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List of Swedish Americans
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This is an incomplete list of notable Swedish Americans.
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- Candice Bergen, actress and former fashion model, perhaps best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy Murphy Brown[1]
- Edgar Bergen, actor and radio performer, perhaps best known as a ventriloquist[2]
- Nadia Bjorlin, soap opera actress[3]
- Andrew Bryniarski, Character actor, bodybuilder, best known as Leatherface in remake of [[Texas Chainsaw Massacre].
- Linda Carlson, actress
- Kirsten Dunst, film actress[4]
- Robert Englund, actor
- Edie Falco, television and film actress, perhaps best known for her role as Carmela Soprano on The Sopranos[5]
- James Franco, film actor[6]
- Greta Garbo, legendary Swedish-born Hollywood actress[7]
- Melanie Griffith, well-known film actress[8]
- Jake Gyllenhaal, actor[9]
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, actress[10]
- Tippi Hedren, film actresshe
- Mark Hamill, film actor
- Signe Hasso, film actress[11]
- Susan Hayward, Academy Award-winning film actress[12]
- Liza Huber, soap opera, television and stage actress
- Gunilla Hutton, actress
- Tor Johnson, occasional actor and professional wrestler known as "The Super Swedish Angel"[13]
- Van Johnson (Swedish-born father), film and television actor
- Kayla Kleevage, stripper and pornographic actress
- Kris Kristofferson, influential country music songwriter, singer and actor[14]
- Caroline Lagerfelt (Swedish father), stage, film, and television actress[15]
- Eric Linden, film actor
- Viveca Lindfors (Swedish-born), stage and film actress
- Susan Lucci (Swedish-born mother), soap opera actress
- Ann-Margret, film actress and singer[16]
- Anna Q. Nilsson (Swedish-born), silent film actress
- Warner Oland, film actor, perhaps best known for playing Charlie Chan[17]
- Stellan Skarsgård (Swedish-born), famous actor with lots of roles on his merite list
- Inger Stevens (Swedish-born), film and television actress
- Peter Stormare (Swedish-born), famous actor with many roles on his list, ex prison break
- Erik Per Sullivan (1991 - ) Malcolm in the Middle actor[18]
- Gloria Swanson, silent film actress[19]
- Kristy Swanson, film/television actress[20]
- Uma Thurman, Academy Award-nominated film actress and former fashion model[21]
- Mamie Van Doren, stage, film and television actress
- Donnie Wahlberg, film actor and producer (brother of Robert and Mark Wahlberg)
- Mark Wahlberg, film actor (brother of Robert and Donnie Wahlberg)[22]
- Robert Wahlberg, film actor (brother of Donnie and Mark Wahlberg)
- Jennifer Westfeldt, film actress and writer[23]
- Gretchen Carlson, co-host of Fox & Friends on Fox News Channel
- Stephen Gyllenhaal, director[24]
- Mitch Hedberg-comedian
- Sofia Lidskog (Swedish-born), television personality
- Ozzie Nelson (Swedish immigrant parents), entertainer, radio and television actor
- Steven Soderbergh, film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and Oscar-winning director[25]
- Sven Sundgaard, television meteorologist
- Magnus Colcord Heurlin (Swedish-born), artist and painter
- Bud Grace, cartoonist[26]
- Karl Larsson (Swedish-born), painter, engraver and sculptor
- Hope Larson, illustrator and cartoonist
- Birger Sandzén, painter[27]
- Haddon Sundblom, creator of Santa Claus images for the Coca-Cola Company[28]
- John August Swanson (Swedish father), visual artist, painter
- Gustaf Tenggren (Swedish-born), illustrator
- Buzz Aldrin, pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing[29]
- Ernst Alexanderson, electrical engineer[30]
- Carl David Anderson, physicist[31]
- Chester Carlson, physicist, inventor, and patent attorney[32]
- John Ericsson, inventor and mechanical engineer[33]
- Markus Jakobsson (Swedish-born), computer security researcher and entrepreneur
- Clarence Johnson (Swedish-born parents), aircraft engineer and aeronautical innovator
- John B. Johnson (Swedish-born), electrical engineer and physicist
- Kelly Johnson, widely considered one of the most talented and prolific aircraft design-engineers[34]
- Harry Nyquist, engineer, important contributor to information theory[35]
- John W. Nystrom, engineer[36]
- Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Prize laureate, chemist prominent in the discovery and isolation of ten transuranic elements including plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and seaborgium, which was named in his honor[37]
- Gene Amdahl, computer architect and entrepreneur
- Curt Carlson, founder of the Carlson Companies
- J. Erik Jonsson (Swedish immigrant parents[38]), co-founder and former president of Texas Instruments Incorporated, mayor of Dallas and philanthropist
- Arvid Emanuel Kallen (Swedish-born), General Motors executive
- John W. Nordstrom (Swedish-born), co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain
- J. P. Seeburg, jukebox magnate and founder of the Seeburg Corporation
- Cristina Stenbeck (Swedish father, American mother), businesswoman
- Carl Strandlund, inventor and entrepreneur[39]
- David Sundstrand, inventor of the 10 key mechanical adding machine in 1914, also with brother Oscar, founder of Sundstand Corporation (now Hamilton Sundstrand)
- Arleigh Burke, U.S. Navy admiral
- John A. Dahlgren, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
- Roger Hanson, Confederate States Army general
- Ivor Thord-Gray, mercenary soldier
- Leroy Anderson (Swedish immigrant parents), composer
- Herbert Blomstedt, orchestral conductor
- Howard Hanson, composer, conductor, educator and music theorist[40]
- Joe Hill, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World[41]
- Quincy Jones III (Swedish-born mother), composer, music producer, film producer and author
- Ben Jorgensen, writer and singer for Armor For Sleep
- Kris Kristofferson, influential country music songwriter, singer and actor[42]
- MC Lars, rapper
- Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence
- Peggy Lee (Swedish/Norwegian grandparents)[43], jazz singer and songwriter
- Neil Levang, musician
- Jim Lindberg, singer-songwriter for the American punk rock band Pennywise
- Nils Lofgren, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band
- Freddy Moore, singer-songwirter
- Harry Nilsson, singer-songwriter [60]
- Hughie Thomasson, singer and guitarist
- Cal Tjader (Swedish parents), jazz musician
- Astrid Varnay (Swedish-born), opera singer
- Henry Vestine, guitarist, son of Ernest Harry Vestine
- Elmer L. Andersen, 30th Governor of Minnesota[44]
- C. Elmer Anderson, 28th Governor of Minnesota[45]
- John B. Anderson, U.S. Representative from Illinois and an Independent candidate in the 1980 presidential election
- Wendell Anderson, 33rd Governor of Minnesota, from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976[46]
- August H. Andresen, U.S. Representative from Minnesota
- Robert Bergland, U.S. Representative from Minnesota, 20th United States Secretary of Agriculture
- Joseph A. A. Burnquist, 19th Governor of Minnesota[47]
- Arne Carlson, politician active in the state of Minnesota[48]
- Adolph Olson Eberhart, 17th Governor of Minnesota
- Mamie Eisenhower, wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961[49]
- Thomas Frankson, 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
- Orville Freeman, 29th Governor of Minnesota, 16th United States Secretary of Agriculture, 47th Governor of Michigan[50]
- Jennifer Granholm[51]
- Johnny Isakson (2nd generation) - Republican Senator from Georgia since 2005.[52]
- John Albert Johnson, 16th Governor of Minnesota[53]
- Joseph B. Johnson (Swedish-born), 70th Governor of Vermont
- Magnus Johnson (Swedish-born), U.S. Senator from Minnesota
- Harold LeVander, 32nd Governor of Minnesota[54]
- John Lind, politician[55]
- Charles August Lindbergh, Congressman for 6th District of Minnesota from 1907 to 1917[56]
- Gottfrid Lindsten, 32nd Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
- Zoe Lofgren, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California
- Ernest Lundeen, U.S. Senator from Minnesota
- Dan Lungren, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California
- Warren G. Magnuson, United States Senator from Washington
- Albin Walter Norblad, Sr (Swedish-born), 19th Governor of Oregon (father of Albin Walter Norblad, Jr, grandfather of Albin Walter Norblad III)
- Albin Walter Norblad, Jr, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon (son of Albin Walter Norblad, Sr, father of Albin Walter Norblad III)
- Albin Walter Norblad III, attorney, judge of the Oregon Circuit Court (son of Albin Walter Norblad, Jr, grandson of Albin Walter Norblad, Sr)
- Grover Norquist, conservative activist, president of Americans for Tax Reform
- Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California
- Floyd B. Olson (Swedish mother), 22nd Governor of Minnesota
- Lyndon Lowell Olson, Jr., politician and diplomatAppointed "The Swedish-American of 2002" by the Vasa Order of America. [61]
- William Rehnquist, lawyer, jurist and a political figure, who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the Chief Justice of the United States[57]
- Carl Skoglund, socialist[58]
- Charles Stenholm, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas
- Don Sundquist, 47th Governor of Tennessee
- Monrad Wallgren, 13th Governor of Washington, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senator from Washington
- Earl Warren, California district attorney of Alameda County, the 30th Governor of California, and the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (from 1953 to 1969)[59]
- Luther Youngdahl[60], 27th Governor of Minnesota
- Oscar Youngdahl, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota
- Marcus Borg, religious author
- Paul Carlson, medical missionary of the Evangelical Covenant Church
- Eric Jansson (Swedish-born), pietist leader
- Andrew Nelson (Swedish immigrant parents), missionary, linguist and lexicographer associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Eric Norelius, clergyman and writer[61]
- David Nyvall, immigrant and church leader who helped shape the Evangelical Covenant Church and establish North Park University[62]
- David Lindberg, malacologist, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley
- Ernest Harry Vestine (Swedish immigrant parents), geophysicist and meteorologist
- Bob Burnquist, skateboarder
- Swede Carlstrom, Major League shortstop for the Boston Red Sox
- Dick Enberg, sportscaster
- Nancy Faust, stadium organist for the Chicago White Sox franchise in Major League Baseball
- Whitney Harchanko, model and martial artist[63]
- Walter Hellman, draughts player
- Mike Holmgren, head coach of the Seattle Seahawks[64]
- Walter Johnson, pitcher and three time triple crown winner for the Washington Nationals/Senators from 1907-1927 [62]
- Ewa Mataya Laurance (Swedish-born), pool player
- Edward Lindberg, athlete
- Freddie Lindstrom, baseball player
- Matthew Lindstrom, baseball player
- Greg Louganis, diver
- Joakim Noah, basketball player
- Bobo Olson (Swedish father), boxer
- Swede Risberg, baseball player
- Ulf Samuelsson (Swedish-born), ice hockey player
- Ted Sundquist, bobsledder and football manager
- Nelson Algren, writer
- Ray Bradbury, science fiction and fantasy[65]
- Victor Davis Hanson, military historian, columnist, political essayist and former classics professorsusan
- Edita Morris, writer[66]
- Carl Sandburg, poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist[67]
- Gerald Vizenor, novelist and literary critic.[68]
- George Akerlof, economist
- Leroy J. Alexanderson, sailor, last captain of the SS United States
- Alfred O. Andersson, publisher
- Jack Anderson, journalist
- Måns Andersson (Swedish-born), ancestor of the Bush family
- Lillian Asplund, Titanic survivor
- Arnold Barton, historian
- Jonas Bronck (Swedish-born), Swedish settler after whom the New York City borough of the Bronx was named
- Leticia Cline, model
- Abraham Fornander, journalist, judge and ethnologist
- Franklin S. Forsberg, publisher and diplomat
- Charles Lindbergh, pioneering United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927[69]
- Erik Lindbergh, aviator, grandson of Charles Lindbergh (see above
- William Roberts, historian
- ^ Bergen is a Swedish-American according to [1]; she is Swedish on her father's side[2]
- ^ born to Swedish immigrant parents[3], NY Times bio calls him a Swedish-American [4]
- ^ [5] "Swedish-Persian", born in the U.S. to a Swedish father, composer/conductor Ulf Björlin, and a Persian mother
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000379/bio
- ^ [6] "half Swedish"; her mother, Judith Anderson, is Swedish
- ^ [7]"Franco is Portuguese. I'm one quarter through my grandfather. My grandfather and then I'm also Russian and Swedish."
- ^ [8] [9] Swedish-born, became U.S. citizen
- ^ Listed as one of 24 Swedish-Americans at [10]; her maternal grandfather was Swedish
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350453/bio
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350454/bio
- ^ [11][12] Swedish born, became U.S. citizen
- ^ Listed as one of 24 Swedish-Americans at [13]
- ^ [14] Swedish-born, became U.S. citizen
- ^ Listed as one of several "Famous Swedish Americans" at [15]
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0481222/bio
- ^ [16] Swedish-born; named the Swedish American of the Year, has performed for the King and Queen of Sweden
- ^ Listed as one of several Swedish-Americans at [17]; Swedish-born
- ^ Sullivan - Referred to as a Swedish-American at [18]; mother is from Sweden and Per Sullivan speaks Swedish[19]
- ^ Listed as one of several Swedish-Americans at [20]
- ^ Swanson has referred to herself as "Swedish" here - [21]; nothing else known on her ancestry
- ^ Director Susan Stroman noted that Thurman is "really Swedish", citing Thurman's Swedish maternal grandmother [22]
- ^ http://www.wargs.com/other/wahlberg.html
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922724/bio
- ^ Gyllenhaal is referred to as a "Swedish-American" at [23], he has one Swedish great-grandfather; family tree can be viewed at [24]
- ^ [25] Noted "I'm Swedish" regarding his ethnicity
- ^ Named one of "24 Famous Swedish Americans" at [26]
- ^ [27] Swedish born, immigrated to the United States
- ^ [28] Swedish-American; parents were Swedish
- ^ [29] was named "Swedish-American of the Year"
- ^ [30] born in Uppsala, Sweden, immigrated to the U.S.
- ^ Second generation Swedish-American, according to [31]
- ^ Referred to as Swedish-American at [32]
- ^ [33] born at Långbanshyttan in Värmland, Sweden, primarily active in the U.S.
- ^ [34]The seventh of nine children of impoverished Swedish immigrants
- ^ [35]; immigrant, born in Nilsby, Sweden
- ^ Referred to as "Swedish-American" at [36]
- ^ [37] named Swedish American of the Year by Vasa Order of America
- ^ http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/timeline/key/1990/images/65012-1.pdf
- ^ [38] Swedish-born
- ^ Referred to as Swedish-American at [39]; Swedish parents
- ^ [40] immigrant from Gästrikland, Sweden
- ^ Listed as one of several "Famous Swedish Americans" at [41]
- ^ http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/Peggy%20Lee_2.htm
- ^ http://www.mnhs.org/people/governors/gov/gov_32.htm
- ^ http://www.mnhs.org/people/governors/gov/gov_30.htm
- ^ [42] is "Swedish Consul Emeritus"
- ^ http://www.mnhs.org/people/governors/gov/gov_21.htm
- ^ Described as a "Swedish-American" at [43]
- ^ Named as one of "FAMOUS SWEDISH AMERICANS" at [44]
- ^ http://www.mnhs.org/people/governors/gov/gov_31.htm
- ^ Is of Finnish-Swedish ancestry.[45]
- ^ http://isakson.senate.gov/floor/2005/041305immigration.htm
- ^ named as one of "24 Famous Swedish Americans" at [46]
- ^ http://www.mnhs.org/people/governors/gov/gov_34.htm
- ^ [47] "ethnic background: Swedish"
- ^ [48] born in Stockholm, Sweden
- ^ Named "Swedish-American of the Year" [49]
- ^ [50] Swedish immigrant
- ^ Listed as one of "FAMOUS SWEDISH AMERICANS" at [51]
- ^ http://www.mnhs.org/people/governors/gov/gov_29.htm
- ^ [52] Swedish-born
- ^ [53]
- ^ Ukrainian/Swedish 5' 6" 115lbs
- ^ [54] Raised in a Swedish-American family
- ^ [55] listed as one of "FAMOUS SWEDISH AMERICANS"
- ^ referred to as a Swedish-American at [56]
- ^ Listed as one of "FAMOUS SWEDISH AMERICANS" at [57]
- ^ "The son of a Chippewa house painter and a Swedish-American mother [58]"
- ^ Named as one of "24 Famous Swedish Americans" at [59]