# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bjorn-von-sydow
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:38:06.575Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bjorn-von-sydow"
name: "Björn von Sydow"
slug: "bjorn-von-sydow"
description: "Björn Gustaf von Sydow is a former speaker (talman) of the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament. He held this office following the 2002 election, when he succeeded Birgitta Dahl, until he was replaced on 2 October 2006. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, he had been minister for defence in Göran Persson's government between 1997 and 2002, preceded by a short term as minister of trade."
tagline: "Politician and former speaker of the Swedish parliament"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bjorn_von_Sydow%2C_talman_Sveriges_riksdag.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1945-11-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.77
  momentum:             1.785714285714285
  historical:           9.027324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86_%DA%A4%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "بچورن ڤون سيدو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Björn von Sydow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_von_Sydow"
    title: "Björn von Sydow"
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    title: "Björn von Sydow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_von_Sydow"
    title: "Björn von Sydow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_von_Sydow"
    title: "Björn von Sydow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_von_Sydow"
    title: "Björn von Sydow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_von_Sydow"
    title: "Björn von Sydow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_von_Sydow"
    title: "Björn von Sydow"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_von_Sydow"
    title: "Björn von Sydow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q879773"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump