Skellefteå
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Industry

  • Boliden AB
    Boliden AB
    New Boliden is a Swedish mining and smelting company focusing on production of copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver. Following a series of acquisitions during the 1980s and 1990s the company acquired mining and smelting assets of the Finnish mining and smelting company Outokumpu in 2003. Outokumpu...

    , a big mining and smelting company
  • Alimak
  • Natural User Interface Technologies AB - NUITEQ, a promising emerging technology start-up company

Sports

  • Skellefteå AIK
    Skellefteå AIK
    Skellefteå AIK Hockey is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Skellefteå, playing in the Swedish elite league Elitserien.- History :...

    , an ice hockey team in the highest Swedish league, Elitserien
    Elitserien
    Elitserien, is a professional ice hockey league composed of twelve teams in Sweden...

    .
  • Morön BK
    Morön BK
    Morön BK is a Swedish football club located in Skellefteå in Västerbotten County.-Background:Morön Bollklubb was formed at a meeting held in 1935, the driving force being Elof Burman who became the club chairman. After a lot of hard work by club members who prepared the Skogsvallen stadium, the...

    , football club playing in Division 2  Norrland
  • Skellefteå FF
    Skellefteå FF
    Skellefteå FF is a football club in Skellefteå, Västerbotten, Sweden. The club was founded in 1921, and was then called Skellefteå AIK Fotboll, a name it kept until 2006. In the 2010 season, the club played in the Division 2 Norrland league.-Background:...

    , football club playing in Division 2  Norrland
  • Sunnanå SK
    Sunnanå SK
    Sunnanå SK is a football club from Skellefteå, Sweden. The club was established in 1939 and the women's division was added in 1974. Sunnanå has played many seasons in the Women's premier division and hold two championship gold medals .Sunnanå SK play their home games at Norrvalla Stadium in...

    , women's football (soccer)
  • Soo Shim Taekwondo Klubb, Sweden's most successful taekwondo
    Taekwondo
    Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...

     club.

Law enforcement

Skellefteå is served by the Västerbotten County
Västerbotten County
Västerbotten County is a county or län in the north of Sweden. It borders the counties of Västernorrland, Jämtland, and Norrbotten, as well as the Norwegian county of Nordland and the Gulf of Bothnia.- Provinces :...

 Police Department, Skellefteå Division (Polismyndigheten i Västerbottens län, Skellefteå).
Mainly, the Skellefteå Police uses Volvo XC70 and Volvo V70
Volvo V70
The Volvo V70 is a mid-size five-door estate car / station wagon manufactured by Volvo Cars since 2000. It is closely related to the S70, S60 and S80 saloons, as well as the four-wheel drive Cross Country and XC70....

 but also has a few Mercedes
Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks. Mercedes-Benz is a division of its parent company, Daimler AG...

 and Volkswagen
Volkswagen
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...

 van
Van
A van is a kind of vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people.In British English usage, it can be either specially designed or based on a saloon or sedan car, the latter type often including derivatives with open backs...

s.

People

  • Peter Haber
    Peter Haber
    Peter Alexander Haber is a Swedish actor. He grew up in Södertälje and in Remscheid, Germany. In 1987 he was hired by the Stockholm City Theatre where he was active until 1994....

    , actor
  • Thomas Idergard
    Thomas Idergard
    Lars Thomas Idergard is a Swedish businessman and political commentator connected with the Moderate Party.He gained prominence as chairman of the Moderate Youth League between 1995 and 1998. He was seen as a future leader of the party but after his resignation he withdrew from party politics...

    , political commentator
  • Johan Backlund
    Johan Backlund
    Johan Backlund is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...

    , ice hockey player
  • Per Olov Enquist
    Per Olov Enquist
    Per Olov Enquist, better known as P. O. Enquist, is a Swedish author. He has worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist...

    , writer
  • Jan Erixon
    Jan Erixon
    Jan Erixon is a former professional ice hockey player. Erixon was the thirtieth overall pick in the second round by the New York Rangers in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. He began his NHL career with the Rangers in the 1983–84 season, and played with them through the 1992–93 season...

    , ice hockey player
  • Toini Gustafsson-Rönnlund, skier
  • Andreas "Vintersorg" Hedlund
    Andreas Hedlund
    Andreas Hedlund , also known as Vintersorg and Mr. V, is a Swedish vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who has played in several heavy metal bands.-Biography:...

    , musician
  • Jonathan Hedström
    Jonathan Hedström
    Jonathan "Jonte" Hedström is a Swedish professional ice hockey left winger with Timrå IK of the Elitserien .- Playing career :...

    , ice hockey player
  • Adam Larsson
    Adam Larsson
    Adam Larsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman for the New Jersey Devils. He also played for Skellefteå AIK in Elitserien since 2009. He was selected 4th overall by the New Jersey Devils in the 2011 NHL Draft...

    , ice hockey player
  • Stieg Larsson
    Stieg Larsson
    Karl Stig-Erland Larsson , who wrote professionally as Stieg Larsson, was a Swedish journalist and writer, born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå. He is best known for writing the "Millennium series" of crime novels, which were published posthumously...

    , writer
  • Hanna Marklund
    Hanna Marklund
    Hanna Gunilla Marklund is a Swedish football player. She plays as a defender, and her shirt number is 4....

    , football player
  • Hardy Nilsson
    Hardy Nilsson
    Hardy Nilsson is a retired Swedish ice hockey player, currently head coach for Djurgårdens IF. During his playing career he mainly played for Skellefteå AIK where he won the Swedish championships in 1978. In 1978 Nilsson moved to the German team Kölner Haie where he was very successful, scoring 21...

    , ice hockey coach
  • Joakim Nyström
    Joakim Nyström
    Joakim "Jocke" Nyström is a former top ten ranked tennis player from Sweden who won thirteen singles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour on 31 March 1986, when he was ranked World No. 7 and was also ranked as high as World No...

    , tennis player
  • Victoria Silvstedt
    Victoria Silvstedt
    Karen Victoria Silvstedt is a Swedish celebrity model, actress, singer, and television personality.-Background:Born in Skelleftehamn, Silvstedt was raised in a family of five in Bollnäs, having one older sister and one younger brother...

    , supermodel
  • Margot Wallström
    Margot Wallström
    Margot Elisabeth Wallström is a Swedish social democratic, currently holding the job as . Prior to this post, she served as European Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy...

    , former first Vice President of the European Commission and current Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict with the UN

Artists

  • Moon Safari (band)
    Moon Safari (band)
    Moon Safari is a progressive rock band from Skellefteå, Sweden. Formed in 2003, the band quickly recorded a demo that caught the attention of Tomas Bodin of The Flower Kings. They have since released three albums on their own label Blomljud....

    , a symphonic rock band.
  • Totalt Jävla Mörker
    Totalt Jävla Mörker
    uTotalt Jävla Mörker is a crust punk band from Skellefteå, Sweden.Fredrik, vocalist in TJM, is the drummer in Knugen Faller — a band that included Inge from The Noise Conspiracy as vocalist until 2005...

    , a hardcore punk band.
  • The Wannadies
    The Wannadies
    The Wannadies were an alternative rock band formed in 1988 in Skellefteå, northern Sweden. The band's initial line-up featured Pär Wiksten , Christina Bergmark , Stefan Schönfeldt and his younger brother Fredrik Schönfeldt with Gunnar Karlsson and Björn Malmquist .Early influences...

    , an alternative rock band formed in 1988.
  • Vintersorg
    Vintersorg
    Vintersorg is a Swedish band from Skellefteå, formed in 1994 under the name Vargatron . Musically, Vintersorg has covered a wide number of heavy metal genres; while the band is mostly rooted in extreme metal styles, particularly black metal and Viking/folk metal, it has also expanded into...

    , a metal band

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