The Lagercrantz family is a Swedish noble family, introduced at the

Swedish house of nobility The House of Nobility ( sv, Riddarhuset) in Stockholm, Sweden, is a corporation and a building that maintains records and acts as an interest group on behalf of the Swedish nobility. Name The name is literally translated as ''House of Knights'', ...

in 1682. The oldest known ancestor of the Lagercranz family was Jacob Larsson Gavelius (died 1656), an assessor at the

Göta Court of Appeal The Göta Court of Appeal ( sv, Göta hovrätt), located in Jönköping, is one of the six appellate courts in the Swedish legal system. The court was established in 1634 during the regency of Queen Christina. It is the second oldest of the Swe ...

List of people

* Hugo Lagercrantz (born 1945), Swedish paediatrician *

Olof Lagercrantz Olof Gustaf Hugo Lagercrantz (10 March 1911 – 23 July 2002) was a Swedish writer, critic, literary scholar (PhD 1951) and publicist (editor-in-chief of ''Dagens Nyheter'' 1960–1975). Life and career Lagercrantz was born in Stockholm, Swe ...

(1911–2002), Swedish writer *

David Lagercrantz David Lagercrantz (born 4 September 1962) is a Swedish journalist and author, internationally known as the author of '' I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović'', '' The Girl in the Spider’s Web'', '' The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye'' and ''The Girl Who ...

(born 1962), Swedish writer * Marika Lagercrantz (born 1954), Swedish actress

References

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