Jörgen Pettersson is a former Swedish football striker. He played 27 international matches for the national team and featured at the Euro 2000. He was the manager of the Superettan team Landskrona BoIS until 11 June 2014 when his contract was cancelled.
Gösta Artur Roland Pettersson is a retired Swedish cyclist. As an amateur, he competed in the individual and team road events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one silver and two bronze medals, in 1964 and 1968. In 1968 he also took part in two track events: individual and team 4000 m pursuit.
Sweden competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 100 competitors, 86 men and 14 women, took part in 95 events in 13 sports.
Stefan Bengt Pettersson is a former Swedish footballer, who began his career in the Swedish Allsvenskan with the club IFK Norrköping, before leaving for IFK Göteborg during the 1984 season. The following four years he helped Göteborg win the league twice, become runners-up once, and to one UEFA Cup victory in 1987, in which he scored in the final itself against Dundee United.
Sten Karl Leopold "Sten-Pelle" Pettersson was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed in sprint and hurdling events. He competed at the 1924, 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics in the 110 and 400 m hurdles and 400 m and 4 × 400 m sprint relay. He won a bronze medal in the 110 m hurdles in 1924, and finished fourth in the 400 m hurdles and 4 × 400 m relay in 1928, while failing to reach the finals on other occasions.
Fritz Erik Elmsäter was the first Swedish athlete to compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. In 1948 he won a silver medal in the 3000 m steeplechase race, and finished 19th in the 18 km cross-country skiing and 9th in the Nordic combined event. At the 1952 Winter Olympics, he was the flag bearer for Sweden, and finished 56th in the 18 km skiing race and 13th in the Nordic combined.
Linus Pettersson is a Swedish bandy player who currently plays for Sandvikens AIK as a defender.
Ronney Pettersson is a former Swedish footballer.
Göta Elisabeth Pettersson was a Swedish gymnast. She was part of the Swedish teams that finished fourth all-around at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and won a gold medal in the team portable apparatus in 1952. She also won a gold all-around team medal at the 1950 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Elin Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling is a Swedish retired gymnast. She competed at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in the obsolete event team portable apparatus. In 1956, she also won a bronze on the vault, the only Swedish gymnast to win an individual Olympic medal.
Anna Margret Jönsson Haag is a Swedish retired cross-country skier who competed between 2003 and 2018. At the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Haag won gold in the 4 x 5 km relay, earning Sweden the first gold medal in the women's relay event since 1960.
Stig Henry Johansson is a Swedish trotting trainer and former driver. He started his career as a professional trainer in 1969, and has during a large part of the career been a dominating force in Swedish trotting. He is, arguably, the greatest in Swedish trotting history. Internationally, he is regarded as one of the sport's great. Among the horses he has trained are top trotters Victory Tilly, Queen L., Peace Corps, Napoletano, Digger Crown, The Onion and Utah Bulwark. Together with these and other horses, Johansson has won numerous major races, including Elitloppet, Gran Premio della Lotteria, Nat Ray Trot (once) and Prix d'Amérique (once).
Lars Pettersson is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the early 1950s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1950 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen.
Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender, currently playing for Düsseldorfer EG in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
Stellan Westerdahl was a Swedish sailor. He won a silver medal in the star class at the 1972 Summer Olympics with Pelle Pettersson.
Tomas Pettersson is a retired Swedish cyclist. He was part of the road racing team of four Pettersson brothers, known as Fåglum brothers, who won the world title in 1967–1969 and a silver medal at the 1968 Olympics. In 1967 they were awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.
Stig Roland Helmer "Stickan" Pettersson is a retired Swedish high jumper. He won two medals at the European Athletics Championships and competed in three Olympic Games.
Daniel Kalles Pettersson is a Swedish football manager.
On 22 October 2015, 21-year-old Anton Lundin Pettersson attacked Kronan School in Trollhättan, Sweden, with a sword. He killed a teaching assistant and a male student, stabbed another male student and a teacher, and died later of the gunshot wounds he received during his apprehension. The second teacher who was wounded died in hospital six weeks after the attack, on 3 December.
Per Gustav Erik Pettersson is a Swedish bandy forward, currently playing for Yenisey Krasnoyarsk.
