Stockholm University (SU) () is a

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in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, it is one of the largest universities in

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. Stockholm University was granted university status in 1960, making it the fourth oldest Swedish university. As with other public universities in Sweden, Stockholm University's mission includes teaching and research anchored in society at large.

History

The initiative for the formation of Stockholm University was taken by the Stockholm City Council. The process was completed after a decision in December 1865 regarding the establishment of a fund and a committee to "establish a higher education institution in the capital".Thomasson, Carl-Gustaf, Stockholms högskolas matrikel 1878–1887. Stockholm 1969, sid. 52 The nine members of the committee were respected and prominent citizens whose work had helped the evolution of science and society.Engström, Eric, Stockholms högskolas gynnare. Givare och donatorer under högskolans uppbyggnadsskede. Uppsats, pedagogiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet (årtal?) The next important step was taken in October 1869, when the Stockholm University College Association was established.Nordisk familjebok, Uggleupplagan 27, Stockholm Nynäs järnväg – Syrsor: Stockholms högskola, 1918 Several members of the committee became members of the association – including Professor Pehr Henrik Malmsten.Svensk Uppslagsbok: Stockholms högskola, Baltiska förlaget A.-B., Lund: 1929 The association's mission was to establish a college in Stockholm and would "not be dissolved until the college came into being and its future could be considered secure." The memorandum of the Stockholm University College was adopted in May 1877, and in the autumn semester of the following year, actual operations began. In 1878, the

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''Stockholms högskola'' started its operations with a series of lectures on natural sciences, open to curious citizens (a tradition still upheld by yearly publicly open lectures). Notable in the university's early history is the appointment of

Sofia Kovalevskaya Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (; born Korvin-Krukovskaya; – 10 February 1891) was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics a ...

to hold a chair in the mathematics department in 1889, making her the third female professor in Europe. In 1904 the college became an official degree-granting institution. In 1960, the college was granted university status, becoming Sweden's fourth state university. The university premises were situated in central Stockholm at ''Observatorielunden'' but increased enrollment resulted in a lack of space, which required the university campus to be shifted to a bigger facility. Since 1970 most of the university operations are located at the main campus at Frescati north of the city center, the former Experimentalfältet, previously used by the

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Organisation

Stockholm University is a state agency and is governed by decisions taken by the government and parliament. The university has the right, within the limits the government provides, to decide on many issues such as their internal organization, educational provision and the admission of students.

Intra-university bodies

* ''The University Board ''is the university's highest governing body. The board is responsible for the university's mission as a government agency and for following the requirements of laws and regulations. The board reports to the government. It consists of eight external members (including the chairman and vice-chairman), four business representatives from the university with two group deputies and three student representatives (one graduate student representative) with one deputy. The University Board is above the rector who is the head of the agency and has operational responsibility for all operations. The rector has a pro rector to replace him/her if necessary. * There are two area boards at the university, the ''Area board of science'' and the ''Area board of humanities, law and social sciences''. They are headed by a ''vice rector''. The area boards are responsible for strategic planning of education and research, coordination of faculty teaching, research and internal and external collaboration. * After the area boards, the ''faculty boards'' are the highest decision-making bodies at the faculty level. The faculty boards consists of the dean, the assistant dean, other business representatives and student representatives. The deans are appointed by the president after proposal by choice within the faculty. * After faculties, decisions are taken at the departmental level, where each department has a department head who manages and makes decisions together with the ''departmental board''. * The ''University administration'' is the preparation and service organization for the University Board, rector and other decision-making bodies, and it is led by the executive director. The university administration has a number of units, for example, finance department, IT department, HR department and the student section. There are also units for strategy, planning and communications. * The ''Executive Director'' is the most senior official at Stockholm University and decides on matters including the university administration's organization and finances.

International collaboration

The university is an active member of the

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. UArctic is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of more than 200 universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arctic region. The university also participates in UArctic's mobility program north2north. The aim of that program is to enable students of member institutions to study in different parts of the North.

Departments, institutes and centers

Education and research at Stockholm University is carried out within the natural sciences and the humanities/social sciences. Within these fields, there are four faculties with 56 departments, institutes and centers within the humanities, law, natural sciences and social sciences. Research and training also takes place at a number of centers and institutes with a separate governing board, but that organisationally belong to a department.

Courses and programmes

Stockholm University offers courses at both undergraduate and advanced level. There are 190 study programmes in total, including 75 master's programmes taught in English, and 1,700 courses to choose from within human science and science. Students can choose between studying one or more free-standing courses, that each may last between five weeks and one semester, or apply for a full study programme. Stockholm university offers 4 Bachelor Programmes taught in English, which are the Bachelor´s Programme in Business, Ethics and Sustainability; Bachelor Programme in Latin America Studies; Bachelor´s Programme in International Business and Politics and the Bachelor´s Programme in Earth Science, Distance Learning. Besides the programmes themselves, the university also offers opportunities for foreign exchange studies during the third year of a bachelor's degree programme. The university has cooperative agreements with more than 100 universities worldwide.

Research

The university's researchers engage in governmental investigations, are active in the media, provide responses to proposed legislation and are included in several Nobel committees and international expert bodies.

Field stations

;Askö Laboratory Stockholm University Marine Research center (SMF) provides "Askö Laboratory", where Research on ecosystems, ecology and the impact of human interference is carried out. The field station was built in 1961 by Professor Lars Silén, Head of the Department of Zoology, and is now established as a renowned marine research center.Facts Askölaboratoriet
;Tarfala Tarfala research station belongs to the Department of Physical Geography. The station is located 1135 meters above sea level in Tarfaladalen, on the east side of Kebnekaise in arctic / alpine surroundings and conducts glaciological, hydrological, meteorological and climatological research. The station has the capacity to accommodate groups of up to 25 people and the staff consists of 2–5 people. ;Tovetorp Tovetorp Zoological Research Station belongs to the Department of Zoology, and is located about 95 km southwest of Stockholm. It conducts research and training activities in ecology and ethology. Every year Tovetorp is visited by up to 600 students who live and study between 2–10 days on the station. On the research side, over 20 people work today with different research projects. The number of employees are currently 6 people.Tovetorp research station: startpage (in swedish)

Student unions

Prior to 2008, Stockholm University had only one student union called

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''(Stockholm universitets studentkår, SUS)''. However, since 2008 the computer and system science students and the teacher students have their own, independent, student unions called DISK and "The Teacher's College's Student Union" ''(Lärarhögskolans studentkår)''. The law students also have their own student union, as do journalism students (''Studentkåren vid JMK''). The future of the Teacher's College's Student Union is however not entirely safe, as Stockholm University's Student Union has declared it will begin talks with the Teacher's College's Student Union on transferring its members to it, as it already has a teacher's division. In contrast to common belief, DISK is not an abbreviation.

Rankings

In the

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2020, an annual publication of university rankings by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy/

, Stockholm University was placed as the 69th overall best university worldwide. The

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(THE) World University Rankings 2018 listed Stockholm University at position 134 on the list of the world's top universities. Times Higher Education World University Rankings are annual university rankings published by British Times Higher Education (THE) magazine. In the

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, Stockholm University was ranked 148 overall in the world in 2021. Its subject rankings were: 23rd in Environmental Sciences, 37th in Sociology, 98th in Natural Sciences, 132nd in Arts & Humanities, 238th in Life Sciences & Medicine, 297th in Engineering and Technology, and 175th in Social Sciences and Management. In the U.S. News & World Report Rankings, Stockholm University was ranked 114 overall in the world in 2021, 4 in Sweden and 43 within Europe. In the

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2022, Stockholm University was placed at 343 on the list of universities in the world.

Campus

The main part of Stockholm University is in the Frescati area, which extends from the

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in the north to Sveaplan in the south. It is located in the world's first national urban park and the area is characterized by nature, architecture and modern art, featuring such notable buildings as the Aula Magna (auditorium). Within Frescati, the areas Albano, the

, Frescati Backe, Frescati Hage, Kräftriket, Lilla Frescati and Sveaplan are located. The names of many of these areas have a history dating back to the late 1700s. After Gustav III's trip to Italy in 1783–84, several places at

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were given Italian names. Stockholm University has another campus in

Kista Kista ( is a district in the borough of Rinkeby-Kista, Stockholm, Sweden. It has a strategic position located in between Sweden's main airport, the Stockholm-Arlanda International Airport and central Stockholm, and alongside the main nationa ...

, which houses the Department of computer and systems sciences.

Public transportation to Stockholm University

There are many ways to get to Stockholm University. The main campus Frescati is located near the underground railway station

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, on the red line of the Stockholm Metro. The commuter train line

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also stop close to the main campus, at

Universitetet railway station Universitetet (Swedish: "the university") is a railway station in Stockholm along the Roslagsbanan, named for nearby Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, fo ...

. SL buses 50, 540, 608, 624C, 628C, 639, 670 676, 680, 690, 691, 696 and 699 can also be used to get to the campus. The Computer Science campus, Kista, also is close to an underground station called

. It is also located close to the pendeltåg station Helenelund, only one or two stops (depending on bus line) from the bus station Torsnäsgatan located next to the campus area.

Notable people

Academics

* Sofja Kovalevskaja, mathematician, first female professor of mathematics in Europe * Karl-Olov Arnstberg, former professor of ethology *

Svante Arrhenius Svante August Arrhenius ( , ; 19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist. Originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, Arrhenius was one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. In 1903, he received ...

, 1903

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Hans von Euler-Chelpin Hans Karl August Simon Euler-Chelpin, since 28 July 1884 von Euler-Chelpin (15 February 1873 – 6 November 1964), was a German-born Swedish biochemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Arthur Harden for their investigations on ...

, 1929

George de Hevesy George Charles de Hevesy (born György Bischitz; ; ; 1 August 1885 – 5 July 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study ch ...

, 1943

Paul Crutzen Paul Jozef Crutzen (; 3 December 1933 – 28 January 2021) was a Dutch meteorologist and atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric chemist. In 1995, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland, Frank Sherw ...

, 1995

Frank Wilczek Frank Anthony Wilczek ( or ; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. He is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Director ...

, 2004

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and a professor of physics *

Tomas Tranströmer Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long winters in Sweden, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer' ...

, 2011

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Gunnar Myrdal Karl Gunnar Myrdal ( ; ; 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money an ...

, economist, sociologist and politician. Received the

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in 1974 *

Hans Bielenstein Hans Henrik August Bielenstein (8 April 1920 − 8 March 2015) was a Swedish sinologist and Dean Lung Professor Emeritus from Columbia University specialising in the history of the Han dynasty. Life Hans Henrik August Bielenstein was born on 8 Ap ...

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Bert Bolin Bert Rickard Johannes Bolin (; 15 May 1925 – 30 December 2007) was a Swedish meteorologist who served as the first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from 1988 to 1997. He was professor of meteorology at Stockh ...

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, first chairman of the

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(IPCC) *

Meemann Chang Meemann Chang (; born 17 April 1936) also known as Zhang Miman, is a Chinese paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP). She completed her undergraduate studies at Moscow University and completed her ...

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Sara Danius Sara Maria Danius (5 April 1962 – 12 October 2019) was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala Univer ...

, professor in literature, member of the

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Horace Engdahl Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl (born 30 December 1948) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1999 to June 2009, when he was succ ...

, former permanent secretary of the

Harry Flam Harry Flam (born 1948) is a professor of international economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Swede ...

, economist, dean of the School of Business *

Christer Fuglesang Arne Christer Fuglesang (born 18 March 1957) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on 10 December 2006, making him the first Swedish citizen in space. Married with three child ...

, astronaut, first Swede and Scandinavian in space *

Gunnar von Heijne Professor Nils Gunnar Hansson von Heijne (born 10 June 1951 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish scientist working on signal peptides, membrane proteins and bioinformatics at the Stockholm Center for Biomembrane Research at Stockholm University. Educati ...

, professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics *

Sven Hessle Sven Hessle, born 1941, is a Swedish Authorized Psychologist, and Professor of Social work at Stockholm University. His research concerns the study of poverty and children and their families in an international perspective as well as Internationa ...

, professor in social work *

Oskar Klein Oskar Benjamin Klein (; 15 September 1894 – 5 February 1977) was a Swedish theoretical physics, theoretical physicist. Oskar Klein is known for his work on Kaluza–Klein theory, which is partially named after him. Biography Klein was born ...

, professor in physics *

Thorsten Mauritsen Thorsten Mauritsen (born 1977) is a Danish climate scientist. He is currently a professor at the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University. His research interests include climate dynamics and global circulation, climate sensitivity and c ...

, Danish climate scientist *

Johan Rockström Johan Rockström (born 31 December 1965) is a Swedish scientist, internationally recognized for his work on global sustainability issues. He is joint director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany, together with ...

, professor of environmental science *

Carl-Gustav Rossby Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby ( 28 December 1898 – 19 August 1957) was a Swedish-born American meteorologist who first explained the large-scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics. He identified and characterized both the jet ...

, meteorologist *

Velta Ruke-Dravina Velta Ruke-Dravina (Velta Rūķe-Draviņa; 25 January 1917 – 7 May 2003) was a Latvian-born Swedish linguist and folklorist, as well as a professor in Baltic languages at Stockholm University. Ruke-Dravina's research interests included children ...

(1917–2003), Latvian-born Swedish linguist, folklorist, professor *

Ebba Witt-Brattström Ebba Witt-Brattström (; born 1 June 1953) is a Swedish scholar in comparative literature. She is Professor of Literature and head of department at Södertörn University outside Stockholm, and a well-known feminist. Witt-Brattström completed h ...

, professor in literature * Carl-Herman Tillhagen, folklorist * Lucas Gottzén, professor of child and youth studies

Alumni

; Business *

Mia Brunell Maria Christina "Mia" Brunell Livfors (born 1965) is a Swedish businesswoman. She works as CEO for Axel Johnson AB since June 2015, a private family owned Group of companies focused on trade and retail with a turnover of SEK 66 billion in 2014. ...

, CEO Kinnevik. *

Annika Falkengren Annika Falkengren () is a former managing partner at Lombard Odier Group, a position she held from 2017 to 2023. She was president and CEO of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) from 2005 to 2017, having built her early career at SEB. She has ...

, CEO SEB. * Johan Stael von Holstein, Swedish entrepreneur. * Peter Wallenberg Swedish business leader * Göran Bronner CFO Swedbank. *

Torbjörn Törnqvist Torbjörn Törnqvist (born 1953) is a Swedish billionaire, and the CEO and co-founder of Gunvor, "one of the largest commodities conglomerates in the world", with the Russian billionaire, Gennady Timchenko. Early life Törnqvist was born in 19 ...

CEO Gunvor. ; Politics and society *

Hans Blix Hans Martin Blix (; born 28 June 1928) is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Blix wa ...

(LLD), diplomat. *

Carl Bildt Nils Daniel Carl Bildt (born 15 July 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He led the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999, appearing as its lead candidate in four general elections, b ...

, Prime Minister of Sweden 1991–1994, and Foreign Minister 2006–2014. *

Thomas Bodström Thomas Lennart Bodström (born 9 April 1962) is a Swedish former politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He served as the Swedish Minister for Justice in the two governments of Prime Minister Göran Persson, from 2000 to 2006. Prior t ...

, former Swedish

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. *

Dag Hammarskjöld Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (English: ,; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second secretary-general of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in Septe ...

(Doctorate in Economics 1933), U.N. Secretary General. *

Elinor Hammarskjöld Elinor Jane Britt Hammarskjöld (born 4 November 1967)Karin Kock-Lindberg Karin Kock-Lindberg (''née'' Kock; 2 July 1891 – 28 July 1976) was a Swedish politician (Social Democrats) and professor of economics. In 1947 she became the first woman to hold a ministerial position in Sweden. She was also the first female pr ...

, first woman to hold a Ministerial position in Sweden, and first female professor of national economy in Sweden. * Princess Madeleine of Sweden, studied

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and

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. *

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freedom fighter and member of

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's first cabinet as Economic Advisor. *

Carolina Neurath Anna Carolina Neurath (born 17 November 1985) is a Swedish journalist and writer. She specializes in writing business articles for the newspaper ''Svenska Dagbladet''. In 2016 her first work of fiction, ''Fartblinda'', was published. Personal ...

, Swedish journalist and writer. * Barbro Osher, diplomat and philanthropist. *

Olof Palme Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until as ...

, Prime Minister of Sweden. *

Andreas Papandreou Andreas Georgiou Papandreou (, ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek academic and economist who founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and served three terms as Prime minister of Greece, prime minister of Third Hellenic Repu ...

, Greek prime minister. Taught at the university 1968–1969. *

Georgios Papandreou Georgios Papandreou (, ''Geórgios Papandréou''; 13 February 1888 – 1 November 1968) was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as the prime minister of Greece (1944–1945, 1963, 1964 ...

, Greek prime minister. Studied sociology 1972–1973. *

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, Prime Minister of Sweden 2006–2014. *

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studied

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. *

Sara Skyttedal Sara Magdalena Skyttedal Dihang (; born 6 August 1986) is a Swedish politician previously of the Christian Democrats party. She was Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024. Between 2013 and 2016, she chaired the Young Christian Dem ...

, MEP for

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. * Anna-Britta Hellbom,

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and americanist. ;Entertainment and art *

Alexander Ahndoril Alexander Ahndoril (born 20 January 1967 in Upplands Väsby, Stockholm), made his literary debut at the age of 22 with the love story ''Den äkta kvinnan (The True Woman,'' 1989'')''. He has since authored nine novels, screenplays, radio scripts ...

, author *

Daniel Birnbaum Daniel Birnbaum is a Swedish art curator and an art critic. Since 2019, he has been director and curator of Acute Art in London, UK. Early life and education Birnbaum studied at Stockholm University, Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and Col ...

, director of

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* Dr. Alban *

Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all time, his films have been described as "profoun ...

, film director * Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, author * Aron Flam (born 1978), comedian, podcaster, and writer, and actor *

Signe Hammarsten-Jansson Signe "Ham" Hammarsten-Jansson (née Hammarsten, 1 June 1882 – 6 July 1970) was a Swedish-Finnish graphic artist who designed, among other things, around 220 Finnish postage stamps during the course of three decades.''Suomen postimerkkitaiteilij ...

(1882–1970), Class of 1905 – Swedish illustrator. *

Jens Lapidus Jens Jacob Lapidus (; born 24 May 1974) is a Swedish criminal defense lawyer and author known for his books about the Stockholm underworld. Life and career Lapidus was born into a middle class family in the Stockholm suburb Gröndal, with a moth ...

, criminal defense lawyer and author. * Peter Lindgren, former guitarist of

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Petra Mede Petra Maria Mede (; born 7 March 1970) is a Swedish comedian, dancer, actress and television presenter. Mede is known for her several roles in comic shows and as a television presenter, and is best known outside of Sweden for hosting the Eurovis ...

, comedian, TV presenter *

Greg Poehler Gregory Milmore Poehler (; born 11 October 1974) is an American actor, comedian, producer, writer, and attorney. He created and starred in the Swedish sitcom '' Welcome to Sweden''. Early life Poehler was born in Boston and raised in Burlington ...

, actor, author *

André Pops André Pops (born 7 October 1972) is a Swedish television presenter and sports commentator at the Swedish television station SVT. He has presented some of Sweden's most notable sporting events and has also won awards for his achievements. Early ...

, TV presenter *

Johan Rheborg Carl Johan Rheborg (born 5 June 1963) is a Swedish comedian, actor, director, and screenwriter. He played one of the main characters, Percy Nilegård, as a member of the Swedish comedy group Killinggänget, who appeared on Swedish TV in the 19 ...

, actor *

Vilgot Sjöman David Harald Vilgot Sjöman (2 December 1924 – 9 April 2006) was a Swedish writer and film director. His films deal with controversial issues of social class, morality, and sexual taboos, combining the emotionally tortured characters of Ingm ...

, film director, author *

Maria Lynn Ehren Maria Lynn Ehren (), known professionally as Maria Poonlertlarp (, , ; born January 18, 1992), is a Swedish-Thai actress, model, activist and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Thailand 2017. She represented Thailand at Miss Univers ...

Miss Universe Thailand 2017 Miss Universe Thailand 2017 was the 18th edition of the Miss Universe Thailand pageant held at Royal Paragon Hall, Siam Paragon in Bangkok on 29 July 2017. The previous winner, Chalita Suansane from Samut Prakan crowned Maria Poonlertlarp a ...

, Top 5

Miss Universe 2017 Miss Universe 2017 was the 66th Miss Universe pageant, held at The AXIS in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States on 26 November 2017. At the end of the event, Iris Mittenaere of France crowned Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters of South Africa as Miss Unive ...

Bilal Haq Bilal U. Haq is a Pakistani-American geoscientist (and poet) who is currently affiliated with and divides his time between the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and Sorbonne University's Institute of Earth Sciences in Paris, France. He i ...

, poet and geoscientist (studied and taught at the university 1970s) ; Sportspeople *

Johan Harmenberg Johan Georg Harmenberg Åkerman (born 8 September 1954) is a Swedish Olympic and world champion épée Fencing (sport), fencer.

(born 1954), Olympic champion épée fencer

References

External links

Official website of Stockholm University

Stockholm University
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