Editing University of Gothenburg (section)

== Notable people ==
===Alumni===
[[Image:GU - Artisten.JPG|thumb|200px|''Artisten'' – Academy of Music and Drama]]
* [[Sture Allén]], computer linguist, former permanent secretary of the [[Swedish Academy]]
* [[Jens Allwood]], linguist
* [[Muhammad al-Yaqoubi]], Syrian Islamic scholar
* [[Dilruba Z. Ara]], writer<ref>{{cite news |last1=Haq |first1=Junaidul |title=Ethos behind a war |url=http://www.eobserverbd.com/2016/05/28/20/details/20_r3_c2.jpg |work=The Daily Observer |date=2016-05-28}}</ref>
* [[Percy Barnevik]], industry leader, former CEO of [[Asea Brown Boveri]]
* [[Nick Bostrom]], philosopher and futurist, and Director of the [[Future of Humanity Institute]] at [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]]
* [[Malin Byström]], operatic soprano
* [[Arvid Carlsson]], Nobel Prize [[laureate]] in Medicine, 2000
* [[Magnus Carlsson]], singer
* [[Ernst Cassirer]], German philosopher
* [[Fredy Clue]], artist and musician<ref>{{cite news | last = Engström | first = Anne | date = June 26, 2022 | title = Bäckadräkten – en Folkdräkt fri från det Binära | url = https://www.bt.se/kultur/backadrakten-en-folkdrakt-fri-fran-det-binara-577b08fa/ | work = [[Borås Tidning]] | location = [[Borås]] | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220630162353/https://www.bt.se/kultur/backadrakten-en-folkdrakt-fri-fran-det-binara-577b08fa/ | archive-date = June 30, 2022 | access-date = February 28, 2024 | language = Swedish}}</ref>
* [[Adam Cwejman]] (born 1985), politician 
* [[Östen Dahl]], linguist (member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]], [[Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities]] and [[Academia Europaea]])
* [[Åke Edwardson]], author (used to teach journalism)
* [[Jan Eliasson]], diplomat and politician (former President of the [[United Nations General Assembly]], former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden)
* [[Carl Henrik Fredriksson]], literary critic, columnist, essayist, and translator
* [[José González (singer)|José González]], singer
* [[Hans Hagnell]], politician
* [[Gunnar D Hansson]], author
* [[Eli Heckscher]] (1879–1952), political economist and economic historian, professor at the Stockholm School of Economics
* [[Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir]], Icelandic politician
* [[Tore Janson]], linguist.
* [[Ann-Sofie Johansson]], Creative Advisor and former Head of Design for H&M
* [[Jonas Jonasson]], author of ''[[The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (novel)|The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared]]''.
[[File:Lotass.jpg|thumb|right|[[Lotta Lotass]], writer and former member of the [[Swedish Academy]].]]
* [[Bernhard Karlgren]], sinologist
* [[Nils Kock]], developer of the [[Kock pouch]] surgical procedure
* [[Juri Kurol]], orthodontist
* [[Erik Lönnroth]], historian (Member of the [[Swedish Academy]])
* [[Lotta Lotass]], writer and literary scholar (former Member of the [[Swedish Academy]])
* [[Cecilia Malmström]], former [[European Commissioner]]
* [[Aleksandra Mir]], Swedish-American visual artist
* [[Njuguna Ndungu]], economist, Governor and chairman of the Board of the [[Central Bank of Kenya]]
* [[Joakim Norbeck]], scientist in molecular biotechnology at Chalmers University
*[[Leif Pagrotsky]] (born  1951), politician, economist, and diplomat
* [[Bo Ralph]], linguist (Member of the [[Swedish Academy]])
* [[Bo Rothstein]], political scientist
* [[Susanna Roxman]], Anglophone poet and critic
* [[Ferdinando Sardella]] (born 1960), scholar of the history of religions
* [[Gudrun Slettengren-Fernholm]], artist
* [[Elisabeth Söderberg]] (née Weixlgärtner; 1912–1991), Austrian-born Swedish painter, textile artist, and art teacher 
* [[Anna Wåhlin]], Antarctic researcher, oceanographer
* [[Martin Wallström]], actor
* [[Maria Wetterstrand]], politician ([[Green Party (Sweden)|Green Party]])
* [[Agnes Wold]], professor of clinical [[bacteriology]]

=== Vice-Chancellors of the University of Gothenburg ===
* 1891 [[Axel Kock]]
* 1891–1893 Hjalmar Edgren
* 1893–1899 Johannes Paulson
* 1899–1909 Johan Vising
* 1909–1914 Ludvig Stavenow
* 1914–1931 Otto Sylwan
* 1931–1936 [[Bernhard Karlgren]]
* 1936–1951 [[Curt Weibull]]
* 1951–1966 [[Hjalmar Frisk]]
* 1966–1972 Bo Eric Ingelmark
* 1972–1982 Georg Lundgren
* 1982–1986 Kjell Härnqvist
* 1986–1992 Jan S. Nilsson
* 1992–1997 Jan Ling
* 1997–2003 Bo Samuelsson
* 2003–2006 [[Gunnar Svedberg]]
* 2006–2017 [[Pam Fredman]]
* 2017–2023 Eva Wiberg
* 1 July 2023 Malin Broberg