People from Sweden

18 people remembered here.

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  Hans Andersson-Tvilling

  1928 – 2026 · Ice hockey forward

  Djurgården twin; Olympic bronze and world champion on ice, SM gold on grass.

  35 candles · 6 tributes
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  Bo Johansson

  1942 – 2026 · Football coach

  The gentle Swede who took Denmark to the 1998 World Cup quarter-finals.

  10 candles · 1 tributes
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  Margit Carlqvist

  1932 – 2026 · Actress (stage and film)

  Swedish actress of Bergman's To Joy and Smiles of a Summer Night, and a face of 1950s Swedish film.

  10 candles · 1 tributes
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  Little Gerhard

  1934 – 2026 · Swedish rock and roll singer

  Sweden's first rock king. Buona Sera, Den siste mohikanen, and the producer who found Agnetha Fältskog.

  10 candles · 1 tributes
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  Sven Hirdman

  1939 – 2026 · Diplomat

  Sweden's man in Moscow for a decade, a diplomat of the old school who believed in dialogue.

  9 candles · 1 tributes
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  Bo "Bosse" Johansson

  1942 – 2026 · Football coach

  The Swedish gentleman who gave Denmark its greatest World Cup summer.

  7 candles · 1 tributes
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  Örjan Ramberg

  1948 – 2026 · Actor

  A Dramaten actor for over four decades, whose stage career and its troubled end both shaped his legacy.

  7 candles · 1 tributes
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  Jonas "Heavy" Stentäpp

  1975 – 2026 · Musician

  Hjalle och Heavy's Heavy: punk drummer, reporter and folkrace voice who made Sweden smile.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Tony Reno

  1963 – 2026 · Musician

  Tony Reno, Yale's second-winningest football coach, led with integrity on and off the field.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Donald Bergagård

  1936 – 2026 · Singer

  Swedish Maranata evangelist and accordion singer of Där rosor aldrig dör.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Jan-Åke Gustafsson

  1943 – 2026 · Molecular biologist

  Swedish nuclear-receptor pioneer who found estrogen receptor beta.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Stefan Lord

  1954 – 2026 · Darts player

  Sweden's greatest darts player, the only overseas winner of the News of the World, and a friend to his club for life.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Tony Forsberg

  1933 – 2026 · Cinematographer

  Swedish cinematographer whose camera lit Sunday's Children, The Adventures of Picasso and When the Raven Flies.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Marcus Andersson

  † 2026 · Drummer

  A big heart that kept Disfear's D-beat pulse for nearly three decades.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Nils Eklund

  1927 – 2026 · Actor and voice actor

  Swedish character actor for seven decades: Dramaten stalwart, Pom-Pom in Svenska Sesam and the voice of Pettson.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Kjell Nilsson

  1949 – 2026 · Weightlifter

  The Gothenburg strongman who became the Lord Humungus, Warrior of the Wasteland, and did it his way.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Gullan Bornemark

  1927 – 2026 · Music teacher

  Swedish composer and music teacher whose 400 children's songs, from Sudda sudda to Min ponny, were sung by generations.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Pierre Lindstedt

  1943 – 2026 · Actor

  Arvid of The Emigrants and the gentle ghost of Greveholm.

  3 candles · 1 tributes