Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Stockholm
5 notable people grew up or lived in and around Stockholm. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
Emanuel Swedenborg1688–1772
📍 Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden
I was born Emanuel Swedenborg on the 29th of January 1688 in Stockholm, the son of Jesper Swedenborg, a Lutheran bishop. I was a scientist, engineer, and polymath for the first half of my…
Greta Thunberg2003–2018
📍 Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
Greta Thunberg grew up in Stockholm, the elder of two daughters of the opera singer Malena Ernman and the actor Svante Thunberg. Her early childhood was busy and creative, sometimes spent…
Ingrid Bergman1915–1939
📍 Strandvägen 7A, 114 56 Stockholm, Sweden
I was born Ingrid Bergman on the 29th of August 1915 in Stockholm, the only child of Justus Bergman, a shopkeeper and amateur photographer, and Frieda Adler, who died when I was two. My…
Olof Palme1927–1986
📍 Östermalmsgatan 36, Östermalm, Stockholm 114 26, Sweden
I was born Sven Olof Joachim Palme on the 30th of January 1927 in Stockholm, into an upper-class Swedish family, and I became the most internationally engaged Social Democratic Prime…
Raoul Wallenberg1912–1947
📍 Lidingö, Stockholm, Sweden
I grew up on the island of Lidingö outside Stockholm, in a comfortable upper-middle-class Swedish family, and my childhood there gave me the security and the values that I later put to…