Pernilla Nina Elisabet Wahlgren is a Swedish singer and actress. She has sung in Melodifestivalen several times;her 1985 entry titled "Piccadilly Circus" became popular and successful. She has acted in several plays and films,playing roles including Esmeralda in the Academy Award-winning Fanny and Alexander. She has twice received the Guldmasken award for her work in theater.
Mona Ingeborg Sahlin is a Swedish politician who was leader of the opposition and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011.
Feminist Initiative is a radical feminist political party in Sweden. The party was formed in 2005 from a pressure group of the same name,and has since taken part in every election to the Riksdag and the European Parliament. The party won its first elected representative in 2014,with Soraya Post taking one seat in the European Parliament.
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?".
Karl Fredrik Virtanen is a Sweden-Finnish journalist and former columnist for the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet and the host for the talk show Studio Virtanen on Swedish TV8. He has also hosted radio shows for Sveriges Radio. For Aftonbladet,he was the New York City correspondent,contributing weekly columns about life in the city. He also reported on entertainment,such as the Eurovision Song Contest.
Carl Martin Timell is a Swedish television presenter.
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.
Mariette Hansson,sometimes credited as MaryJet or simply Mariette,is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Hansson participated in Sikta mot stjärnorna in 1999 imitating singer Amanda Marshall. She participated in Idol 2009 which was broadcast on TV4 and finished fourth. A year later,Hansson was announced as "homo of the year" at the QX Gaygala in Stockholm.
Kent Alexander Ekeroth is a Swedish politician and economist,who represented the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from 2010 to 2018. Ekeroth has been involved with operating the news website Samhällsnytt and its predecessors since the beginning of his parliamentary term.
Lars-Inge Andersson best known as Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt,later Lars Ferm and even later known as Lars Patrick Carlander,was a Swedish criminal. Svartenbrandt spent almost 40 years combined in prison for several robberies,violent crimes,and prison escapes. He was described as the "most dangerous man in Sweden". Svartenbrandt described himself as an "uncurable psychopath".
Events from the year 2001 in Sweden
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.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2016 in Swedish music.
Martin Anders Kinnunen,is a Swedish-Finnish member of parliament for the Sweden Democrats party. He was previously the press secretary for the party,as well as leader for the party's youth organisation the Sweden Democratic Youth (SDU) between 2005 and 2007. He took over that position from Jimmie Åkesson and was succeeded by Erik Almqvist.
Tommy Clarence Engstrand was a Swedish sports journalist,sports commentator,and television host of general interest shows like Razzel and Zick-Zack.
On 31 August 2017,policeman Ted Eriksson and his colleague patrolled the area around Medborgarplatsen and Björns trädgård in Stockholm in conjunction with a sit-in protest concerning deportation of Afghan migrants from Sweden. The perpetrator,who had previously taken part in the protest,unprovokedly stabbed Eriksson in the neck from behind,the seriousness of the attack didn't cause any fatal injuries despite the spinal cord was punctured and the vertebra was fractured.
Mehrnoosh "Nooshi" Dadgostar is a Swedish politician,a member of the Riksdag since 2014,deputy chair of the Left Party from 2018 to 2020,and the chair since 2020.
In the run-up to the next Swedish general election,various organisations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Sweden. The date range for these opinion polls are from the 2022 Swedish general election,held on 11 September,to the present day. The next election is scheduled for 13 September 2026,but a snap election may be held earlier.
Muharrem Daniel Demirok is a Swedish politician who has been the leader of the Centre Party since 2 February 2023. Additionally,Demirok has been a member of Riksdag since September 2022.
