Swede or Swedes may refer to:

People

*Swede, a resident or citizen of Sweden * Swedes, a Germanic ethnic group *

Swedes (Germanic tribe) The Swedes ( sv, svear; Old Norse: ''svíar'') (probably from the PIE reflexive pronominal root * s(w)e, "one's own ribesmen/kinsmen;Bandle, Oskar. 2002. The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic lang ...

, an ancient North Germanic tribe inhabiting parts of modern-day Sweden and Finland

Individuals

Swede (nickname) Swede is a nickname for: * Carl Anderson (American football) (1898–1978), American college football head coach * Swede Ellstrom (1906–1994), American National Football League player * Geary Eppley (1895–1978), American university administra ...

, a list of people *

George Swede George Swede ( lv, Juris Švēde), (born as ''Juris Puriņš'', November 20, 1940 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian Canadian psychologist, poet and children's writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He is a major figure in English-language haiku, known ...

(born 1940), Canadian psychologist, poet and children's writer *

Puma Swede Johanna Jussinniemi (born 13 September 1976), better known by her stage name Puma Swede, is a Swedish pornographic actress and feature dancer. The first part of her stage name comes from the sports car, the Ford Puma. Since 2005, she has appe ...

(born 1976), Swedish porn star *

Swede Hanson (wrestler) Robert Fort Hanson (March 27, 1933 – February 19, 2002) was an American professional wrestler best known by his ring name Swede Hanson. He spent much of his career wrestling as part of a tag team with Rip Hawk. Together, they held champion ...

(1933–2002), ring name of American professional wrestler Robert Fort Hanson

Characters

*Seymour "Swede" Levov, protagonist in the Philip Roth novel ''

American Pastoral ''American Pastoral'' is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle cl ...

'' *"The Swede", a Norwegian on the AMC TV show '' Hell on Wheels''

Other uses

Swede (vegetable) Rutabaga (; North American English) or swede (British English and some Commonwealth English) is a root vegetable, a form of ''Brassica napus'' (which also includes rapeseed). Other names include Swedish turnip, neep (Scots), and turnip (Scotti ...

, a root vegetable, called rutabaga in North America *

Swede Lake Swede Lake is a lake in Carver County, Minnesota, in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consist ...

, Minnesota, United States *

Swede Mountain Swede Mountain is a mountain in the Adirondack Mountains region of New York. It is located southwest of Ticonderoga and north of Glens Falls in Warren County. The Swede Mountain Fire Observation Station is located on top of the mountain. Histo ...

, New York, United States

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