* 1937 – Fred Åkerström, Swedish singer ( d. 1985 )

* 1907 – Fred Warngård, Swedish athlete ( d. 1950 )

* Fred Thiel, Swedish entrepreneur

The songs of Bellman have been recorded by modern Swedish artists such as Cornelis Vreeswijk, Evert Taube and his son Sven-Bertil Taube, Fred Åkerström ; and even as rock music by Joakim Thåström, Candlemass or Marduk.

Evert Taube, Povel Ramel, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Fred Akerstrom are all popular modern troubadours, considered to be classics in Swedish music.

The Biotic Baking Brigade is a loosely connected group of activists famous for throwing pies in the faces of such figures as Bill Gates, San Francisco mayors Willie Brown, and Gavin Newsom, anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps, economist Milton Friedman, Swedish King Carl Gustaf, former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, conservative journalist William F. Buckley, former WTO head Renato Ruggiero, and Ann Coulter, among others.

Its members and sympathisers includes-or included-several Swedish celebrities, such as actors Sven Wollter, Lasse Brandeby and Kent Andersson and musicians Ken, Totta Näslund and Fred Åkerström, all of whom have participated in events and gatherings arranged by the party.

* Gunnel Fred ( born 1955 ), Swedish actress

* Ahlberg, Fred: Masterpieces of Swedish Poetry.

Other hospitals in the community include Swedish Medical Center / Ballard, Swedish Medical Center / First Hill, and Swedish Medical Center / Cherry Hill ; Virginia Mason Hospital, on First Hill ; the Seattle Division of the Department of Veterans Affairs ' Puget Sound Health Care System on Beacon Hill ; the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Cascade ; Group Health Central Hospital and Family Health Center on Capitol Hill ; and Northwest Hospital and Medical Center in Haller Lake.

Fred Estby ( born March 14, 1972 ) is a Swedish drummer.

Fred Thiel is a entrepreneur of Swedish descent.

Karl Åkerström of the Swedish newspaper Borås Tidning called it his " all-time favorite " episode of the show.

In 2000 Kalvik also scored a hit with a version of Andersson's song Tröstevisa, performed as a duet with Swedish singer CajsaStina Åkerström.

Heidenstam wrote four other works of fiction about earlier figures revered in Swedish memory.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

He also had a fruitful songwriting collaboration with Lasse Berghagen, with whom he wrote several songs and submitted " Hej, Clown " for the 1969 Melodifestivalen-the Swedish Eurovision Song Festival finals.

In 1990, Andersson scored a Swedish # 1 hit with " Lassie ", sung by female cabaret group Ainbusk, for whom he also wrote the Svensktoppen hits " Älska Mig " and " Drömmarnas Golv ".

For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".

In 1987, Andersson wrote music and co-produced the soundtrack with Anders Eljas for the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, based on Swedish author Astrid Lindgrens Mio, my Mio.

Benny Andersson also wrote the film score for the 2012 documentary Palme about Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

" Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: " Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist ".

Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal wrote to organisers of a Swedish book fair to which Singer was invited that " A professor of morals ... who justifies the right to kill handicapped newborns ... is in my opinion unacceptable for representation at your level.

Another Swedish author who had great influence on the perception of the Vikings was Esaias Tegnér, member of the Geatish Society, who wrote a modern version of Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna, which became widely popular in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and Germany.

Zachris Topelius (; 14 January 1818 – 12 March 1898 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.

Topelius wrote the libretto in Swedish ( though it was translated later by others ), but its subject is emphatically Finnish.

In the 1930s the Swedish writer Amelie Posse Brazdova wrote a book entitled Sardinia Side Show, where she told the complete story of 2 years she spent " interned " in Alghero old town during World War I.

Victoria Benedictsson, one of the most famous Swedish authors of the 19th century, wrote under the name Ernst Ahlgren.

* In 1972, Swedish composer Thorstein Bergman wrote " Om du någonsin kommer fram till Samarkand " (" If you ever reach Samarkand ") made notable by Swedish singer Lill Lindfors in 1978.

* Swedish Symphonic metal band Therion wrote a song dedicated to Nergal entitled The Siren of the Woods.

His work was criticized by several Scandinavian authors, including the Danish professor Ludvig Holberg, and the Swedish author and physician Andreas Kempe, both of whom wrote satires based on Rudbeck's writings.

He had set high hopes on this appointment: " My friends are trying to persuade me that this post might have been especially created for me ," he wrote to a Swedish friend.

Swedish author Elsa Beskow wrote and illustrated some 40 children's stories and picture books between 1897 – 1952.

In 1388, several of the Swedish nobles wrote secretly to Margaret telling her that if she could rid them of Albert, they would make her Regent.

While still in high-school, Max wrote, and sold commercially, together with school buddy Magnus Bodin a word processor written in pure machine code for the Swedish 8-bit computer ABC80.

The Swedish metal band Lake of Tears also recorded a song called " Raistlin and the Rose " on their 1997 album Crimson Cosmos, while the German group Blind Guardian wrote " The Soulforged ", another song inspired by Raistlin's story, which appeared on the band's 2002 album A Night at the Opera.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

The song " Baby Doll " was used in the film Tapeheads, with newly recorded Swedish lyrics, and was credited to ( and shown in a music video by ) a fictitious Swedish band called Cube-Squared.

* " Euphoria " ( Loreen song ), performed by Swedish singer Loreen, won the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest

In another example, the word bra in the Swedish language means " good ", as in " a good song ", " a good book " or " Good day!

* In the music video for the song " The Name of the Game " by the Swedish pop group ABBA, the four members of the group are shown playing Fia-spel.

The former Swedish pop group The Motorhomes allude to Laika in the video for their song Into The Night.

*" The Moor ", a song by the Swedish progressive death metal Opeth on their album Still Life

* " Madrigal ", a song by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, from the album My Arms, Your Hearse

In 1991, at the age of twelve, Robyn recorded the theme song for the Swedish television show Lilla Sportspegeln, named Du kan alltid bli nummer ett (" You can always be number one ").

" Robyn will collaborate with Swedish producer Max Martin on the song " Time Machine ".

* Sverige ( Kent song ), a song by Swedish rock group Kent

* Sverige ( Basshunter song ), a song by Swedish artist Basshunter

Swedish heavy metal band Katana has a song entitled " The Wisdom of Emond ´ s Field " on their 2012 album " Storms of War ".

* " Boten Anna " (" Anna, the bot "), a song by Swedish dance musician BassHunter

* In 2012, the Swedish singer Thåström released the album " Beväpna dig met vingar " which includes a song called " Samarkanda ".

Haley actually recorded this song on five occasions ( a Spanish language version for Orfeón of Mexico City and an English version for the US label Newtown Records ( both in 1964 ), two live versions for Buddah Records recorded in New York in 1969 ( neither of which were released for 25 years ), and once more in Nashville, Tennessee for the Swedish Sonet Records label in 1970 ).

* " Liberty ", a song by Swedish musician Per Gessle

" 2000 " was used as the theme song to the Swedish documentary Hemlösa, covering the homeless problem in Stockholm.

* Northern Light, is a song sung by Swedish dance artist Basshunter

The Europop song Happy New Year by Swedish band ABBA is usually played during the festival nowadays.

Though the 1983 song " Stronger Than Evil " by Swedish band Heavy Load establishes a case for this band as the first Viking metal group, the roots of Viking metal are generally cited to be later in the Scandinavian metal scene, particularly the death and black metal scenes of the late 1980s.