Most Famous Swedish Athletes

Sweden has produced 684 notable athletes throughout history, led by Zlatan Ibrahimović. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.

Top Ranked

  1. Zlatan Ibrahimović — Swedish Football (Born 1981) , ranked #257
  2. Ingemar Stenmark — Swedish Skier (Born 1956) , ranked #5871
  3. Sven-Göran Eriksson — Swedish Football (Born 1948) , ranked #7081
  4. Stefan Edberg — Swedish Player (Born 1966) , ranked #7386
  5. Gunnar Nordahl — Swedish Football (1921–1995) , ranked #8928
  6. Ola Toivonen — Swedish Football (Born 1986) , ranked #11566
  7. Nils Liedholm — Swedish Football (1922–2007) , ranked #14442
  8. Andreas Isaksson — Swedish Football (Born 1981) , ranked #14653
  9. Henrik Lundqvist — Swedish Hockey (Born 1982) , ranked #15535
  10. Carolina Klüft — Swedish Athletic (Born 1983) , ranked #15568
  11. Freddie Ljungberg — Swedish Football (Born 1977) , ranked #16411
  12. Kim Källström — Swedish Football (Born 1982) , ranked #16728
  13. Peter Forsberg — Swedish Hockey (Born 1973) , ranked #17690
  14. Emil Forsberg — Swedish Football (Born 1991) , ranked #17819
  15. Pontus Wernbloom — Swedish Football (Born 1986) , ranked #19266
  16. Johan Elmander — Swedish Football (Born 1981) , ranked #20008
  17. Kosovare Asllani — Swedish Football (Born 1989) , ranked #21460
  18. Mikael Lustig — Swedish Football (Born 1986) , ranked #23352
  19. Olof Mellberg — Swedish Football (Born 1977) , ranked #25656
  20. Erkan Zengin — Swedish Football (Born 1985) , ranked #28453