Royal Institute of Technology - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Many prominent students have graduated from KTH, including;

  • Salomon August Andrée, Arctic explorer
  • Ernst Alexanderson, inventor
  • Joe Armstrong, creator of the Erlang programming language
  • Kurt Atterberg, composer (graduated 1911)
  • Karl-Birger Blomdahl, composer
  • Samir Brikho, Chief Executive of AMEC
  • Magnus Egerstedt, Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Börje Ekholm, Chief Executive of Investor AB
  • Carl Daniel Ekman, pioneer in production of wood pulp for paper
  • Knut Frænkel, Arctic explorer
  • Christer Fuglesang, Astronaut, first Swedish citizen in space
  • Kurt Hellström, former CEO of Ericsson
  • Ivar Kreuger, industrialist
  • Peter Lindgren (musician), former guitarist of Opeth
  • Dolph Lundgren, actor
  • Carl Munters, inventor
  • Seif Haridi, professor at KTH, Co-inventor of the Mozart Programming System, chief Scientist at SICS
  • Ivar Jacobson, inventor of sequence diagrams, and UML
  • Helge Palmcrantz, inventor
  • Parag Pruthi, (Ph.D done at KTH) CEO of NIKSUN, Inc.
  • Tinga Seisay, diplomat
  • Max Tegmark, Professor of Cosmology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Baltzar von Platen, inventor
  • Gunnar Widforss, Swedish-American artist
  • Karl Johan Åström, control engineer, IEEE Medal of Honor recipient (1993)

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