The Most Famous
LAWYERS from Sweden
This page contains a list of the greatest Swedish Lawyers. The pantheon dataset contains 136 Lawyers, 1 of which were born in Sweden. This makes Sweden the birth place of the 31st most number of Lawyers behind Azerbaijan, and Iran.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swedish Lawyers of all time. This list of famous Swedish Lawyers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Beatrice Fihn (b. 1982)
With an HPI of 32.53, Beatrice Fihn is the most famous Swedish Lawyer. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Beatrice Fihn (born 17 November 1982) is a Swedish lawyer. She was the executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) from 2014 to 1 February 2023. On 6 October 2017, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize honor was given to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) "for its efforts to raise awareness of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons use and for pioneering efforts to achieve a treaty-based ban on nuclear weapons." During the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony at Oslo City Hall held on 10 December 2017, Fihn jointly received medals and diplomas on behalf of ICAN alongside Setsuko Thurlow, who survived Hiroshima in 1945.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Swedish lawyers born between 1982 and 1982. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Swedish lawyers include Beatrice Fihn.
