List of Uppsala University people

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This is a list of notable people affiliated with Uppsala University.

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For a list of chancellors of the university, see Chancellor of Uppsala University.

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The statue of Linnaeus in the entrance hall of Carolina Rediviva, the main building of the university library, Uppsala

Nobel laureates affiliated with Uppsala University

Government, politics and civil service

Royalty

Crown Prince Carl (the later king Charles XV) and his brother Prince Gustaf, known as a song composer (the two young men closest to the pulpit), attending a lecture held by Law Professor Johan Christopher Lindblad (1799-1876) in the Theatrum OEconomicum, Uppsala. (Lithograph from 1846.) Princes Carl and Gustaf in Uppsala 1846.jpg
Crown Prince Carl (the later king Charles XV) and his brother Prince Gustaf, known as a song composer (the two young men closest to the pulpit), attending a lecture held by Law Professor Johan Christopher Lindblad (1799–1876) in the Theatrum Œconomicum, Uppsala. (Lithograph from 1846.)

International work

Swedish politicians

Non-Swedes

Religion

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Emanuel Swedenborg

As Uppsala University has one of only two faculties of theology in Sweden, and the older one of the two (the other is in Lund), most Swedish churchmen of note have actually graduated from the university.

Natural sciences and medicine

Mathematics, physics and astronomy

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Anders Celsius
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Anders Jonas Ångström

Chemistry, geology and mineralogy

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Jöns Jakob Berzelius

Medicine and life sciences

Explorers

Humanities and social sciences

Industry

Arts

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August Strindberg, photographic self-portrait

Literature

Music

Theatre and entertainment

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of Copenhagen</span> Public university in Copenhagen, Denmark

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Manne Siegbahn</span> Swedish physicist

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gustav (name)</span> Masculine given name

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Uplands nation</span> Student society at Uppsala University, Sweden

Uplands nation is a student society and one of thirteen nations at Uppsala University. It has traditionally recruited its members from the province of Uppland, which surrounds and includes Uppsala and stretches down south to the northern part of Stockholm. The nation uses an older spelling of the toponym. As of 2006, the nation has about 2,600 members.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carina Burman</span> Swedish novelist and literature scholar

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Olof Celsius</span> Swedish botanist (1670–1756)

Olof Celsius was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman. He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicon, in 1745–47. Celsius was also a prominent runologist.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gustaf Ising</span>

Gustaf Adolf Ising was a Swedish metrologist, geophysicist, and accelerator physicist.

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