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International Swede of the Year

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International Swede of the Year () is a prize awarded by the organization Swedes Worldwide (Swedish: Föreningen svenskar i världen).

Winners

2025: Johan Rockström, Environmental scientist
2024: Armand Duplantis, pole vaulter, and Sarah Sjöström, swimmer
2023: Sweden’s war correspondents
2022: Zara Larsson, artist
2021: Mikael Dolsten, physician and Chief Scientific Officer at Pfizer
2020: Max Tegmark, physicist
2019: Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner
2018: Nina Stemme, opera singer
2017: Pia Sundhage, footballer
2016: Staffan de Mistura, diplomat
2015: Max Martin, music producer, songwriter
2014: Martin Lorentzon and Daniel Ek, IT entrepreneurs, creators of Spotify
2013: Zlatan Ibrahimović, footballer
2012: Hans Rosling of Gapminder Foundation
2011: Peter Wallenberg (1959-), businessman.
2010: Annika Sörenstam, golfer
2009: Hans Blix, diplomat and politician
2008: Anne Sofie von Otter, opera singer
2007: Hans Rausing, founder of Tetra Pak
2006: Bertil Hult, founder of EF Education
2005: Jan-Ove Waldner, table tennis champion
2004: Margot Wallström, EU Commissioner
2003: Jonas af Jochnick and Robert af Jochnick, entrepreneurs, founders of Oriflame
2002: Yngve Bergqvist, entrepreneur, founder of the Ice hotel at Jukkasjärvi
2001: Sven-Göran Eriksson, football coach
2000: Håkan Lans, inventor
1999: Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, composers and musicians
1998: Adolf H. Lundin, oil and mining entrepreneur
1997: Astrid Lindgren, author
1996: Peter Jablonski, pianist
1995: Agneta Nilsson, founder of the SWEA (Swedish Women's Educational Association)
1994: Torbjörn Lagerwall, professor
1993: Lars Gustafsson, member of the Swedish Academy author and professor
1992: Percy Barnevik, CEO of ABB Asea Brown Boveri
1991: Lennart Bernadotte and Sonja Bernadotte, founder of the Mainau museum.
1990: Pontus Hultén, professor
1989: Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA
1988: Oscar Carlsson, missionary and inventor

References

[http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/arets-svensk-i-varlden-peter-wallenberg_6202431.svd Årets svensk i världen: Peter Wallenberg] (In Swedish) [[Svenska Dagbladet]], 27 May 2011
[http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/svtuppland/rosling-arets-svensk-i-varlden Rosling "Årets svensk i världen"] (In Swedish) [[svt.se]], 29 June 2012
"Jonas af Johnick och Robert af Johnick – Årets Svenskar i Världen 2003".

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