This is a list of notable people affiliated with Lund University, either as students or as researchers and academic teachers (or both). Lund University, located in the town of Lund in Skåne, Sweden, was founded in 1666.
Östen Undén (1886–1974), Rector Magnificus of Uppsala University and politician; Minister for Foreign Affairs 1924-26, 1945-62 (B.A. 1905, LL.B. 1910, LL.D. 1912)
Ernst Wigforss (1881–1977), linguist and politician, Swedish Minister of Finance (Ph.D. 1913)
Per Edvin Sköld (1891–1972), held various cabinet posts from 1932, Minister of Finance 1949–1955 (B.A. 1917)
Bertil Ohlin (1899–1979), liberal leader and economist, Nobel laureate, see above
Tage Erlander (1901–1985), Prime Minister of Sweden, 1946–1969 (B.A. 1928)
Gunnar Jarring (1907–2002), ambassador, UN diplomat and scholar of Turkic languages (Ph.D. 1933)
Ingvar Carlsson (1934–), Prime Minister of Sweden 1986-91, 1994-96 (B.A. 1958)
Tarja Cronberg (1943–), Finnish Green Party politician, Member of the European Parliament (Eng. D. 1973)
Lena Ek (1958–), Member of the European Parliament (J.D., LL.D.)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1933–2020; studied at Lund in the 1960s
Björn Folkow (1921-2012), professor in physiology at the University of Gothenburg between 1961 and 1987 and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.