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Olsson
Olsson is a common Swedish surname. It is a contraction of the surname Olofsson and it literally means "son of Olof" and seldom also "son of Ola". Notable people with the surname include: * Åke Olsson - Swedish football player * Åke Olsson (chess player) (1934–2009) - Swedish chess player * Albert Julius Olsson (1864–1942), British artist * Anette Olsson, better known as Anette Olzon, Swedish singer * Arne Olsson, 20th century Lutheran bishop * Betty Olsson (1871–1950), Swedish suffragist and peace activist * Börje Kenny Olsson (1977–2007), speedway racer * Christian Olsson (born 1980), athlete * Cilluf Olsson (1847–1916), Swedish textile artist * Dan Olsson, Swedish businessman, CEO of Stena Sphere * Goran Hugo Olsson, Swedish film director * Holmfrid Olsson (1943–2009), Swedish biathlete * Ingela Olsson (born 1958), actress * Jan Olof Olsson (1920–1974), writer and journalist * Jeanette Olsson, Swedish singer and songwriter * Johan Olsson (ice ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Olsson
Martin Tony Waikwa Olsson (born 17 May 1988) is a Swedish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, left back for Malmö FF and the Sweden men's national football team, Sweden national team. Olsson signed for Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers from Högaborgs BK in January 2006. In 2013, Premier League side Norwich City F.C., Norwich City signed him for an undisclosed fee. In January 2017, he left Norwich to join Swansea until 2019. In 2020, he signed with Allsvenskan club Helsingborgs IF in his native Sweden before moving on to represent both BK Häcken and Malmö FF. A full international since 2010, Olsson has won more than 50 Cap (sport), caps for the Sweden men's national football team, Sweden national team and has represented his country at UEFA Euro 2012 and UEFA Euro 2016, 2016 as well as the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Club career Blackburn Rovers Olsson began his playing career in Sweden by playing for Högab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Olsson
Nigel Olsson (born 10 February 1949) is an English drummer, best known for being a lifelong member of the Elton John Band. He has had an equally long career as a session musician and composed, recorded and produced albums as a solo artist. Career Early years Olsson was born to John and Elsa Olsson in Wallasey, Cheshire, England, the second of five boys. His family were originally from Gothenburg and he spent his early life living in Sunderland, where he worked on the pilot boats on the River Wear. He began his musical career playing the guitar in small bands, including the Sunderland based Fireflies; and took up the drums at a gig where the drummer did not show up at the last minute. His first appearance on a record album was in the band Plastic Penny, which released ''Two Sides of a Penny'' on Page One Records in 1968. Olsson was spotlighted on one song on that album, "I Want You," performing both lead vocals and a drum solo. In 1969 he played drums on the "flower power" po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Olsson (born 1983)
Olle Jonas Olsson (born 10 March 1983) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Beginning his career with Landskrona BoIS in 2003, he went on to represent NEC Nijmegen, West Bromwich Albion, and Djurgårdens IF before retiring at Wigan Athletic in 2019. A full international between 2010 and 2015, he won 25 caps for the Sweden national team and represented his country at Euro 2012. Club career Early career Olsson was born in Landskrona and made his debut in professional football in 2003 as part of the Landskrona BoIS squad. Olsson is considered to be a very tough defender, playing as a centreback or leftback. He considers fellow Sweden national team defender Olof Mellberg to be an inspiration. Two years later he was sold for €750,000 to Dutch side NEC Nijmegen. While playing in Sweden Olsson was known for his physical play and in 2004 he was the player who picked up the most cautions that year. Playing for NEC Nijmegen evolved his game and the ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif "Loket" Olsson
Leif Oskar "Loket" Olsson (12 July 1942 – 30 January 2025) was a Swedish television presenter, sports journalist, radio host, and dansband singer. He is most recognised as the presenter of ''Bingolotto'' on TV4 between 1991 and 1999. Olsson got his breakthrough as the presenter of the radio programme ''Radio Ringlinjen'' which started in 1978. In 1992, Olsson was awarded the Lennart Hyland-Award as "most popular television personality of 1992" for his work on ''Bingolotto''. Olsson was also known for presenting ''Svenska Idrottsgalan'' between 2000 and 2002, and also for the economy show ''Deklarera med Loket och Unni''. Career Olsson started his career as a handball referee in a career that included refereeing the handball semifinal between Yugoslavia and Romania at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Along with Hans Carlsson he also refereed the bronze medal match of the same tournament. ''Radio Ringlinjen'' Olsson got his breakthrough as the presenter of the radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Olsson
Christian Olsson (born 25 January 1980) is a former Swedish athlete competing in high jump and triple jump. He won an Olympic gold medal, one gold and one silver medal in the World Championships and two gold medals in the European Championships as well as a further two golds in the World Indoor championships. He also won the overall IAAF Golden League jackpot in 2004 where he cashed in 500,000 US dollars (after splitting the million dollar pot with Tonique Williams-Darling). From 2007 to his retirement in 2012, he was beset by injuries which left him largely on the sidelines and unable to compete at top level competitions. Biography Olsson was born in Gothenburg, and made his international breakthrough in 2001 when he won silver at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. He has the Swedish national record outdoors, 17.79 m (2004 Summer Olympics), and the Swedish national record indoors, 17.83 m (2004). Olsson has won the Swedish Championships seven times, and has also comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Olsson (skier)
Johan Arne Olsson (born 19 March 1980) is a Swedish cross-country skiing coach and former skier. He is a two-time Olympic champion who raced from 1998 to 2017. Olsson won five individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup victories and two additional podium finishes during his career. Athletic career Olsson became an Olympian in 2006 when he was selected to represent Sweden in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 × 10 km relay and finished 6th in the 15 km event. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Olsson earned a bronze medal in the 30 km pursuit after leading most of the race, and together with the Swedish team he won the gold medal on the 4 × 10 km relay after a deciding performance on the 2nd stage. During the same Olympic Games Olsson won another bronze medal in the 50 km event. In the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, Olsson won the prestigious 50 km classical race. He pulled ahead of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Olsson
Marcus Jonas Munuhe Olsson (born 17 May 1988) is a Swedish professional association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder and a left-back for Halmstads BK, Halmstad. Club career Halmstads BK Born in Gävle, Sweden, Olsson started his career at Högaborgs BK. In 2008, he signed a contract with Halmstad, replacing Martin Fribrock as Midfielder#Winger, left winger as Fribrock departed for Esbjerg fB in the summer of 2008. Mainly featured as left winger, he also used as a Forward (association football), forward in several games, during Josep Clotet Ruiz time at Halmstad and the lack of a natural left side defender, Olsson and Kujtim Bala took turns on playing on the position. As Halmstads BK was relegated from Allsvenskan in 2011, Marcus announced that he would not sign a new contract with the club and that he would start searching for a new club to play for. Blackburn Rovers After rejecting a contract from Djurgårdens IF Fotboll, Djurgårdens IF, and being linked to Stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolina Olsson
Karolina Olsson (29 October 1861 – 5 April 1950), also known as "Soverskan på Oknö" ("The Sleeper of Oknö"), was a Swedish woman who purportedly remained in hibernation between 1876 and 1908 (32 years). This is believed to be the longest time that anyone has lived in this manner who then awoke without any residual symptoms. Life Olsson was born on 29 October 1861 in Oknö near Mönsterås, the second-eldest of five children; her siblings were all brothers. She suffered a head wound while outdoors at age 14 on 18 February 1876, but seemed to recover from it quickly. On 22 February, she complained of a toothache. Her family believed that her tooth was sore because of witchcraft, and she was ordered to go to bed. However, when she fell asleep, she did not wake up. Her father was a fisherman and unable to afford a doctor, and the family relied instead on the advice of friends and the town midwife. Olsson's mother force-fed her milk and sugar water. Finally, the neighbors paid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Julius Olsson
Albert Julius Olsson (1 February 1864 – 7 September 1942) was a British Marine art, maritime artist and keen yachtsman. Olsson cruised with his yacht most summers, and The Studio (magazine), The Studio commented: 'He knows the way from the Scillies to the Isle of Wight as most men know their way to the nearest railway station.' Biography Olsson was born in Islington, London, to a Swedish father and an English mother. He exhibited a painting of Newlyn in 1887, and sold a painting at Newlyn in 1897. By then he was an important figure in the St Ives school of artists where, from circa 1890 to 1912, despite having little or no formal artistic training himself, he taught alongside Louis Grier and later Algernon Talmage. His work was first accepted at the Royal Academy in 1890, and he joined the New English Art Club in 1891. In 1912 he returned to London. During his time at St Ives, Cornwall, St. Ives, the town drew in many artists and Olsson taught many of them, including Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Olsson
Dan Sten Olsson (born February 1947) is a Swedish billionaire businessman, the CEO and majority owner (51%) of Stena Sphere. Dan Sten Olsson was born in February 1947, the son of Sten Allan Olsson, the founder of Stena Sphere. His siblings Stefan Olsson owns 24.5% and Madeleine Olsson Eriksson owns 12.5%, her two children 6% each. Olsson has a degree from the Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law. Olssson owns 51% of Stena Sphere, and has been CEO since 1983. He is married and lives in Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ..., Sweden. References 1947 births Living people Swedish businesspeople Swedish billionaires Olsson family University of Gothenburg alumni {{Sweden-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stena Sphere
The Stena Sphere consists of the three parent companies, Stena AB, Stena Sessan AB and Stena Metall AB, wholly owned by the Olsson family. Together they make up one of Sweden’s largest family-owned corporate groups. The group’s revenue is 96 billion SEK and profit before tax for FY2023-24 is 4.3 billion SEK. CEO of the group is Dan Sten Olsson. History The foundations to today’s Stena Sphere were laid on 18 November 1939 when the Sten A. Olsson Metallprodukter trading company was founded. In the following years the company expanded both inside and outside the country’s borders. Sten Allan Olsson (1916–2013) was the son of the skipper and shipowner Gustav Olsson (1876–1956) from Donsö. In 1946, Sten Allan Olsson bought his first vessel with a loan of SEK 25,000 from Handelsbanken, and the shipping business started on a small scale. At the beginning of the 1960s a ferry service started between Gothenburg and Skagen in northern Denmark. Over the years freight ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ã…ke Olsson (chess Player)
Åke Olsson (3 May 1934 – 11 September 2009) was a Swedish chess player, two-times Swedish Chess Championship medalist (1962, 1966, 1969, 1971). Biography In 1952, Olsson won Swedish Youth Chess Championship. In the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the leading Swedish chess players. In 1969, Olsson shared 1st-3nd place with Ulf Andersson and Börje Jansson in Swedish Chess Championship, but lost in additional tournament. Also he won silver medal in this tournament in 1962, 1966 and 1971. Olsson played for Sweden in the Chess Olympiads: * In 1962, at first reserve board in the 15th Chess Olympiad in Varna (+8, =2, -4), * In 1968, at first reserve board in the 18th Chess Olympiad in Lugano (+6, =5, -3), * In 1970, at second reserve board in the 19th Chess Olympiad in Siegen (+4, =2, -6), * In 1972, at first reserve board in the 20th Chess Olympiad in Skopje (+3, =5, -5). Olsson played for Sweden in the World Student Team Chess Championship: * In 1960, at second board in the 7th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
