Barbro Margareta Svensson, known by her stage name Lill-Babs, was a Swedish singer, actress and television host. From the early 1950s until her death in 2018, she was one of Sweden's best-known and popular singers. She represented Sweden in the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest in Cannes with the song "April, april". She was also well known for the song "Är du kär i mej ännu Klas-Göran?".
Sissela Maria Kyle is a Swedish actress, theater director and comedian.
Barbro Alving was a Swedish journalist and writer, a pacifist and feminist, often using the pseudonym Bang. She wrote for, among others, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and the magazines Idun and Vecko-Journalen. She reported from various scenes during the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Cold War.
Anna Anka, is a Swedish and American model, actress, and author. She was married to Canadian singer Paul Anka. Anka is featured in the Swedish reality show Svenska Hollywoodfruar.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a Swedish writer. He is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of essays, short stories and plays. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages. He has received the August Prize for fiction and a Village Voice Obie Award for best script. In 2017 he became the first Swedish writer to have a short story published in the New Yorker. Khemiri's novel The Family Clause (FSG) was awarded the French Prix Médicis and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Khemiri moved to New York in 2021 for a Cullman Fellowship at The New York Public Library and currently teaches in the Creative Writing program at NYU. In 2023 he was a Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bennington College.
Anna-Lena Löfgren was a Swedish singer from Stockholm. During the years 1962 and 1995, more than 40 of her songs made it onto Svensktoppen, the record chart of Sveriges Radio. Löfgren became one of the most best known schlager singers in Sweden during the 1960s.
Ann Helen Heberlein is a Swedish academic and author, who writes extensively on theology and ethics. She is best known for her autobiographical account of life with bipolar disorder, Jag vill inte dö, jag vill bara inte leva.
Anna Carolina Odell is a Swedish artist and film director. She won two Guldbaggen Award for in 2014 for her film The Reunion in the categories Best Film and Best Screenplay. In 2009, her film Okänd, kvinna 2009-349701 received a lot of attention as it includes a faked suicide attempt on Liljeholmsbron in Stockholm. Both films have been nominated and presented at the Venice Biennale Film Festival. She is one of the groundbreaking artists in the emerging psycho-social art scene.
Shima Niavarani is an Iranian-Swedish actress and singer. She has performed in theater, film, television and radio in over 40 productions. Niavarani got her breakthrough at the age of nineteen in the play Autodidakt i enmansakt which she directed and played in. She toured with the play for over a year and her work received several awards. She is perhaps most known for her solo-musical Shima Niavarani är en Übermensch which was broadcast on SVT in 2010, and for her role as "Maiken" in the TV4 series Allt faller which was directed by Henrik Schyffert.
Ebba-Elisabeth Busch is a Swedish politician, serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Minister for Energy and the Minister for Business and Industry since October 2022. She has served as Leader of the Christian Democrats since April 2015.
Amanda Sofia Svensson is a Swedish author. She is the daughter of journalist Per Svensson and his wife Ann-Sofie Svensson, she grew up in Malmö. She started writing at a young age and at seventeen she reached the final of Lilla Augustpriset. She got her education at writing at Fridhems folkhögskola in Svalöv between 2006 and 2008. And studied from 2011 literature science and French at Lunds University.
Bahar Pars is an Iranian-Swedish actress and director.
Sara Magdalena Skyttedal is a Swedish politician previously of the Christian Democrats party. She was Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.
Negra Efendić is a Swedish journalist and author. She was born in Bosnia and grew up in the town of Brezovo Polje. She and her family fled the Bosnian War and came to Sweden in 1993. She studied to become a journalist at Bona folkhögskola in Motala and started working for Borås Tidning in 2006. In 2007, she started working for Svenska Dagbladet, where she now covers immigration and integration issues after covering the Swedish labor market for several years. In May 2016, Efendić published her first book, the autobiographical Jag var precis som du. The book consists of three parts: In the first part, she depicts her life in rural Brezovo Polje in the northeast part of Bosnia, near the Croatian border; The second part is about her refuge to Croatia and then Sweden, and her first years in the country; the third part takes place in present Stockholm, and depicts her life as a journalist.
Stina Elisabet Oscarson is a Swedish theater director, author, and debater.
Janice Deborah Kavander Kamya mostly known as Janice, is a Swedish singer.
Bilan Osman is a Swedish journalist, opinion columnist and anti-racism activist.
Parisa Amiri is a Swedish freelancing journalist and television presenter. She has been the editor in chief of Nöjesguiden, and as well as presenting and participating in several television shows on SVT.
Ellen Sofie Elisabeth Krauss is a Swedish singer. In 2023, Krauss participated in Så mycket bättre which was broadcast on TV4. In 2018, Krauss was awarded the Rookie of the Year at Denniz Pop Awards. She is a lesbian.
