Anders Sinclair (1614–1689) was one of many Scottish soldiers who joined Swedish service during the Thirty Years' War, rising to the rank of colonel, and holding several military governorship of important fortress towns in Sweden.

Sinclair enlisted 1635 in Robert Stewart's Scottish regiment in Swedish service, as a private musketeer; promoted to corporal 1637; sergeant 1640; ensign 1643.

Lieutenant in Skaraborg Regiment 1647; captain 1655; major 1660; lieutenant-colonel 1674.

[4] He married twice, first Anna Botvidsdotter in 1648, in a marriage that left no living children; in 1670 Anna Amundsdotter, with whom he had three sons, through which he became the ancestor of the barons and counts Sinclair of Sweden, having been naturalized as a Swedish nobleman in 1680.

In 1661 the King donated the income from three farms in Västergötland to him.