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List of Lund University Peoplreport

  • Manne Siegbahn (1886-1978), Physics 1924; professor at Uppsala University (B.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1911) (Nobel laureates affiliated with Lund University)

  • Bertil Ohlin (1899-1979), Economics 1977; professor at the Stockholm School of Economics; leader of the liberal Liberal People's Party, 1944-1967 (B.A. 1917) (Nobel laureates affiliated with Lund University)

  • Sune Bergström (1916-2004), Medicine 1982 (Professor 1947-1958) (Nobel laureates affiliated with Lund University)

  • Arvid Carlsson (1923-2018), Medicine 2000 (M.D. 1951, Assistant Professor 1951-1959) (Nobel laureates affiliated with Lund University)

  • Gbezohngar Milton Findley (1960-) Liberia Politician and Businessman, Former Senate Pro-tempore, and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Peter Estenberg (1686-1740), Greek scholar, professor, and advisor to King Stanislaw (Stanisław Leszczyński) of Poland in the early 18th century (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Lars von Engeström (1751-1826), statesman and diplomat, first Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs 1809–1824, Chancellor of Lund University 1810–1824 (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Arvid Posse (1820-1901), Prime Minister of Sweden 1880-1883 (B.A. 1840) (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Östen Undén (1886-1974), Rector Magnificus of Uppsala University and politician; Minister for Foreign Affairs 1924-26, 1945-62 (B.A. 1905, LL.B. 1910, LL.D. 1912) (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Ernst Wigforss (1881-1977), linguist and politician, Swedish Minister of Finance (Ph.D. 1913) (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Per Edvin Sköld (1891-1972), held various cabinet posts from 1932, Minister of Finance 1949-1955 (B.A. 1917) (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Bertil Ohlin (1899-1979), liberal leader and economist, Nobel laureate, see above (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Tage Erlander (1901-1985), Prime Minister of Sweden, 1946-1969 (B.A. 1928) (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Gunnar Jarring (1907-2002), ambassador, UN diplomat and scholar of Turkic languages (Ph.D. 1933) (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Ingvar Carlsson (1934-), Prime Minister of Sweden 1986-91, 1994-96 (B.A. 1958) (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Tarja Cronberg (1943-), Finnish Green Party politician, Member of the European Parliament (Eng. D. 1973) (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Lena Ek (1958-), Member of the European Parliament (J.D., LL.D.) (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court since 1993; studied at Lund in the 1960s (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Rupiah Banda (1937 - ), President of Zambia, 2008- (B.A. 1964) (Government, politics and civil service)

  • H. M. G. S. Palihakkara (1948-), Sri Lankan ambassador and UN diplomat, studied at Lund in the 1980s (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Jimmie Åkesson (1979-), politician for the Sweden Democrats, Member of the Swedish Parliament (Government, politics and civil service)

  • Axel Möller (1830-1896), astronomer (Ph.D. 1853, professor 1863-1895) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845-1912), mathematician and physicist (Bäcklund transform) (Ph.D. 1868, professor from 1878) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Johannes Rydberg (1854-1919), physicist (Rydberg formula, Rydberg constant) (Ph.D. 1873, Professor from 1897) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Carl Charlier (1862-1934), astronomer, awarded the James Craig Watson Medal in 1924 and the Bruce Medal in 1933 (Professor from 1897, head of the Lund Observatory) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Elis Strömgren (1870-1947), astronomer, Director of the Observatory at Copenhagen University (Ph. D 1898) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • V. Walfrid Ekman (1874-1954), oceanographer (Ekman spiral, Ekman number) (Professor 1910-1939) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Manne Siegbahn (1886-1978), physicist, Nobel laureate, see above (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Anders Lindstedt (1954-1939) mathematician, astronomer and pioneer of actuarial science. (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Knut Lundmark (1889-1958), astronomer (Professor, head of Lund Observatory, 1929-1955) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Gunnar Malmquist (1893-1982), astronomer (Ph.D. 1921) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Oskar Klein (1894-1977), physicist (Docent 1926-30) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Marcel Riesz (1886-1969), mathematician (Riesz function, Riesz theorems, Riesz mean, Riesz potential) (Professor from 1926) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Lars Gårding (1919-2014), mathematician (Gårding's inequality) (Professor) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Gunnar Källén (1926-1968) theoretical physicist (Professor) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Lars Hörmander (1931-2012), mathematician, awarded the Fields medal in 1962 (Ph.D. 1955, Professor from 1968) (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Duncan Steel (1955-), authority on space science (Mathematics, physics and astronomy)

  • Johan Jacob Döbelius (1674-1743), professor of medicine, headmaster, discovered Ramlösa hälsobrunn (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), father of modern taxonomy. (studied his first year in Lund, transferred to Uppsala) (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (1709-1785), chemist and mineralogist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Anders Jahan Retzius (1742-1821), naturalist (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Carl Adolph Agardh (1785-1859), naturalist (botanist); clergyman; bishop of Karlstad (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Anders Retzius (1796-1860), anatomist (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Carl Fredrik Fallén (1764-1830), botanist and entomologist (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Axel Gustaf Gyllenkrok (1783-1865), zoologist (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (1785-1874), entomologist (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878), mycologist (student from 1811, Professor from 1824, from 1834 professor at Uppsala) (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Anders Gustaf Dahlbom (1806-1859), entomologist (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Jacob Georg Agardh (1813-1901), botanist (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Gustaf Retzius (1842-1919), anatomist (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Dora Jacobsohn (1903-1983), physiologist and endocrinologist (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Rune Elmqvist (1906-1996), developed first implantable pacemaker (M.D.) (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Sune Bergström (1916-2004), biochemist, Nobel laureate, see above (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Arvid Carlsson (1923-2018), physician, Nobel laureate, see above (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Hildegard Björck (1847-1920), first woman in Sweden to earn an academic degree (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Björn Folkow (1921-2012), professor in physiology at the University of Gothenburg between 1961 and 1987 and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Olle Hagnell (1924-2011), psychiatrist and epidemiologist (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Arne Strid (1943-), botanist (Medicine and life sciences)

  • Per Georg Scheutz (1785-1873), computing pioneer, Scheutzian calculation engine (J.D. 1805) (Engineering)

  • Martin Wiberg (1826-1905), inventor, logarithmic table generating machines (Ph.D. 1850) (Engineering)

  • Carl Hellmuth Hertz (1920-1990) pioneered medical ultrasonography (with Inge Edler) (Professor) (Engineering)

  • Karl Johan Åström (1934-), control theorist, IEEE Fellow, IEEE Medal of Honor winner (Professor 1965-2002) (Engineering)

  • Michael Treschow (1943-), Businessman, chairman of Ericsson (M.Eng.) (Engineering)

  • Boris Smeds (1944-), radio engineer at ESA (M. Eng., Licentiate 1972, Honorary Doctor, 2006) (Engineering)

  • Lennart Ljung (1946-), control theorist, IEEE Fellow (B.A. 1967, M.Sc. 1970, Ph.D. 1974) (Engineering)

  • Jola Sigmond (1943-), architect, Swedish Association of Architects (Engineering)

  • Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694), German jurist, political scientist and historian (Professor 1670-1677) (Humanities and social sciences)

  • Carl August Hagberg (1810-1864), linguist and translator (Humanities and social sciences)

  • Knut Wicksell (1851-1926), economist (Professor 1900-1916) (Humanities and social sciences)

  • Torgny Segerstedt (1876-1945), scholar of comparative religion, anti-Nazi journalist (B.A. 1901, Docent 1903) (Humanities and social sciences)

  • Torsten Hägerstrand (1916-2004), cultural geographer (Ph.D. 1953, Professor) (Humanities and social sciences)

  • Axel Leijonhufvud (1933-), economist (B.A.) (Humanities and social sciences)

  • Judith Wallerstein (1921-2012), psychologist and researcher at University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D 1978) (Humanities and social sciences)

  • Etzel Cardeña (1957-), Thorsen Professor of Psychology; Director of the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (Humanities and social sciences)

  • Katsuya Kodama (1959-), Japanese sociologist and peace researcher (Humanities and social sciences)

  • Bengt Lidner (1757-1793), poet. (Student 1774-1776) (Literature)

  • Thomas Thorild (1759-1808), poet, critic and philosopher (Literature)

  • Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846), poet, bishop of Växjö (B.A. 1802, Professor 1812-1824) (Literature)

  • Frans G. Bengtsson (1894-1954), author, The Long Ships (Licentiate 1930) (Literature)

  • Eva Alexanderson (1911-1994), novelist, translator (B.A. 1935) (Literature)

  • Susanna Roxman (1946-2015), writer, poet and critic (studied at King's College, London University, then at Lund University; later PhD in Gothenburg) (Literature)

  • Otto Lindblad (1809-1864), composer (Student 1829-1836) (Music, theatre, and entertainment)

  • Sten Broman sv:Sten Broman (1902-1983), musician, music critic, TV host; founder of Uarda-akademien. (Music, theatre, and entertainment)

  • Hans Alfredson (1931-2017), writer, entertainer and film director, former head of Skansen (B.A. 1956) (Music, theatre, and entertainment)

  • John Ericsson (1803-1889), inventor, father of the USS Monitor (1868) (Honorary doctorates)

  • Carver Mead (1934-), computer scientist (1987) (Honorary doctorates)

  • Thomas Mann (1875–1955), novelist (1949) (Honorary doctorates)

  • Gustavus Simmons (1930-), cryptographer (1991) (Honorary doctorates)

  • Kofi Annan (1938-2018), UN Secretary General (1999) (Honorary doctorates)

  • Santiago Calatrava (1951-), architect (1999) (Honorary doctorates)

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