This is a list of well known Swedes, ordered alphabetically within categories:
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Main article: List of Swedish actors
Main article: List of Swedish artists
- Ernst Josephson[?], (1851-1906)
- Carl Larsson, (1859-1928), painter
- Bruno Andreas Liljefors[?], (1860-1939), painter
- Carl Milles[?], (1875-1955), Swedish sculptor
- Alexander Roslin[?], (1718-1798), painter
- Johan Tobias Sergel[?], (1740-1814), Swedish sculptor
- Anders Zorn, (1860-1920), Swedish painter
Main article: List of Swedish diplomats
Main article: List of Swedish military commanders
- Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, (1757-1814)
- Per Brahe, (1602-1680), Swedish politician
- Johan Banér, (1596-1641), Swedish soldier
- Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten, (1727-1786), Swedish politician
- Lennart Torstensson, (1603-1651), Swedish Field Marshal
- Karl Gustav von Wrangel, (1613-1676), Field Marshal
Main article: List of Swedish monarchs
Main article: List of Swedes in music
- Hugo Alfvén[?], Swedish musician
- Stikkan Anderson, (1931-1997), Swedish musician
- Benny Andersson, Swedish songwriter
- Carl Michael Bellman, (1740-1795), Swedish musician
- Franz Berwald[?], Swedish musician
- Jussi Björling, Swedish musician
- Robyn, Swedish musician
- Per Gessle, Swedish musician
- Bo Hansson, Swedish musician
- Jenny Lind, Swedish musician
- Christian Lindberg[?], Swedish musician
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen, guitarist
- Max Martin[?], Swedish musician
- Birgit Nilsson[?], Swedish musician
- Christina Nilsson, (1843-1921), Swedish musician
- Ann-Sofie von Otter, (born 1955), Swedish musician
- Wilhelm Peterson Berger[?], Swedish musician
- Alan Pettersson[?], Swedish composer
- Johan Helmich Roman[?], Swedish musician
- Wilhelm Stenhammar[?], Swedish musician
- Evert Taube[?], Swedish musician
- Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish songwriter
- Cornelis Wreeswijk[?], Swedish musician
Main article: List of Swedish politicians
- Carl Bildt, Swedish politician
- Gustav Bonde, (1620-1667), Swedish politician
- Ingvar Carlsson, (born 1934), Swedish politician
- Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, (1622-1686), Swedish politician
- Louis De Geer, (1818-1896), Swedish politician
- Arvid Horn, (1664-1742), Swedish politician
- Axel von Fersen, (1755-1810), Swedish politician
- Tage Erlander[?], Swedish politician
- Axel Oxenstierna, (1583-1654), Swedish politician
- Olof Palme, (1927-1986), Swedish prime minister
- Göran Persson -- current Prime Minister
- Sten Sture the elder, (1470-1497 and 1501-1503), Swedish politician
Main article: List of Swedish scientists
- Johann Arfvedson, (1792-1841), chemist
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius, (1779-1848), chemist
- Anders Celsius, (1701-1744), astronomer
- Carolus Linnaeus, (1707-1778), Swedish botanist
- Christopher Polhem[?], physicist
- Olaus Rudbeckius, (1630-1702), medicine
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742-1786), chemist
- Anders Jonas Ångström, (1857-1910), physicist
Main article: List of Swedes in sports
Main article: List of Swedish writers
- Karin Boye[?], Swedish writer
- Fredrika Bremer, (1801-1865), Swedish writer
- Stig Dagerman[?], Swedish writer
- Gunnar Ekelöf[?], Swedish writer
- Gustaf Fröding[?], Swedish writer
- Verner von Heidenstam, (1859-1940), Swedish writer
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt, (1864-1931), Swedish writer
- Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer
- Pär Lagerkvist, (1891-1974), Swedish writer
- Selma Lagerlöf, (1858-1940), Swedish writer
- Astrid Lindgren, (1907-2002), children's author
- Harry Martinson, (1904-1978), Swedish poet
- Vilhelm Moberg, (1898-1973), Swedish writer
- August Strindberg, (1849-1912), Swedish writer
- Esaias Tegnér[?], Swedish writer
- Ingmar Bergman, (1918-), film director
- Saint Birgitta, (1303-1373), patron saint of Europe
- Gustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), inventor
- Lars Magnus Ericsson, (1846-1926), industrialist
- Sven Hedin[?] -- explorer
- Horace Engdahl -- permanent secretary, Swedish Academy
- Ingvar Kamprad, (born 1926), entrepreneur
- Ivar Kreuger -- industrialist "The King of World Finances" http://www.ivarkreuger.com
- Alva Myrdal, (1902-1986), – politician, agitator
- Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), instituted the Nobel prizes
- Nathan Söderblom[?] -- archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate
- Emanuel Swedenborg, (1688-1772), writer, mysticist, philosopher
See: List of Finland-Swedes
- Tove Jansson, (1914-2001), writer
- Elias Lönnrot, (1802-1884), writer
- Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, (1867-1951), military leader
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg, (1804-1877), writer
- Jean Sibelius, (1865-1957), composer
- Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, (1861-1944), politician
- Edit Södergran[?] -- poet
- Zacharias Topelius, (1818-1898), writer
- Linus Torvalds, (born 1969), entrepreneur
- Edward Westermarck, (1862-1939), – philosopher
- Georg Henrik von Wright, (1916-2003), philosopher
See also: List of people by nationality