List of Swedish Americans

The following is a list of notable Swedish Americans. Including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Swedish American or must have references showing they are Swedish American and are notable.

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Candice Bergen
Emma Stone

Entertainment

Actors
Susan Hayward
Ann-Margret

Music
Kris Kristofferson
Ricky Nelson
Gretchen Carlson

Other
Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt

Artists

Engineers
John Ericsson
  • Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born, electrical engineer[73]
  • Carl David Anderson, physicist[74]
  • Chester Carlson, physicist, inventor, and patent attorney[75]
  • John Ericsson, Swedish-born, inventor and mechanical engineer[76]
  • Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, Swedish-born parents, aircraft engineer and aeronautical innovator, considered one of the most talented and prolific aircraft design-engineers[77]
  • John B. Johnson, Swedish-born, electrical engineer and physicist
  • Clarence Hugo Linder, of Swedish descent, electrical engineer, founding member of the National Academy of Engineering
  • Harry Nyquist, Swedish-born, engineer, important contributor to information theory[78]
  • John W. Nystrom, Swedish-born, engineer[79]
  • Borje Rosaen, Swedish-born, mechanical engineer[80] born in Tierp, Uppsala, Sweden
  • Lars Rosaen, mechanical engineer and inventor [81]
  • Nils Rosaen, Swedish-born, mechanical engineer and inventor [82]
  • 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[83]

Entrepreneurs and businesspeople
Buzz Aldrin

Military

Politics and public service
Mamie Eisenhower
Tipper Gore
William Rehnquist

Religious personalities
Glenn T. Seaborg

Science
Phil Mickelson

Sports
Ray Bradbury
Carl Sandburg

Writers

Colonial people

Educators
  • Alida Anderson, university professor and widely published education researcher
  • George Akerlof, economist
  • Arnold Barton, educator and historian
  • Linda Lee Cadwell, teacher; widow of Bruce Lee
  • August Hjalmar Edgren, Swedish-born, linguistics and university professor[151]
  • Gustav A. Mellander, University dean, college president, Commissioner of the New Jersey State Board of Education, authored seven books and over 300 articles, honored by the United States House of Representatives, 1985
  • Claes Gösta Ryn, academic and educator
Charles Lindbergh

Other

See also
  • List of Swedes

References
  1. born Maud Solveig Christina Wikström in Luleå, Sweden
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-08-30. Retrieved 2006-05-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link); named the Swedish American of the Year, has performed for the King and Queen of Sweden
  3. Swedish immigrant paternal grandparents. Bergen is a Swedish-American according to ; she is Swedish on her father's side
  4. Swedish immigrant parents NY Times bio calls him a Swedish-American
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-06-13. Retrieved 2006-07-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Swedish-Persian", born in the US to a Swedish father, composer/conductor Ulf Björlin, and a Persian mother
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  8. Her mother is Swedish, according to
  9. https://www.bloody-disgusting.com/feature/213
  10. Swedish mother. "half Swedish"; her mother, Judith Anderson, is Swedish
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-06-14. Retrieved 2006-05-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)"Franco is Portuguese. I'm one quarter through my grandfather. My grandfather and then I'm also Russian and Swedish." His father is half-Swedish, half Portuguese
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-07-20. Retrieved 2006-05-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Swedish-born, became US citizen
  13. Daughter of Tippi Hedren. Listed as one of 24 Swedish-Americans at ; her maternal grandfather was Swedish
  14. his father, director Stephen Gyllenhaal, is of partial Swedish heritage
  15. her father, director Stephen Gyllenhaal, is of partial Swedish heritage
  16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-12-15. Retrieved 2006-05-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Swedish born, became US citizen
  17. Paternal grandparents were Swedish immigrants (MovieWeb)
  18. http://family.nose.dk/getperson.php?personID=I10&tree=Johansson
  19. Swedish-born, became US citizen
  20. (Swedish-born father)TomFolio.com: Van Johnson, Author Autograph Sample, Book List Link, Search Books Available
  21. Swedish immigrant grandfather. Listed as one of several "Famous Swedish Americans" at
  22. "Helen Lindroth". New York Times. 1956-10-12. pp. 29
  23. Carlotta Nillson, Veteran Actress-The New York Times; January 1, 1952 Obituary
  24. perhaps best known for playing Charlie Chan.Listed as one of several Swedish-Americans at ; Swedish- born
  25. Nancy Olson Biography
  26. http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/michelle-pfeiffer/biography/85
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  28. her grandfathers mother Elin was Swedish
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  30. Sullivan - referred to as a Swedish-American at ; mother is from Sweden and Per Sullivan speaks Swedish "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-27. Retrieved 2009-10-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  31. Listed as one of several Swedish-Americans at
  32. Swanson has referred to herself as Swedish - ; nothing else known on her ancestry
  33. Director Susan Stroman noted that Thurman is "really Swedish", citing Thurman's Swedish maternal grandmother
  34. (brother of Robert and Mark Wahlberg) Ancestry of Mark Wahlberg
  35. (brother of Robert and Donnie Wahlberg) Ancestry of Mark Wahlberg
  36. (brother of Donnie and Mark Wahlberg)Ancestry of Mark Wahlberg
  37. "Portrait of a Voiceover Actress" [interview] by Ray Sidman, Comic Buyers Guide, #1631 (August 2007), pp. 36-38
  38. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-02-07. Retrieved 2010-08-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  39. Born Irene Ahlberg 6/11 1910 in New York (father from Sweden, mother from New York), died 6/3 1993 in Orange, California. According to : https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0912115/ and http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1920usfedcen&indiv=try&h=31851738
  40. The Rainbow Bridge (a biography of Olive Fremstad) (Mary Watkins Cushing, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. Library of Congress Catalog card number 54:10494)
  41. Referred to as Swedish-American at ; Swedish parents
  42. immigrant from Gästrikland, Sweden
  43. Listed as one of several "Famous Swedish Americans" at
  44. Peggy Lee Tribute Archived 2007-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
  45. http://hd.se/familj/slaktforskning/2010/07/30/slaktmote-med-the-beach-boys/
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  50. Gyllenhaal is referred to as a "Swedish-American" at , he has one Swedish great-grandfather
  51. Noted "I'm Swedish" regarding his ethnicity
  52. Frontier Cavalcade, The Dickinson Press, March 14, 1957
  53. Carl Oscar Borg, Artist of the American West (by Marlene R. Miller) Archived 2010-01-17 at the Wayback Machine
  54. (The Journal of San Diego History)
  55. (Antiques and Fine Art)
  56. Hildebrand, Carver Edstrom. David Edstrom, Swedish American Sculptor (Swedish American Genealogist, 10, 1: 17–29 March 1990)
  57. Named one of "24 Famous Swedish Americans" at
  58. Paul Granlund (Gustavus Adolphus College)
  59. Ask Art. Knute Heldner
  60. Richard H. Saunders and Ellen G. Miles, American Colonial Portraits, 1700-1776, Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1987
  61. Doud, Richard K., John Hesselius: His Life and Work (Masters Thesis to the University of Delaware, 1963)
  62. A Prairie Dream Recaptured (American Heritage, by David G. Lowe. October 1969. Volume 20, Issue 6) "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2009-09-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  63. Ann Japenga (California Desert Art)
  64. artist known for seascapes and depictions of New Mexico’s indigenous culture.Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (Luther College Fine Arts Collection)
  65. Arvid Frederick Nyholm Biography (Luther College Fine Arts Collection)
  66. Biography of Claes Oldenburg Archived 2009-10-26 at the Wayback Machine
  67. / Sculpture intervention at Seattle Art Museum
  68. "Biography - Susan Mohl Powers". SMP Installations. Sailshade Studios, Inc. 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  69. Swedish born, immigrated to the United States
  70. Swedish-American; parents were Swedish
  71. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-01-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Swedish-American Archives of Greater Chicago Manuscript Collection #35, Exhibition by Swedisih-American Artists at the Swedish Club of Chicago 1911-1982.
  72. Gunnar Widforss Biography (Californiawatercolor.com)
  73. born in Uppsala, Sweden, immigrated to the US
  74. Second generation Swedish-American, according to
  75. Referred to as Swedish-American at
  76. born at Långbanshyttan in Värmland, Sweden, primarily active in the US
  77. The seventh of nine children of impoverished Swedish immigrants
  78. ; immigrant, born in Nilsby, Sweden
  79. Referred to as "Swedish-American" at
  83. named Swedish American of the Year by Vasa Order of America
  84. Mentioned growing up in Sweden at
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  89. "The Nome Gold Rush (by Larry Gedney. Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks)". Archived from the original on 2009-09-22. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
  90. The Handbook of Texas (Texas State Historical Association)
  91. Rockford Small Business Collection (Rockford, Illinois Regional History Center) Archived 2010-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
  92. Estwing Tour Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
  93. A Brief History of Indian Motorcycle Dick Scott's Indian Motorcycle Detroit
  94. A tribute to Erik Jonsson
  95. The Swedish Element in Illinois: Survey of the Past Seven Decades (by Ernst Wilhelm Olson, Swedish-American Biographical Association. 1917)
  96. Pacific Coast and Exposition Biographies (by John P. Young. Chronicle Publishing Company San Francisco, California, 1915)
  97. About P.A. Peterson (P.A. Peterson Center for Health) Archived 2008-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
  98. Rudolph A. Peterson, 98; Extended Global Reach of Bank of America (Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2003)
  99. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2003-12-19. Retrieved 2006-03-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  100. David Harris, Swanson Saga: End of a Dream (The New York Times, 9 September 1979)
  101. S. M. Swenson and the Development of the SMS Ranches (Swenson, Gail. University of Texas, 1960)
  102. "55 Years at Testor," Rockford Register Star, May 12, 1994
  104. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-04-27. Retrieved 2006-05-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) was named "Swedish-American of the Year"
  105. Alford, Kenneth D. Nazi Plunder: Great Treasure Stories of World War II. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-306-81241-5
  106. Corley, Robert G. and Marvin Yeomans Whiting, editors (July 1979) Dedication. Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society. Vol. 6, No. 2
  107. The Story of the Fifty-fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (A Committee of the Regiment, W. J. Coulter. 1887)
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  110. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-12-30. Retrieved 2006-05-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) is "Swedish Consul Emeritus"
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  112. http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article10793671.ab
  113. Described as a "Swedish-American" at
  114. bioguide.congress.gov
  115. Mamie Doud Eisenhower (The Chronicle. American Swedish Historical Foundation: Winter 1954-1955. Volume 1, Number 4. Philadelphia PA. : 1955)
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  117. Not Politics As Usual (Nordic Reach. July 1, 2002)
  118. http://www.loffe.net/
  119. Johnny Isakson, United States Senator from Georgia
  120. named as one of "24 Famous Swedish Americans" at
  121. "MNHS.ORG : Governors of Minnesota: Harold (Karl Harold Phillip) LeVander". Archived from the original on 2008-02-21. Retrieved 2007-04-02.
  122. Archived 2007-03-01 at the Wayback Machine "ethnic background: Swedish"
  123. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-01-06. Retrieved 2014-06-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) born in Stockholm, Sweden
  124. Church News
  125. [Appointed "The Swedish-American of 2002" by the Vasa Order of America http://www.saccny.org/main/scholarship/donors/olson/%5B%5D]
  126. "Named "Swedish-American of the Year"". Archived from the original on 2006-04-27. Retrieved 2006-05-16.
  127. http://linkstothepast.com/waukesha/pinelakebios.php#stsure
  128. Swedish immigrant
  129. Listed as one of "FAMOUS SWEDISH AMERICANS" at
  130. "MNHS.ORG : Governors of Minnesota | Luther W. (Wallace) Youngdahl". Archived from the original on 2007-03-01. Retrieved 2007-04-02.
  131. Christian Cyclopedia. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Archived 2009-09-01 at the Wayback Machine
  132. Whose Shoulders Do We Stand? by Virgil Olson, Professor Emeritus, Bethel University
  133. https://www.mormonwiki.com/Russell_M._Nelson
  134. "LDS Church News - Pres. and Sister Monson note their Swedish roots". Church News. Retrieved 2016-03-18.
  135. Swedish-born
  136. Swedish American Historical Quarterly - 1986-1997 Archived 2006-06-20 at the Wayback Machine
  137. "Elder Renlund: Real Power in Combining Family History with Temple - Church News and Events". ChurchofJesusChrist.org. Retrieved 2016-03-18.
  138. Andreas Rudman and his Family (by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig. Swedish Colonial News, Volume 2, Number 1 . Winter 2000) "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-15. Retrieved 2009-09-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  139. http://www.townofmerton.com/abouttown.html
  140. Carl David Anderson biography
  141. Seaborg biography Archived 2004-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
  142. Raised in a Swedish-American family
  143. Johnson was sometimes called "Swede"
  144. University of Minnesota Gophers
  145. Award Winners - Nils V. "Swede" Nelson Archived 2006-04-30 at the Wayback Machine
  146. listed as one of "FAMOUS SWEDISH AMERICANS"
  147. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thoxxgBlR_8
  148. referred to as a Swedish-American at Archived 2006-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
  149. An Immigrant's American Odyssey: A Biography of Ernst Skarstedt (Emory Lindquist, Rock Island, Illinois: Augustana Historical Society, 1974)
  150. "The son of a Chippewa house painter and a Swedish-American mother "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2006-11-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)"
  151. The Founders of the Graduate College (by Robert Knoll, Professor Emeritus of English. University of Nebraska-Lincoln January 13, 2000)
  152. Named as one of "24 Famous Swedish Americans" at
  153. Wentz, Paul (February 1950). "Engraving Pin Heads". American Horologist & Jeweler
  154. "Gustaf Hallströms fotografisamling (Forskningsarkivet)". Archived from the original on 2007-02-08. Retrieved 2010-09-19.
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