This is a list of notable people affiliated with Lund University, either as students or as researchers and academic teachers (or both). Lund University, located in the town of Lund in Skåne, Sweden, was founded in 1666.
Nobel laureates affiliated with Lund University
Manne Siegbahn (1886-1978), Physics 1924; professor at Uppsala University (B.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1911) Bertil Ohlin (1899-1979), Economics 1977; professor at the Stockholm School of Economics; leader of the liberal Liberal People's Party, 1944-1967 (B.A. 1917) Sune Bergström (1916-2004), Medicine 1982 (Professor 1947-1958) Arvid Carlsson (1923-2018), Medicine 2000 (M.D. 1951, Assistant Professor 1951-1959)
Government, politics and civil service
Gbehzohngar Milton Findley (1960–), Liberian politician and businessman, former Senate Pro-tempore, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Estenberg (1686–1740), Greek scholar, professor, and advisor to King Stanislaw (Stanisław Leszczyński) of Poland in the early 18th century Lars von Engeström (1751–1826), statesman and diplomat, first Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs 1809–1824, Chancellor of Lund University 1810–1824 Arvid Posse (1820–1901), Prime Minister of Sweden 1880–1883 (B.A. 1840) Östen Undén (1886–1974), Rector Magnificus of Uppsala University and politician; Minister for Foreign Affairs 1924-26, 1945-62 (B.A. 1905, LL.B. 1910, LL.D. 1912) Ernst Wigforss (1881–1977), linguist and politician, Swedish Minister of Finance (Ph.D. 1913) Per Edvin Sköld (1891–1972), held various cabinet posts from 1932, Minister of Finance 1949–1955 (B.A. 1917) Bertil Ohlin (1899–1979), liberal leader and economist, Nobel laureate, see above Tage Erlander (1901–1985), Prime Minister of Sweden, 1946–1969 (B.A. 1928) Gunnar Jarring (1907–2002), ambassador, UN diplomat and scholar of Turkic languages (Ph.D. 1933) Ingvar Carlsson (1934–), Prime Minister of Sweden 1986-91, 1994-96 (B.A. 1958) Tarja Cronberg (1943–), Finnish Green Party politician, Member of the European Parliament (Eng. D. 1973) Lena Ek (1958–), Member of the European Parliament (J.D., LL.D.) Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1933–2020; studied at Lund in the 1960s Rupiah Banda (1937–2022), President of Zambia, 2008-2011 (B.A. 1964) H. M. G. S. Palihakkara (1948–), Sri Lankan ambassador and UN diplomat, studied at Lund in the 1980s Jimmie Åkesson (1979–), politician for the Sweden Democrats, Member of the Swedish Parliament Anant Singh, Indian politician
Mathematics, physics and astronomy
Axel Möller (1830-1896), astronomer (Ph.D. 1853, professor 1863-1895) Albert Victor Bäcklund (1845-1912), mathematician and physicist (Bäcklund transform) (Ph.D. 1868, professor from 1878) Johannes Rydberg (1854-1919), physicist (Rydberg formula, Rydberg constant) (Ph.D. 1873, Professor from 1897) Carl Charlier (1862-1934), astronomer, awarded the James Craig Watson Medal in 1924 and the Bruce Medal in 1933 (Professor from 1897, head of the Lund Observatory) Adrian Constantin (1970-), Romanian-Austrian mathematician, winner of Wittgenstein Award Elis Strömgren (1870-1947), astronomer, Director of the Observatory at Copenhagen University (Ph.D. 1898) V. Walfrid Ekman (1874-1954), oceanographer (Ekman spiral, Ekman number) (Professor 1910-1939) Carl Wilhelm Oseen (1879-1944), mathematician and physicist, Director of the Nobel Institute for Theoretical Physics (Ph.D 1903) Manne Siegbahn (1886-1978), physicist, Nobel laureate, see above Anders Lindstedt (1954-1939) mathematician, astronomer and pioneer of actuarial science. Knut Lundmark (1889-1958), astronomer (Professor, head of Lund Observatory, 1929-1955) Gunnar Malmquist (1893-1982), astronomer (Ph.D. 1921) Oskar Klein (1894-1977), physicist (Docent 1926-30) Marcel Riesz (1886-1969), mathematician (Riesz function, Riesz theorems, Riesz mean, Riesz potential) (Professor from 1926) Lars Gårding (1919-2014), mathematician (Gårding's inequality) (Professor) Gunnar Källén (1926-1968) theoretical physicist (Professor) Lars Hörmander (1931-2012), mathematician, awarded the Fields medal in 1962 (Ph.D. 1955, Professor from 1968) Duncan Steel (1955-), authority on space science