Famous People with Name Magnus

Magnus Samuelsson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Magnus Samuelsson: Magnus is a full-time farmer and was the winner of the World's Strongest Man competition in 1998 in Morocco. Magnus has achieved a podium place in WSM on five separate occasions. Renowned for his longevity in the sport, he holds the record for reaching th

Magnus Arvedson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Magnus Arvedson: He is currently the head coach of Bofors IK in the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan.A late bloomer, Arvedson didn't become a regular in the Swedish Elite League until 1994 at the age of 23. However, over the next few seasons he became a top performer with Färjes

Magnus Hedman            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Magnus Hedman: He has played 58 matches for the Sweden national football team, and represented his country at two FIFA World Cup and two European Championship tournaments.He is married to Magdalena Graaf, a Swedish model and former pop singer. The couple have three sons togetherHedman started his career with AIK in 1990 . He won the 1992 Allsvenskan championship with AIK, and was chosen as a backup for first-choice keeper Thomas Ravelli at the 1994 World Cup. He debuted for the Swedish national team in February 1997, and moved abroad to play for English club Coventry City in July that year. Hedman was chosen for the Swedish squad at the Euro 2000 where he played all Sweden's matches.

Magnus Øen Carlsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Magnus Øen Carlsen: On 26 April 2004 Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days, the third youngest Grandmaster age in history.In the July 2008 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2775, making him World's number 6.The result that brought him to the attention of the international chess world, however, was his victory in the C group at the Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee with 10.5/13, losing just one game (against the highest rated player of the C group, Dusko Pavasovic), taking his first Grandmaster norm, and achieving an Elo tournament performance rating of 2702. Particularly notable was his win in the penultimate round over Sipke Ernst in which Carlsen sacrificed material to mate Ernst in just 29 moves. This game won Carlsen the Audience Prize for best game of the round (including all the games played in the B and A groups), though the first 23 moves had already been seen in the game Almagro Llanas-Gustafsson, Madrid 2003 (which, however, was a draw)

Magnus Stifter            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Magnus Stifter: was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 85 films between 1914 and 1941.He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) and died in Vienna, Austria.