof Palme, who was Prime Minister of Sweden until his assassination in 1986, and his wife Lisbeth Palme.
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Mattias Gardell
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- university teacherhistorianreligious studies scholarhistorian of religion
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Hans Bertil Mattias Gardell is a Swedish historian and scholar of comparative religion. In March 2006 he was appointed of the Nathan Söderblom Chair of Comparative Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden. He received the Lenin Award in 2009.
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Hans von Euler-Chelpin
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- university teacherbiochemistmilitary personnelchemist
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Hans Karl August Simon Euler-Chelpin, since 28 July 1884 von Euler-Chelpin, was a German-born Swedish biochemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Arthur Harden for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and enzymes. He was a professor of general and organic chemistry at Stockholm University (1906–1941) and the director of its Institute for organic-chemical research (1938–1948). Euler-Chelpin was distantly related to Leonhard Euler. He married chemist Astrid Cleve, the daughter of the Uppsala chemist Per Teodor Cleve. In 1970, their son Ulf von Euler, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Oskar Klein
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- physicistuniversity teachertheoretical physicist
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Oskar Benjamin Klein was a Swedish theoretical physicist.
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Per Ahlmark
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- writerpoliticianpoet
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Per Axel Ahlmark was a Swedish politician and writer. He was the leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1975 to 1978, and Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister in the Swedish government from 1976 to 1978. He also served as a member of the Swedish parliament from 1967 to 1978.
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Peter Wallenberg
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- In 1953 graduated with Candidate of Law
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- entrepreneur
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Peter "Pirre" Wallenberg Sr. was a Swedish business leader who was chairman of Investor AB for ten years.
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Peter Lindgren
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- composermusicianguitarist
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Peter Lindgren is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former guitarist of Swedish progressive metal band Opeth.
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Marianne Bernadotte
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- In 1983 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in art history
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- philanthropistmemoiristspokespersonaristocratfilm actor
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Gullan Marianne, Princess Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg, also known as Princess Marianne Bernadotte, is a Swedish actress, fashion icon and philanthropist who in 1961 married Sigvard Bernadotte, the second son of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and is officially included in the Swedish royal family.
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Birgitta Ohlsson
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- politicianjournalistblogger
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Eva Birgitta Ohlsson Klamberg is a Swedish politician who was Minister for European Union Affairs in the Swedish government from 2010 to 2014. She is a member of the Liberals, formerly the Liberal People's Party. Birgitta Ohlsson serves as the National Democratic Institute's director of political parties.
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Kai Siegbahn
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Claes Elfsberg
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- journalisttelevision presenter
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Claes-Gösta Elfsberg is a Swedish television journalist.
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Ulf Adelsohn
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- politicianwritervoice actorjurist
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Ulf Adelsohn is a Swedish politician, leader of the Moderate Party from 1981 to 1986 and Governor of Stockholm County from 1992 to 2001. He was a member of the Riksdag from 1982 to 1988 and served as Chairman of the Board of SJ AB 2001–2011, from where he resigned due to quarrels with the Reinfeldt cabinet on its railway deregulation policies.
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Elisabeth Fritz
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- Graduated with Candidate of Law
- Occupations
- advokat
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Elisabeth Massi Fritz is a Swedish lawyer who has received recognition as counsel for an injured party for female victims of crime. She has received the Karin Söder commemoration award. She grew up in Motala in a family characterised as having a strong honor code. Massi Fritz is an advocate against honor culture and honor related crime.
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Heinrich Gustav Magnus
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- physicistuniversity teacherchemist
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Heinrich Gustav Magnus was a German 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 is remembered for his laboratory teaching as much as for his original research. He did not use his first given name, and was known throughout his life as Gustav Magnus.
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Göran Rosenberg
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- writerprogram hostjournalistnon-fiction writer
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Göran Jakob Rosenberg is a Swedish journalist and author.
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Annika Falkengren
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- managing partnerbanker
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Annika Falkengren née Bolin is a former Managing Partner at Lombard Odier Group, a position she held from 2017 to 2023. She was President and CEO of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken from 2005 to 2017, having built her early career at SEB.
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Beatrice Fihn
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- In 2008 graduated with bachelor's degree
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- lawyerdirector
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Beatrice Fihn is a Swedish lawyer. She was the executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) from 2014 to 1 February 2023.
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Anna Ekström
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- politician
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Anna Elsa Gunilla Ekström, née Jonsson, is a Swedish Social Democrat politician who served as Minister for Education from January 2019 to October 2022. She previously served as the Minister for Upper Secondary School, Adult Education and Training from 2016 to 2019 and as director-general of the National Agency for Education from 2011 to 2016.
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Lars Leijonborg
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- politician
- Biography
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Lars Erik Ansgar Leijonborg is a Swedish politician, Minister for Higher Education and Research 2006-2009 and Head of the Ministry of Education and Research 2006–2007. During a ten-year period from 1997 to 2007, he served as chairman of the Liberal People's Party (Swedish: Folkpartiet liberalerna).
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Ilija Batljan
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- politician
- Biography
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Ilija Batljan is a former Montenegrin-Swedish Social Democratic politician. Since 2010 Ilija Batljan has been working with real estate in Sweden and in the spring of 2016 he founded the company Samhällsbyggnadsbolaget (SBB), which has since then grown to become one of the bigger real estate companies in Sweden. The firm's shares are listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange and the 'B' class form part of the benchmark OMXS30 index.
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Tord Magnuson
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- In 1967 graduated with Bachelor of Science
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- businesspersonconsul general
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Tord Gösta Magnuson KVO1kl is a Swedish business executive and the consul general for Mauritius. He is married to Princess Christina of Sweden, the youngest of the older sisters of King Carl XVI Gustaf. With the deaths of John Ambler in 2008, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern in 2016 and Baron Niclas Silfverschiöld in 2017, Magnuson is the only living brother-in-law of Carl XVI Gustaf.
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Tim Canova
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- teacher
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Timothy A. Canova is an American politician and law professor specializing in banking and finance. Canova was a candidate for Florida's 23rd congressional district, unsuccessfully challenging Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the 2016 Democratic primary, and again in the 2018 general election, where he ran as an independent candidate. He later supported President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
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James B. Sumner
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- university teacherbiochemistvirologistchemist
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James Batcheller Sumner was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley. He was also the first to prove that enzymes are proteins.
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Anaïs Lameche
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- singer
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Anaïs Helena Lameche Bonnier is a Swedish former singer and one of the original members of the Swedish pop group Play. She is the only member of Play out of its seven different members to appear in all four different line-ups of the group. Before the band's split, she was also the last remaining original member of the group since Faye's second departure in January 2011. She quit the music industry in 2011.
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Bengt Westerberg
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- politician
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Bengt Carl Gustaf Westerberg is a Swedish politician. He was leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1983 to 1995, member of the Riksdag from 1984 to 1994 and Minister for Social Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister 1991 to 1994.
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Harald Cramér
- Enrolled in Stockholm University
- Studied in 1912-1917
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- university teachermathematicianactuarystatistician
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Harald Cramér was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. John Kingman described him as "one of the giants of statistical theory".
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Gösta Bohman
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- politicianadvokat
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Bo Gösta Bohman was a Swedish politician and the leader of the Swedish liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1970 to 1981, during a period in which the party strengthened its position in Swedish politics. He served as minister of economics during the three-party centre-right Swedish governments 1976–1978 and 1979–1981. He has since become a model for many Moderate politicians, especially in the Moderate Youth League.
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Claes Borgström
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- politicianadvokat
- Biography
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Claes Gustaf Borgström was a Swedish lawyer and politician. He served as Equality Ombudsman (JämO) from 2000 until 2007. A member of the Social Democratic Party prior to 2013, he joined the Left Party in that year.
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Stina Lundberg Dabrowski
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- journalisttelevision presenter
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Stina Lundberg Dabrowski is a Swedish journalist, television host, producer, writer, and professor of television production. She has interviewed many international leaders, politicians, and celebrities. She has been a fixture on Swedish television since 1982, when she got her start as co-host on the variety show Nöjesmaskinen, together with Sven Melander. Her interviews and programs with Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela, Hillary Clinton, Yasser Arafat, King Abdullah of Jordan, Madonna, Clint Eastwood, and Tom Hanks have been seen by many millions in Scandinavia and Europe.
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Göran Malmqvist
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- university teachertranslatorsinologistlinguist
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Nils Göran David Malmqvist was a Swedish linguist, literary historian, sinologist and translator. He was also a member of the Swedish Academy between 1985 and 2019.
