Title: Leif Erickson (politician)
Content:  Erickson was born in Cashton, Wisconsin. He was one of seven children of Oluf Erickson (1874&ndash;1963) and Dora B. Erickson (1876&ndash;1974). The family later moved to western North Dakota. Erickson attended high school in Sidney, Montana, attended the University of North Dakota and graduated from University of Chicago Law School, where he earned his J.D. degree in 1934. On December 29, 1932, he married Huberta Burton Brown. He died in Missoula, Montana.
Title: Leif Erickson (actor)
Content:  Erickson was born in Alameda, California, near San Francisco. He worked as a soloist in a band as vocalist and trombone player, performed in Max Reinhardt's productions, and then gained a small amount of stage experience in a comedy vaudeville act. Initially billed by Paramount Pictures as Glenn Erickson, he began his screen career as a leading man in Westerns.
Title: Eric Erickson (spy)
Content:  Erickson was born in America, the son of Swedish immigrants. He claimed to have fought in the U.S. Army in World War I, although this was not true, and graduated from Cornell University in 1921. He attended Cornell at the suggestion of oil magnate Walter C. Teagle. Erickson moved to Sweden in 1924 and became a Swedish citizen in the mid-1930s.
Title: Raymond L. Erikson
Content:  Erikson was born in Eagle, Wisconsin, on a dairy farm that was settled by his father and grandfather. Erikson was the oldest of two children. Being from a small village, Erikson went to school in a one-room school house before going off to college.
Title: Leif Erikson
Content:  Leif was the son of Erik the Red and his wife Thjodhild, and the grandson of Thorvald Ásvaldsson, and distant relative of Naddodd, who discovered Iceland. His year of birth is most often given as or. Though Leif's birthplace is not accounted for in the sagas, it is likely he was born in Iceland, where his parents met —probably somewhere on the edge of Breiðafjörður, and possibly at the farm Haukadal where Thjóðhild's family is said to have been based. Leif had two brothers, whose names were Thorsteinn and Thorvaldr, and a sister, Freydís. Thorvald Ásvaldsson was banished from Norway for manslaughter and went into exile in Iceland accompanied by young Erik. When Erik was banished from Iceland, he travelled further west to an area he named Greenland, where he established the first permanent settlement in 986. Tyrker, one of Erik's thralls, had been specially trusted to keep in charge of Erik's children, as Leif later referred to him as his "foster father".
Title: John Ericson
Content:  Ericson was born Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes in Düsseldorf, Germany. His parents were Ellen Wilson, a Swedish actress and operatic star, and Carl F. Meibes, who later became president of a New York food extract corporation. The family left Germany, reportedly to escape the rising Nazi regime, and came to the United States. Ericson trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York in the same class as Grace Kelly, Jack Palance and Don Rickles.
Title: Eric Erickson (baseball)
Content:  Erickson was born in Vårgårda, Sweden, in 1892.
Title: Erik Erikson
Content:  Erikson's mother, Karla Abrahamsen, came from a prominent Jewish family in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was married to Jewish stockbroker Valdemar Isidor Salomonsen, but had been estranged from him for several months at the time Erik was conceived. Little is known about Erik's biological father except that he was a non-Jewish Dane. On discovering her pregnancy, Karla fled to Frankfurt am Main in Germany where Erik was born on 15 June 1902 and was given the surname Salomonsen. She fled due to conceiving Erik out of wedlock, and the identity of Erik's birth father was never made clear. Following Erik's birth, Karla trained to be a nurse and moved to Karlsruhe. In 
Title: Lars Eriksson (footballer, born 1965)
Content:  Eriksson grew up in Haninge in Stockholm County where he started playing football at the local club Vendelsö IK. He moved to Hammarby IF as a youngster in 1977 at age 12. During his early teens, he lived abroad for a few years together with his family before returning to Hammarby and their B-team.
Title: Frans Otto Eriksson
Content:  Eriksson was born in Badelunda, Västerås, Sweden. His family moved to Stenby, Adelsö, when he was six years old. At the age of thirteen, Eriksson moved back to Västerås, where he lived until his church confirmation.

Question: where did leif ericson grow up?
Answer: Iceland.