List of Swedish Americans

Actors

Maud Adams, Swedish-born, Bond girl

Ann-Margret, Swedish-born, actress and singer

Candice Bergen, actress and fashion model, father of Swedish descent

Edgar Bergen, actor and radio performer

Ingrid Bergman, Swedish-born

Nadia Bjorlin, soap opera actress, Swedish father

Rowan Blanchard, American actress

Veda Ann Borg, American film actress

Hayden Christensen, film actor; born in Canada; maternal grandfather is of Swedish ancestry

James Coburn, film actor

Matt Damon, film actor, mother is of partial Swedish ancestry

Arthur Donaldson (1869-1955), Swedish-American actor

Joseph J. Dowling, film American actor; his mother was Swedish

Kirsten Dunst, film actress, maternal grandmother was of Swedish descent

Robert Englund, film, television and voice actor, father was of part Swedish descent

Edie Falco, television, film and stage actress, mother was of part Swedish descent

Dave Franco, film actor, brother of James Franco; Swedish-American paternal grandmother

James Franco, film actor (Swedish-American paternal grandmother)

Stan Freberg, animation voice actor, author, recording artist, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director

Greta Garbo, Swedish-born, film actress

Melanie Griffith, film actress, two of her maternal great grandparents were immigrants from Sweden

Jake Gyllenhaal, film actor, father of partial Swedish descent

Maggie Gyllenhaal, film actress; father of partial Swedish descent

Larry Hagman, actor, best known for the role of J.R. Ewing in the TV series Dallas (1978-1991 and 2012); his paternal grandfather was of Swedish heritage

Mark Hamill, maternal grandfather of Swedish descent; film actor and voice actor

Josh Hartnett, actor; mother of part Swedish descent

Signe Hasso, film actress

Susan Hayward, film actress, her maternal grandparents were immigrants from Sweden

Jon Heder, actor, of part Swedish descent

Garrett Hedlund, actor, father is of Swedish ancestry

Martha Hedman, Swedish-born, American stage actress

Tippi Hedren, film actress, paternal grandparents were immigrants from Sweden

Liza Huber, soap opera, television and stage actress

Gunilla Hutton, film actress

Scarlett Johansson, actress, singer, model; her paternal great-grandfather was Swedish

Tor Johnson, actor and wrestler, Swedish-born

Van Johnson, film and television actor, of part Swedish descent

Val Kilmer, actor, mother was of Swedish descent

Joel Kinnaman, actor, American father and Swedish-Jewish mother

Melinda Kinnaman, actress; half-sister of Joel; a Swedish and American citizen

Kris Kristofferson, country music songwriter, singer and actor, father was of Swedish descent

Caroline Lagerfelt, stage, film, and television actress

Brandon Lee, actor; son of Bruce Lee; his mother, Linda Lee Cadwell, is of part Swedish descent

Shannon Lee, actress; daughter of Bruce Lee

Eric Linden, film actor

Viveca Lindfors, stage and film actress

Helen Lindroth, Swedish-born; screen and stage actress

Susan Lucci, mother of part Swedish descent; soap opera actress

Kellan Lutz, actor, maternal grandmother is of partial Swedish ancestry

Jennette McCurdy, actress of Swedish descent

Matthew Modine, actor, paternal Swedish descent through his great-great-grandfather

Carlotta Nillson, Swedish-born, Broadway actress

Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish-born, silent film actress

Warner Oland, film actor

Nancy Olson, film and television actress

Olivia Olson, actress and voiceover actress; her birth mother is Swedish

Mary-Louise Parker, film actress, star in TV series Weeds, of 1/4 Swedish descent

Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, maternal grandmother was of Swedish descent

Jeremy Renner, actor, of part Swedish descent

Andy Richter, comedic actor, writer, and late night talk show sidekick, maternal grandmother was of Swedish descent

Julia Roberts, actress, maternal great-grandmother was from Sweden

Alexander Skarsgård

Kevin Spacey, has Swedish ancestry from his maternal grandmother's side

Inger Stevens, Swedish-born, film and television actress

Emma Stone, paternal grandfather was of Swedish descent

Erik Per Sullivan, Malcolm in the Middle actor, Swedish mother

Bo Svenson, Swedish-born American actor, known for his roles in American genre films of the 1970s and 1980s

Gloria Swanson, silent film actress

Kristy Swanson, film and television actress, father of part Swedish descent

Karl Swenson, film and television actor, radio personality, of Swedish parentage

Uma Thurman, Academy Award-nominated film actress and former fashion model, mother is of part Swedish ancestry

Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer and the creator of Kukla, Fran and Ollie

Mamie Van Doren, stage, film and television actress, father and maternal grandmother were of Swedish ancestry

Donnie Wahlberg, film actor and producer; paternal grandfather of Swedish descent

Mark Wahlberg, Academy Award-nominated film actor (paternal grandfather of Swedish descent)

Robert Wahlberg, film actor; paternal grandfather of Swedish descent

Kari Wahlgren, voiceover actress

Maiara Walsh, actress

Irene Ware, actress in Hollywood; was in 40 movies, 1932-1940

Richard Widmark, father was of Swedish descent

Music

Leroy Anderson, Swedish immigrant parents, composer

Theresa Andersson, singer-songwriter

Herbert Blomstedt, orchestral conductor

David Carlson, composer

Olive Fremstad, Swedish-born, mezzo-soprano and soprano opera singer

Jerry Garcia, singer and guitarist of the Grateful Dead

Emilie Hammarskjöld, composer

Dinah Jane Hansen, member of girl group Fifth Harmony

Howard Hanson, composer, conductor, educator and music theorist

Catherine Christer Hennix, composer

Joe Hill, Swedish-born, songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Quincy Jones III, Swedish-born mother, composer, music producer, film producer and author

Ben Jorgensen, writer and singer for Armor For Sleep

Kris Kristofferson, influential country music songwriter, singer and actor

MC Lars, rapper

Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence

Peggy Lee, Swedish/Norwegian grandparents, jazz singer and songwriter

Neil Levang, musician

Jim Lindberg, singer-songwriter for the American punk rock band Pennywise

Alan Lindquest (1891–1984), voice teacher

Kerry Livgren, musician-songwriter for the American band Kansas

Tove Lo, singer-songwriter

Nils Lofgren, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band

Mike Love, musician with The Beach Boys; his grandmother's father Charles Shtole was from Målilla in Småland

Freddy Moore, singer-songwriter

Ricky Nelson, singer

Harry Nilsson, singer-songwriter

Jack Noren, jazz drummer and vocalist

Birgit Ridderstedt, folk singer and producer

Todd Rundgren, singer-songwriter

Ilya Salmanzadeh, singer-songwriter and producer

Grace Slick, singer-songwriter

Taylor Swift, country singer

Hughie Thomasson, singer and guitarist

Cal Tjader, Swedish parents, jazz musician

Theodor Uppman, Swedish parents, opera singer

Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born, opera singer

Henry Vestine, guitarist, son of Ernest Harry Vestine

Donnie Wahlberg, singer of pop group New Kids On The Block, actor and film producer

Mark Wahlberg, singer, actor, producer, model

Brian Wilson, lead bassist, vocalist, songwriter and producer for The Beach Boys

Carl Wilson, lead guitarist of The Beach Boys

Dennis Wilson, lead drummer of The Beach Boys

Other

Mary Katherine Campbell, two-time Miss America winner in 1922 and 1923; mother was half Swedish

Gretchen Carlson, journalist, co-host of Fox & Friends on Fox News Channel, former Miss America

Leticia Cline, model

Steve Dahl, longtime Chicago radio disc jockey and talk personality, influential early "shock jock"

Stephen Gyllenhaal, director

Mitch Hedberg, comedian

Lars Jacob, underground director and writer

Verne Lundquist, sportscaster, currently employed by CBS Sports television

Ozzie Nelson, Swedish immigrant father, entertainer, radio and television actor

Hjalmar Peterson, vaudeville artist

Nena von Schlebrügge, fashion model in the 1950s and 1960s; born in Mexico but of German and Swedish descent; mother of actress Uma Thurman

Steven Soderbergh, film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and Oscar-winning director, of part Swedish descent

Artists

Ernest Viggo Almquist, commercial artist

Carl Oscar Borg, Swedish-born, painter, known for themes of the Southwestern United States

Henrik Leopold Carlson (1859-1944), Swedish-born American sculptor, responsible for work on the Spreckles and Pantages Theaters in Los Angeles, California; his grandson Arnold 'Whitey' Carlson (1924–2010) was the founder of the LA Brewery Arts Complex

John F. Carlson, Swedish-born, Impressionist artist, author of Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Peter David Edstrom, Swedish-born, sculptor

Bud Grace, cartoonist

Paul Granlund, sculptor

Albinus Hasselgren, painter and sculptor

Knute Heldner, Swedish-born, American artist

Gustavus Hesselius, Swedish-born, painter

John Hesselius, portraitist

Magnus Colcord "Rusty" Heurlin (1895-1986), Swedish-born, Swedish-American artist and painter best known for his depictions of Alaskan landscapes

Emil Janel, artist

Lester Johnson, painter

Olof Krans, Swedish-born, artist and painter

Hope Larson, illustrator and cartoonist

Karl Larsson, Swedish-born, painter, engraver and sculptor

Evan Lindquist, artist, printmaker, first artist laureate of Arkansas

Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt, Swedish-born, artist

Arvid Nyholm, artist known primarily as a portrait and landscape painter

Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born, sculptor, best known for his public art

Paul Kuniholm Pauper, Swedish mother, Norwegian father; sculptor

Susan Mohl Powers, sculptor

Birger Sandzén, Swedish-born, painter

Haddon Sundblom, creator of Santa Claus images for the Coca-Cola Company

John August Swanson, Swedish father, visual artist, painter

Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish-born, illustrator

Carl E. Wallin, Swedish-born, artist and painter

Gunnar Widforss, Swedish-born, artist specializing in landscapes

Engineers

Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born, electrical engineer

Carl David Anderson, physicist

Chester Carlson, physicist, inventor, and patent attorney

John Ericsson, Swedish-born, inventor and mechanical engineer

Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, Swedish-born parents, aircraft engineer and aeronautical innovator, considered one of the most talented and prolific aircraft design-engineers

John B. Johnson, Swedish-born, electrical engineer and physicist

Clarence Hugo Linder, of Swedish descent, electrical engineer, founding member of the National Academy of Engineering

Harry Nyquist, Swedish-born, engineer, important contributor to information theory

John W. Nystrom, Swedish-born, engineer

Borje Rosaen, Swedish-born, mechanical engineer born in Tierp, Uppsala, Sweden

Lars Rosaen, mechanical engineer and inventor

Nils Rosaen, Swedish-born, mechanical engineer and inventor

Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Prize laureate, chemist prominent in the discovery and isolation of ten transuranic elements including plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and seaborgium, which was named in his honor

Entrepreneurs and businesspeople

Gene Amdahl, computer architect and entrepreneur

John Brynteson, Swedish-born, Alaskan mining executive

Curt Carlson, founder of Carlson

Carl G. Cromwell, Texas-based oil and aviation pioneer

John Erlander, Swedish-born, founder of Rockford Union Furniture Company

Ernest O. Estwing, Swedish-born, founder of Estwing Manufacturing Company

Carl Friden, Swedish-born, founder of Friden, Inc.

Oscar Hedstrom, Swedish-born, co-founder of the Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company

Walter Hoving, Swedish-born, head of Tiffany & Company

J. Erik Jonsson, Swedish immigrant parents, co-founder and former president of Texas Instruments Incorporated, mayor of Dallas and philanthropist

Arvid Emanuel Kallen, Swedish-born, General Motors executive

Michael Kors, founder of Michael Kors Holdings Limited (KORS)

Eli Lilly, philanthropist and founder of Eli Lilly and Company

Erik Lindblom, Swedish-born, Alaskan mining executive

Charles Magnus Lindgren, Swedish-born, shipping executive

John R. Lindgren, banking executive with State Bank of Chicago, founder of Haugan & Lindgren banking firm in Chicago

William Matson, Swedish-born, founder of Matson Navigation Company

John W. Nordstrom, Swedish-born, co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain

Pehr August Peterson, Swedish-born, business executive and founder of the Swedish American Hospital

Rudolph A. Peterson, Swedish-born, President and CEO of Bank of America

Norman Ralston, co-founder of Aero Air

Cristina Stenbeck, Swedish father, American mother, businesswoman

Carl Strandlund, Swedish-born, inventor and entrepreneur

Gideon Sundbäck, Swedish-born, inventor, commercialized the zipper, son-in-law of colleague Peter Aronson

Carl A. Swanson, Swedish-born, founder of Swanson

Swante M. Swenson, Swedish-born, founder of the SMS Ranches

Nils F. Testor, Swedish-born, founder of Testor Corporation

Charles R. Walgreen, founder of Walgreens, one of America's largest pharmacy chains; Swedish-born parents

Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., President of Walgreens

Charles R. Walgreen III, President of Walgreens

Carl Wickman, founder of Greyhound Lines, Inc.

Military

Buzz Aldrin, pilot and astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing

Richard I. Bong, US Army Air Force and Medal of Honor recipient

Arleigh Burke, US Navy Admiral

John A. Dahlgren, US Navy Rear Admiral

John Ernest Dahlquist, United States Army four-star general

Eric G. Gibson, Swedish-born, US Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Roger Hanson, Confederate States Army General

Gregory G. Johnson, US Navy Admiral

Charles Linn, Swedish-born, Captain in the Confederate States Navy

Oscar Malmborg, Lieutenant colonel in the Union Army

Charles Momsen, United States Navy Vice Admiral

Ivor Thord-Gray, Swedish-born, mercenary soldier

Politics and public service

Elmer L. Andersen, 30th Governor of Minnesota

C. Elmer Anderson, 28th Governor of Minnesota

John B. Anderson, US Representative from Illinois and an Independent candidate in the 1980 presidential election

Wendell Anderson, 33rd Governor of Minnesota, from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976

August H. Andresen, US Representative from Minnesota

Robert Bergland, US Representative from Minnesota, 20th United States Secretary of Agriculture

Joseph A. A. Burnquist, 19th Governor of Minnesota

George H.W. Bush, former president of the US

George W. Bush, former president of the US

Arne Carlson, 37th Governor of Minnesota

Carl Richard Chindblom, US Representative from Illinois

Byron Dorgan, United States Senator.

Adolph Olson Eberhart, 17th Governor of Minnesota

Mamie Eisenhower, wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961

Thomas Frankson, 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota

Orville Freeman, 29th Governor of Minnesota, 16th United States Secretary of Agriculture

Tipper Gore, wife of Vice President Al Gore

Jennifer Granholm, Governor of the state of Michigan; of Finnish-Swedish ancestry

John Hoeven, United States Senator.

Johnny Isakson, 2nd generation, Republican Senator from Georgia since 2005

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Founding Father. Signer of the U.S. Constitution.

John Albert Johnson, 16th Governor of Minnesota

Joseph B. Johnson, Swedish-born, 70th Governor of Vermont

Magnus Johnson, Swedish-born, US Senator from Minnesota

Tim Johnson, US Senator from South Dakota, father was of mostly Swedish ancestry

U. Alexis Johnson, US diplomat

Harold LeVander, 32nd Governor of Minnesota

John Lind, Swedish-born, 14th Governor of Minnesota

Charles August Lindbergh, Congressman for 6th District of Minnesota from 1907 to 1917

Gottfrid Lindsten, 32nd Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota

Zoe Lofgren, Member of the US House of Representatives from California

Ernest Lundeen, US Senator from Minnesota

Dan Lungren, Member of the US House of Representatives from California

Warren G. Magnuson, United States Senator from Washington

Gregory J. Newell, former United States Ambassador to Sweden (1985–1989); US Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1982–1985); former assistant secretary of State for President Ronald Reagan

Albin Walter Norblad, Sr, Swedish-born, 19th Governor of Oregon (father of Albin Walter Norblad, Jr, grandfather of Albin Walter Norblad III)

Albin Walter Norblad, Jr, Member of the US House of Representatives from Oregon (son of Albin Walter Norblad, Sr, father of Albin Walter Norblad III)

Albin Walter Norblad III, attorney, judge of the Oregon Circuit Court (son of Albin Walter Norblad, Jr, grandson of Albin Walter Norblad, Sr)

Floyd B. Olson, 22nd Governor of Minnesota

Lyndon Lowell Olson, Jr., politician and diplomat

William Rehnquist, lawyer, jurist and a political figure, who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the Chief Justice of the United States

Adolphus Frederic St. Sure, United States District Court Judge

Carl Skoglund, socialist

Charles Stenholm, Member of the US House of Representatives from Texas

Don Sundquist, 47th Governor of Tennessee

Tim Walberg - U.S. Representative.

Monrad Wallgren, 13th Governor of Washington, Member of the US House of Representatives and the US Senator from Washington

Earl Warren, California district attorney of Alameda County, the 30th Governor of California, and the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (from 1953 to 1969); of Swedish and Norwegian descent

Luther Youngdahl, 27th Governor of Minnesota

Oscar Youngdahl, Member of the US House of Representatives from Minnesota

Religious personalities

Marcus Borg, religious author

Paul Carlson, medical missionary of the Evangelical Covenant Church

Erland Carlsson, Swedish-born, Lutheran minister and one of the founders and President of the Augustana Synod

K. G. William Dahl, Swedish-born, Lutheran minister, founder of Bethphage Inner Mission in Axtell, Nebraska

John Alexis Edgren, Swedish-born, Baptist minister, founder of Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota

Lars Paul Esbjörn, Swedish-born, Lutheran minister and one of the founders of the Augustana Synod of the Lutheran church

Nils Frykman, Swedish-born, evangelist, hymnwriter and prominent figure in the Evangelical Covenant Church

Tuve Hasselquist, Swedish-born, Lutheran minister and founding president of the Augustana Synod

Johannes Alfred Hultman, Swedish-born, evangelist, hymnwriter and founding member of the Evangelical Covenant Church

Eric Jansson, Swedish-born, pietist leader

Andrew Nelson, missionary, linguist and lexicographer associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Eric Norelius, Swedish-born, Lutheran minister and one of the founders and President of the Augustana Synod

David Nyvall, Swedish-born, immigrant and church leader who helped shape the Evangelical Covenant Church and establish North Park University

Dale G. Renlund, junior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Andreas Rudman, Swedish-born, pioneer Lutheran minister and pastor of Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church

Carl Aaron Swensson, Lutheran minister and President of Bethany College

Gustaf Unonius, Swedish-born, Episcopalian clergyman and immigrant

Science

Carl David Anderson, physicist who won 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics

John Elof Boodin, Swedish-born, philosopher and educator

Walter Elmer Ekblaw, geologist, botanist, and college professor

Per Enflo, University Professor of Mathematics at Kent State University

David R. Lindberg, malacologist, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Co-Director of Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute

Glenn T. Seaborg, scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Max Tegmark, cosmologist and Associate Professor of Physics at MIT

Ernest Harry Vestine, geophysicist and meteorologist

Sports

Tom Brady, American football quarterback

Lou Amundson, basketball player

Willie Bloomquist, baseball player

Ernst Brandsten, diving coach

Bob Burnquist, skateboarder

Swede Carlstrom, Major League shortstop for the Boston Red Sox

Gary Cederstrom, umpire in Major League Baseball

Dick Enberg, sportscaster

Nancy Faust, stadium organist for the Chicago White Sox franchise in Major League Baseball

Ed Gustafson, professional athlete with the Brooklyn Dodgers

Rudolph Emil Hagberg, American football offensive lineman in the National Football League

Dorothy Hamill, figure skater

Matt Hasselbeck, former quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks

Walter Hellman, draughts player

Mike Holmgren, former head coach of the Seattle Seahawks

Jonas Jerebko, basketball player born to a Russian American father and a Swedish mother.

Greta Johansson, diver

Chester Johnston, former professional American football player

Walter Johnson, pitcher and three time triple crown winner for the Washington Nationals/Senators, 1907-1927

Swede Johnston, football player

Ewa Mataya Laurance, professional pool player

Edward Lindberg, athlete

Eric Lindros, former ice hockey player

Freddie Lindstrom, baseball player

Matthew Lindstrom, baseball player

Greg Louganis, diver

Pug Lund, football player

Mike Lundin, ice hockey player

Phil Mickelson, American professional golfer

Jordy Nelson, American football player

Nils. V. "Swede" Nelson

Joakim Noah, basketball player

Bob Nystrom, ice hockey player

Eric Nystrom, ice hockey player

Andrew James Oberlander, All-American halfback football player

Bobo Olson, Swedish father, boxer

Charles August Risberg, baseball player

Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish-born, ice hockey player

Ted Sundquist, bobsledder and football manager

Jeffery Taylor, NBA player, Swedish mother

Nick Theslof, first American soccer player to play in Europe, grandson of Vivi-Anne Hultén

Adolph Frederick Youngstrom, football player

Writers

Nelson Algren, writer

Jack Anderson, journalist

Ray Bradbury, science fiction and fantasy, mother was an immigrant from Sweden

Siv Cedering, poet

Jonathan Franzen, novelist and essayist

Axel Carl Johan Gustafson, Swedish-born, writer

Victor Davis Hanson, military historian, columnist, political essayist and former classics

Dale Hurd, journalist, CBN; his great great grandfather hails from Kalmar, Sweden

Gustavo A. Mellander ('Gus'), historian, columnist, political commentator, university administrator, college president; honored by the United States House of Representatives, 1985

Edita Morris, writer

Lars-Erik Nelson, political columnist

Sigurd Olson, writer and environmentalist

Hans Ostrom, writer and professor

Carl Sandburg, poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist

Ernst Skarstedt, Swedish-born, first author editor, and newspaper publisher

Gerald Vizenor, novelist and literary critic

Colonial people

Måns Andersson, Swedish-born, resident of New Sweden

Jonas Bronck, Swedish-born, settler after whom the New York City borough of the Bronx was named

Sven Gunnarsson, Swedish-born, resident of New Sweden

Margaret Matson, Swedish-born, resident of New Sweden

Eric Pålsson Mullica, Swedish-born, resident of New Sweden

Peter Gunnarsson Rambo, Swedish-born, resident of New Sweden

Reorus Torkillus, Swedish-born, resident of New Sweden

Educators

George Akerlof, economist

Arnold Barton, educator and historian

Linda Lee Cadwell, teacher; widow of Bruce Lee

August Hjalmar Edgren, Swedish-born, linguistics and university professor

Claes Gösta Ryn, academic and educator

Other

Leroy J. Alexanderson, last captain of the SS United States

Alfred O. Andersson, publisher

Bo Andersson, former General Motors executive, and present President/CEO of GAZ Group

Lillian Asplund, Titanic survivor

Elivera M. Doud, mother of Mamie Eisenhower

Abraham Fornander, journalist, judge and ethnologist

Franklin S. Forsberg, publisher and diplomat

Charles Lindbergh, pioneering aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927

Erik Lindbergh, aviator

Godfrey Lundberg, Swedish-born, engraver

Raymond Nels Nelson, Chief of Staff Senator Claiborne Pell, R.I., former Bureau Chief, Providence Journal, unsolved murder 1981

Buell Halvor Quain, ethnologist

Ivor Thord-Gray, Swedish-born, adventurer, ethnologist and linguist