Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
Linus, a male given name, is the Latin form of the Greek name Linos. It is a common given name in Sweden. The origin of the name is unknown although the name appears in antiquity both as a musician who taught Apollo and as a son of Apollo who died in infancy.
The IF Malmö Redhawks is a Swedish professional ice hockey team based in Malmö which plays in the SHL, with Malmö Arena as the venue for home games.
Linus Pettersson is a Swedish bandy player who currently plays for Sandvikens AIK as a defender.
Linus Malmqvist, is a former Swedish football player, who played ten seasons for Landskrona BoIS and three seasons for Trelleborgs FF between the years 2001 and 2013.
Linus Hallenius is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Kubikenborg.
Smedby AIS is a Swedish football club located in Norrköping.
Linus Malmborg is a Swedish footballer who plays as a defender, most recently for Vasalunds IF.
Tecknad svenska, or Signed Swedish, is an obsolete manually coded form of Swedish that used signs of Swedish Sign Language for lexical words, supplemented by additional signs for grammatical words and inflectional endings. It was developed in the 1970s in the hopes of making Swedish more accessible to the deaf, but was later abandoned for being slow and inefficient. It was never a natural form of communication among deaf people.
Rolf Linus Wahlqvist Egnell is a Swedish professional footballer who plays for Pogoń Szczecin and the Sweden national team as a right-back.
Johan Linus Eklöw, better known by his stage name Style of Eye, is a Swedish DJ, record producer, songwriter and percussionist. He was part of the electropop music group Galantis from 2012.
Events from the year 1993 in Sweden
Linus Olsson is a Swedish professional footballer who plays for Lunds BK.
Linus Hans Fredrik Lundqvist is a Swedish racing driver who currently competes for Chip Ganassi Racing in the IndyCar Series. He previously competed in Indy Lights driving for HMD Motorsports with Dale Coyne Racing, having won the 2022 championship. He is also the 2020 Formula Regional Americas Champion. He made his IndyCar debut in 2023 driving the #60 Meyer Shank Racing Honda.
Erik Bergkvist was a Swedish politician for the Social Democratic Party. In 2019, he was voted into the European Parliament.
The 2020 Superettan was part of the 2020 Swedish football season, and the 21st season of Superettan, Sweden's second-tier football division in its current format. A total of 16 teams contest the league.
Linus Casper Carlstrand is a Swedish footballer who plays for IFK Göteborg as a striker. He is the son of former footballer Lars-Gunnar Carlstrand.
Felix David William Eriksson is a Swedish footballer who plays for Sogndal, on loan from IFK Göteborg, as a right-back.
Linus Lakso is a Swedish politician. He was elected as Member of the Riksdag in September 2022. He represents the constituency of Södermanland County. He is affiliated with the Green Party.
Linus Alexander Sköld is a Swedish politician, teacher and member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has represented Norrbotten County since January 2019. He had previously been a substitute member of the Riksdag four times: September 2015 to April 2016 ; February 2017 to August 2017 ; April 2018 to June 2018 ; and September 2018 to January 2019.
