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Ava de Lagercrantz (1862–1938), Swedish portrait artist; Bengt Lagercrantz (1887–1924), Swedish sport shooter; Bror Lagercrantz (1894–1981), Swedish fencer; David Lagercrantz (born 1962), Swedish journalist and author
David Lagercrantz is the youngest of five siblings. His father was author and editor-in-chief Olof Lagercrantz (1911–2002), whose parents were banker Carl Lagercrantz and Countess Agnes Hamilton; the latter was the great-granddaughter of poet and historian Erik Gustaf Geijer.
The Lagercrantz family is a Swedish noble family, introduced at the Swedish house of nobility in 1682. The oldest known ancestor of the Lagercranz family was Jacob Larsson Gavelius (died 1656), an assessor at the Göta Court of Appeal .
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Carl Fredrik Bengt Lagercrantz (12 March 1887 – 22 July 1924) was a Swedish sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. [1] He won a silver medal in the team running deer, double shots competition.
Hedvig Gustava Lagercrantz (1862–1938), generally known as Ava de Lagercrantz, was a prominent Swedish portrait painter who was active in New York, Stockholm and Paris. A cousin of Sweden's envoy to Washington, Herman Lagercrantz [ sv ] , she prospered in New York from portrait commissions.
Otto Lagercrantz was born at Näsby in Jönköping County, Sweden. Lagercrantz graduated from high school in Uppsala in 1887. He then studied at Uppsala University, earning his bachelor's degree in 1890 and his licentiate degree in 1895. He completed his Ph.D. in 1898 with a dissertation titled Zur griechischen Lautgeschichte.
Floyd Richard Lagercrantz, or Lagerkrantz, (9 January 1915 – 4 October 1977) was a Swedish footballer who most notably played as a forward for AIK. He was capped twice for the Sweden national team in 1938, scoring three goals.