Sport
- Stefan "Lillis" Åkesson – skateboarder
- Daniel Alfredsson (born 1972) – ice hockey player
- Arne Andersson (1917–2009) - track, world record holder in mile
- Håkan Andersson – ice hockey scout
- Malin Andersson (born 1973) – football player
- Niklas Andersson (born 1971) – ice hockey player
- Magnus Arvedson (born 1971) – ice hockey player
- P. J. Axelsson (born 1975) – ice hockey player
- Nicklas Backstrom (born 1987) - ice hockey player
- Kristin Bengtsson (born 1970) – football player
- Kajsa Bergqvist (born 1976) – high jump athlete
- Stig Blomqvist (born 1946) – rally driver, World Champion
- Björn Borg (born 1956) – tennis player
- Ali Boulala – skateboarder
- Kenny Bräck (born 1966) – Indy Racing League driver
- Martin Dahlin (born 1968) – football player
- Ulf Dahlén (born 1967) – ice hockey player
- Stefan Edberg (born 1966) – tennis player
- Sten Ekberg (born 1964) - Track and Field athlete
- Loui Eriksson (born 1985) – ice hockey player
- Sven-Göran Eriksson (born 1948) – football manager
- Magdalena Forsberg (born 1965) – biathlete
- Peter Forsberg (born 1973) – ice hockey player
- Johan Franzén (born 1979) – ice hockey player
- Gillis Grafström (1893–1938) – figure skating Olympic and World Champion
- Anders Graneheim (born 1962) – bodybuilder
- Tomas Gustafson (born 1959) – speed skater Olympic Gold and Silver medalist
- Alexander Gustafsson (born 1987) - Mixed Martial Artist top 10 Light Heavyweight in the world
- Toini Gustafsson (born 1938) – cross-country skier Olympic Gold and Silver medalist
- Johan Harmenberg (born 1954) - épée fencer, Olympic champion
- Johan Hedberg (born 1973) – ice hockey player
- Gunder Hägg (1918–2004)- track, world record holder in mile
- Stefan Holm (born 1976) – high jump athlete
- Johan Holmqvist (born 1978) – ice hockey player
- Tomas Holmström (born 1973) – ice hockey player
- Kristian Huselius (born 1978) – ice hockey player
- Zlatan Ibrahimović (born 1981) – football player
- Anders Järryd (born 1961) - tennis player
- Ingemar Johansson (born 1932) – World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
- Susanna Kallur (born 1981) – Track and Field athlete
- Jenny Kallur (born 1981) – Track and Field athlete
- Carolina Klüft (born 1983) – Track and Field athlete
- Niklas Kronwall (born 1981) – ice hockey player
- Henrik Larsson (born 1971) – football player
- Nicklas Lidström (born 1970) – ice hockey player
- Fredrik Ljungberg (born 1977) – football player
- Hanna Ljungberg (born 1979) – football player
- Mikael Ljungberg (1970–2004) – wrestler
- Håkan Loob (born 1960) – ice hockey player
- Henrik Lundqvist (born 1982) – ice hockey player and a Swedish gold medalist in the ice hockey part in the olympics
- Fredrik Modin (born 1974) – ice hockey player
- Roland Nilsson (born 1963) – football player
- Gunnar Nordahl (1921–1995) – football player
- Magnus Norman (born 1976) – tennis player
- Mattias Norström (born 1972) – ice hockey player
- Michael Nylander (born 1972) – ice hockey player
- Markus Näslund (born 1973) – ice hockey player
- Mats Näslund (born 1959) – ice hockey player
- Bobby Nystrom (born 1952) - ice hockey right wing (NHL)
- Mattias Öhlund (born 1976) – ice hockey player
- Jesper Parnevik (born 1965) – golfer
- Samuel Påhlsson (born 1977) – ice hockey player
- Thomas Ravelli (born 1959) – football player
- Tony Rickardsson (born 1970) – speedway motor racer
- Börje Salming (born 1951) – ice hockey player
- Magnus Samuelsson (born 1969) – World's Strongest Man champion
- Mikael Samuelsson (born 1976) – ice hockey player
- Daniel Sedin (born 1980) – ice hockey player
- Henrik Sedin (born 1980) – ice hockey player
- Ingemar Stenmark (born 1956) – alpine skier
- Mats Sundin (born 1971) – ice hockey player
- Ronnie Sundin (born 1970) – ice hockey player
- Niklas Sundström (born 1975) – ice hockey player
- Gunde Svan (born 1962) – cross-country skier
- Annika Sörenstam (born 1970) – golfer
- Björn Waldegård (born 1943) – rally driver, World Champion
- Jan-Ove Waldner (born 1965) – table tennis player
- Thomas Wassberg (born 1956) – cross-country skier Olympic and World Champion
- Per Welinder – skateboarder
- Pernilla Wiberg (born 1970) – alpine skier
- Mats Wilander (born 1964) tennis player
- Magnus Wislander (born 1964) – handball player, voted World Player of the Century 1999
- Johan Wissman (born 1982) – sprinter 2006 European Athletic Championship 200 m silver medalist
- Henrik Zetterberg (born 1980) – ice hockey player
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)