List of people from Gothenburg
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This is a list of notable people connected to Gothenburg, Sweden.
A–M
- Daniel Alfredsson – retired NHL hockey player; long time captain of the Ottawa Senators and forward for the Detroit Red Wings; played from 1991-2014
- Helen Alfredsson – professional golfer; winner, 1993 Nabisco Dinah Shore
- Karin Dreijer Andersson – singer-songwriter
- Ingelin Angerborn – children's author
- Margareta Arvidsson – Miss Sweden 1966, Miss Universe 1966
- Torsten Billman (1909-1989) – artist
- Poul Bjerre (1876–1964) – psychoanalyst
- Viktor Blom – poker player
- Colin Campbell – Scottish merchant and entrepreneur; co-founder of Swedish East India Company
- Arvid Carlsson – winner, Nobel Prize in Medicine (2000)
- William Chalmers (1748–1811) – manager of Swedish East India Company; founder of Chalmers University of Technology
- Sir William Chambers (1723–1796) – Scottish architect
- Ulf Dageby – rock musician
- John Darnielle – American singer-songwriter; wrote songs about Gothenburg
- Mikkey Dee – heavy-metal drummer
- Olof Dreijer – musician
- Gustavo Dudamel – Venezuelan conductor
- Jan Eliasson – former Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Loui Eriksson – National Hockey League player, Vancouver Canucks
- José González – musician
- Lennart Green – world-class magician
- Gunnar Gren – footballer; part of the Milan Gre-No-Li and 1958 FIFA World Cup runners-up squad
- Bengt Hallberg – jazz pianist
- Victor Hasselblad – industrialist; creator, Hasselblad cameras
- Håkan Hellström – singer-songwriter
- Zeth Höglund – founder of the Swedish communist movement
- Glenn Hysén – former football player, IFK Göteborg; father of Tobias Hysén
- Tobias Hysén – football player; son of Glenn Hysén
- Ingemar Johansson – boxer; World Heavyweight Champion, 1959
- Jan Johansson – jazz pianist; attended Chalmers University of Technology
- Kim Källström – football player; plays for Grasshopper Club Zürich in the Swiss Super League
- Felix Kjellberg – commonly known as PewDiePie; producer of Let's Play videos on YouTube
- Carl Klingberg – National Hockey League player, Winnipeg Jets; American Hockey League player, St. John's IceCaps
- Jens Lekman – singer-songwriter
- Christina Lindberg – exploitation-film actress
- Gunnel Lindblom – actress and director; cast in Ingmar Bergman's films
- Adam Lindgren – also known as Armada; professional Super Smash Bros. Melee player; currently ranked #1 in the world
- Mikael Ljungberg – Greco-Roman wrestler; world champion 1993 and 1995; Olympic gold 2000
- Henrik Lundqvist – NHL goalie
- Ludvig Engsund (born 1993) – Swedish ice hockey goaltender
- Aleksandra Mir – visual artist
N–Z
- Torbjörn Nilsson – former IFK Göteborg football player; part of the 1982 UEFA Cup winning team
- Stefan Olsdal – bassist in alternative rock band Placebo
- Christian Olsson (born 1980) – triple-jump gold medalist, 2004 Summer Olympics
- Elena Paparizou – Greek singer; winner, Eurovision Song Contest 2005
- Sofia von Porat – cookbook author
- Laleh Pourkarim – Persian-Swedish singer-songwriter
- Timo Räisänen – indie-pop musician
- Mathias Ranégie – football player for Sweden National Team
- Arie Reich – Israeli legal scholar
- Niclas Sahlgren – merchant and philanthropist
- Marcus Samuelsson – chef
- Torgny Segerstedt – anti-Nazi newspaper editor-in-chief
- Justus P Sjöberg (JP Seeburg) – automated musical equipment manufacturer
- Jonas Sjöstedt – Leader of Vänsterpartiet and former member of European Parliament
- Bedřich Smetana – Czech composer; lived in Gothenburg for a time
- Jonatan Söderström – avant-garde game developer
- Viktor Stalberg – National Hockey League player, Chicago Blackhawks
- Wilhelm Stenhammar – Swedish composer
- Henrick Stenson – professional golfer; won FedEx Cup 2013; former world number 2 in official world golf rankings
- Elizabeth Stride (née Gustafsdotter) (1843–1888) – alleged third victim of serial killer Jack the Ripper
- Glenn Strömberg – former football player, IFK Göteborg
- Joakim Sundström – sound editor, sound designer and musician
- Jonas Svensson – professional tennis player
- Evert Taube – author, artist, composer and singer
- Reorus Torkillus – first Lutheran minister in New Sweden
- Björn Ulvaeus – singer-songwriter from ABBA
- Alicia Vikander – actress
- Daniel Wahlgren (Papa Dee) – musician
- Oscar Wendt – football player; currently plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach
- Leonard Zhuta, footballer
Musical groups
- Ace of Base – pop group
- Arch Enemy – melodic-death-metal group
- At the Gates – melodic-death-metal group
- AVATAR – melodic-death-metal group
- Dark Tranquillity – melodic-death-metal group
- Dead by April – melodic-metalcore group
- Deathstars – cybergoth industrial-metal group
- Evergrey – progressive-metal group
- Freak Kitchen – hard-rock/heavy-metal group
- Graveyard – retro blues-rock band
- HammerFall – power-metal group
- The Haunted – thrash-metal band
- In Flames – melodic-death-metal group
- The Knife – electro duo
- Lina and Lambert – country music duo
- Little Dragon – electronic-pop group
- Nostradameus – power-metal group
- The Similou – electronic-music group
- The Soundtrack of Our Lives – rock group
