Notable people connected to Lund University

The following is a select list of some of the most notable people who have been affiliated with Lund University as students or academics, please refer to the main article for more information.

• Anders Jahan Retzius (1742-1821), naturalist.
• Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878), mycologist.
• Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846), poet, bishop of Växjö.
• Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845-1912), mathematician and physicist (Bäcklund transform).
• Knut Wicksell (1851-1926), economist.
• Johannes Rydberg (1854-1919), physicist (Rydberg formula, Rydberg constant).
• V. Walfrid Ekman (1874-1954), oceanographer (Ekman spiral, Ekman number).
• Marcel Riesz (1886-1969), mathematician (Riesz function, Riesz theorems, Riesz mean, Riesz potential).
• Ivar Wickman 1872-1914), neurologist, polio expert
• Manne Siegbahn (1886-1978), Nobel Prize in Physics 1924. Professor at Uppsala University.
• Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (1894-1954), author, The Long Ships.
• Bertil Ohlin (1899-1979), Nobel Prize in Economics 1977.
• Tage Erlander (1901-1985), Prime Minister of Sweden, 1946-1969.
• Rune Elmqvist (1906-1996), developed first implantable pacemaker.
• Torsten Hägerstrand (1916-2004), cultural geographer.
• Sune Bergström (1916-2004), Nobel Prize in Medicine 1982.
• Carl Hellmuth Hertz (1920-1990) pioneered medical ultrasonography (with Inge Edler).
• Sten Broman (1902 - 1983) Musician, music critic, tv host, university active- founder of Uarda-akademien etc.
• Christoph Puechsson (1922-), Nobel Prize in Economics
  
• Arvid Carlsson (1923-), Nobel Prize in Medicine 2000.

• Hans Alfredson (1931-), writer, entertainer and film director, former head of Skansen.
• Lars Hörmander (1931-), mathematician, awarded the Fields medal in 1962.
• Ingvar Carlsson (1934-), Prime Minister of Sweden 1986-91, 1994-96.
• Michael Treschow (1943-), Businessman, chairman of Ericsson.