List of Swedish Americans
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This is an incomplete list of notable Swedish Americans.
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[edit] Actors
- Candice Bergen - actress and former fashion model, perhaps best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy Murphy Brown[1]
- Edgar Bergen - actor and radio performer, perhaps best known as a ventriloquist[2]
- Nadia Bjorlin - soap opera actress[3]
- Kirsten Dunst - Hollywood film actress, perhaps best known for her performances as Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man films[4]
- Edie Falco - television and film actress, perhaps best known for her role as Carmela Soprano on The Sopranos[5]
- James Franco - film actor[6]
- Greta Garbo - legendary Swedish-born Hollywood actress[7]
- Melanie Griffith - well-known film actress[8]
- Signe Hasso - film actress[9]
- Susan Hayward - Academy Award-winning film actress[10]
- Tor Johnson - occasional actor and professional wrestler known as "The Super Swedish Angel"[11]
- Kris Kristofferson - influential country music songwriter, singer and actor[12]
- Ann-Margret - actress and singer[13]
- Warner Oland - film actor, perhaps best known for playing Charlie Chan[14]
- Erik Per Sullivan (1991 - ) Malcolm in the Middle actor[15]
- Gloria Swanson - silent film actress[16]
- Kristy Swanson - film/television actress[17]
- Uma Thurman - Academy Award-nominated film actress and former fashion model[18]
[edit] Art
- Birger Sandzén - painter[19]
- Haddon Sundblom - creator of Santa Claus images for the Coca-Cola Company[20]
[edit] Engineers
- Buzz Aldrin - pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing[21]
- Ernst Alexanderson - electrical engineer[22]
- Carl David Anderson - physicist[23]
- Chester Carlson - physicist, inventor, and patent attorney[24]
- John Ericsson - inventor and mechanical engineer[25]
- Harry Nyquist - engineer, important contributor to information theory[26]
- John W. Nystrom - engineer[27]
- Glenn T. Seaborg - Nobel Prize laureate, chemist prominent in the discovery and isolation of ten transuranic elements including plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and seaborgium, which was named in his honor[28]
[edit] Music
- Howard Hanson - composer, conductor, educator and music theorist[29]
- Joe Hill - labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World[30]
- Ben Jorgensen - writer and singer for Armor For Sleep
- Kris Kristofferson - influential country music songwriter, singer and actor[31]
- MC Lars - rapper
- Harry Nilsson - singer and songwriter [59]
[edit] Politics
- John B. Anderson, Republican congressman from Illinois and independent candidate for President in 1980
- Wendell Anderson - 33rd Governor of Minnesota, from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976[32]
- George W. Bush - 43rd President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001[33]
- Arne Carlson - politician active in the state of Minnesota[34]
- Mamie Eisenhower - wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961[35]
- John Hanson (1715 - 1783) -- first President of the U.S. Continental Congress
- Johnny Isakson (2nd generation) - Republican Senator from Georgia since 2005.[36]
- John Albert Johnson - politician[37]
- Magnus Johnson - politician[38]
- John Lind - politician[39]
- Charles August Lindbergh - Congressman for 6th District of Minnesota from 1907 to 1917[40]
- William Rehnquist - lawyer, jurist and a political figure, who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the Chief Justice of the United States[41]
- Carl Skoglund - socialist[42]
- Earl Warren - California district attorney of Alameda County, the 30th Governor of California, and the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (from 1953 to 1969)[43]
[edit] Sports
- Whitney Harchanko - model and martial artist[44]
- Mike Holmgren - head coach of the Seattle Seahawks[45]
- Walter Johnson - pitcher and three time triple crown winner for the Washington Nationals/Senators from 1907-1927 [60]
[edit] Writers
- Ray Bradbury - science fiction and fantasy[46]
- Edita Morris - writer[47]
- Carl Sandburg - poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist[48]
[edit] Other
- John A. Dahlgren (1809 - 1870) -- Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
- Bud Grace - cartoonist[49]
- Stephen Gyllenhaal - director[50]
- Mitch Hedberg-comedian
- Charles Lindbergh - pioneering United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927[51]
- Eric Norelius - clergyman and writer[52]
- David Nyvall - immigrant and church leader who helped shape the Evangelical Covenant Church and establish North Park University[53]
- Steven Soderbergh - film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and Oscar-winning director[54]
- Carl Strandlund - inventor and entrepreneur[55]
- Ivor Thord-Gray - mercenary soldier
- J P Seeburg - jukebox magnate and founder of the Seeburg Corporation
- David Sundstrand - inventor of the 10 key mechanical adding machine in 1914, also with brother Oscar, founder of Sundstand Corporation (now Hamilton Sundstrand)
[edit] References
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Bergen is a Swedish-American according to [1]; she is Swedish on her father's side[2]
- ^ born to Swedish immigrant parents[3], NY Times bio calls him a Swedish-American [4]
- ^ [5] "Swedish-Persian", born in the U.S. to a Swedish father, composer/conductor Ulf Björlin, and a Persian mother
- ^ [6] "Swedish/German"; mother Inez, is Swedish, father, Klaus Dunst, is German
- ^ [7] "half Swedish"; her mother, Judith Anderson, is Swedish
- ^ [8]"Franco is Portuguese. I'm one quarter through my grandfather. My grandfather and then I'm also Russian and Swedish."
- ^ [9] [10] Swedish-born, became U.S. citizen
- ^ Listed as one of 24 Swedish-Americans at [11]; her maternal grandfather was Swedish
- ^ [12][13] Swedish born, became U.S. citizen
- ^ Listed as one of 24 Swedish-Americans at [14]
- ^ [15] Swedish-born, became U.S. citizen
- ^ Listed as one of several "Famous Swedish Americans" at [16]
- ^ [17] Swedish-born; named the Swedish American of the Year, has performed for the King and Queen of Sweden
- ^ Listed as one of several Swedish-Americans at [18]; Swedish-born
- ^ Sullivan - Referred to as a Swedish-American at [19]; mother is from Sweden and Per Sullivan speaks Swedish[20]
- ^ Listed as one of several Swedish-Americans at [21]
- ^ Swanson has referred to herself as "Swedish" here - [22]; nothing else known on her ancestry
- ^ Director Susan Stroman noted that Thurman is "really Swedish", citing Thurman's Swedish maternal grandmother [23]
- ^ [24] Swedish born, immigrated to the United States
- ^ [25] Swedish-American; parents were Swedish
- ^ [26] was named "Swedish-American of the Year"
- ^ [27] born in Uppsala, Sweden, immigrated to the U.S.
- ^ Second generation Swedish-American, according to [28]
- ^ Referred to as Swedish-American at [29]
- ^ [30] born at Långbanshyttan in Värmland, Sweden, primarily active in the U.S.
- ^ [31]; immigrant, born in Nilsby, Sweden
- ^ Referred to as "Swedish-American" at [32]
- ^ [33] named Swedish American of the Year by Vasa Order of America
- ^ Referred to as Swedish-American at [34]; Swedish parents
- ^ [35] immigrant from Gästrikland, Sweden
- ^ Listed as one of several "Famous Swedish Americans" at [36]
- ^ [37] is "Swedish Consul Emeritus"
- ^ [38] Swedish Colonial Society refers to him as "Swedish", citing him as a descendant of Swedish-born Måns Andersson
- ^ Described as a "Swedish-American" at [39]
- ^ Named as one of "FAMOUS SWEDISH AMERICANS" at [40]
- ^ http://isakson.senate.gov/floor/2005/041305immigration.htm
- ^ named as one of "24 Famous Swedish Americans" at [41]
- ^ born near Karlstad, Sweden
- ^ [42] "ethnic background: Swedish"
- ^ [43] born in Stockholm, Sweden
- ^ Named "Swedish-American of the Year" [44]
- ^ [45] Swedish immigrant
- ^ Listed as one of "FAMOUS SWEDISH AMERICANS" at [46]
- ^ Ukrainian/Swedish 5' 6" 115lbs
- ^ [47] Raised in a Swedish-American family
- ^ [48] listed as one of "FAMOUS SWEDISH AMERICANS"
- ^ referred to as a Swedish-American at [49]
- ^ Listed as one of "FAMOUS SWEDISH AMERICANS" at [50]
- ^ Named one of "24 Famous Swedish Americans" at [51]
- ^ Gyllenhaal is referred to as a "Swedish-American" at [52], he has one Swedish great-grandfather; family tree can be viewed at [53]
- ^ Named as one of "24 Famous Swedish Americans" at [54]
- ^ [55] Swedish-born
- ^ [56]
- ^ [57] Noted "I'm Swedish" regarding his ethnicity
- ^ [58] Swedish-born
