Top 30 most important and famous people from Sweden - Statistics

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One of the most popular and successful pop band of all time, Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen ABBA
83%
Engineer and chemist, inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel
83%
Footballer, one of the best strikers of his generation, legend of Psg, Inter Milan and AC Milan Zlatan Ibrahimović
82%
Rock band, the Final Countdown Europe
78%
Environmental activist known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation Greta Thunberg
76%
Tennis player, 11 times winner of Grand Slam titles Björn Borg
75%
DJ died in 2018, Wake Me Up, The Nights, Levels Avicii
73%
King, founder of modern Sweden, considered the father of the nation Gustav I/Gustav Vasa
73%
Actress, famous for her roles in Casablanca and For Whom the Bell Tolls, three times winner of Academy Award Ingrid Bergman
71%
Female writer author of children's books, Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren
70%
Director of The Seventh Seal and Persona Ingmar Bergman
69%
King, patron and benefactor of arts and literature, founder of the Swedish Academy Gustav III
66%
Female singer, Ain’t My Fault, Symphony Zara Larsson
58%
Actress, one of the greatest of all time, famous for her roles in Inspiration, The Kiss and Romance Greta Garbo
57%
Pop rock duo, The Look, Listen to Your Heart, It Must Have Been Love Roxette
57%
The second Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in a plane crash in 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld
54%
Writer, author of Gösta Berling's Saga. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909 Selma Lagerlöf
49%
Botanist and zoologist who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy Carl Linnaeus
47%
Writer, considered the father of modern Swedish literature, author of The Red Room August Strindberg
39%
Actress known for her beauty and stunning figure. She became famous for her iconic role as Sylvia in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita Anita Ekberg
31%
Footballer, striker of the Sweden National Team in 1950s and AC Milan legend Gunnar Nordahl
28%
Table tennis player. Called the Mozart of table tennis, the only person to win an Olympic table tennis gold medal representing a non-Asian country Jan-Ove Waldner
28%
Composer, musician and poet. A central figure in the Swedish song tradition, music and literature Carl Michael Bellman
22%
Statesman who played an important role during the Thirty Years' War and was appointed Governor-General of occupied Prussia Axel Oxenstierna
12%
One of the most important Scandinavian writers since the Second World War. Author of Baltics, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 2011 Tomas Tranströmer
11%
Physicist and chemist, one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903 Svante Arrhenius
10%
Geneticist specialised in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2022 Svante Pääbo
7%
Physicist, who ho made many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the effect of magnetic storms on the Earth's magnetic field, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970 Hannes Alfvén
6%
Economist, known for his study of race relations, which culminated in his book An American Dilemma, winner of Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974 Gunnar Myrdal
5%
One of the greatest writers in Swedish literature, author of Historietter Hjalmar Söderberg
4%
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