# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henning-sjostrom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:18:19.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henning-sjostrom"
name: "Henning Sjöström"
slug: "henning-sjostrom"
description: "Henning Elof Sjöström was a Swedish defense attorney, and regarded as Sweden's first celebrity lawyer due to his high-profile cases. Sjöström was the attorney for Kurt Haijby during the Haijby affair, in which Haijby was accused of blackmailing Swedish King Gustav V. He was also known for the through the trial of the \"neurosedyn children\" 1964–1968 and for having defended Gunnar Bengtsson after the Söderhamn courthouse murders in 1971 and Carl-Eric Björkegren."
tagline: "Swedish lawyer (1922–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Haijby_affair%2C_Kurt_Haijby_and_Henning_Sj%C3%B6str%C3%B6m.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-05-13"
deathDate: "2011-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.53
  momentum:             6.118421052631578
  historical:           5.095070666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Sj%C3%B6str%C3%B6m"
    title: "Henning Sjöström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%B3%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "هينينج سچوستروم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Sj%C3%B6str%C3%B6m"
    title: "Henning Sjöström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Sj%C3%B6str%C3%B6m"
    title: "Henning Sjöström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Sj%C3%B6str%C3%B6m"
    title: "Henning Sjöström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Sj%C3%B6str%C3%B6m"
    title: "Henning Sjöström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3357818"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump