List of Swedish Americans

This is a list of notable Swedish Americans.

Candice Bergen^*
Edgar Bergen^* "Bergen, a moody Swedish-American..."
Ingrid Bergman"Queen of the Silver Screen"
Nadia Bjorlin (1980 - ) TV/soap opera actress^* "Nadia Bjorlin, the 24 year old Swedish-Persian, American-born actress..."
Kirsten Dunst^* "...posters of this Swedish/German beauty will be plastered in locker rooms everywhere..."
Greta Garbo"This year marks the centenary of the great Swedish actress Greta Garbo..." [http://www.nordicway.com/search/Famous%20Swedish%20Americans.htm
Melanie Griffith^*
Signe Hasso"A SWEDISH actress who played major roles in Hollywood in the mid- 1940s..." [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=30946" she became an American citizen in 1948..."
Susan Hayward^*
Tor Johnson^* "Tor Johnson was born in Sweden around the turn of the century and by the early 1930's was barnstorming the United States as a professional wrestler, usually under the name of the Super Swedish Angel."
Ann-Margret^* "She was also named the Swedish American of the Year and gave a royal command performance for the King and Queen of Sweden."
Warner Oland^*
Erik Per Sullivan (1991 - ) "Malcolm in the Middle" actor^* "A precocious Swedish-American with a gift for comedy..."
Gloria Swanson^*
Kristy Swanson^* "Kristy Swanson: No, I’m Swedish"
Uma Thurman^* "...she's really Swedish. She has a very famous Swedish grandmother named Brigitte. There's a statue of her in Sweden."

Birger Sandzén - artist^* "It was fortunate for American art and Kansas when a young Swedish artist named Sven Birger Sandzen decided to emigrate to Lindsborg in 1894..."
Haddon Sundblom - creator of Santa Claus images for the Coca-Cola Company^*
Ann Telnaes- Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist.

Buzz Aldrin - astronaut^*
Ernst Alexanderson - electrical engineer^*
Carl David Anderson - physicist^*
Chester Carlson - inventor^*
John Ericsson - inventor and mechanical engineer^*
Harry Nyquist - engineer^*
John W. Nystrom - engineer^*
Glenn T. Seaborg - Nobel Prize laureate^* "in 1962, named Swedish American of the Year by Vasa Order of America, Stockholm..."

Howard Hanson - composer^*
Joe Hill - IWW activist and songwriter^* "Joe Hill was a Swedish immigrant who came to America in 1900..."
Kris Kristofferson - songwriter^*
MC Lars - singer^* "Third generation Swedish..."

Wendell Anderson - former Minnesota governor^*
George W. Bush - president of the United States of America^* "George W. Bush is Swedish. Partly, at least, according to the Swedish Colonial Society, which has researched the president's ancestors going back ten generations."
Arne Carlson^* "praised Carlson, a fellow Swedish-American..."
Mamie Eisenhower - wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961^*
John Hanson>^*
John Albert Johnson^*
Magnus Johnson^*
John Lind^*
Charles August Lindbergh - congressman^*
William Rehnquist - former Chief Justice of the United States^*
Carl Skoglund - communist^*
Earl Warren - Chief Justice of the United States^*

Bud Grace - cartoonist^*
Stephen Gyllenhaal - director^*
Charles Lindbergh - aviator^*
Eric Norelius - clergyman^*
David Nyvall - Evangelical church leader^*
Steven Soderbergh - director^* "...he asked if director Steven Soderbergh was Jewish. "He said, ’No, I’m Swedish,"
Carl Strandlund - inventor^* "Emigrating from Sweden, the Strandlund family settled among the rolling cornfields of Moline, Illinois, when Carl Strandlund was four years old."

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