25 Notable alumni of Linkoping University
Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees
Linkoping University is ranked #298 in the world and #7 in Sweden by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Linkoping University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Linkoping University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Jonas Andersson
1989-. (aged 37)
politician
Jonas Peter Andersson is a Swedish politician. He has been a member of the Riksdag for the Sweden Democrats since 2018.
2. Lars Hultman
1960-. (aged 66)
physicist
researcher
Lars Hultman is a professor of materials science and head of the Division of Thin Film Physics at Linköping University.
3. Yvonne Andersson
1951-. (aged 75)
politician
Yvonne Andersson, born 1951, is a Swedish Christian democratic politician. She was especially active in academic debates. She has been a member of the Riksdag from 1998 to 2014.
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4. Jonas Arnell
1969-. (aged 57)
herald
Jonas Arnell, for a time Arnell-Szurkos, is a Swedish phaleristician and heraldist. Since 1 January 2023, he is Herald at the Chancery of the Swedish Royal Orders of Knighthood.
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5. Jan Malm
1950-2004 (aged 54)
engineer
Jan Malm was CEO of the Swedish telecom company Ericsson in China 2000–2004.
6. Markus Wiechel
1988-. (aged 38)
politician
Markus Wiechel is a Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) of Sweden following the resignation of Lars Isovaara on 29 November 2012. He's currently serving as member for the Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as Deputy for the Committee on European Union Affairs. Wiechel is currently part of three international parliamentary...
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7. Linda Westerlund Snecker
1983-. (aged 43)
politician
Linda Westerlund Snecker is a Swedish politician. Since September 2014, she serves as Member of the Riksdag representing the constituency of Östergötland County. She is affiliated with the Left Party.
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8. Johan Danielsson
1982-. (aged 44)
politician
Johan Danielsson is a Swedish trade unionist and politician of the Social Democratic Party who has served as Minister for Housing and Deputy Minister for Employment in cabinet of Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson until Magdalena Andersson did not get reelected.
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9. Mehemed Malmîsanij
1952-. (aged 74)
writer
Mehmet Tayfun alias Malmîsanij is a Kurdish author and linguist. He mostly writes in Zazaki. He often writes under the pseudonym Malmîsanij.
10. Jonas F. Ludvigsson
1969-. (aged 57)
epidemiologist
Jonas Filip Ludvigsson is a Swedish physician and epidemiologist. He is a professor at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and a senior paediatrician in the Department of Pediatrics at Örebro University Hospital, Sweden. Ludvigsson is known for being one of the 47 initial signees of the Great Barrington Declaration.
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11. Helena Höij
1965-. (aged 61)
politician
Helena Margareta Höij is a Swedish politician and civil servant who currently serves as Governor of Dalarna County since 1 November 2022.
12. Cecilia Widegren
1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Cecilia Widegren is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She was a member of the Riksdag from 2002 to 2022.
13. Arne Kaijser
1950-. (aged 76)
historian
historian of science
university teacher
Arne Kaijser is a professor emeritus of history of technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a former president of the Society for the History of Technology.
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14. Jan-Eric Sundgren
1951-. (aged 75)
businessperson
engineer
Jan-Eric Sundgren, is a Swedish engineer who served as senior vice president at Volvo Group from 2006 until 2013. Prior to that, he was a professor of physics at Linköping University, and served as rector at Chalmers University of Technology from 1998 until 2006.
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15. Carl-Henric Svanberg
1952-. (aged 74)
economist
engineer
entrepreneur
Carl-Henric Svanberg is a Swedish business executive and current chairman of Volvo. He was chairman of BP for eight years from 2010 to 2018. In December 2023, Svanberg was appointed chair to the Commission on artificial intelligence to the Swedish government.
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16. Perseus Karlström
1990-. (aged 36)
athletics competitor
Perseus Karlström is a Swedish male racewalker. He competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics. He also competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, but did not finish. He was bronze medallist at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Qatar 2019.
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17. Björn von Sydow
1945-. (aged 81)
politician
political scientist
Björn Gustaf von Sydow is a former speaker (talman) of the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament. He held this office following the 2002 election, when he succeeded Birgitta Dahl, until he was replaced on 2 October 2006. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, he had been minister for defence in Göran Persson's government between 1997 and 2002, preceded by...
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18. Veronica Palm
1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Anna Veronica Helen Palm is a Swedish author and former Social Democratic politician. She was Member of the Swedish Riksdag from 2002 to 2015 and chairman of the Stockholm Labour Commune from 2009 to 2016.
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19. Åsa Lindhagen
1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Åsa Maria Lindhagen is a Swedish politician for the Green Party. She served as Minister for Financial Markets from February to November 2021 and previously served as Minister for Gender Equality from 2019 to 2021.
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20. Victoria Kawesa
1975-. (aged 51)
politician
activist
Victoria Kawesa is a Swedish politician and former leader of the Feminist Initiative party. In March 2017, she was elected the leader of the party, along with Gudrun Schyman. Kawesa was the first black party leader in Swedish history. In September 2017, she resigned, citing personal reasons. Kawesa was charged and found guilty of copyright violation. She is a former...
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21. Rebecka Le Moine
1990-. (aged 36)
biologist
politician
Rebecka Le Moine is a Swedish politician. Since September 2018, she serves as Member of the Riksdag representing the constituency of Östergötland County. She is affiliated with the Green Party.
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22. Ola Tunander
1948-. (aged 78)
historian
political scientist
Göran Ola Tunander is a research professor emeritus at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO, Norway). He worked as a researcher at PRIO in the period 1987-2016. He is the son of Museum Director Ingemar Tunander and his first wife Gunvor (born Lilja). Tunander is married to the Chinese scholar Yao Xiaoling. He has written and edited 12 books and...
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23. Anders Tegnell
1956-. (aged 70)
physician
civil servant
epidemiologist
Nils Anders Tegnell is a Swedish civil servant and physician specialising in infectious disease. From 2013 until his resignation in March 2022 he was Sweden's state epidemiologist.
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24. Andreas Norlén
1973-. (aged 53)
university teacher
jurist
politician
Per Olof Andreas Norlén is a Swedish politician who has served as Speaker of the Riksdag since 2018. A member of the Moderate Party (M), he has represented Östergötland County in the Riksdag since 2006. Norlén was previously chairman of the Committee on the Constitution from 2014 to 2018.
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25. Gustav Fridolin
1983-. (aged 43)
politician
Per Gustav Edvard Fridolin is a Swedish journalist, author, teacher and former politician who served as Minister for Education from 2014 to 2019 and as one of two spokespersons of the Green Party from 2011 to 2019.
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