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UPPSALA

Most Famous People Born in Uppsala, Sweden

Notable people

949

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1924

Most distinctive

Ämbetsman 45.7×

Sweden's oldest university town, and it shows in every visible metric. The Translator bench runs at better than fourteen times the global baseline — the Enlightenment habit of classifying, translating and dissecting the world, handed down from Linnaeus's lecture halls — and the thick Professor, Physician and Artist depth is the same campus in its modern guise.