100 Notable alumni of
Uppsala University
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Uppsala University is 106th in the world, 38th in Europe, and 1st in Sweden by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Uppsala University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 5 individuals affiliated with Uppsala University won Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine.
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Carl Linnaeus
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- In 1728 studied medicine
- Occupations
- university teacherbotanistmycologistzoologisttaxonomist
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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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Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Occupations
- monarch
- Biography
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Carl XVI Gustaf is King of Sweden, reigning since 1973. Having reigned for 52 years, he is the longest-reigning monarch in Swedish history.
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Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- In 2009 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland is the heir apparent to the Swedish throne as the eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden. If she ascends to the throne as expected, she will be Sweden's fourth queen regnant (after Margaret, Christina and Ulrika Eleonora) and the first since 1720. Her inheritance is secured by Sweden's 1980 Act of Succession, the first law in Western Europe to adopt royal absolute primogeniture.
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Carl XII of Sweden
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- monarchmilitary leader
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Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII or Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.), was King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. He belonged to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a branch line of the House of Wittelsbach. Charles was the only surviving son of Charles XI and Ulrika Eleonora the Elder. He assumed power, after a seven-month caretaker government, at the age of fifteen.
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Dag Hammarskjöld
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1923
- Occupations
- economistpoetwriterphilosopherpolitician
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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 2026, he remains the youngest person to have held the post, having been only 47 years old when he was elected. He was a son of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917.
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Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
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- classical archaeologistmonarchart collectoranthropologistbotanist
- Biography
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Gustaf VI Adolf was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death in 1973. He was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden. Before Gustaf Adolf acceded to the throne, he was crown prince for nearly 43 years during his father's reign. As king, and shortly before his death, he gave his approval to constitutional changes which removed the Swedish monarchy's last political powers. He was a lifelong amateur archeologist particularly interested in Ancient Italian cultures.
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Gustaf V of Sweden
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- tennis playermonarcharistocrat
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Gustaf V was King of Sweden from 8 December 1907 until his death in 1950. He was the eldest son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau, a half-sister of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Reigning from the death of his father Oscar II in 1907 to his own death nearly 43 years later, he holds the record of being the oldest monarch of Sweden, dying at the age of 92. Gustaf also had the third-longest reign of a Swedish monarch after Magnus IV (1319–1364) and his own great-grandson, Carl XVI Gustaf (1973–present). He was also the last Swedish monarch to exercise his royal prerogatives, which largely died with him, although they were formally abolished only with the remaking of the Swedish constitution in 1974. He was the first Swedish king since the High Middle Ages not to have a coronation and so never wore the king's crown, a practice that has continued ever since.
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Gustav I of Sweden
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- monarchpolitician
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Gustav Eriksson Vasa, also known as Gustav I, was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560. He was previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm (Riksföreståndare) from 1521, during the Swedish War of Liberation against King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Gustav rose to lead this war following the Stockholm Bloodbath, where his father was executed. Gustav's election as king on 6 June 1523 (the future National Day of Sweden) and his triumphant entry into Stockholm eleven days later marked Sweden's final secession from the Kalmar Union.
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Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
- Occupations
- military personnelequestrianaristocrat
- Biography
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Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten was a Swedish prince who for most of his life was second in the line of succession to the Swedish throne. He was the eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf, who was crown prince for most of his son's life and ascended the Swedish throne three years after his son's death. The current king, Carl XVI Gustaf, is Prince Gustaf Adolf's son. The prince was killed on 26 January 1947 in an airplane crash at Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Emmanuel Swedenborg
- Occupations
- physicisttheologianmathematicianwritermystic
- Biography
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Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish polymath; a scientist, engineer, astronomer, anatomist, Christian theologian, philosopher, and mystic. He became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).
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Oscar II of Sweden
- Occupations
- monarch
- Biography
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Oscar II was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death in 1907 and King of Norway from 1872 to 1905.
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Anders Celsius
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1728
- Occupations
- chemistphysicistuniversity teachermeteorologistmathematician
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Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France. He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 proposed (an inverted form of) the centigrade temperature scale, which was later renamed Celsius in his honour.
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Oscar I of Sweden
- Occupations
- monarchcomposer
- Biography
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Oscar I was King of Sweden and Norway from 8 March 1844 until his death. He was the second monarch of the House of Bernadotte.
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Svante August Arrhenius
- Occupations
- astronomerphysicistchemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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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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Ulf Kristersson
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1985-1988
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ulf Hjalmar Kristersson is a Swedish politician who has served as Prime Minister of Sweden since 2022 and as Leader of the Moderate Party since 2017. He has been a Member of the Riksdag for Södermanland County since 2014, previously holding a seat for Stockholm County from 1991 to 2000. He also served as Minister for Social Security from 2010 to 2014 and as chairman of the Moderate Youth League from 1988 to 1992.
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Hans Rosling
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- In 1986 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- scientistuniversity teacherbloggerstatisticianphysician
- Biography
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Hans Rosling was a Swedish physician, academic and public speaker. He was a professor of international health at Karolinska Institute and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. Widely regarded as one of the most influential physicians and geographers in the modern world, he held presentations around the world, including several TED Talks in which he promoted the use of data (and data visualization) to explore development issues. His posthumously published book Factfulness, coauthored with his daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund and son Ola Rosling, became an international bestseller.
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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- university teachernon-fiction writerchemistpharmacistphysician
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Baron Jöns Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist. Berzelius is considered, along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be one of the founders of modern chemistry. Berzelius became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1808 and served from 1818 as its principal functionary. He is known in Sweden as the "Father of Swedish Chemistry". During his lifetime he did not customarily use his first given name, and was universally known simply as Jacob Berzelius.
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Charles X Gustav of Sweden
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- monarch
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Charles X Gustav, also Carl X Gustav, was King of Sweden from 1654 until his death in 1660. He was the son of John Casimir, Count Palatine (Pfalzgraf) of Zweibrücken-Kleeburg, and Catherine of Sweden. After his father's death, he also succeeded him as Pfalzgraf. He was married to Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, who bore his son and successor, Charles XI. Charles X Gustav was the second Wittelsbach king of Sweden after the childless king Christopher of Bavaria (1441–1448) and he was the first king of the Swedish Caroline era, which had its peak during the end of the reign of his son, Charles XI. He led Sweden during the Second Northern War, enlarging the Swedish Empire. By his predecessor Christina, he was considered de facto Duke of Eyland (Öland), before ascending to the Swedish throne. From 1655 to 1657, he also claimed the title of Grand Duke of Lithuania.
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Carl XV of Sweden
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- monarch
- Biography
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Charles XV and IV was King of Sweden and King of Norway, there often referred to as Charles IV, from 8 July 1859 until his death in 1872. Charles was the third Swedish monarch from the House of Bernadotte. He was the first one to be born in Sweden, the first to grow up speaking Swedish as his first language, and the first to be raised from birth in the Lutheran faith.
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Anna Lindh
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Ylva Anna Maria Lindh was a Swedish politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her assassination in 2003. A leading figure of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Lindh was a Member of the Riksdag representing Södermanland County from 1982 to 1985 and again from 1998 to 2003.
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele
- Occupations
- chemistpharmacologistpharmacist
- Biography
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist.
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Svante Pääbo
- Occupations
- evolutionary biologistgeneticistbiologist
- Biography
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Svante Pääbo ForMemRS KmstkNO is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. In 1997, he became founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Since 1999, he has been an honorary professor at Leipzig University; he currently teaches molecular evolutionary biology at the university. He is also an adjunct professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
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Sara Danius
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- In 1999 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherliterary criticphilosopher
- Biography
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Sara Maria Danius was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University.
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Ebba Busch
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ebba-Elisabeth Busch is a Swedish politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Minister for Energy, and Minister for Business and Industry since 2022. She has served as Leader of the Christian Democrats since 2015.
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Sven Hedin
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1888
- Occupations
- naturalistgeopolitical analystscientific explorernon-fiction writerbotanical collector
- 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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Håkan Nesser
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- screenwriterwritersecondary school teacher
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Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who mainly writes crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the prestigious Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into more than twenty languages.
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Herbert Blomstedt
- Occupations
- conductormusician
- Biography
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Herbert Thorson Blomstedt is an American-born Swedish conductor of classical music. At the age of 98, he continues to conduct concerts in Europe and the United States.
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Åsa Larsson
- Occupations
- advokatshort story writerwriter
- Biography
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Åsa Larsson is a Swedish crime-fiction writer, with her novels featuring Rebecka Martinsson. Her books and characters serve as the basis for the internationally successful TV series Rebecka Martinsson. The 2007 Swedish film Solstorm was based on the book The Savage Altar.
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Carl Michael Bellman
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- composerpoetoffice workerwriter
- Biography
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Carl Michael Bellman was a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet, and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a powerful influence in Swedish music, as well as in Scandinavian literature, to this day. He has been compared to Shakespeare, Beethoven, Mozart, and Hogarth, but his gift, using elegantly rococo classical references in comic contrast to sordid drinking and prostitution—at once regretted and celebrated in song—is unique.
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Axel Munthe
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- personal physicianscreenwriterwriterpsychiatristphysician writer
- Biography
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Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe was a Swedish-born physician and psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele, an autobiographical account of his life and work. He spoke several languages (Swedish, English, French, Italian fluently, and German at least passably), grew up in Sweden, attended medical school there, then studied medicine in Paris and opened his first practice in France. He was married to a wealthy Englishwoman and spent most of his adult life in Italy.
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Hans Blix
- Occupations
- civil servantjuristdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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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. 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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Pär Lagerkvist
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1911
- Occupations
- autobiographerpoetscreenwriterwriteressayist
- Biography
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Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Prince Sigvard Bernadotte
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- designerillustratorjournalist
- Biography
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Sigvard Oscar Fredrik, Prince Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg born as, and until 1934 known as, Prince Sigvard of Sweden, Duke of Uppland, was a member of the Swedish Royal Family and a successful industrial designer.
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Tage Danielsson
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- radio personalitycomedianfilm directorpoetactor
- Biography
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Tage Ivar Roland Danielsson was a Swedish author, actor, comedian, poet and film director. He worked together with Hans Alfredson in the comedy duo Hasse & Tage.
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Nyamko Sabuni
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nyamko Ana Sabuni is a Swedish politician who was Leader of the Liberals between June 2019 and April 2022. She previously served as Minister for Integration from 2006 to 2010 and as Minister for Gender Equality from 2006 to 2013 in the Swedish government. A member of the Liberal Party, Sabuni was elected a Member of Parliament in 2002. Sabuni made history in June 2019 by becoming the first party leader in the Swedish parliament coming from an ethnic minority and the first party leader of a refugee background. In April 2022, Sabuni resigned as party leader.
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Gustaf Fröding
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1880
- Occupations
- translatorpoetjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Gustaf Fröding was a Swedish poet and writer from Alster, Värmland. The family moved to Kristinehamn in the year 1867. He later studied at Uppsala University and worked as a journalist in Karlstad.
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Dan Eliasson
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- In 1984 graduated with Candidate of Law
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Dan Tore Eliasson is a Swedish lawyer and civil servant. He served as Director–General of the Swedish Migration Agency from 2007 to 2011, as Director–General of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency from 2011 to 2014, as National Police Commissioner from 2014 to 2018 and as Director–General of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) from 2018 until his dismissal in 2021. After his dismissal in 2021, he was placed as Director-General of the Division of Crisis Preparedness of the Ministry of Justice until the end of 2022.
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Romina Pourmokhtari
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- chairpersonpolitician
- Biography
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Romina Pourmokhtari is a Swedish politician for the Liberals. She has served as the Minister for the Environment since 2022 in the Kristersson cabinet. She has also been a member of the Riksdag for Stockholm Municipality since 2022. She is the youngest-ever minister of a cabinet in Sweden, having ascended to her position at the age of 26.
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Alva Myrdal
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- writerdiplomatsociologistpolitician
- 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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Hjalmar Branting
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1877
- Occupations
- journalistdiplomatediting staffpolitician
- Biography
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Karl Hjalmar Branting was a Swedish statesman and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden on three occasions from 1920 to 1925. From 1907 until his death in 1925, Branting led the Social Democratic Party (SAP), playing a major role in advocating universal suffrage, an eight-hour workday, and other labor rights. He was also instrumental in foreign policy, including his support for the League of Nations.
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Hans Vestberg
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- businesspersonhandball player
- Biography
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Hans Vestberg is the former CEO and Chairman of Verizon, where he has worked as executive vice president of the company's network and technology team, and as chief technology officer. Vestberg was previously the CEO of telecommunications company Ericsson, president of the Swedish Olympic Committee, and chairman of the Swedish Handball Federation.
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Lars Levi Læstadius
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- 1820-1825 studied theology
- Occupations
- scientific illustratorpastorbotanical collectorpteridologistbotanist
- Biography
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Lars Levi Laestadius was a Swedish Sami writer, ecologist, mythologist, and ethnographer as well as a pastor and administrator of the Swedish state Lutheran church in Lapland who founded the Laestadian pietist revival movement to help his largely Sami congregations, who were being ravaged by alcoholism. Laestadius himself became a teetotaller (except for his ongoing use of wine in holy Communion) in the 1840s, when he began successfully talking his Sami parishioners out of alcoholism. Laestadius was also a noted botanist and an author.
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Mari Jungstedt
- Occupations
- novelistwriterjournalist
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Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist and crime fiction author.
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Kerstin Ekman
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied history of literature
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist.
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Niklas Zennström
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- computer scientistbusinesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Niklas Zennström is a Swedish entrepreneur, technology investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of a European venture capital firm Atomico based in London. Previously, he co-founded the file-sharing service KaZaA and the internet telephony provider Skype with Janus Friis, where he was the CEO until March 2008.
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Trita Parsi
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- writerpolitical scientist
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Trita Parsi is an Iranian-born Swedish writer, analyst, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also the founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council, which lobbies for stances on behalf of, and aligned with, Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Petter
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- singerrapper
- Biography
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Petter Alexis Askergren, who simply uses his given name Petter as a stage name, is a Swedish rapper from Stockholm, Sweden, rapping in Swedish. He debuted in 1998 with the album Mitt sjätte sinne (My Sixth Sense), which became a success and started the Swedish hip hop boom in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He owns a record company called Bananrepubliken (English: The Banana Republic). He also studied art history at Uppsala University for some time. He has also worked with the famous Norwegian rap producer Tommy Tee several times in his career. Petter also frequently works with Swedish disk jockey Patrik Elofsson who goes by the stage name DJ Sleepy.
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Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
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- patron of the artspaintermilitary personnelgraphic artist
- Biography
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Prince Eugen of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Närke was a Swedish painter.
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Hanif Bali
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- web developerpolitician
- Biography
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Hanif Bali is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party and a former board member of the party. He was member of the Riksdag for Stockholm County between 2010 and 2022. He lives in Österåker, Åkersberga, where he is now active in municipal politics.
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Fredrik Lindström
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- writerfilm directortelevision presenterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Fredrik Lindström is a Swedish linguist, comedian, film director and presenter.
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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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Erik Axel Karlfeldt
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- poetwriter
- Biography
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Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously after he had been nominated by Nathan Söderblom, member of the Swedish Academy. Karlfeldt had been offered the award already in 1919 but refused to accept it, because of his position as permanent secretary to the Swedish Academy (1913–1931), which awards the prize.
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Ardalan Shekarabi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ardalan Shekarabi is a Swedish social democratic politician. He was chairman for his party's youth league SSU 2003–2005. He was minister for social security from 2019 to 2022, and had previously served as minister for public administration from 2014 to 2019. From January to October 2019 he was also minister for consumer affairs.
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Rudolf Kjellén
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- In 1880 graduated with professor
- Occupations
- geographerpolitical scientistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Johan Rudolf Kjellén was a Swedish political scientist, geographer and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics". His work was influenced by Friedrich Ratzel. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, and Ratzel, Kjellén would lay the foundations for the German Geopolitik that would later be espoused prominently by General Karl Haushofer.
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Pehr Henrik Ling
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- teachergymnastpoetfencing masterphysician
- Biography
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Pehr Henrik Ling pioneered the teaching of physical education and gymnastics in Sweden. He is considered the Father of Physical Therapy in Sweden. Although his procedures included friction, kneading, stroking, cupping, and clapping they were not related to what was later termed as Swedish massage.
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Antje Jackelén
- 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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Per Olov Enquist
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- 1955-1964 graduated with Master of Philosophy
- Occupations
- television writerliterary criticwriternovelistcritic
- Biography
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Per Olov Enquist, also known as P. O. Enquist, was a Swedish author. He worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist.
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Hannes Alfvén
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1926-1934
- Occupations
- science fiction writerelectrical engineerastronomeruniversity teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. He was originally trained as an electrical power engineer and later moved to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics and electrical engineering. Alfvén made many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the behavior of aurorae, the Van Allen radiation belts, the effect of magnetic storms on the Earth's magnetic field, the terrestrial magnetosphere, and the dynamics of plasmas in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Åsa Linderborg
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- historianwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Åsa Natacha Linderborg is a Swedish writer, columnist and historian. She writes regularly for Aftonbladet, where she works as chief cultural editor.
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Christopher Polhem
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1687
- Occupations
- industrial leaderphysicistentrepreneurmathematicianinventor
- Biography
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Christopher Polhammar better known as Christopher Polhem (listen), which he took after his ennoblement in 1716, was a Swedish scientist, inventor, and industrialist. He made significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining. He was ennobled by King Charles XII of Sweden for his contributions to Swedish technological development.
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Carl Peter Thunberg
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- ornithologistpteridologistuniversity teacherbryologistlepidopterist
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Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg, was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Africa and Asia, collecting and describing many plants and animals new to European science, and observing local cultures. He has been called "the father of South African botany", "pioneer of Occidental Medicine in Japan", and the "Japanese Linnaeus".
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Anders Jonas Ångström
- Occupations
- university teacherastronomerphysicist
- Biography
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Anders Jonas Ångström was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.
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Viktor Kochubey
- Occupations
- diplomatstatespersonpolitician
- Biography
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Prince Viktor Pavlovich Kochubey; (22 November [O.S. 11 November] 1768 – 15 June [O.S. 3 June] 1834) was a Russian statesman and close aide of Alexander I of Russia. Of Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack origin, he was a great-grandson of Vasily Kochubey. He took part in the Privy Committee that outlined Government reform of Alexander I. He served in London and Paris embassies as counsel, then as Ambassador to Turkey. In 1798 he was appointed to the board of College of Foreign Affairs and was made Count next year, but then Paul I of Russia exiled him. At the start of the reign of Alexander I, he joined the liberal Privy Committee that outlined Government reform of Alexander I. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1801–1802 and also Minister of the Interior until 1812, then in 1819–1825. Since 1827 he was the President of the State Council and Chairman of the Committee of Ministers. In 1834, he was granted the rank of Chancellor of the Russian Empire.
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Göran Lambertz
- Occupations
- juristjudge
- Biography
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Lars Göran Tomas Lambertz was the Chancellor of Justice (Swedish: justitiekansler) in Sweden between 2001 and 2009. He was serving as a judge on the Supreme Court of Sweden between 2009 and 2017.
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Johan Pehrson
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- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Carl Johan Georg Pehrson is a Swedish politician who served as leader of the Liberals Party from 2022 to 2025, as Minister for Employment and Integration from 2022 to 2024 and as Minister for Education from 2024 to 2025.
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Carl-Henric Svanberg
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- economistengineerentrepreneur
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Carl-Henric Svanberg is a Swedish business executive and current chairman of Volvo. He was chairman of BP for eight years from 2010 to 2018. In December 2023, Svanberg was appointed chair to the Commission on artificial intelligence to the Swedish government.
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Stane Dolanc
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- university teacherpolitical commissarpolitician
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Stane Dolanc was a Slovenian communist politician during SFR Yugoslavia. Dolanc was one of president Josip Broz Tito's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in Yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s. He was secretary of the Executive Bureau of the Presidency of the Central Committee (CC) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) from 1971 to 1978, federal Secretary of the Interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989. He was regularly appointed a member of the Federal Council for Protection of the Constitutional Order and was chairing the body in late 1980s.
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Nathan Söderblom
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- autobiographermissionarypastoruniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom was a Swedish bishop. He was the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala from 1914 to 1931, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on 12 July.
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Tomas Lindahl
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- physiciangeneticistbiologistchemist
- Biography
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Tomas Robert Lindahl is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
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Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie
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- military personnelland ownerjudgepolitician
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Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie was a Swedish statesman and military man. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1647 and came to be the holder of three of the five offices counted as the Great Officers of the Realm, namely Lord High Treasurer, Lord High Chancellor and Lord High Steward. He also served as Governor-General in the Swedish dominion of Livonia.
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Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1808-1815
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- composerschool teacherwomen's rights activistwriterpriest
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Carl Jonas Love Ludvig Almqvist was a Swedish author, romantic poet, romantic critic of political economy, realist, composer and social critic.
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Elisabeth Svantesson
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- politicianeconomist
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Karin Elisabeth Svantesson is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She has served as Minister for Finance in the cabinet of Ulf Kristersson since October 2022 and has served as first deputy leader of the party since 2019.
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Johan August Sandels
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1776
- Occupations
- military personnelcivil servantpolitician
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Count Johan August Sandels was a Swedish soldier and politician, being appointed Governor-general of Norway (Riksståthållare in Swedish, Rigsstatholder in Dano-Norwegian) 1818 and Field Marshal in 1824. He also served as acting Governor of Stockholm in 1815.
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Knut Wicksell
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1869
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell was a Swedish economist of the Stockholm school. He was professor at Uppsala University and Lund University.
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Peter Englund
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- historianwriterjournalist
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Peter Mikael Englund is a Swedish author and historian. He focuses on writing non-fiction books and essays, mostly about the Swedish Empire and other historical events. Englund is known for his accessible writing style, which includes narrative details that are often left out in traditional history books. His works have been translated into 20 languages. From 2009 to 2015, Englund served as the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, before being succeeded by Sara Danius. In January 2019, he and fellow academy member Kjell Espmark announced their return as active members of the Swedish academy, where they had been inactive since April 2018.
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Gustaf de Laval
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1863
- Occupations
- scientistpoliticianmechanical engineerbusinesspersoninventor
- Biography
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Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and centrifugal separation machinery for dairy.
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Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland
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- composer
- Biography
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Prince Gustaf of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Uppland, also known officially as Gustav, was the second son of Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, and the younger brother of Prince (from 1844 Crown Prince) Charles.
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Gunnar Strömmer
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Gunnar Sören Folke Strömmer is a Swedish politician serving as Minister for Justice since 2022. A member of the Moderate Party, he was previously Party Secretary from 2017 to 2022. He also served as Chairman of the Moderate Youth League from 1998 to 2000.
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Wilhelm Stenhammar
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- pianistconductorcomposer
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Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist. He is considered to be one of Sweden’s most important composers at the turn of the 20th century, and one of the finest Swedish pianists of his time, with a reputation as a fine interpreter of the piano music of Beethoven.
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Sara Lidman
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- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Sara Adéla Lidman was a Swedish writer.
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Olaus Rudbeck
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1648
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianarchaeologistxylographerarchitect
- Biography
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Olaus Rudbeck was a Swedish scientist and writer, professor of medicine at Uppsala University, and for several periods rector magnificus of the same university. He was born in Västerås, the son of Bishop Johannes Rudbeckius, who was personal chaplain to King Gustavus Adolphus, and the father of botanist Olof Rudbeck the Younger. Rudbeck is primarily known for his contributions in two fields: human anatomy and linguistics, but he was also accomplished in many other fields including music and botany. He established the first botanical garden in Sweden at Uppsala, called Rudbeck's Garden, but which was renamed a hundred years later for his son's student, the botanist Carl Linnaeus.
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Johann Beckmann
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- biologistagronomisteconomistuniversity teacherhistorian of technology
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Johann Beckmann was a German scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject.
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Lars Gustafsson
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- playwrightpoetwritertranslatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lars Erik Einar Gustafsson was a Swedish poet, novelist, and scholar. Among his awards were the Gerard Bonniers pris in 2006, the Goethe Medal in 2009, the Thomas Mann Prize in 2015, and the International Nonino Prize in Italy in 2016.
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Ulf Ekman
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- theologianmissionarypastor
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Ulf Ekman is a former charismatic pastor and the founder of the Livets Ord (Word of Life) organization in Sweden, which brought the Word of Faith movement to that country. Ekman is now a Catholic. Ekman is married to Birgitta Ekman and has four sons: Aron, Jonathan Ekman, Samuel, and Benjamin.
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Anders Chydenius
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- economistwriterpriestphilosopherpolitician
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Anders Chydenius was a Swedish-Finnish Lutheran priest and a member of the Swedish Riksdag, and is known as the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. He carried out his life's work in the Kingdom of Sweden, advocating for free trade, freedom of speech, and social reforms.
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Theodor Svedberg
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- In 1907 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- university teacherchemistartist
- Biography
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Theodor Svedberg was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate for his research on colloids and proteins using the ultracentrifuge. Svedberg was active at Uppsala University from the mid-1900s to late 1940s. While at Uppsala, Svedberg started as a docent before becoming the university's physical chemistry head in 1912. After leaving Uppsala in 1949, Svedberg was in charge of the Gustaf Werner Institute until 1967. Apart from his 1926 Nobel Prize, Svedberg was named a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1944 and became part of the National Academy of Sciences in 1945.
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Olaus Petri
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- priesttheologianhistorianjudgetranslator
- Biography
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Olof Persson, sometimes Petersson, better known under the Latin form of his name, Olaus Petri (or less commonly, Olavus Petri), was a clergyman, writer, judge, and major contributor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden. His brother, Laurentius Petri (Lars Persson), became the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden.
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Carl Linnaeus the Younger
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- mycologistbiologistbotanistuniversity teacher
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Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carolus Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné den yngre, or Linnaeus filius (Latin for Linnaeus the son; abbreviated L.fil. (outdated) or L.f. (modern) as a botanical authority; 20 January 1741 – 1 November 1783) was a Swedish naturalist. His names distinguish him from his father, the pioneering taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778).
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Rolf Sievert
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- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Rolf Maximilian Sievert was a Swedish medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of ionizing radiation.
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Erik Gustaf Geijer
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1799
- Occupations
- writerhistorianphilosophermusicologistcomposer
- Biography
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Erik Gustaf Geijer was a Swedish writer, historian, poet, romantic critic of political economy, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swedish National Romanticism. He was an influential advocate of conservatism, but switched to liberalism later in life.
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Gösta Mittag-Leffler
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- 1865-1872 graduated with Doctor
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- scientistuniversity teachereditorentrepreneurmathematician
- Biography
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Magnus Gustaf "Gösta" Mittag-Leffler was a Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions that today is called complex analysis. He founded the prestigious mathematical periodical Acta Mathematica and was its editor for 40 years.
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Johan Gadolin
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- university teacherphysicistmineralogistgeologistchemist
- Biography
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Johan Gadolin was a Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist. Gadolin discovered a "new earth" containing the first rare-earth compound yttrium, which was later determined to be a chemical element. He is also considered the founder of Finnish chemistry research, as the second holder of the Chair of Chemistry at the Royal Academy of Turku (or Åbo Kungliga Akademi). Gadolin was ennobled for his achievements and awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir and the Order of Saint Anna.
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Gunnar Ekelöf
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- poetwritertranslator
- Biography
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Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958. He won a number of prizes for his poetry.
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Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
- Enrolled in Uppsala University
- Studied in 1878
- Occupations
- diplomatjuristpolitician
- Biography
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Knut Hjalmar Leonard Hammarskjöld was a Swedish statesman, diplomat, and academic who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917. An independent conservative, he represented Uppsala County in the Riksdag from 1923 to 1938. His premiership was marked by economic hardship, domestic unrest, and growing tensions over suffrage and food shortages during World War I, all while maintaining neutrality throughout the conflict.
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August Ludwig von Schlözer
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- university teacherhistorianjournalistmathematicianstatistician
- Biography
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August Ludwig von Schlözer was a German historian and pedagogist who laid the foundations for the critical study of Russian medieval history. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history.
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Ivar Arpi
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- journalist
- Biography
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Ivar Arpi is a Swedish columnist and debater. He has written op-eds for Göteborgs-Posten, Hallandsposten and Svenska Dagbladet. Arpi claims that he supports freedom of speech and that he believes that pluralism of opinion is important for society to develop.
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Manne Siegbahn
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- 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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Jonas Hallberg
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- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Jonas Sven Hallberg was a Swedish journalist, radio and television personality, and presenter. He participated in Spanarna in Sveriges Radio and presented Måndagsbörsen and Dominans on SVT. He also worked as a stand-up comedian. In his youth, he was friends with Jan Guillou, and Hallberg described their friendship as Guillou being his first best friend.
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Birgitta Dahl
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- politician
- Biography
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Rut Birgitta Dahl was a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party. Dahl was a Member of Parliament from 1969 to 2002. She served as Minister for Energy from 1982 to 1990, as Minister for the Environment from 1986 to 1991, and as Speaker of the Parliament from 1994 to 2002. She was the chairman of the Swedish section of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) between 2005 and 2011.
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Bengt Danielsson
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- world travelerexplorerwriteranthropologistethnologist
- Biography
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Bengt Emmerik Danielsson was a Swedish anthropologist, writer, and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki raft expedition from South America to French Polynesia in 1947. In 1991, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "exposing the tragic results of and advocating an end to French nuclear colonialism."
