Uppsala is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful novels, mostly but not only crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the prestigious Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into more than twenty languages.
Peter Mikael Englund is a Swedish author and historian. Englund writes non-fiction books and essays, mainly about history. Especially about the Swedish Empire, but also about other historical events. He writes in a very accessible style, providing narrative details usually omitted in typical books about history. His books have gained popularity and are translated into several languages, such as German and Czech. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1 June 2009 to 31 May 2015, when he was succeeded by Sara Danius. In January 2019 Englund announced that he, and fellow academy member Kjell Espmark, would return as active members of the Swedish academy, where they had been inactive since April 2018.
Umeå is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County.
Bälinge IF is a sports club from Bälinge, 10 kilometres north-west of Uppsala, Sweden.
Stockholm commuter rail is the commuter rail system in Stockholm County, Sweden. The system is an important part of the public transport in Stockholm, and is controlled by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. The tracks are state-owned and administered by the Swedish Transport Administration, while the operation of the Stockholm commuter rail services itself has been contracted to MTR Nordic since December 2016.
Janne Sven-Åke Holmén is a Finnish former long-distance runner.
Fredrik Lindström is a Swedish comedian, film director and presenter.
Sven Robert Morgan Alling is a Swedish actor, screenwriter and film and theatre director.
Tommy Möller is a Swedish professor of Political science at Stockholm University, and a frequent conservative political commentator in the Swedish media.
Leif Allan Andrée is a Swedish actor.
Nils Magnus Roosmann is a Swedish actor.
Ulf Sven Friberg is a Swedish actor, screenwriter, theatre and film director.
Thorsten Flinck, is a Swedish actor, director, and musician. He is known best for playing psychopaths and villains, and also for his outrageous personality both on stage and in real life. Between 1986 and 2002, Flinck was employed by the Royal Dramatic Theatre.
Carl Gustav Lennart Jähkel is a Swedish actor. He is active at the Stockholm City Theatre, where he participated in several plays.
Unik FK is a Swedish football club located in Uppsala. The bandy club and the football club Unik are now legally separate, but allied and share logo, colours, history and fan base.
Upsala IF is a Swedish sports club located in the city of Uppsala.
Lars Gunnar "Lasse" Eriksson was a Swedish comedian, actor and writer.
Dan Allan Waldemar Svensson is a Swedish actor perhaps mostly known for his role as Gustav Svensson in the hit comedy series Svensson, Svensson. Besides acting in films, television and on stage, Svensson owns and runs the film production company Ridåfall AB.
Alexander Ally Karim is a Swedish actor and writer. He made waves as Frank Nordling on TV3's Advokaten, as he was the first Black actor to play a lead character in a primetime drama in Sweden.
