Name a cool Scandinavian

[BurtWorm]

or person of Scandinavian heritage.

To make up for Grover Norquist.

I'll go first: Todd Rundgren.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Kierkegaard.

[Lavender Brown]

2. Viggo Mortensen, of course

[LDS Jock]

3. Stephan Edberg

My favorite tennis player.. wish he were still playing. What a classy guy.

[BurtWorm]

4. Does anyone know if Iggy Pop is Swedish?

James Osterberg?

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Osterberg turns up on German webpages a lot

so probably not.

[Myrina]

5. Bjorn Borg

:shrug:

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. The Hives

and the Hellacopters.

[TrogL]

7. Lief Ericson

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Tina Dico from Zero 7

[AspenRose]

9. Does Candace Bergen count?

If not then maybe tennis pro Mats Wilander....

[BurtWorm]

11. In my book she does.

[Bjornsdotter]

10. Björn Skifs

Hi,

I've always had a thing for Björn Skifs!

Skol,
Kim :toast:

[alexwcovington]

12. Wild Bill Langer

Any prominent Nodak Politician really.

[BurtWorm]

13. David Johansen

[HEyHEY]

14. That guy from AHA

[AspenRose]

19. *laugh* which one? There's three of them!

:D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. She probably means Pal Waaktaar, the singer

Wifey goes ga ga over him too. But it's OK, he lives far enough.

[HEyHEY]

35. SHE? HEyHEY's a MAN!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

38. Visual misalignment. Thought it was DesertedRose

My brain seems not to be rendering HTML tables correctly. Come on, it's 5:30 pm Friday here!

[HEyHEY]

36. The main one...with the hair

[BurtWorm]

20. I said COOL Scandinavians!

;) (Or else we'll have to include ABBA.)

[LDS Jock]

40. hey.. i love ABBA

best. group. ever.

[BurtWorm]

41. They're in that so bad they're good category for me.

With Peggy Lee and Ann-Margaret (two more so bad they're good Swedes).

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Hans Blix

[Burma Jones]

16. Garrison Keillor

[sus]

18. ME!!

[cyberswede]

31. you took mine...

LOL! :) I was going to say "me" of course, but since you beat me to it, I'll say Lars Ulrich (I think he's a Dane).
thx - lori

[SW FL Dem]

47. Beat me to it!

My father's family is all from Sweden. My nickname growing up was Sus.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

21. Linus Torvalds

http://www.scandinavica.com/culture/famous/linus.htm
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=10224

[XNASA]

22. Bjork

Iceland, I believe, is considered part of Scandinavia.

Oh and my kid wants me to recommend Ville Valo.

[BurtWorm]

30. Of course!

She's the coolest.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

23. Bjork?

I guess Iceland is nominally Scandinavia.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

26. Gunnar Asplundh, Sverre Fenne, Alvar Aalto.

Three architects from up there that I ike alot. Aalto was considered a modern master.

[parasim]

25. Alvar Aalto

[dogtag]

29. All Swedes

Annika Sorenstam
Greta Garbo
Ingrid Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
Lena Olin
Raoul Wallenberg
Alfred Nobel
Max Von Sydow
Stellan Skarsgard
Pernilla Wiberg
Matts Willander

To name a few and me, of course!

[BurtWorm]

32. You'd have to include Isabella Rosellini in there, too.

And Bibbi Andersson
Astrid Lundgren
Carl Larson

And half of me.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

27. Zara Leander.

A Swede, I think. One of the great divas of popular music.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

28. Grieg, Sibelius...

classical music greats from up north.

[BurtWorm]

33. Olaf Palme

:cry:

[jdonaldball]

34. O-Din! O-Din! O-Din!

Chanting this while I brandish my war axe and imagine ripping the lungs out of Old English Freepers.....

[SOteric]

37. You'd have to be a Seattlite to know: Ivar Haglund

[flamingyouth]

45. KEEP CLAM!!!

:D

[skypilot]

39. Max von Sydow

*

[Hand]

60. Roger that! Max ROCKS!

Well, he's pretty old to rock, but he's one hell of an actor!

:toast: :loveya:

[NicoleM]

42. All of them.

I don't think it gets very warm up there.

[SiouxJ]

43. Todd is of course the coolest, followed closely by . . .

me. (Well, I'm only half.)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. The people who live in my great-great grandpa's house...

When my mom and her sister visited the place, which is near the Sweden/Norway border, the family that currently resides there warmly welcomed them, and showed them around the place.

To thank them for their kindness, Mom sent a copy of a photo of the house just after it had been finished, with Great Great Grandpa and family (the builders) standing in front.

[flamingyouth]

46. How about me?

:shrug: I'm Swedish.:D

[GoddessOfGuinness]

49. I knew there was more to you than

your mere kindness, intelligence, and excellent taste! :yourock:

[3trievers]

48. yikes!!!!!!!!

Tiger woods girlfriend.

[PittPoliSci]

50. Anders Frieden!

Singer for In Flames!

[Skittles]

51. SKITTLES!

My dad was Norwegian. :D

[RetroLounge]

52. Me!

Okay, not the coolest, I guess, but I am Swedish, Danish and Norwegian (Mixed with German).

RL

[JVS]

53. Gustavus Adolphus

[Vitruvius]

65. And his daughter, Queen Christina (Kristina Vasa)

n/t

[Vitruvius]

69. And -- in modern times, Field Marshall C. G. E. Mannerheim of Finland

http://www.mannerheim.fi/ , especially http://www.mannerheim.fi/tori_e/e_intro.htm and the following pages. Mannerheim's masterly defense against Soviet aggression in the opening days of WWII (during the Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact) is taught in War Colleges to this day.

Charles XII of Sweden (reigned 1697 to 1718) was also a military genius, but a bit of a maniac -- and, ultimately, a disaster for Russia, Poland, and Sweden. So he's interesting, but definitely NOT cool. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XII_of_Sweden ; also http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/charles_xii_of_sweden.htm

[JVS]

54. Are we counting Finns?

The status of Finns being scandinavian or not is something that reasonable people could disagree on.

[Canuckistanian]

56. I always count my Finns

I don't trust those Danes!
:D

[BurtWorm]

64. I count Finns.

I'm a traditionalist that way.

[Canuckistanian]

55. Trygve Halvdan Lie

The first Secretary-General of the United Nations.

[Canuckistanian]

57. Ingrid Bergman

[name not needed]

58. Lars Ulrich

This is the "Name a greedy Scandiavian gnome" thread, right?

:)

[Vitruvius]

59. Niels Abel (mathematician), Niels Bohr (physicist), Henrik Ibsen

(playwright), Egil Hylleraas (physicist). Abel is probably the least known of the three amongst laypeople, but was one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived; see also: http://www.mnc.net/norway/abel.htm ; if you have a technical background see also http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Abel.html

Bohr created the original version of Quantum Mechanics -- the "old quantum mechanics" that laid the groundwork for the modern quantum mechanics of Schrodinger and Heisenberg.

Ibsen needs no introduction on DU.

Hylleraas was an extremely influential atomic physicist. (b/t/w, for the physicists out there, Hylleraas also wrote a wonderful 2-volume work on mathematical physics that is packed with insight and a joy to read. A pity it is not better known in this country.)

[Vitruvius]

66. And Sophus Lie (mathematician).

n/t

[Hand]

61. Olof Palme...

(Paul Newman's college roomate, by the way.) He was the Swedish PM who marched in anti-Vietnam war protests. Nixon hated him! Sadly, he was assassinated one night (Palme, not Nixon--rotten luck).

[oxymoron]

62. ABBA

..sorry

[POed_Ex_Repub]

67. I second ABBA

What? Why are you all looking at me like that? :scared:

[thebaghwan]

63. Hans Christsian Andersen

n/t

[CrownPrinceBandar]

68. Thor Heyerdahl, Skellan Skarsgard....................

Marge Gundersen, don'cha know?