List of Lund University people

This is a list of notable people affiliated with Lund University, either as students or as researchers and academic teachers (or both).

• Manne Siegbahn (1886-1978), Physics 1924; professor at Uppsala University (B.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1911)
• Liberal People's Party
  , 1944-1967 (B.A. 1917)
• Sune Bergström (1916-2004), Medicine 1982 (Professor 1947-1958)
• Arvid Carlsson (1923-2018), Medicine 2000 (M.D. 1951, Assistant Professor 1951-1959)

Government, politics and civil service

• Gbehzohngar Milton Findley (1960–), Liberian politician and businessman, former Senate Pro-tempore, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Peter Estenberg (1686–1740), Greek scholar, professor, and advisor to King Stanislaw (Stanisław Leszczyński) of Poland in the early 18th century
• Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs 1809–1824, Chancellor
  of Lund University 1810–1824
• Arvid Posse (1820–1901), Prime Minister of Sweden 1880–1883 (B.A. 1840)
• 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)
• Ernst Wigforss (1881–1977), linguist and politician, Swedish Minister of Finance (Ph.D. 1913)
• Per Edvin Sköld (1891–1972), held various cabinet posts from 1932, Minister of Finance 1949–1955 (B.A. 1917)
• Bertil Ohlin (1899–1979), liberal leader and economist, Nobel laureate, see above
• Tage Erlander (1901–1985), Prime Minister of Sweden, 1946–1969 (B.A. 1928)
• Gunnar Jarring (1907–2002), ambassador, UN diplomat and scholar of Turkic languages (Ph.D. 1933)
• Ingvar Carlsson (1934–), Prime Minister of Sweden 1986-91, 1994-96 (B.A. 1958)
• Tarja Cronberg (1943–), Finnish Green Party politician, Member of the European Parliament (Eng. D. 1973)
• Lena Ek (1958–), Member of the European Parliament (J.D., LL.D.)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1933–2020; studied at Lund in the 1960s
• Rupiah Banda (1937–2022), President of Zambia, 2008-2011 (B.A. 1964)
• Jeremiah Lucas Opira (1933–2000), Ugandan politician who held various posts and was Organisation of African Unity expert in the 1960s (B.A. 1978)
• H. M. G. S. Palihakkara (1948–), Sri Lankan ambassador and UN diplomat, studied at Lund in the 1980s
• Jimmie Åkesson (1979–), politician for the Sweden Democrats, Member of the Swedish Parliament
• Anant Singh
  , Indian politician

Mathematics, physics and astronomy

• Axel Möller (1830-1896), astronomer (Ph.D. 1853, professor 1863-1895)
• Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845-1912), mathematician and physicist (Bäcklund transform) (Ph.D. 1868, professor from 1878)
• Johannes Rydberg (1854-1919), physicist (Rydberg formula, Rydberg constant) (Ph.D. 1873, Professor from 1897)
• 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)
• Adrian Constantin (1970-), Romanian-Austrian mathematician, winner of Wittgenstein Award
• Copenhagen University
  (Ph.D. 1898)
• V. Walfrid Ekman (1874-1954), oceanographer (Ekman spiral, Ekman number
  ) (Professor 1910-1939)
• Carl Wilhelm Oseen (1879-1944), mathematician and physicist, Director of the Nobel Institute for Theoretical Physics (Ph.D 1903)
• Manne Siegbahn (1886-1978), physicist, Nobel laureate, see above
• Anders Lindstedt (1954-1939) mathematician, astronomer and pioneer of actuarial science.
• Knut Lundmark (1889-1958), astronomer (Professor, head of Lund Observatory, 1929-1955)
• Gunnar Malmquist (1893-1982), astronomer (Ph.D. 1921)
• Oskar Klein (1894-1977), physicist (Docent 1926-30)
• Marcel Riesz (1886-1969), mathematician (Riesz function, Riesz theorems, Riesz mean, Riesz potential) (Professor from 1926)
• Lars Gårding (1919-2014), mathematician (Gårding's inequality) (Professor)
• Gunnar Källén (1926-1968) theoretical physicist (Professor)
• Fields medal
  in 1962 (Ph.D. 1955, Professor from 1968)
• space science

Medicine and life sciences

• Ramlösa hälsobrunn
• Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), father of modern taxonomy. (studied his first year in Lund, transferred to Uppsala)
• Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (1709-1785), chemist and mineralogist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Anders Jahan Retzius (1742-1821), naturalist
• Carl Fredrik Fallén (1764-1830), botanist and entomologist
• Axel Gustaf Gyllenkrok (1783-1865), zoologist
• Carl Adolph Agardh (1785-1859), naturalist (botanist); clergyman; bishop of Karlstad
• Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (1785-1874), entomologist
• mycologist (student from 1811, Professor from 1824, from 1834 professor at Uppsala
  )
• Anders Retzius (1796-1860), anatomist
• Anders Gustaf Dahlbom (1806-1859), entomologist
• Jacob Georg Agardh (1813-1901), botanist
• Gustaf Retzius (1842-1919), anatomist
• Hildegard Björck (1847-1920), first woman in Sweden to earn an academic degree
• Sofia Holmgren (1864-1953), physician
• Erik Leonard Ekman (1883-1931), botanist and explorer of Hispaniola and Cuba
• Hjördis Lind-Campbell (1891-1984), physician, known for her work in sex education and founding of an adoption program for unmarried women.
• Dora Jacobsohn (1903-1983), physiologist and endocrinologist
• Rune Elmqvist (1906-1996), developed first implantable pacemaker (M.D.)
• Marianne Lindsten-Thomasson (1909-1979), physician, Sweden's first female district medical officer during the 1940s
• Sune Bergström (1916-2004), biochemist, Nobel laureate, see above
• 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.
• Arvid Carlsson (1923-2018), physician, Nobel laureate, see above
• Olle Hagnell (1924-2011), psychiatrist and epidemiologist
• Arne Strid (1943-), botanist

Engineering

• Per Georg Scheutz (1785-1873), computing pioneer, Scheutzian calculation engine (J.D. 1805)
• Martin Wiberg (1826-1905), inventor, logarithmic table generating machines (Ph.D. 1850)
• medical ultrasonography (with Inge Edler
  ) (Professor)
• IEEE Fellow, IEEE Medal of Honor
  winner (Professor 1965-2002)
• Michael Treschow (1943-), Businessman, chairman of Ericsson (M.Eng.)
• Boris Smeds (1944-), radio engineer at ESA (M. Eng., Licentiate 1972, Honorary Doctor, 2006)
• Lennart Ljung (1946-), control theorist, IEEE Fellow (B.A. 1967, M.Sc. 1970, Ph.D. 1974)
• Jola Sigmond (1943-), architect, Swedish Association of Architects

Humanities and social sciences

• Samuel Pufendorf
  (1632-1694), German jurist, political scientist and historian (Professor 1670-1677)
• Carl August Hagberg (1810-1864), linguist and translator
• Knut Wicksell (1851-1926), economist (Professor 1900-1916)
• Torgny Segerstedt (1876-1945), scholar of comparative religion, anti-Nazi journalist (B.A. 1901, Docent 1903)
• Torsten Hägerstrand (1916-2004), cultural geographer (Ph.D. 1953, Professor)
• Axel Leijonhufvud (1933-2022), economist (B.A.)
• Judith Wallerstein (1921-2012), psychologist and researcher at University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D. 1978)
• Margot Bengtsson (1943-), psychologist
• Etzel Cardeña (1957-), Thorsen Professor of Psychology; Director of the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology
• Katsuya Kodama (1959-), Japanese sociologist and peace researcher
• Marianne Gullberg (1964-), psycholinguist

Literature

• Bengt Lidner (1757-1793), poet. (Student 1774-1776)
• Thomas Thorild (1759-1808), poet, critic and philosopher
• Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846), poet, bishop of Växjö (B.A. 1802, Professor 1812-1824)
• Frans G. Bengtsson (1894-1954), author, The Long Ships (Licentiate 1930)
• Eva Alexanderson (1911-1994), novelist, translator (B.A. 1935)
• Susanna Roxman (1946-2015), writer, poet and critic (studied at King's College, London University, then at Lund University; later PhD in Gothenburg)
• Dilruba Z. Ara (1957-), writer^[1]

Music, theatre, and entertainment

• Otto Lindblad (1809-1864), composer (Student 1829-1836)
• Sten Broman sv:Sten Broman (1902-1983), musician, music critic, TV host; founder of Uarda-akademien.
• Hans Alfredson (1931-2017), writer, entertainer and film director, former head of Skansen (B.A. 1956)
• Royal Republic Rock band (All members attended)
• Jens Bergensten (1979-), CCO of Mojang Studios, lead designer of Minecraft (M.Sc. 2008)

Honorary doctorates

• John Ericsson (1803-1889), inventor, father of the USS Monitor (1868)
• Carver Mead (1934-), computer scientist (1987)
• Thomas Mann (1875–1955), novelist (1949)
• Gustavus Simmons (1930-), cryptographer (1991)
• Kofi Annan (1938-2018), UN Secretary General (1999)
• Santiago Calatrava (1951-), architect (1999)

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