The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Sweden
This page contains a list of the greatest Swedish Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Sweden. This makes Sweden the birth place of the 34th most number of Astronauts behind Costa Rica and Romania.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swedish Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Swedish Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Christer Fuglesang (1957 - )
With an HPI of 46.18, Christer Fuglesang is the most famous Swedish Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 32 different languages on wikipedia.
Arne Christer Fuglesang (born 18 March 1957) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on 10 December 2006, making him the first Swedish citizen in space. Married with three children, he was a Fellow at CERN and taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology before being selected to join the European Astronaut Corps in 1992. He has participated in two Space Shuttle missions and five spacewalks, and is the first person outside of the United States or Russian space programs to participate in more than three spacewalks.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1957 and 1957. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Christer Fuglesang.
