Brita Christina Hagberg, née Nilsdotter, alias Petter Hagberg, was a woman who served as a soldier in the Swedish army during the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790). She is one of two confirmed women to have been decorated for bravery in battle in Sweden before women were allowed into the military in the 20th century.
Gustav Adolf Skytte af Duderhof was a Swedish nobleman. He became a pirate and plundered ships in the Baltic Sea in the years 1657 to 1662.
Anna Maria Hilfeling, née Lange was a Swedish artist and portrait miniaturist.
Anna Åkerhielm or Åkerhjelm, née Anna Agriconia, was a Swedish writer, in languages including Latin, and traveller. She was the first woman in Sweden to have been ennobled for her own actions (1691).
Anna Gyllander was a Swedish imposter, who during the reign of King Charles X of Sweden, presented herself to be the abdicated queen Christina of Sweden.
Elsa Beata Bunge, née Wrede, was a Swedish botanist, writer and noble.
Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, known also as Dorothea von Holstein-Beck and Dorothea von Ziedewitz,, was a German princess of the House of Oldenburg and by marriage Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach.
Vendela Skytte was a Swedish noblewoman, salonist and writer, poet and Lady of Letters. During her lifetime, she became an ideal and role model for a learned female scholar.
Elizabeth Ribbing, was a Swedish noblewoman and lady-in-waiting. She was the secret morganatic spouse of Prince Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland.
Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock (1658–1714) was a Swedish noblewoman and lady-in-waiting; daughter of Count Erik Stenbock and related to queen Katarina Stenbock; sister of the political salonist Magdalena Stenbock.
Fredrika Eleonora von Düben was a Swedish dilettante painter and embroidery artist
Brigitta Lars Anderssons or Birgitta Lass Andersson, also called Brigitta Andersdotter, was a Swedish Cunning woman and courtier. She was the nurse of the royal children of King Gustav I of Sweden and queen Margaret Leijonhufvud, and also a personal favorite and de facto physician of the queen.
Countess Palatine Christina Magdalena of Kleeburg of the House of Wittelsbach, Margravine of Baden-Durlach. She was the daughter of John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg and Princess Catherine of Sweden. Christina Magdalena was a sister of Charles X of Sweden, and grew up in Sweden.
Ebba Månsdotter Lilliehöök of Kolbäck, was a Swedish noble, landlord and county administrator, Countess of Raseborg, Baroness of Gräfsnäs and lady of Käggleholm.
Anna Ehrenström, née Gråberg, was a Swedish poet.
Christina Hansadotter Brask, or Christin Hansadotter, was a Swedish writer and translator, and a member of the Bridgettine Order in Vadstena Abbey.
Christina Nilsdotter was a Swedish singer and song teacher. She was a member of the Bridgettine Order in Vadstena Abbey and well known as an artist for her ability and talent.
Elizabeth Carlsdotter Gyllenhielm, was the daughter of the Swedish prince Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland, in his secret marriage with the noble Elizabeth Ribbing.
Lucretia Johansdotter Gyllenhielm (1561–1585), was the illegitimate daughter of John III of Sweden and Karin Hansdotter. She was reportedly the favorite of her father.
Catharina Ulrika Hjort af Ornäs was a Swedish noblewoman and the victim of a murder case which was famous in contemporary Sweden. She died after having been subjected to abuse by her spouse and confined in a single room in her home for 33 years, after having been afflicted by a possible postpartum depression, and eventually succumbed to starvation and exhaustion.
