Notable Natives
- JH Engström, contemporary photographer
- Stefan Holm, notable high jumper, 2004 Olympic gold medalist
- Zarah Leander, notable UFA actress
- Thomas Rhodin, ice hockey player (four times Swedish Champion with Färjestads BK)
- Adam Rundqvist, Elitserien ice hockey player
- Christer Sjögren, rock/dansband singer (Vikingarna)
- Ulf Sterner, ice hockey player (first European schooled player to play in the National Hockey League)
- Felix Kjelsburg, a popular internet celebrity, resides in Karlstad.
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Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or natives:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, as usual, a preponderance of children’s toys,—dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)