Ekshärad is a

locality Locality may refer to: * Locality, a historical named location or place in Canada * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localitie ...

Hagfors Municipality Hagfors Municipality () is a municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the stad (Sweden), city of Hagfors. The present municipality was created in 1974, when the City of Hagfors (its ...

Värmland County Värmland County () is a county or '' län'' in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, as well as the Norwegian counties of Østfold, Akershus and Innlandet to the west. The title of Duke ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

with 1,074 inhabitants in 2010. Ekshärad is most famous for its historically rich church. Ekshärad is also well known for the unique ''Ekshäring'' dialect.

Notable people

Carl-Johan Bergman Carl Johan Bergman (born 14 March 1978) is a former Swedish biathlete. He lives in Lillehammer, Norway with his Norwegian wife, Liv Kjersti Eikeland. He is , and weighs . He studies computer science at the Norwegian University of Science and ...

, biatholonist *

David Ekholm David Ekholm (born 16 January 1979) is a Swedish biathlete. He competed in three events at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He married fellow former biathlete Helena Ekholm Helena Ekholm (née Helena Jonsson) (born September 6, 1984 in Helgum) is ...

, biathlete *

Lennart Hall Lennart or Lennarth is a Germanic variant of the name Leonard, most common in Scandinavia and German-speaking countries as a surname or masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Camilla Lennarth (born 1988), Swedish g ...

, professor of music *

Bertil Jonasson Bertil Jonasson (12 January 1918 – 15 June 2011) was a Swedish politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the p ...

, centerpartistisk riksdagsledamot *

Lars Löfgren Lars Löfgren (1925 – 2013) was a Swedish cybernetician. He was awarded the Wiener Gold Medal by the American Society for Cybernetics in 2008. Lars Löfgren was involved in extending the logical and linguistic approaches to various problems rai ...

, head of TV-teatern and

Royal Dramatic Theatre The Royal Dramatic Theatre (, colloquially ''Dramaten'') is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages. The theatre has been at its present lo ...

*Gunnar Olsson, professor of Human Geography at Uppsala University *

Sofie Skoog Sofie Natalie Skoog (born 7 June 1990) is a Swedish high jumper. She represented her nation Sweden at the 2015 IAAF World Championships, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing seventh in the final round of the women's high jump. Skoog cur ...

, high jumper

References

Populated places in Hagfors Municipality {{Värmland-geo-stub