Fruängen is a part of Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

. The modern Fruängen is a suburb built in the early 1950s. All the streets are named after famous Swedish women like Agnes Lagerstedt, Anna Sandström, Karolina Widerström

Karolina Widerström

Karolina Olivia Widerström, , was a Swedish doctor and gynecologist. She was the first official female physician with a university education in her country. She was also a feminist and a politician, and engaged in the questions of sexual education and female suffrage...

, Ellen Fries

Ellen Fries

Ellen Fries was a Swedish feminist and writer. She became the first female Ph.D. in Sweden in 1883.- Biography :...

, Ellen Key

Ellen Key

Ellen Karolina Sofia Key was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement...

, Elsa Beskow

Elsa Beskow

Elsa Beskow was a Swedish author and illustrator of children's books...

, Elin Wägner

Elin Wägner

Elin Matilda Elisabet Wägner was a Swedish writer, journalist, feminist, teacher, ecologist and pacifist. She was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1944.- Biography :...

, Elsa Borg, Elsa Brändström

Elsa Brändström

Elsa Brändström was a Swedish philanthropist.- Life :Elsa Brändström was born in 1888 in St. Petersburg, the daughter of the Military Attache at the Swedish Embassy, Edvard Brändström, and his wife Anna Eschelsson. In 1891, when Elsa was three years old, Edvard Brändström and his family returned...

, Eva Bonnier

Eva Bonnier

Eva Fredrika Bonnier was a Swedish painter and philanthropist.- Biography :Born in Stockholm as a daughter of publisher Albert Bonnier and a member of a leading family of publishers, Eva Bonnier studied painting with August Malmström and became a student in the women's section of the Royal Swedish...

, Fredrika Bremer

Fredrika Bremer

Fredrika Bremer was a Swedish writer and a feminist activist. She had a large influence on the social development in Sweden, especially in feminist issues.-Background:...

, Hanna Pauli, Hanna Rydh, Jenny Nyström

Jenny Nyström

Jenny Eugenia Nyström was a painter and illustrator who is mainly known as the person who created the Swedish image of the jultomte on numerous Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes of Scandinavian folklore.- Background :Her father was...

, Karin Boye

Karin Boye

was a Swedish poet and novelist.- Career :Boye was born in Gothenburg , Sweden and moved with her family to Stockholm in 1909. She studied at Uppsala University from 1921 to 1926 and debuted in 1922 with a collection of poems, "Clouds"...

, Kata Dalström

Kata Dalström

Katarina "Kata" Dalström , born Anna Maria Katarina Carlberg in a wealthy upper-class family, became one of Sweden’s leading socialist agitators and leftist writers of her time...

, Kerstin Hesselgren

Kerstin Hesselgren

Kerstin Hesselgren was a Swedish politician.Kerstin Hesselgren became the first woman to be elected in to the Swedish parliament after the female suffrage in 1921. She was elected by suggestion of the Liberals with support from the Social democrats.- Biography :Hesselgren was born at Torsåker,...

, Lina Sandell

Lina Sandell

Lina Sandell was a Swedish writer of Gospel hymns.Born Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell in a rectory at Fröderyd, Småland, Sweden...

 and Jenny Lind

Jenny Lind

Johanna Maria Lind , better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she is known for her performances in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and for an extraordinarily...

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A number of famous Swedes come from Fruängen. Examples include Gunnel Fred

Gunnel Fred

Gunnel Fred is a Swedish film actress. She was born in Årsta, Sweden.-Selected filmography:* Saraband * Details * In the Presence of a Clown * Private Confessions * The Land Before Time...

, Rolf Ridderwall

Rolf Ridderwall

Rolf Lennart "Riddarn" Ridderwall is a retired Swedish ice hockey goaltender. He played for Djurgårdens IF in the Swedish Elite League almost his entire career. Ridderwall won the Golden Puck as the top player in Sweden for the 1989-90 season.His son Stefan Ridderwall is also a hockey...

, Fredde Granberg, Tomas Andersson Wij, Pontus Enhörning, Susanne Ljung and script writer Lars Lundström.

See also

• Fruängen metro station
  Fruängen metro station
  Fruängen metro station is the end station on line 14 of the red line of the Stockholm Metro, located in the district of Fruängen. The station was opened in 1964. The distance to Slussen is 8.1 km.-References:...