Notable Alumni of KTH Royal Institute of Technology [Sorted List]

1. Katarina Stensson

1988-. (aged 38)

politician

Esther Katarina Stensson is a Swedish politician and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party with a term from 2019–2021 Stensson took a masters exam in engineering physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2014 and a degree in licentiate in physics in 2018. Stensson is the Vice-President of the company "Checheza AB", a company focused on online classes. In...

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2. Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov

1972-. (aged 54)

mathematician university teacher

Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov is a Russian-German mathematician.

3. Frank Spitzer

1926-1992 (aged 66)

mathematician university teacher

Frank Ludvig Spitzer was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American mathematician who was a longtime professor at Cornell University and made fundamental contributions to probability theory, especially the theory of random walks, Brownian motion, and fluctuation theory, and then the theory of interacting particle systems. Other areas he made contributions to include percolation theory and the Wiener sausage. He focussed broadly on "phenomena",...

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4. Tage William-Olsson

1888-1960 (aged 72)

architect

Tage William-Olsson was a Swedish architect and chief town planning architect of Gothenburg. He was one of the designers of the Slussen traffic-roundabout infrastructure-project built during 1935 in Stockholm.

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5. Anders Lindquist

1942-. (aged 84)

electrical engineer

Anders Gunnar Lindquist is a Swedish applied mathematician and control theorist. He has made contributions to the theory of partial realization, stochastic modeling, estimation and control, and moment problems in systems and control. He is known for the discovery of the fast filtering algorithms for (discrete-time) Kalman filtering in the early 1970s, and his work on the separation principle of...

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6. Carl Daniel Ekman

1845-1904 (aged 59)

chemical technologist chemical engineer inventor

Carl Daniel Ekman was a Swedish chemical engineer who invented the form of the sulfite process of wood pulp manufacturing which was first established on a firm commercial basis, helping to replace rags as the main raw material of paper with wood pulp. The process was developed at Bergvik, Sweden, from 1871 to 1874, In 1879, he emigrated to England,...

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7. Conny Palm

1907-1951 (aged 44)

computer scientist statistician electrical engineer mathematician

Conrad "Conny" Rudolf Agaton Palm was a Swedish electrical engineer and statistician, known for several contributions to teletraffic engineering and queueing theory.

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8. Robert Dahlander

1870-1935 (aged 65)

electrical engineer

Robert Dahlander was a Swedish engineer and public agency administrator. He was also highly active and commissioner in several technological associations in the fields of gas and electricity.

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9. Hans von Kantzow

1887-1979 (aged 92)

businessperson engineer

Hans von Kantzow was a metallurgical engineer and industrialist, managing director and CEO at Bultfabriks AB in Hallstahammar 1918–1957. Von Kantzow is known to have invented the steel alloy Kanthal. In 1931 AB Kanthal was founded for the exploitation of the invention.

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10. Henrik Kreüger

1882-1953 (aged 71)

architect civil engineer

Henrik Kreüger was born in Kalmar, Sweden, and obtained his M.Sc. in civil engineering in 1904 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

11. Beatrice Rugland Timgren

1989-. (aged 37)

politician

Beatrice Rugland Timgren is a Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats. She is a Member of European Parliament for Sweden since July 2024, having been elected in the 2024 European election.

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12. Birger Ljungström

1872-1948 (aged 76)

industrial leader mechanical engineer engineer businessperson inventor

Birger Ljungström was a Swedish engineer, technical designer, industrialist, and inventor.

13. Harry von Eckermann

1886-1969 (aged 83)

geologist mineralogist businessperson

Harry von Eckermann was a Swedish industrialist, mineralogist and geologist. His studies were centered around anorogenic alkaline igneous rocks occurring in the Baltic Shield. Following this line he studied the Alnö Complex, Norra Kärr Alkaline Complex and various Rapakivi granites.

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14. Bengt Lindroos

1918-2010 (aged 92)

architect

Bengt Ingmar Lindroos was a Swedish architect.

15. Karl Lärka

1892-1981 (aged 89)

farmer photographer film director

Karl Lärka was one of the more important 20th-century documentary photographers in Sweden. Lärka's prime concern was to document the peasant culture that he understood was beginning to disappear, and especially the culture of the lands around lake Siljan in Dalarna; one with agriculture, forestry and many people with stories about older times. Most of his photography was done from...

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16. Anders Martin-Löf

1940-. (aged 86)

mathematician statistician

Anders Martin-Löf is a Swedish physicist and mathematician. He has been a professor in insurance mathematics and mathematical statistics since 1987 at the Department of Mathematics of Stockholm University.

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17. Erik Bratt

1916-2010 (aged 94)

aircraft pilot engineer

Erik Gustaf Bratt was a Swedish engineer and pilot. Erik Bratt was the brother of Colonel Lars Bratt.

18. Charles de Champs

1873-1959 (aged 86)

naval officer

Vice Admiral Charles Léon de Champs was a Swedish Navy officer who was the Chief of the Naval Staff from 1936 to 1937 and the Chief of the Navy from 1936 to 1939.

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19. Lars Backer

1892-1930 (aged 38)

architect

Lars Thalian Backer was a Norwegian architect. Backer was a pioneer of modernism in Norwegian architecture during the 1920s.

20. Jonas Hesselman

1877-1957 (aged 80)

inventor engineer

Jonas Hesselman was a Swedish engineer. He built the first spark ignition engine with direct injection of fuel into the cylinder.

21. Gunnar von Heijne

1951-. (aged 75)

chemist chemical engineer university teacher scientist bioinformatician

Professor Nils Gunnar Hansson von Heijne is a Swedish scientist working on signal peptides, membrane proteins and bioinformatics at the Stockholm Center for Biomembrane Research at Stockholm University.

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22. Hakon Ahlberg

1891-1984 (aged 93)

editing staff architect

Hakon Ahlberg was a Swedish architect, author, and editor.

23. Sigbritt Karlsson

1958-2023 (aged 65)

academic university teacher

Sigbritt Karlsson was a Swedish chemical engineer and president of KTH Royal Institute of Technology between November 2016 and November 2022.

24. Erik Josephson

1864-1929 (aged 65)

architect

Erik Semmy Josephson was a Swedish architect.

25. Carl Bergsten

1879-1935 (aged 56)

architect

Carl Gustaf Bergsten was a Swedish architect. He graduated in 1901 from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and three years later from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. A scholarship took him to Germany and to Vienna. He apprenticed with architects Isak Gustaf Clason and Erik Lallerstedt. Bergsten ran his own architectural firm from 1904-35. He...

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26. Georg Theodor Chiewitz

1815-1862 (aged 47)

engineer businessperson architect urban planner

Georg Theodor Policron Chiewitz was a Swedish architect and engineer. Due to financial problems he moved to Finland in 1851, where Chiewitz spent the rest of his career.

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27. Leif Grung

1894-1945 (aged 51)

architect

Leif Kuhnle Grung was a Norwegian architect. He was among the leading architects in Bergen during the 1920s and 1930s.

28. Fredrik Lilljekvist

1863-1932 (aged 69)

architect

Johan Fredrik Lilljekvist was a Swedish architect. He is best known for his controversial restoration of Gripsholm Castle and as the architect of the new building for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

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29. Björn Engquist

1945-. (aged 81)

mathematician university teacher

Björn Engquist is a Swedish mathematician, who is a professor at the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of Texas at Austin. He has been a leading contributor in the areas of multiscale modeling and scientific computing, and a productive educator of applied mathematicians.

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30. Ivar Otto Bendixson

1861-1935 (aged 74)

mathematician university teacher

Ivar Otto Bendixson was a Swedish mathematician.

31. Robert Karjel

1965-. (aged 61)

military personnel writer helicopter pilot

Robert Karjel is a Swedish writer of literary thrillers. He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, and lives in Stockholm. A helicopter pilot, he is a Lt. Colonel in the Swedish Air Force and the only Swedish pilot who has trained with the U.S. Marines.

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32. Rudolf Fredrik Berg

1846-1907 (aged 61)

engineer entrepreneur politician

Rudolf Fredrik Berg, also known as R.F. Berg and Fritz Berg, was a Swedish engineer, industrialist and politician. He also founded the Swedish construction and development company Skanska.

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33. Per Hallström

1866-1960 (aged 94)

translator poet chemist writer

Per August Leonard Hallström was a Swedish author, short-story writer, dramatist, poet and member of the Swedish Academy. He joined the academy in 1908, and served as its Permanent Secretary from 1931 to 1941.

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34. Magnus Egerstedt

1971-. (aged 55)

university teacher roboticist electrical engineer

Magnus B. Egerstedt is a Swedish-American roboticist who is the Dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He was formerly the Steve C. Chaddick School Chair and Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.

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35. Gunnar Fant

1919-2009 (aged 90)

linguist academic engineer

Carl Gunnar Michael Fant was a leading researcher in speech science in general and speech synthesis in particular who spent most of his career as a professor at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He was a first cousin of the actors and directors George Fant and Kenne Fant.

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36. Sara Mazur

1966-. (aged 60)

physicist electrical engineer

Birgit Sara Mazur, is a Swedish physicist, electrical engineer, and business executive.

37. Lars E. O. Svensson

1947-. (aged 79)

university teacher economist

Lars Erik Oscar Svensson, is a Swedish economist. He was on the faculty of Princeton University 2001–2009. Since June 2014, he is Affiliated Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Since 2009 he is Affiliated Professor at Stockholm University. He has published significant research in macroeconomics, especially monetary economics, international trade and general equilibrium theory. He is among the most...

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38. Maja Reichard

1991-. (aged 35)

swimmer

Maja Reichard is a Swedish swimmer. She has a visual impairment caused by retinitis pigmentosa and competes in the S11 disability class. She's the reigning paralympic champion in 100 m breaststroke.

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39. Axel Welin

1862-1951 (aged 89)

businessperson designer

Ernst Martin Axel Welin, was a Swedish inventor and industrialist. He was married to Agnes Welin from 1889.

40. Uno Åhrén

1897-1977 (aged 80)

handicrafter university teacher architect urban planner author

Uno Åhrén was a Swedish architect and city planner, and a leading proponent of functionalism in Sweden.

41. Lorena Delgado Varas

1974-. (aged 52)

chemical engineer politician

Lorena Olivia Delgado Varas is a Swedish politician and member of the Riksdag. Formerly a member of the Left Party, she has represented Stockholm Municipality since September 2018.

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42. Sune Lindström

1906-1989 (aged 83)

architect

Sune Lindström was a Swedish architect.

43. Helge Palmcrantz

1842-1880 (aged 38)

engineer inventor entrepreneur

Helge Palmcrantz was a Swedish inventor and industrialist.

44. Ragnar Sohlman

1870-1948 (aged 78)

chemical engineer architect businessperson chemist civil engineer

Ragnar Sohlman was a Swedish chemical engineer, manager, civil servant, and creator of the Nobel Foundation.

45. Carl Westman

1866-1936 (aged 70)

painter architect draftsperson

Ernst Carl Westman was a Swedish architect and interior designer. He was an early adopter of the National Romantic Style, but turned later to the neo-classical style of the 1920s.

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46. Mostafa Ronaghi

1968-. (aged 58)

biologist

Mostafa Ronaghi is an Iranian molecular biologist, specializing in DNA sequencing methodology. As of 2008, he was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Illumina.

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47. Marcus Storch

1942-. (aged 84)

businessperson engineer

Marcus Storch is a Swedish industrialist. He received an engineering degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

48. Samir Brikho

1958-. (aged 68)

entrepreneur

Samir Yacoub Brikho FREng is a Lebanese-Swedish global businessman. He served as the Executive Chairman at fertilizer producer EuroChem Group AG, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SUEK AG, Chief Executive Officer of Amec Foster Wheeler, and other senior executive roles at ABB and ALSTOM.

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49. Erik Ivar Fredholm

1866-1927 (aged 61)

mathematician university teacher

Erik Ivar Fredholm was a Swedish mathematician whose work on integral equations and operator theory foreshadowed the theory of Hilbert spaces.

50. Peter Celsing

1920-1974 (aged 54)

university teacher architect

Peter Elof Herman Torsten Folke von Celsing was a Swedish modernist architect.

51. Peter Pohl

1940-. (aged 86)

writer children's writer lecturer university teacher

Peter Pohl is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films. He has received prizes for several of his books and films, as well as for his entire work. From 1966 until his retirement in 2005, he was lecturer in Numerical analysis at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

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52. Isak Gustaf Clason

1856-1930 (aged 74)

university teacher architect

Isak Gustaf Clason was a Swedish architect.

53. Torben Grut

1871-1945 (aged 74)

architect

Torben Grut was a Swedish architect.

54. Willgodt Theophil Odhner

1845-1905 (aged 60)

engineer businessperson inventor

Willgodt Theophil Odhner was a Swedish engineer and entrepreneur, working in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was the inventor of the Odhner Arithmometer, which by the 1940s was one of the most popular type of portable mechanical calculator in the world.

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55. Waldemar Jungner

1869-1924 (aged 55)

engineer inventor chemical engineer businessperson

Ernst Waldemar Jungner was a Swedish inventor and engineer. In 1898 he invented the nickel-iron electric storage battery (NiFe), the nickel-cadmium battery (NiCd), and the rechargeable alkaline silver-cadmium battery (AgCd). As an inventor, he also fabricated a fire alarm based on different dilutions of metals. He also worked on the electrolytic production of sodium carbonate and patented a rock drilling...

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56. Lars Israel Wahlman

1870-1952 (aged 82)

university teacher architect artist

Lars Israël Wahlman was a Swedish architect. He was a supporter of the Arts and Crafts movement in Sweden and his architecture was influenced by romantic nationalism. His most famous work include Tjolöholm Castle and Engelbrekt Church. In his birthplace Hedemora one of the buildings he designed, the Wahlman building, bears his name.

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57. Gustaf Larson

1887-1968 (aged 81)

businessperson mechanical engineer

Erik Gustaf Larson was a Swedish automotive engineer and the co-founder of Volvo. He held a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in mechanical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

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58. Anders Franzén

1918-1993 (aged 75)

archaeologist anthropologist historian

Carl Gustaf Anders Franzén was a Swedish marine technician and an amateur naval archaeologist. He is most famous for having located the 1628 wreck of the Swedish galleon Vasa in 1956 and participated in her salvage 1959–1961. He also participated in the exploration for the wrecks of Swedish warships Kronan, Riksäpplet and Resande Man as well as Gustav Vasa's flagship...

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59. Knut Frænkel

1870-1897 (aged 27)

explorer balloonist polar explorer engineer civil engineer

Knut Hjalmar Ferdinand Frænkel was a Swedish engineer and arctic explorer who perished in the Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 of S. A. Andrée in 1897.

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60. Carl Schlyter

1968-. (aged 58)

politician environmentalist

Carl Schlyter is a Swedish politician who has been a member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2014. He is a member of the Green Party, which is part of the European Greens, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health...

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61. Svante Lindqvist

1948-. (aged 78)

historian

Lars Svante Albert Lindqvist is a Swedish historian who was the Marshal of the Realm of Sweden and chief of the Royal Court of Sweden from 1 January 2010 until 30 August 2018. Since 1 September 2018 he is appointed Chancellor of the Royal Orders of Knighthood, the chancery overseeing the Orders, decorations, and medals of Sweden.

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62. Alf Rehn

1972-. (aged 54)

professor

Alf Rehn is a Finnish professor, author and speaker based in Denmark. He was previously the Chair of Management and Organization at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Currently, he is a Professor of Innovation, Design, and Management at the University of Southern Denmark. Rehn works as a columnist, and sits on the board of directors for several companies, including Veikkaus.

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63. Peter Arvai

1979-. (aged 47)

computer scientist businessperson

Peter Arvai is a Hungarian–Swedish businessman and activist. He is the Executive Chairman, co-founder and former CEO of Prezi, a cloud-based presentation software company. As an entrepreneur, he founded omvard.se in Sweden, and co-founded Prezi in 2009 along with designer Adam Somlai-Fischer and computer scientist and university professor Peter Halacsy. As of 2020, Prezi has more than 100 million users...

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64. Karl-Birger Blomdahl

1916-1968 (aged 52)

university teacher conductor composer

Karl-Birger Blomdahl was a Swedish composer and conductor born in Växjö. He was educated in biochemistry, but was primarily active in music and by his experimental compositions he became one of the big names in Swedish modernism. His teachers included Hilding Rosenberg. He died in Kungsängen, Stockholm.

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65. Johan August Brinell

1849-1925 (aged 76)

mining engineer engineer industrial leader

August Brinell was a Swedish metallurgical engineer.

66. Waloddi Weibull

1887-1979 (aged 92)

mathematician engineer statistician university teacher

Ernst Hjalmar Waloddi Weibull was a Swedish engineer, materials scientist, and applied mathematician. The Weibull distribution is named after him.

67. Boris Hagelin

1892-1983 (aged 91)

mathematician engineer businessperson

Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin was a Swedish businessman and inventor of encryption machines.

68. Lucid Fall

1975-. (aged 51)

singer farmer songwriter

Jo Yun-suk, known by the stage name Lucid Fall (루시드폴), is a South Korean singer-songwriter. He began his music career in 1997 as a member of the band Misoni (미선이), but has been most prolific as a solo artist, having released eleven studio albums since 2001. Lucid Fall's musical style incorporates folk, pop, and bossa nova. Since getting married and...

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69. Minoo Akhtarzand

1956-. (aged 70)

electrical engineer

Minoo Hilda Akhtarzand is an Iranian-Swedish civil servant. Between 2008–2010 and 2010–2016, she served as Director-general of the Swedish Rail Administration and Governor of Jönköping County respectively.

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70. Carl Munters

1897-1983 (aged 86)

inventor engineer

Carl Georg Munters was a Swedish inventor, most known for inventing together with Baltzar von Platen the gas absorption refrigerator now sold by Electrolux. He also invented and patented a method of making foamed plastic, which was later rediscovered by Dow Chemical Company and used to make Styrofoam.

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71. Fredrik Ljungström

1875-1964 (aged 89)

railway engineer entrepreneur mechanical engineer engineer inventor

Fredrik Ljungström was a Swedish engineer, technical designer, and industrialist.

72. Curt Nicolin

1921-2006 (aged 85)

businessperson

Curt René Nicolin was a Swedish businessman. He served as the chairman of ASEA and the Swedish Employers Association.

73. Ragnar Östberg

1866-1945 (aged 79)

architect

Ragnar Östberg was a Swedish architect who is best known for designing Stockholm City Hall.

74. Thorsten Nordenfelt

1842-1920 (aged 78)

businessperson inventor business executive

Thorsten Nordenfelt was a Swedish inventor and industrialist.

75. Ian Wachtmeister

1932-2017 (aged 85)

writer engineer businessperson politician

Count Ian Melcher Shering Wachtmeister af Johannishus was a Swedish industrialist and politician. He was a member of the Swedish Riksdag from 1991 to 1994. He was the son of Count Ted Wachtmeister and Adrienne, née De Geer.

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76. Max Kidruk

1984-. (aged 42)

writer science fiction writer traveler opinion journalist

Maksym Ivanovych Kidruk is a Ukrainian travelogue and fiction writer and publisher. In 2009, he published Mexican Chronicles, which is an autobiography describing his journey across Mexico from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. Since then, Kidruk has traveled to 35 countries and written 28 books, including travelogues, adventure stories, and thrillers. Since 2012, he has been writing in...

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77. Rolf Sievert

1896-1966 (aged 70)

physicist university teacher

Rolf Maximilian Sievert was a Swedish medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of ionizing radiation.

78. Håkan Samuelsson

1951-. (aged 75)

entrepreneur businessperson

Håkan Samuelsson is a Swedish businessman who is chairman of the executive board (CEO) of Volvo Cars Corporation AB from October 2012 to January 2022. Previously, he was CEO of MAN SE from January 2005 to November 2009.

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79. Joe Armstrong

1950-2019 (aged 69)

computer scientist

Joseph Leslie Armstrong was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language.

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80. Börje Ekholm

1963-. (aged 63)

businessperson chief executive officer

Börje Ekholm is a Swedish-American business executive and CEO of Ericsson.

81. Anders Linder

1941-. (aged 85)

actor film score composer architect screenwriter jazz musician

Anders Hjalmar Linder is a Swedish actor and jazz musician. His father is Erik Hjalmar Linder and his son is Olle Linder. He is mainly known from the children's programs Ville, Valle och Viktor, Vintergatan, Björnes magasin and Kapten Zoom.

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82. Ferdinand Boberg

1860-1946 (aged 86)

visual artist graphic artist non-fiction writer architect

Gustaf Ferdinand Boberg was a Swedish architect.

83. Ivar Kreuger

1880-1932 (aged 52)

entrepreneur business executive financier civil engineer engineer

Ivar Kreuger was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. In 1908, he co-founded the construction company Kreuger & Toll Byggnads AB, which specialized in new building techniques. By aggressive investments and innovative financial instruments, he built a global match and financial empire. Between the two world wars, he negotiated match monopolies with European, Central American and South American...

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84. Christer Fuglesang

1957-. (aged 69)

blogger children's writer astronaut physicist

Arne Christer Fuglesang is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on 10 December 2006, making him the first Swedish citizen in space.

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85. Salomon August Andrée

1854-1897 (aged 43)

explorer balloonist mechanical engineer engineer photographer

Salomon August Andrée, during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon. The balloon expedition was unsuccessful in reaching the Pole and resulted in the deaths of all three of its participants.

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86. Hannes Alfvén

1908-1995 (aged 87)

science fiction writer electrical engineer astronomer university teacher physicist

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...

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87. Gunnar Asplund

1885-1940 (aged 55)

architect

Erik Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s during the last decade of his life. At this time, he was a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of...

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88. Gustaf de Laval

1845-1913 (aged 68)

scientist politician mechanical engineer businessperson inventor

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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89. Olav Kallenberg

1939-. (aged 87)

university teacher mathematician statistician

Olav Kallenberg is a Swedish-American mathematician, working in all areas of probability theory. He is especially known for his work on random measures and probabilistic symmetries, and for his graduate-level textbooks and monographs. Since 2018 he is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Auburn University, AL.

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90. Ivar Jacobson

1939-. (aged 87)

computer scientist inventor

Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson is a Swedish computer scientist and software engineer, known as a major contributor to UML, Objectory, Rational Unified Process (RUP), aspect-oriented software development, and Essence.

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91. Max Tegmark

1967-. (aged 59)

cosmologist writer physicist astrophysicist astronomer

Max Tegmark is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-founded and leads the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on reducing global catastrophic risks from advanced technologies.

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92. Ali Ghodsi

1978-. (aged 48)

computer scientist business executive

Ali Ghodsi is a Swedish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur of Persian origin, specializing in distributed systems and big data. He is a co-founder and CEO of Databricks and an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. He coauthored several influential papers, including Apache Mesos and Apache Spark SQL.

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93. Carl-Axel Acking

1910-2001 (aged 91)

architect designer

Carl-Axel Acking was a Swedish architect, author and furniture designer, winner of the Lunning Prize in 1952.

94. Kurt Atterberg

1887-1974 (aged 87)

choreographer conductor composer classical composer university teacher

Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer and civil engineer. Along with Ture Rangström, he was one the foremost Swedish composers of the generation succeeding Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm Stenhammar and Hugo Alfvén. Atterberg is best known for his symphonies, operas, and ballets.

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95. Dennis Gyllensporre

1964-. (aged 62)

military personnel political scientist

Lieutenant General Tage Dennis Gyllensporre KmstkSO (born Öztürkmen; 14 July 1964) is a Swedish military officer with extensive experience in defense planning, international operations, and strategic leadership. He was commissioned in 1987 and began his career at the Norrland Signal Regiment, later holding various command and staff positions within the Swedish Armed Forces, NATO, and the United Nations.

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96. Christian Guttmann

1998-2002 (aged 4)

computer scientist researcher

Christian Guttmann is an entrepreneur, business executive and scientist in Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, and Quantum AI. He is a German, Swedish and Australian citizen. He has been the vice president in Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Pegasystems responsible for the development of AI Agent Systems, Large Language Models and Generative AI. He is an adjunct associate professor at the...

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97. Alfred Grenander

1863-1931 (aged 68)

architect

Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander was a Swedish architect, who became one of the most prominent engineers during the first building period of the Berlin U-Bahn network in the early twentieth century.

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98. Ernst Alexanderson

1878-1975 (aged 97)

electrical engineer electrician inventor

Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and inventor who was a pioneer in radio development. He invented the Alexanderson alternator, an early radio transmitter used between 1906 and the 1930s for longwave long distance radio transmission. Alexanderson also created the amplidyne, a direct current amplifier used during the Second World War for controlling anti-aircraft guns.

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99. Danica Kragic

1971-. (aged 55)

researcher

Danica Kragic is a professor of computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. She was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for contributions to vision-based systems and robotic object manipulation.

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100. Dolph Lundgren

1957-. (aged 69)

bodybuilder engineer judoka model chemist

Hans "Dolph" Lundgren is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist. He gained recognition for portraying the Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in his breakthrough role in Rocky IV (1985), a role he reprised in Creed II (2018).

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