Famous Swedes

Name these famous Swedish people based on the clues.

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Last updated: February 8, 2013

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Chemist, engineer, businessman, inventor of dynamite. His foundation bestows a series of famous awards annually	Alfred Nobel
Botanist, physician, zoologist, father of modern taxonomy, inventor of binomial nomenclature (eg. Homo sapiens)	Carl Linnaeus
Diplomat who, as envoy to Hungary, saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust	Raoul Wallenberg
Nobleman who led rebellion against Denmark and was proclaimed king, ending the Kalmar Union and beginning hereditary monarchy in Sweden in 1523	Gustav I (Gustav Vasa)
Writer of the Millennium trilogy	Stieg Larsson
Philosopher, theologian, mystic. Best known for his book Heaven and Hell (1756)	Emanuel Swedenborg
Actress whose credits include Anna Karenina, Mata Hari and Nintochka	Greta Garbo
Tennis player who won 11 Grand Slam singles titles	Björn Borg
King who led Sweden into the Thirty Years' War and died in battle	Gustavus Adolphus (Gustav II Adolf)
Dramatic soprano whose most famous roles included Brünnhilde	Birgit Nilsson
Children's writer known for Pippi Longstocking	Astrid Lindgren
Director of The Seventh Seal (1957)	Ingmar Bergman
Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland; heiress apparent to the Swedish throne	Victoria
Rock band whose albums include "Life" and "First Band on the Moon"	The Cardigans
UN Secretary-General, killed in plane crash in Zambia in 1961	Dag Hammaskjöld
Author of the Wallander crime novels	Henning Mankell

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King who was assassinated at a masked ball and became the subject of a Verdi opera	Gustav III
Actress who won three Academy Awards, played Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942)	Ingrid Bergman
King who fought in the Great Northern War and suffered decisive defeat at Poltava (1709)	Charles XII
Pop group whose hits include "Dancing Queen", "Waterloo" and "Mamma Mia"	ABBA
Footballer, striker for Paris Saint-Germain	Zlatan Ibrahimović
Iconoclastic writer known for his novel The Red Room (1879)	August Strindberg
Actor whose roles include knight Antonius Block, Father Lankester Merrin, Jesus and Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Max von Sydow
Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1986	Olof Palme
Businessman, philantrhopist who founded IKEA	Ingvar Kamprad
Astronomer who developed a temperature scale also known as centigrade	Anders Celsius
Golfer who won 90 international tournaments	Annika Sörenstam
Tenor known as the Swedish Caruso	Jussi Björling
Queen who studied with Descartes, abdicated and converted to Catholicism	Christina
18th-century composer and poet whose drinking songs remain popular	Carl Michael Bellman
First female to receive Nobel Prize in literature (1909), author of "Gösta Berling's Saga" and "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils".	Selma Lagerlöf
King of Sweden since 1973	Carl XVI Gustaf

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