Members
Some notable members of this family are:
- Johan Abraham Gyllenhaal (1750–1788), geologist and mineralogist.
- Leonard Gyllenhaal (1752–1840), military officer and gentleman farmer, known as an entomologist and a leading Swedenborgian. His best-known work was his monograph on Swedish beetles, Insecta suecica. Coleoptera in 4 parts, published between 1808 and 1827.
- Carl Henrik Gyllenhaal (1788–1857), a military officer who participated in the Finnish war of 1808–1809, was later Governor of Blekinge County and Skaraborg County, Privy Councilor, and finally Director General of the Swedish customs. Created a baron in 1837.
- Lars Herman Gyllenhaal (1790–1858), Swedish Prime Minister for Justice 1843–1844. Created a baron in 1843.
- Mat(h)ilda Valeria Beatrix Gyllenhaal (1796–1863), née de Orozco, singer, composer and socialite (married in her third marriage to cavalry lieutenant baron Carl Alexander Fredrik Gyllenhaal, son of Carl Henrik G.). Matilda was a Spanish countess, born in Milan, Italy. She was first married to the stablemaster of Napoleon I's sister; in 1817, widowed, she married J. Montgomery-Cederhjelm in Vienna and became a leading figure and trendsetter in Stockholm society. In 1825 she was widowed again; she married a third time in 1839 to Carl Gyllenhaal. She was the subject of a poem by the leading Swedish poet Esaias Tegnér, and a song by Erik Gustaf Geijer; she herself wrote songs and set Tegnér's Rings Drapa to music.
- Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal (1842–1905; grandson of Leonard G.), Editor-in-chief of the Swedish-American newspaper Svenska Tribunen in Chicago. Ancestor of the American branch.
- Stephen Gyllenhaal (b. 1949), film director (great grandson of Anders Leonard G.), was married to producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal.
- Anders Gyllenhaal, Washington Editor and Vice President of News, The McClatchy Company, former executive editor of the Miami Herald
- Lars Gyllenhaal (b. 1968, great great-great grandson of Lars Herman Gyllenhaal), Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Military History Commission.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal (b. 1977), Academy Award-nominated American actress (daughter of Stephen G.)
- Jake Gyllenhaal (b. 1980), Academy Award-nominated American actor (son of Stephen G.)
- Sam Gyllenhaal, musician (son of Anders G.)
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