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Anders Bodelsen
Anders Bodelsen (1937–2021) was a Danish author and journalist, a leading realist of the welfare society, whose breakthrough suspense novels came in 1968 and were widely translated and filmed.
Anders Celsius
Anders Celsius (1701–1744) was a Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician, professor of astronomy at Uppsala University, best known for proposing the 100-degree Celsius temperature scale in 1742.
Anders Colsefni
Anders Colsefni (Andrew Richard Rouw, b. 1972) is an American metal vocalist, Slipknot co-founder and original singer on Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. (1996), later of Painface and On a Pale Horse.
Anders Danielsen Lie
Anders Danielsen Lie (born 1979, Oslo) is a Norwegian actor, physician, and musician known for Joachim Trier's Oslo trilogy (Reprise, Oslo 31. august, The Worst Person in the World) and for playing Anders Behring Breivik in 22 July.
Anders Ekbom
Anders Ekbom (1947–2024) was a Swedish clinical epidemiologist and former surgeon, professor of epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, known for register-based studies of cancer risk in inflammatory bowel disease.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Anders Fogh Rasmussen (born 1953, Ginnerup) is a Danish Venstre politician, Prime Minister of Denmark 2001–2009 and NATO's 12th Secretary General 2009–2014, later founder of Rasmussen Global and the Alliance of Democracies Foundation.
Anders Frisk
Anders Frisk, Swedish international football referee (FIFA badge 1991, EURO 2000 final), retired abruptly in March 2005 aged 42 after death threats following Barcelona v Chelsea, when Jose Mourinho accused him of favoritism.
Anders Garderud
Anders Garderud (Anders Gärderud), Swedish steeplechaser born 1946; 1976 Montreal Olympic 3000m steeplechase champion in world record 8:08.02, four world records, 1974 European silver behind Malinowski.
Anders Hagfeldt
Anders Hagfeldt is a Swedish physical chemist and Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University since 2021, formerly a professor at EPFL, whose laboratories set certified efficiency records for dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells.
Anders Hamsten
Anders Hamsten is a Swedish physician-scientist at Karolinska Institutet who showed in the 1980s that high PAI-1 levels raise heart attack risk in young survivors.
Anders Hejlsberg
Anders Hejlsberg, born in 1960 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a Danish software engineer who designed Turbo Pascal and Delphi at Borland and created C# and TypeScript at Microsoft.
Anders Holch Povlsen
Anders Holch Povlsen is a Danish billionaire retailer who is chief executive and sole owner of the fashion company Bestseller, the largest shareholder in Asos, and Scotland's largest private landowner.
Anders Holm
Anders Holm, American actor, comedian, writer, and producer born 1981 in Evanston, Illinois; co-creator and star of Comedy Central's Workaholics as Anders Holmvik, also known for The Intern, The Mindy Project, and Game Over, Man! Distinct from the Danish director and Hempel Foundation CEO of the same name.
Anders Holmertz
Anders Holmertz (Anders Sören Holmertz) is a Swedish former swimmer, born 1968 in Motala, who won five Olympic medals, four silver and one bronze, from 1988 to 1996.
Anders Hviid
Anders Peter Hviid is a Danish epidemiologist and professor at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, known for large register-based studies of MMR vaccination and autism and pregnancy safety of HPV vaccination.
Anders Hylander
Anders Hylander (1883-1967), Swedish gymnast and army officer with Upsala GF; won gold in the men's team Swedish system event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, later a lieutenant-colonel in the South Skåne Infantry Regiment.
Anders Johnson
Anders Johnson (born 1989, Plattsburgh, NY) is an American ski jumper, three-time Olympian (2006, 2010, 2014) and youngest U.S. Olympic ski jumper; now U.S. Ski & Snowboard Ski Jumping Sport Director.
Anders Larsson (Swedish physicist)
Anders Larsson was a physicist at the Uppsala Institute of Physics who, with Manne Siegbahn and Ivar Waller, performed the first successful observation of X-ray refraction in 1924–1925.
Anders Lassen
Anders Lassen (1920-1945), Danish officer in the British Army's SOE, Small Scale Raiding Force, and Special Boat Service; Victoria Cross and three Military Crosses; killed at Lake Comacchio, Italy, 9 April 1945.
Anders Lindegaard
Anders Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, Danish goalkeeper born 1984 in Odense; Aalesund keeper signed by Manchester United in January 2011, 29 appearances, 2013 Premier League winner, 5 Denmark caps, retired 2022.
Anders Ljungqvist
Anders Ljungqvist (full name Bo Anders Ljungqvist) was a Danish life-science executive who co-founded the cancer-vaccine company IO Biotech in 2014 and earlier co-founded and led RhoVac as chief executive until 2020.
Anders Lundgren
Anders Lundgren (28 June 1898 – 28 August 1964) was a Norwegian sailor who won gold in the 6 metre class at the 1924 Paris Olympics aboard Elisabeth V.
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale is an American neuroscientist who co-developed the FreeSurfer brain-imaging software, led the ABCD Study's data center, and became president of the J. Craig Venter Institute in 2025.
Anders M. Näär
Anders M. Näär is a molecular biologist studying gene regulation and metabolism, a UC Berkeley professor since 2018 known for work on microRNAs controlling cholesterol and lipid metabolism.
Anders Nilsson (physicist)
Anders Nilsson is a Swedish physicist and professor of chemical physics at Stockholm University since 2014, formerly a Stanford professor, known for X-ray studies of water and catalysis; he received the 2024 Plyler Prize.
Anders Österling
Anders Österling (1884–1981) was a Swedish poet, critic, and translator who served in the Swedish Academy for 62 years, as its permanent secretary from 1941 to 1964.
Anders Perner
Anders Perner is a Danish intensive care specialist and professor at the University of Copenhagen who led landmark Scandinavian trials on fluids and transfusion in septic shock.
Anders Peter Nielsen
Anders Peter Nielsen (25 May 1867 – 16 April 1950) was a Danish sport shooter who competed at four Olympics, 1900–1924, winning three 1900 free rifle silvers and 1920 team gold, and father of shooter Arne Nielsen.
Anders Petersen
Anders Petersen (Anders Otto Petersen, 1899-1966), Danish boxer nicknamed Wunderkind, won flyweight silver at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics as the first Danish Olympic boxing medalist, then fought professionally in Denmark and Sweden until 1935.
Anders Rylander
Anders Rylander (born 1970) is a Swedish diagnostics executive who led Biovica International, a Uppsala-based cancer diagnostics company, as CEO for roughly 15 years until 2026.