Torgny is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Torgny Anderberg
Torgny Anderberg (25 February 1919 – 6 November 2000) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in more than 25 films and television shows between 1944 and 1993.
Anderberg was an avid documentary filmmaker parallel to his work in ...
(1919–2000), Swedish actor and film director
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Torgny Lindgren
Gustav Torgny Lindgren (16 June 1938 – 16 March 2017) was a Swedish writer.
Lindgren was the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. For several ...
(1938–2017), Swedish writer
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Torgny Mogren
Torgny Mogren (born 26 July 1963) is a Swedish former cross-country skier who competed from 1984 to 1998. He won the gold medal in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. His best individual finish was a fifth in the co ...
(born 1963), former Swedish cross country skier
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Torgny Säve-Söderbergh
Torgny Säve-Söderbergh (born 29 June 1914 in Lund; died 21 May 1998 in Uppsala) was a Swedish writer, translator, and professor of Egyptology at Uppsala University from 1950 to 1980. He was the younger brother of paleontologist Gunnar Säve-S� ...
(born 1914), Swedish writer, translator, and professor of Egyptology at Uppsala University
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Torgny Segerstedt
Torgny Karl Segerstedt (1 November 1876 – 31 March 1945) was a Swedish professor and scholar of comparative religion, who later became editor-in-chief of the newspaper ''Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning''. He is most remembered for ...
(1876–1945), Swedish professor and scholar of comparative religion
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Torgny T:son Segerstedt (1908–1999), Swedish philosopher and sociologist
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Torgny Söderberg
Sten Torgny Söderberg (26 November 1944 – 5 August 2022) was a Swedish songwriter. He was mainly known for working with Lena Philipsson and wrote schlager songs such as " 100%", "Kärleken är evig" and " Diggi-loo diggi-ley". , Swedish songwriter
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Torgny Segerstedt
Torgny Karl Segerstedt (1 November 1876 – 31 March 1945) was a Swedish professor and scholar of comparative religion, who later became editor-in-chief of the newspaper ''Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning''. He is most remembered for ...
(1876–1945), Swedish scholar of comparative religion, editor-in-chief of ''Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning'' (1917–1945)
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Torgny Torgnysson Segerstedt (1908–1999), Swedish philosopher and sociologist
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Torgny Wåhlander, Swedish long jumper
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Torgny Wickman
Torgny Wickman (1911–1997) was a Swedish screenwriter and film director.Stevenson p.136
Selected filmography
* ''A Night at Glimmingehus'' (1954)
* ''Language of Love'' (1969)
* ''Eva: Diary of a Half Virgin'' (1969)
* ''The Lustful Vicar'' (19 ...
(1911–1997), Swedish screenwriter and film director
See also
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Torgny (village), a village in the Belgian municipality of Rouvroy,
Wallonia
Wallonia ( ; ; or ), officially the Walloon Region ( ; ), is one of the three communities, regions and language areas of Belgium, regions of Belgium—along with Flemish Region, Flanders and Brussels. Covering the southern portion of the c ...
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Torgny Melins, dansband from Säffle, Sweden
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Torgny the Lawspeaker
Torgny the Lawspeaker ( Old Icelandic: ''Þorgnýr lögmaðr'' , Swedish: ''Torgny Lagman'') is the name of one of at least three generations of lawspeakers by the name ''Þorgnýr'', who appear in the ''Heimskringla'' by the Icelandic scholar an ...
, the name of one of at least three generations of lawspeakers by the name Þorgnýr
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Torgny Peak, bare rock peak 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) west of Fenriskjeften Mountain in the Drygalski Mountains of Queen Maud Land
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