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Sven Landberg
Sven Landberg (Sven Axel Richard Landberg, 1888-1962), Swedish gymnast with team gold at London 1908 and Stockholm 1912, one of six double winners; also a football forward capped once for Sweden in 1910.
Sven Lindqvist
Sven Lindqvist (1932–2019) was a Swedish author, reporter, and debater who published 35 books and was best known internationally for Exterminate All the Brutes (1992).
Sven Lodziewski
Sven Lodziewski (born 1965, Leipzig), East German then German freestyle swimmer; SC Dynamo Berlin; Olympic 4x200 m relay silver Seoul 1988, 1986 world relay champion, 1987 European 100 m champion, later federation head physician.
Sven Lönborg
Sven Lönborg (1871–1959) was a Swedish geographer, educator, and prolific non-fiction writer who spent his career in Gothenburg and Uppsala, publishing about thirty titles between 1894 and 1939.
Sven Lundgren
Sven Lundgren is the name of two Swedish Olympic track and field athletes of the 1920s: a decathlete who competed at Amsterdam 1928 and a runner who won bronze at Antwerp 1920.
Sven Meinhardt
Sven Meinhardt (born 1971, Mülheim an der Ruhr) is a German field hockey player, 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist with the re-unified German team, twice European champion, three-time Champions Trophy winner, and Uhlenhorst Mülheim club player; not the fencer Gerek Meinhardt or the mathematician Sven Meinhardt.
Sven Olof Jonsson
Sven Olof Jonsson (1893-1945), Swedish gymnast from Östersund with IFK Stockholm, won gold in the men's Swedish system team event at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; distinct from teammate Sven Johnson.
Sven Olov Sjodelius
Sven-Olov Sjödelius (Sven Olov Sjodelius), 1933–2018, Swedish sprint canoeist of Nyköpings KK; double Olympic gold in K-2 1,000 m at Rome 1960 with Gert Fredriksson and Tokyo 1964 with Gunnar Utterberg.
Sven Perkmann
Sven Perkmann, born 1987, is a Swedish-based technology executive who co-founded Anyfin, the Stockholm consumer-loan refinancing fintech, in 2017, and was its chief technology officer until 2022.
Sven Rosen
Sven Rosén (Sven Axel Arrigo Rosén, 1887–1963), Swedish gymnast and army officer; won Olympic gold in men's team gymnastics at London 1908 and in the Swedish system team event at Stockholm 1912.
Sven Schneider
Sven Schneider is a German inorganic and coordination chemist, professor at the University of Göttingen since 2012, known for research on dinitrogen splitting and catalysis.
Sven Schulze
Sven Schulze is a German politician of the CDU who has been Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt since 2026, having previously served as a Member of the European Parliament.
Sven Simon
Sven Simon, born 1978 in Lahn-Wetzlar, is a German CDU politician who has served in the European Parliament since 2019 and chairs its Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
Sven Strohband
Sven Strohband is a partner and managing director at Khosla Ventures known for early investments in Rocket Lab, GitLab, Berkshire Grey, and hypersonic startup Hermeus.
Sven Thofelt
Sven Alfred Thofelt (1904–1993), Swedish modern pentathlete and épée fencer; Olympic gold 1928, silver 1936, bronze 1948; UIPM president 1960–1988 and IOC member 1970–1976.
Sven Thorell
Sven Gustaf Thorell (1888–1974), Swedish engineer and canoe designer, won Olympic sailing gold in the 12-foot dinghy at Amsterdam 1928, beating Henrik Robert, and placed ninth in the Snowbird at Los Angeles 1932.
Sven Treitel
Sven Treitel (1929–2024) was a German-born, MIT-educated exploration geophysicist who co-developed digital seismic processing with Enders Robinson, wrote standard textbooks, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Sven Ulreich
Sven Ulreich, German goalkeeper born 1988 in Schorndorf; VfB Stuttgart academy product and 176-game Bundesliga keeper, Bayern Munich's long-serving deputy to Manuel Neuer since 2015, with a 2020-21 HSV season, nine Bundesliga titles and the 2020 Champions League.
Sven-Åke Lundbäck
Sven-Åke Lundbäck (born 1948), Swedish cross-country skier; Olympic 15 km gold at Sapporo 1972, double world champion at Lahti 1978, Vasaloppet winner 1981, VO2 max 94.6.
Sven-Eric Jordt
Sven-Eric Jordt is an American-based sensory neuroscientist and toxicologist, Professor of Anesthesiology at Duke University, known for identifying TRPA1 as the receptor for airway irritants like tear gas.
Sven-Göran Eriksson
Sven-Göran Eriksson ("Svennis", 1948-2024), Swedish football manager; won the 1982 UEFA Cup with IFK Göteborg, three Portuguese titles with Benfica, the 2000 Serie A title with Lazio, and was England's first foreign manager (2001-06).
Sven-Gösta Nilsson
Sven-Gösta Nilsson (1927–1979) was a Swedish theoretical nuclear physicist and professor at Lund whose 1955 single-particle model for deformed nuclei became a standard tool of nuclear structure physics.
Sven-Ole Thorsen
Sven-Ole Thorsen (born 1944, Copenhagen) is a Danish bodybuilder, strongman, karate champion, actor, and stuntman; Thorgrim in Conan the Barbarian and Arnold Schwarzenegger's most frequent film collaborator.
Svend Åge Madsen
Svend Åge Madsen is a Danish author, born in 1939 in Aarhus, whose novels and drama blend realism and fantasy and have earned major Danish literary awards.
Svend Meulengracht Madsen
Svend Meulengracht Madsen (1897-1990), Danish artistic gymnast from Vejle; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in men's team free system (Denmark 51.35, Norway 48.55); brother of Olympians Viggo and Hans Meulengracht Madsen.
Sveneld
Sveneld (Свенельд) was a Varangian military commander and nobleman of Kievan Rus' in the 10th century, who served as voivode to the Kyivan princes Igor, Sviatoslav, and Yaropolk and was last mentioned in 977.
Svengoolie
Svengoolie is a Chicago horror host character created by Jerry G. Bishop on Screaming Yellow Theater (WFLD, 1970) and played by Rich Koz since 1979, first as Son of Svengoolie, now airing nationally on MeTV.
Svenja Brunckhorst
Svenja Brunckhorst (born 1991, Rotenburg (Wümme)) is a German former basketball player, 179 cm, who captained Germany to 3x3 Olympic gold in Paris 2024, the first German basketball Olympic medal, and now manages women's basketball at ALBA Berlin.
Svenja Schlicht
Svenja Schlicht (Schlicht-Eberhardt), born 1967 in Neumünster, West German backstroke swimmer; 1984 Olympic silver in 4x100 medley relay, 1991 world gold in 4x200 freestyle relay, 24 national titles; not the Swiss swimmer Svenja Stoffel.
Svenska Handelsbanken
Svenska Handelsbanken is a Swedish universal bank founded in 1871 and headquartered in Stockholm, known for branch autonomy with no budgets, sales targets, or bonuses.