Sundberg
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Sundberg is a moderately common Swedish surname/family name meaning "bay mountain". (Swedish sund is cognate with the English word "sound", as in Puget Sound in Washington state; berg means "mountain".) On the Wikipedia list of Swedish surnames it appears as number 72 in frequency.
[edit] Sundberg's of note
- Anton Niklas Sundberg (1818 - 1900) - Lutheran archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden and speaker of the Second Chamber of the Riksdag
- Carl-Johan Sundberg - Swedish actor
- Clayton A. Sundberg - Christian Heritage Party candidate from Blackstrap, Alberta in the 2004 Canadian elections
- H. (?) Sundberg - zoologist and classifier of various day geckos (phelsumas) in the Seychelles Islands, awarded the "sundbergi" classification for his finds
- Harry Sundberg - member of the bronze-winning Swedish football/soccer team at the 1924 Paris Olympics
- Jacob W. F. Sundberg - president of the International Commission of Inquiry into the 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine
- Joe Sundberg - main vocalist for the late '60s rock band Fuse
- Jim Sundberg (1951 - ) - major-league baseball player and American Leagues Gold Glove Award winner (1976-81)
- Johan Sundberg - author of textbook "The Science of Musical Sounds"
- Niels Sundberg - owner of Sun Air of Scandinavia
- Ola Sundberg - spokesperson for the ultra-nationalist Sweden Democrats party (Sverigedemokraterna) 1989-90
- Phelsuma Sundbergi - 3 subgenera of the Phelsuma day gecko from the Seychelles
- Mark L. Sundberg - noted Behavior Analyst, applied and research psychologist. Founder of "Journal of Verbal Behavior".
- Richard J. Sundberg - co-author of textbook "Advanced Organic Chemistry Part A Structure and Mechanisms"
- Ross Sundberg - Australian judge in Melbourne (1995 - )
- Michael L. Sundberg (1965 - ) Canadian professional fashion photographer and owner of Matrix Photography Inc.
