Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Rick Steves, travel writer
Famous Swedes
Anders Celsius, inventor of the temperature scale
Carolus Linnaeus, botanist who developed taxonomic naming system
August Strindberg, playwright
Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and the Nobel Peace Prize
Carl Milles, sculptor
Astrid Lindgren, children's author who created
Pippi Longstocking
Ingmar Bergman, movie director
Greta Garbo and Noomi Rapace, actresses
Max von Sydow and Stellan Skarsgård, actors
Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary General
Björn Borg and Stefan Edberg, tennis players
Hans Blix, UN weapons inspector
Annika Sörenstam and Jesper Parnevik, golfers
ABBA, pop-rock supergroup
Stieg Larsson, author of the
Millennium
trilogy
Famous Finns
Jean Sibelius, Romantic composer
Alvar Aalto, Modernist architect
Eliel Saarinen and son Eero, Modernist architects (the father known for
his work in Finland, the son for his work in the US)
Esa-Pekka Salonen, classical conductor
Tove Jansson, author of the
Moomin
books
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system
