Famous People with Name Mats

Mats Lindgren            Origin/Culture/Country:

Mats Lindgren: who announced his retirement due to injury on 20 January 2005, despite being only thirty years old. He was selected in the first round of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, 15th overall, by the Winnipeg Jets, although he never had the opportunity to play for them.Despite versatility and a good on-ice work ethic, Lindgren never lived up to the offensive potential that Winnipeg had seen when they drafted him, scoring only thirteen goals in his best NHL season. In fact, in 387 games with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders and the Vancouver Canucks, Lindgren scored only 54 goals.A large reason for Lindgren's poor offensive record has been the number of injuries he has suffered. In 9 seasons playing in North America, Lindgren only played one where he missed no time due to injury. Back surgery effectively ended his career.

Mats Bergman            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Mats Bergman: a Swedish actor.Mats Bergman graduated from Sweden's National Theatre Academy ("Scenskolan") in Stockholm in 1971. Since then he's been an actor of the stage at, above all, Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre (since 1987), but he's also appeared at Stockholm City Theatre and Norrbottensteatern. He's successfully shown his range in several different theatre productions, a.o in Almqvist's Drottningens juvelsmycke, Bulgakov's Mästaren och Margarita (The Master and Margaret), Brecht's Tolvskillingsoperan (The Threepenny Opera), Botho Strauss' Rummet och tiden, Moliére's Misantropen (Le Misanthrope) and Brecht's Den goda människan i Sezuan

Mats Gren            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Mats Gren: a former Swedish footballer and current assistant manager of Grasshopper.Mats Gren played for Falu BS 1982-1984. He then played for IFK Göteborg in 1984-1985 and became Swedish champion in 1984. He then moved to Grasshopper, where he played from 1985-2000. He became Swiss champion 5 times (1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1998) and won 4 cuptitles (1988, 1989, 1990, 1994)

Mats Ture Magnusson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Mats Ture Magnusson: a former Swedish footballer, who played as a striker.During his career, Magnusson played for Malmö FF (two periods), Servette FC, Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Helsingborgs IF (upon his return home, he helped the side, featuring a young Henrik Larsson, reach the Swedish first division).At the Lisbon club, he developped as a top flight goal-poacher, winning two national leagues, and appearing at the European Cup finals in 1988 (lost to PSV Eindhoven in penalty kicks) and 1990 (losing to A.C. Milan). In 1989-90, even though Benfica lost to FC Porto in the league, Magnusson finished the competition's top scorer, at 33 goals.

Mats Rubarth            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Mats Rubarth: a professional footballer with Swedish top side AIK. He left Örebro SK after the 2000 season for AIK. He is also an recording artist and composer.A technical left-winger (though right footed), Rubarth excells in dribbling past defenders. He regularly provides strikers with good passes, and consequently gets quite a few assists. During the 2003 season, Rubarth's best, he proved to be an able goal scorer too, netting ten times in the Swedish top division, Allsvenskan (2001 he did a spectacular bicycle-kick goal in a Stockholm derby against Hammarby).