- singer, musician and ABBA-member Benny Andersson,
- poet Carl Michael Bellman,
- field marshall Erik Jonsson Dahlberg,
- discoverer Sven Hedin,
- actress Greta Garbo,
- children book writer Barbro Lindgren,
- chemist, engineer and innovator, Alfred Nobel,
- poet H. C. Nordenflycht,
- Prime Minister (twice) of Sweden Olof Palme,
- racing driver Keke Rosberg,
- composer, pianist and conductor Wilhelm Stenhammar,
- writer, playwright, and painter August Strindberg.