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  • Gry Bay
    Gry Bay
    Gry Wernberg Bay is a Danish actress and singer. Gry Bay is best known for her sexually provocative starring role in the feature film All About Anna .- Biography :...

    , (1974–), actress
  • Rasmus Bjerg
    Rasmus Bjerg
    Rasmus Bjerg is a Danish actor.He has enjoyed much success alongside Jonas Schmidt, in series like P.I.S. - Politiets Indsats Styrke, Wulffmorgenthaler, Dolph & Wulff and Jul i Verdensrummet....

    , (1976–), actor, comedian
  • Lars Bom
    Lars Bom
    Lars Bom is a Danish actor, educated at The Danish National School of Theatre in 1985. Lars Bom has worked in a variety of roles in Theatre, Film and Television, and won the Best Actor award at the Italian Fantafestival in 1999, for his starring role in the cyberpunk-thriller Skyggen...

    , actor
  • Poul Bundgaard
    Poul Bundgaard
    Poul Arne Bundgaard was a Danish actor and singer. He is probably best known for his role as the henpecked Kjeld in the Olsen Banden films.-Biography:...

    , actor
  • Anna Bård
    Anna Bård
    Anna Bård is a Danish actress and model.She has appeared in numerous commercials on Danish TV, but she has also starred in a couple of Danish films...

    , (1980–), model, actress
  • Jesper Christensen
    Jesper Christensen
    Jesper Christensen is a Danish actor. A veteran of European cinema, he has more recently made the transition to English language projects, including The Interpreter and Revelations. He has also appeared as the mysterious villain Mr...

    , actor
  • Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, actor
  • Karl Dane
    Karl Dane
    Karl Dane was a Danish comedian and actor known for his work in American films, mainly of the silent film era. He worked alongside Rudolph Valentino, John Gilbert, and King Vidor. In 1926, he teamed up with George K. Arthur to form the successful comedy duo Dane & Arthur...

    , (1886–1934), silent film actor, comedian
  • Hjalte Flagstad
    Hjalte Flagstad
    Hjalte Flagstad is a Danish actor. He has become recognized for his tall and slim look.-Career:Flagstad was brought into the media world by Danmarks Radio as a part of their youth programs. He was the host of one of their music programs called Liga.dk...

    , actor
  • Olaf Fønss
    Olaf Fønss
    Olaf Fønss was a Danish actor, director, producer, film censor and one of Denmark and Germany's biggest stars of the silent film era.- Biography :...

    , (1882–1949), silent film actor
  • Morten Grunwald
    Morten Grunwald
    Morten Grunwald is a Danish actor and theatre manager.He was born in Odense, Denmark, and attended Odense Theatrical School in 1958, and graduated from The Royal Theater of Denmark's Theatrical School in 1962...

    , actor
  • Caroline Halle-Müller, (1755–1826), actor, singer and dancer.
  • Holger Juul Hansen
    Holger Juul Hansen
    Holger Juul Hansen is a Danish actor.Holger Juul Hansen has starred in a large number of Danish movies and television shows. His most prominent roles was as banker Hans Christian Varnæs, head of one of the two rival families in Matador, and as Doctor Moesgaard in The Kingdom.-References:...

  • Jean Hersholt
    Jean Hersholt
    Jean Pierre Hersholt was a Danish-born actor who lived in the United States, where he was a leading film and radio talent, best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr. Christian and for playing Shirley Temple's grandfather in Heidi...

    , (1886–1956) film actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     (Academy Awards
    Academy Awards
    An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

     Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)
  • Iben Hjejle
    Iben Hjejle
    Iben Hjejle is a Danish actress, notable for starring in the John Cusack film High Fidelity . In Denmark, she is perhaps best known for appearing in the Danish television sitcom Langt fra Las Vegas and playing the girlfriend of Danish comedian Casper Christensen, her real life boyfriend...

    , (1971–), actress
  • Bodil Ipsen
    Bodil Ipsen
    Bodil Ipsen was a Danish actress and film director, and is considered one of the great stars of Danish cinematic history. Her acting career, which began in theater and silent films, was marked by leading roles in large folk comedies and melodramas...

    , (1889–1964), actress
  • Torben Jensen, (1944–), actor
  • Katja K
    Katja K
    Katja K, also known as Katja Kean , is a Danish former pornographic actress.She also starred in two adult hardcore films produced by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lars von Trier's company Zentropa: Constance and Pink Prison .In 2002, Katja changed her stage name from "Katja Kean" to "Katja...

    , (1968–), ex-adult performer, actor
  • Nikolaj Lie Kaas
    Nikolaj Lie Kaas
    Nikolaj Lie Kaas is a prominent Danish actor whose career rose in the 1990s and who is still actively working today. He is also the host of the annual Zulu Comedy Galla on Danish TV....

    , actor
  • Thure Lindhardt
    Thure Lindhardt
    Thure Lindhardt is a Danish actor, educated at the drama school at Odense Theater in 1998....

    , (1974-), actor
  • Gordon Kennedy, (1968–), actor
  • Bodil Kjer
    Bodil Kjer
    Bodil Kjer was a Danish actress whose talent and charisma earned her status as a Primadonna and the title of first lady of Danish theater...

    , (1917–2003), actress
  • Lau Lauritzen Jr.
    Lau Lauritzen Jr.
    Lau Lauritzen, Jr., , was a Danish actor, screenwriter, and film director. As a director, he was a 4-time recipient of the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Lauritzen co-founded the Danish film studio ASA Film and served as the studio's artistic director and administrative director .-Career:Lau...

    , (1910–1977), director, actor, producer
  • Julie Lund
    Julie Lund
    Julie Lund is a Danish actress, radio host, and television-presenter.Julie Lund trained at The Arts Educational School, London 1998-2001 and TVI Actors Studio, New York 2004.-Animated movies/Voice Overs - Denmark:...

    , (1979–), actress
  • Mia Lyhne
    Mia Lyhne
    Mia Lyhne is a Danish actress, who gained national fame after her participation in the Danish version of Dancing with the Stars, and following her run on the Danish sitcom, Klovn, where she acted as the girlfriend of comedian, Frank Hvam.Mia Lyhne is not an educated actress...

    , actress
  • Mads Mikkelsen
    Mads Mikkelsen
    ' is a Danish actor.-Life and career:Mikkelsen was born in the Østerbro area of Copenhagen, the son of Bente Christiansen and Henning Mikkelsen, a cab driver. He is the brother of actor Lars Mikkelsen. After attending Århus Theatre School, he made his film debut in the movie Pusher...

    , actor
  • Viggo Mortensen
    Viggo Mortensen
    Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. is a Danish-American actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of the 1990s, including The Indian Runner , Carlito's Way , Crimson Tide , Daylight , The...

    , (1958–), actor (Half Danish)
  • Birthe Neumann
    Birthe Neumann
    Birthe Neumann is a Danish actress.In 1972 she graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre, and was shortly afterwards employed as an actress at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen....

    , actress
  • Asta Nielsen
    Asta Nielsen
    Asta Nielsen , was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta...

    , (1883–1972), silent film star, actress
  • Brigitte Nielsen
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Brigitte Nielsen is a Danish model, actress, musician and reality television personality who began her career modelling for Greg Gorman and Helmut Newton and several years later made appearances in the 1985 films Red Sonja and Rocky IV and is also known for her marriage to Sylvester Stallone...

    , actress, former wife of Sylvester Stallone
    Sylvester Stallone
    Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone , commonly known as Sylvester Stallone, and nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter. Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed...

  • Connie Nielsen, actress
  • Ghita Nørby
    Ghita Nørby
    Ghita Nørby is a popular Danish actress with 117 film credits to her name from 1956-2005, making her one of the most active Danish actresses ever. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to opera singer Einar Nørby...

    , actress
  • Jens Okking
    Jens Okking
    Jens Dyhr Okking, is a Danish actor and politician.Jens Okking is known from Lars von Triers TV-series The Kingdom, and was a member of the European Parliament 1999 - 2003.- Filmography :*Oktoberdage...

    , actor
  • Dirch Passer
    Dirch Passer
    Dirch Hartvig Passer was a celebrated Danish actor. He was greatly renowned for his improvisational skills and, with a filmography comprising 90 movies, one of Denmark's most prolific actors....

    , actor
  • John Hahn-Petersen
    John Hahn-Petersen
    John Hahn-Petersen was a Danish theatre, TV and movie actor.He made his debut in 1955 and starred in a number of productions including:* Matador* Landsbyen* Taxa...

    , actor
  • Ulf Pilgaard
    Ulf Pilgaard
    Ulf Pilgaard is a Danish actor. The son of a priest he studied theology but shifted to become an actor. Married with Gitte Pilgaard.He has been an important part of Cirkusrevyen in 28 years. He has appeared on several films e.g...

    , actor
  • Søren Pilmark
    Søren Pilmark
    Søren Pilmark is a Danish actor.With Natasja Crone Back, he is notable for hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in a seemingly endless string of rhyming couplets....

    , actor
  • Valdemar Psilander
    Valdemar Psilander
    Valdemar Psilander was a Danish silent film actor, who was the highest paid performer of his period and received critical acclaim as the greatest male lead during the golden era of Danish cinema.-Early life:...

    , (1884–1917), silent film star
  • Poul Reichhardt
    Poul Reichhardt
    Poul David Reichhardt was a Danish actor, well known for his roles in Danish 1940s/50s comedies. Later on, he also played more serious and varied roles; he has also starred in Huset på Christianshavn, Matador and as various minor characters in the Olsen Gang films.For almost thirty years...

    , actor
  • Kirsten Rolffes
    Kirsten Rolffes
    Kirsten Rolffes was a Danish actress, internationally mostly recognized for her role in The Kingdom and Matador...

    , actress
  • Asbjørn Riis
    Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis
    Asbjørn Riis is a Danish professional wrestler, actor and TV personality, who is most famous internationally for portraying the role of the 10th warrior, Halga the Wise, in the movie The 13th Warrior featuring Antonio Banderas. He is also known for a Hulk Hogan look a like in the early 1990s,...

    , actor, professional wrestler
  • Lisbeth Cathrine Amalie Rose
    Lisbeth Cathrine Amalie Rose
    Lisbeth Cathrine Amalie Rose was a Danish actress, one of the very first professional native actresses in Denmark and also the greatest actress in 18th century Denmark...

    , (1738–1793), actress
  • Jonas Schmidt
    Jonas Schmidt
    Jonas Tveje Bisgaard Schmidt is a Danish self-taught actorJonas Schmidt has appeared in numerous roles, mostly comedy however. He first gained fame, portraying the nerdy carseller Bruce, in the Danish Toyota commercials....

    , actor
  • Ib Schønberg
    Ib Schønberg
    Ib Christian Albert von Cotta Schønberg was a Danish film actor, and is considered one of the leading actors of Danish film in the 20th century.-Early life:...

    , actor
  • Ove Sprogøe
    Ove Sprogøe
    Ove Wendelboe Sprogøe Petersen was a Danish actor. Born in Odense, his parents were Arthur and Inger Sprogøe. He married Eva Rasmussen in 1945, with whom he had three children. One of these is actor Henning Sprogøe....

    , actor
  • Paprika Steen
    Paprika Steen
    Paprika Steen is a Danish actress and film director best known for her performances in the films Festen, The Idiots and Open Hearts...

    , actress
  • Karl Stegger
    Karl Stegger
    Karl Stegger was a Danish actor, who appeared in 157 films which makes him the most used Danish actor....

    , actor
  • Inger Stender
    Inger Stender
    Inger Stender was a Danish actress of stage, film and television whose sophisticated elegance and classic beauty earned her the description of Denmark's version of Marlene Dietrich.-Biography:...

    , (1912–1989), actress
  • Yutte Stensgaard
    Yutte Stensgaard
    Yutte Stensgaard is a Danish actress born in Thisted, Jutland, Denmark, best known for her starring role in Hammer's Lust for a Vampire.-Career:...

    , actress
  • Ebba Thomsen
    Ebba Thomsen
    Ebba Thomsen was a Danish actress during the golden era of silent films in Denmark. Thomsen was best known for her roles as the elegant leading lady opposite the Danish matinee idol Valdemar Psilander.-Life and career:...

    , (1887–1973), silent film star
  • Ulrich Thomsen
    Ulrich Thomsen
    Ulrich Thomsen is a Danish actor.Thomsen was born in Fyn, Denmark and graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance in 1993, after which playing on several theatres in Copenhagen, such as Dr. Dantes Aveny, Mungo Park and Østre Gasværks Teater.His film debut was in...

    , actor
  • Sven-Ole Thorsen
    Sven-Ole Thorsen
    Sven-Ole Thorsen is a Danish actor, stuntman, bodybuilder and strongman competitor. Sven won Denmark's Strongest Man in 1983....

    , actor

Archaeologists

  • Frans Blom
    Frans Blom
    Frans Blom was a Danish explorer and archaeologist....

  • Peter Oluf Brøndsted
    Peter Oluf Brøndsted
    Peter Oluf Brøndsted , Danish archaeologist and traveller.-Biography:Brøndsted wasas born at Fruering in Jutland. After studying at the University of Copenhagen he visited Paris in 1806 with his friend Georg Koes. After remaining there two years, they went together to Italy...

    , (1780–1842), classic archaeologist
  • Peter Glob
    Peter Glob
    Peter Vilhelm Glob , also P.V. Glob, was a Danish archaeologist who worked as the Director General of Museums and Antiquities of the state of Denmark and was also the Director of the National Museum in Copenhagen...

    , (1911–1985)
  • Erik Holtved
    Erik Holtved
    Dr. Erik Holtved was a Danish artist, archaeologist, linguist, and ethnologist...

    , (1899–1981), Greenland
  • Eigil Knuth
    Eigil Knuth
    Count Eigil Knuth was a Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer. He is referred to as the Nestor of Danish polar explorers. His archaeological investigations were made in Peary Land and adjacent areas of High Arctic Greenland...

    , Greenland
  • Therkel Mathiassen
    Therkel Mathiassen
    Therkel Mathiassen was an archaeologist, anthropologist, cartographer, and ethnographer notable for his scientific study of the Arctic....

    , (1892–1967), Arctic
  • Georg F. L. Sarauw, (1862–1928)
  • Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
    Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
    Christian Jürgensen Thomsen was a Danish archaeologist.In 1816 he was appointed head of 'antiquarian' collections which later developed into the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. While organizing and classifying the antiquities for exhibition, he decided to present them chronologically...

    , (1788–1865), archaeologist
  • Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
    Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
    Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae was a Danish archaeologist, historian and politician, who was the second director of the National Museum of Denmark . He played a key role in the foundation of scientific archaeology. Worsaae was the first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove C.J...

    , (1821–1885), archeologist, historian and politician

Architects and designers

  • Rigmor Andersen
    Rigmor Andersen
    Rigmor Andersen was a versatile Danish designer, educator and author. Above all she is remembered for maintaining the traditions of Kaare Klint's furniture school at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts....

    , 1903-1995, furniture designer
  • Vilhelm Dahlerup
    Vilhelm Dahlerup
    Jens Vilhelm Dahlerup was a Danish architect who specialized in the Historicist style. One of the most productive and noted Danish architects of the 19th century, he is behind many of the most known buildings and landmarks of his time and has more than any other single architect contributed to the...

    , (1826–1907), architect
  • Jørgen Gammelgaard
    Jørgen Gammelgaard
    Jørgen Gammelgaard was a Danish furniture designer who also designed lamps and silverware.-Early life:Gammelgaard was trained as a cabinetmaker at the Copenhagen School of Arts and Crafts and served an apprenticeship at C. B. Hansen's workshop in Copenhagen. He then studied under Grete Jalk and...

    , (1938-1991), furniture designer
  • Kaj Gottlob
    Kaj Gottlob
    Niels August Theodor Kaj Gottlob, usually known as Kaj Gottlob, was a Danish architect who contributed much to Neoclassicism and Functionalism both as professor of the School of Architects at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and as a royal building inspector.-Early life:After qualifying from...

    , (1887–1976), architect and furniture designer
  • Jan Gehl
    Jan Gehl
    Jan Gehl is a Danish architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen and whose career has focused on improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards the pedestrian and cyclist.-Biography:...

    , (1947–), architect, urban planner
  • Andreas Hallander
    Andreas Hallander
    Andreas Hallander was a Danish master carpenter and architect who made a significant contribution to the city of Copenhagen. Together with the buildings of Johan Martin Quist, his classically styled apartment houses form part of the legacy of 19th century Danish Golden Age architects who...

     (1755–1828), Golden Age architect
  • Christian Frederik Hansen
    Christian Frederik Hansen
    Christian Frederik Hansen , known as C.F. Hansen, was the leading Danish architect between the late 18th century and the mid 19th century, and on account of his position at the Royal Danish Academy of Art the most powerful person in artistic circles for many years...

    , (1756–1845), architect
  • Christian Hansen
    Christian Hansen (architect)
    Hans Christian Hansen was a Historicist Danish architect who worked 18 years in Greece where he was active in the transformation of Athens from a small town to the country's capital and an international metropolis...

    , (1803–1883), architect active mainly in Athens
    Athens
    Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

     and Copenhagen
    Copenhagen
    Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

  • Theophilus Hansen, (1813–1891), architect active in Athens
    Athens
    Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

     and Vienna
    Vienna
    Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

  • Caspar Frederik Harsdorff
    Caspar Frederik Harsdorff
    Caspar Frederik Harsdorff, also known as C.F. Harsdorff, , Danish neoclassical architect is considered to be Denmark’s leading architect in the late 18th century, and is referred to as “The Father of Danish Classicism”.- Early life and training :He was born Caspar Frederik Harsdørffer in...

    , (1735–1799), Golden Age architect
  • Piet Hein
    Piet Hein (Denmark)
    Piet Hein was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone"...

  • Poul Henningsen
    Poul Henningsen
    Poul Henningsen , Danish author, architect and critic, was one of the leading figures of the cultural life of Denmark between the World Wars. In Denmark, he is often referred to as PH.-Early life and education:...

    , (1894–1967), author, architect, designer
  • Peter Hvidt
    Peter Hvidt
    Peter Hvidt was a Danish architect and furniture designer, co-founder of Hvidt & Mølgaard.-Biography:Hvidt was born in Copenhagen in 1916, the son of L. N. Hvidt, president of the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court. After completing his training at the Design School in Copenhagen, he worked at...

     (1916–1986), architect and furniture designer
  • Bjarke Ingels
    Bjarke Ingels
    Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect. He heads the architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group which he founded in 2006. In 2009 he co-founded the design consultancy KiBiSi...

    , (1974–) architect
  • Andreas Jeppe Iversen, (1888-1979), furniture designer
  • Arne Jacobsen
    Arne Jacobsen
    Arne Emil Jacobsen, usually known as Arne Jacobsen, was a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for contributing so much to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs.-Early life and education:Arne Jacobsen was born...

    , (1902–1971), architect
  • Grete Jalk
    Grete Jalk
    Grete Juel Jalk was a Danish furniture designer. From the 1960s, she did much to enhance Denmark's reputation for modern furniture design with her clear, comfortable lines...

    , (1920–2006), furniture designer
  • Georg Jensen
    Georg Jensen
    Georg Arthur Jensen was a Danish silversmith.Born in 1866, Jensen was the son of a knife grinder in the town of Raadvad just to the north of Copenhagen. Jensen began his training in goldsmithing at the age of 14 in Copenhagen...

    , (1866–1935), silversmith, designer
  • Jacob Jensen
    Jacob Jensen
    Jacob Jensen is a Danish industrial designer, best known for his work with Bang and Olufsen.-Life and career:Jensen was born in the Vesterbro area of Copenhagen in 1926. He left school after the seventh grade and completed training as an upholster...

    , (1926-), designer
  • Jens Jensen
    Jens Jensen
    Jens August Jensen was an Australian politician and Minister for the Navy.Jensen was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Ballarat, leaving school at 11. He became a rabbit-hawker and miner at Beaconsfield, Tasmania. In July 1885 he married Elizabeth Frances Broadhurst; she died in 1894...

    , (1860 - 1951 ), landscape architect
  • Timothy Jacob Jensen
    Timothy Jacob Jensen
    Timothy Jacob Jensen is an industrial designer and design strategist. He is the CEO and chief designer of Jacob Jensen Holding, Jacob Jensen Design and Jacob Jensen Brand based in Hejlskov, Denmark...

    , (1962-), designer
  • Finn Juhl
    Finn Juhl
    Finn Juhl was a Danish architect, interior and industrial designer, most known for his furniture design. He was one of the leading figures in the creation of "Danish design" in the 1940s and he was the designer who introduced Danish Modern to America.-Early life and education:Finn Juhl was born on...

    , (1912–1989)
  • Jørgen Kastholm
    Jørgen Kastholm
    Jørgen Kastholm was a Danish furniture designer who worked closely together with Preben Fabricius in the 1960s. The airport furniture he designed can now be seen in some 120 airports. In later life Kastholm was professor of design at Germany's Bergische Universität.-Biography:Born in Roskilde,...

    , (1938–2007), furniture designer
  • Bodil Kjær
    Bodil Kjær
    Bodil Kjær is a Danish architect, furniture designer, professor and researcher, who has specialized in interior design and city planning...

    , (1932-), architect and furniture designer
  • Jacob Kjær
    Jacob Kjær
    Jacob Kjær was a Danish furniture designer and cabinetmaker.Kjær received training as a cabinetmaker in the workshop of his father who was also a furniture maker. After completing his training in Berlin and Paris, he exhibited works at the Barcelona World Exhibition in 1929...

     (1896-1957), furniture designer
  • Jens Christian Kofoed
    Jens Christian Kofoed
    Jens Christian Kofoed was a Danish architect who adopted the Historicist style inspired by Italian architecture from the Middle Ages...

    , (1864-1941), architect
  • Henning Larsen
    Henning Larsen
    Henning Larsen is a Danish architect.He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadhand the Copenhagen Opera House...

    , architect
  • Vilhelm Lauritzen
    Vilhelm Lauritzen
    Vilhelm Lauritzen was a leading Danish modernist architect, founder of the still active architectural firm Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter.-Biography:...

    , (1894–1984) architect and furniture designer
  • Aksel Bender Madsen
    Aksel Bender Madsen
    Aksel Bender Madsen, often known simply as Bender Madsen, was a Danish furniture designer who worked closely together with Ejner Larsen producing a wide variety of items during the Danish modern period.-Biography:...

    , (1916-2000), furniture designer
  • Ferdinand Meldahl, (1827–1908), architect
  • Borge Mogensen
    Borge Mogensen
    Børge Mogensen , was a Danish furniture designer.He was one of the most important among a generation of furniture designers who made the concept of “Danish design” known throughout the world...

    , (1914–1972), designer
  • Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen
    Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen
    Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen was a Danish architect and furniture designer. After training at the Aalborg Technical School and at the Art and Crafts School of the Design Museum in Copenhagen , Mølgaard-Nielsen studied furniture design under Kaare Klint at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts...

    , (1907–1993), architect and furniture designer
  • Hans Olsen
    Hans Olsen (furniture designer)
    Hans Olsen was a Danish furniture designer who created a number of items in his own distinctive style.-Biography:Although Olsen was a student of Kaare Klint at the Royal Danish Academy's Furniture School from 1941 to 1943, he belongs to a group of Danish furniture designers who chose to experiment...

    , (1919–1992), furniture designer
  • Johan Martin Quist
    Johan Martin Quist
    Johan Martin Quist or Qvist was a Danish architect who made a significant contribution to the city of Copenhagen. Together with those of Andreas Hallander, his classically styled buildings form part of the legacy of 19th century Danish Golden Age architects who reconstructed areas of the old town...

     (1755–1818), Golden age architect
  • :da:Soren Rasmussen, (1954-), architect, designer
  • Steen Eiler Rasmussen
    Steen Eiler Rasmussen
    Steen Eiler Rasmussen was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry...

    , (1898–1990), architect
  • Kasper Salto
    Kasper Salto
    Kasper Salto is a Danish industrial designer, most known for his furniture designs. He is the grand son of painter, ceramist and writer Axel Salto.-Biography:...

    , (1957–), designer
  • Jens Martin Skibsted
    Jens Martin Skibsted
    Jens Martin Skibsted is a Danish designer, brands expert and entrepreneur. He has founded or co-founded companies such as the Biomega designer bike brand, Actics, and Skibsted Ideation and KIBISI....

    , (1970–), designer
  • Lene Tranberg
    Lene Tranberg
    Lene Tranberg is a Danish architect, head architect and co-founder of Lundgaard & Tranberg.-History:Lene Tranberg was born in Copenhagen in 1956. In 1977, she was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture where she studied under Erik Christian Sørensen...

    , (1956–), architect, co-founder of Lundgaard & Tranberg
    Lundgaard & Tranberg
    Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter is a Danish architectural firm, based in Copenhagen Denmark. It is most noted for the Tietgenkollegiet student housing in Ørestad from 2006 and the Royal Danish Playhouse on the Copenhagen harbourfront from 2008...

  • Jan Utzon
    Jan Utzon
    Jan Utzon is a Danish architect. The son of Jørn Utzon, with whom he worked closely on several prestigious projects, he has completed a number of fine works of his own including the Performing Arts Centre in Esbjerg.-Early life:...

    , (1944–), architect
  • Jørn Utzon
    Jørn Utzon
    Jørn Oberg Utzon, , AC was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon became only the second person to have received such recognition for one of his works during his lifetime...

    , (1918–2008), architect, Sydney Opera House
    Sydney Opera House
    The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...

  • Kim Utzon
    Kim Utzon
    Kim Utzon is a Danish architect, son of Jørn Utzon-Biography:Kim Utzon was born in 1957 as the son of Pritzker Prize-winning Danish architect Jørn Utzon. He studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1976 to 1981. From 1986 he was part of Utzon Architects...

    , (1957–), architect
  • Arne Vodder
    Arne Vodder
    Arne Vodder was a Danish furniture designer, a close friend and partner of Finn Juhl who had been his teacher.-Biography:...

    , (1926-2009), furniture designer and architect
  • Hans J. Wegner, (1914–2007), designer
  • Vilhelm Wohlert
    Vilhelm Wohlert
    Vilhelm Wohlert was a Danish architect.Wohlert was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Architecture, where one of his teachers was Kaare Klint. In 1958 he and his partner Jørgen Bo started work on the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, a project on which they would work for...

    , (1920–2007), architect, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
    Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
    The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located directly on the shore of the Øresund Sound in Humlebæk, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the most visited art museum in Denmark with an extensive permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, dating from World War II and up...

  • Kurt Østervig
    Kurt Østervig
    -Biography:Trained as a shipbuilder in Odense on the Danish island of Funen, Østervig's attachment to wood rather than steel led to his being employed as a furniture designer in E. Knudsen's Studio, among the largest of the times. In 1947, Østervig established his own studio, from where he worked...

    , (1912–1986), furniture designer

Artists

  • Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard
    Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard
    Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard , Danish artist, was born in Copenhagen, the son of Søren Abildgaard, an antiquarian draughtsman of repute, and Anne Margrethe Bastholm.- Training as an artist :...

    , (1744–1809), painter
  • Else Alfelt
    Else Alfelt
    Else Alfelt was a painter who was born and died in Copenhagen. She was one of the two women in the CoBrA. She was married to Carl-Henning Pedersen, also a veteran of CoBrA....

    , (1910–1974), painter
  • Mogens Balle, (1921–1988), painter
  • Merete Barker
    Merete Barker
    Merete Barker is a Danish artist who uses sketches and photographs from her many travels as the basis for highly expressive paintings where it is often difficult to distinguish between nature and culture.-Career:...

    , (1944–), painter
  • Wilhelm Bendz
    Wilhelm Bendz
    Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz Danish painter mainly known for genre works and portrait which often portray his artist colleagues and their daily lives...

    , (1804–1832), painter
  • Albert Bertelsen
    Albert Bertelsen
    Albert Bertelsen is a Danish autodidact artist. He was born in Vejle. Bertelsen is primarily known for his landscape paintings and graphic works in green colours. His work often features the Faroe Islands, but France, Iceland and Norway have also provided him with inspiration. Bertelsen has also...

    , (1921–), painter
  • Martin Bigum
    Martin Bigum
    Martin Bigum is a Danish painter, poet, writer, and video artist. Born in Copenhagen in 1966. He is best known today for his paintings. During the 1980s he worked as comic artist for the Danish version of Mad Magazine....

    , (1966–), painter
  • Ejler Bille
    Ejler Bille
    Ejler Bille was a Danish artist. He studied at the Kunsthåndværkerskolen in Copenhagen, with Bizzie Høyer 1930-32 and the Royal Danish Academy of Art, 1933. In 1934 he joined Linien, Corner in 1940 and CoBrA in 1949. He had concentrated on small sculptures, but moved into painting after joining...

    , (1910–2004), painter
  • Herman Wilhelm Bissen
    Herman Wilhelm Bissen
    Herman Wilhelm Bissen was a Danish sculptor.Bissen first studied painting in Copenhagen, then became a pupil of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. In 1824, he travelled to Rome and met Christian Daniel Rauch in Berlin. Under the influence of Thorvaldsen, his style changed from romanticism to...

    , (1798–1868), sculptor
  • Lars Bo
    Lars Bo
    Lars Bo was a Danish artist and writer. He is known for his graphic works with surrealistically inspired fantastic motifs. He was nicknamed "Wizard"....

    , (1924–1999), etcher
  • Peter Brandes
    Peter Brandes
    Peter Brandes is a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist and photographer.Brandes' art is abstract and often in brown colours. He had his breakthrough as artist in the beginning of the 1980s...

    , (1944–), painter, sculptor and ceramic artist
  • Emil Bærentzen
    Emil Bærentzen
    Emilius Ditlev Bærentzen, usually known as Emil Bærentzen, was a Danish portrait painter and lithographer, active during the Golden Age of Danish Painting.-Biography:...

     (1799–1868), painter and lithographer
  • Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen
    Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen
    Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen was a Danish sculptor. Her preferred themes were domestic animals and people, with an intense, naturalistic portrayal of movements and sentiments. She also depicted themes from Nordic mythology...

     (1863–1945), sculptor
  • Poul Simon Christiansen
    Poul Simon Christiansen
    Poul Simon Christiansen, frequently referred to as Poul S. Christiansen was a Danish painter who developed a Colourist style under Kristian Zahrtmann and as a result of his appreciation of the works of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh...

     (1855–1933), painter
  • Carl Dahl
    Carl Dahl
    Niels Carl Michaelius Flindt Dahl, usually known as Carl Dahl, was a Danish marine painter during the Golden Age of Danish Painting.-Biography:...

    , (1812–1865), painter
  • Heinrich Dohm
    Heinrich Dohm
    Heinrich August Emil Dohm was a Danish artist who painted portraits and genre works and for a period specialized in religious paintings.-Biography:...

     (1875–1940), painter
  • Anton Dorph
    Anton Dorph
    Anton Laurids Johannes Dorph, usually known as Anton Dorph was a Danish painter who is remembered for his altarpieces and his paintings of fishermen.-Biography:...

     (1831-1914), painter
  • Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
    Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
    Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig , to Henrik Vilhelm Eckersberg, painter and carpenter, and Ingeborg Nielsdatter...

    , painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

  • Heinrich Eddelien
    Heinrich Eddelien
    Matthias Heinrich Elias Eddelien was a Danish history painter of German origin.Eddelien arrived in Copenhagen as a young man and attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1821 studying under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. In 1837, he was awarded the Academy's large gold medal...

     (1802–1852), painter
  • Olafur Eliasson
    Olafur Eliasson
    Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research...

    , sculptor, installation, Photography
  • Michael Elmgreen
    Elmgreen and Dragset
    Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are artist-collaborators since 1995 and their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design....

    , (1961–), installations
  • Johanne Marie Fosie, (1726–1764), painter
  • Wilhelm Freddie
    Wilhelm Freddie
    Wilhelm Frederik Christian Carlsen Freddie was a Danish painter and sculptor. Initially working along a somewhat abstract line, he soon turned towards a more realistic surrealism, only to later return to abstract art...

    , (1909–1995), painter
  • Albert Gottschalk
    Albert Gottschalk
    Albert Gottschalk was a Danish painter. He had a close connection, personally and artisticly, to the poets Johannes Jørgensen, Viggo Stuckenberg and Sophus Claussen.-Biography:...

    , (1866–1906), painter
  • Hans Jørgen Hammer
    Hans Jørgen Hammer
    Hans Jørgen Hammer was a Danish artist who specialized in genre painting.-Biography:...

     (1815–1882), painter
  • Vilhelm Hammershoi, painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

  • Constantin Hansen
    Constantin Hansen
    Carl Christian Constantin Hansen was one of the painters associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He was deeply interested in literature and mythology, and inspired by art historian Niels Lauritz Høyen, he tried to recreate a national historical painting based on Norse mythology...

    , (1804–1880) painter
  • Heinrich Hansen
    Heinrich Hansen (painter)
    Heinrich Hansen was a Danish artist who specialized in architectural painting.-Biography:...

    , (1821-1890) painter
  • Peter Hansen
    Peter Hansen (painter)
    Peter Marius Hansen was a Danish painter who became one of the Fynboerne or "Funen Painters" group living and working on the island of Funen.-Biography:...

    , (1868–1928) painter
  • Sven Wiig Hansen, (1922–1997), painter
  • Sven Havsteen-Mikkelsen
    Sven Havsteen-Mikkelsen
    Sven Havsteen-Mikkelsen was a Danish painter who is remembered for his old Nordic landscapes, his church decorations and his woodcuts.-Early life and education:...

    , (1912–1999), painter, illustrator and church decorator
  • Henry Heerup
    Henry Heerup
    Henry Heerup was a painter and sculptor born in Frederiksberg, Denmark.He studied painting under Axel Jørgensen and Einar Nielsen at the Royal Danish Academy of Art. He also studied sculpture there under Einar Utzon-Frank. He painted The Old Oak in Wolfvalley in 1924. This was his first oil...

    , (1907–1993), painter
  • Jeppe Hein
    Jeppe Hein
    Jeppe Hein is an artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Hein is widely known for his production of experiential and interactive artworks that can be positioned at the junction where art, architecture, and technical inventions intersect...

    , (1974–), installations
  • Gerhard Henning, (1880–1967), sculptor
  • Frants Henningsen
    Frants Henningsen
    Frants Peter Diderik Henningsen was a Danish painter, illustrator and professor. Erik Henningsen, also an artist, was his younger brother.-Biography:...

    , (1850–1908), artist
  • Paul Høm
    Paul Høm
    Paul Briegel Høm was a Danish artist who is remembered for his religious paintings and brightly coloured stained glass windows which decorate a number of Danish churches.-Biography:...

    , (1905-1994), artist and church decorator
  • Peter Ilsted
    Peter Ilsted
    Peter Ilsted was a leading Danish artist and printmaker. Ilsted, Carl Holsoe and Ilsted’s brother-in-law, Vilhelm Hammershøi, were the leading artists in early 20th century Denmark. All three artists were members of ‘The Free Exhibition’, a progressive art society created around 1890. They are...

    , (1861–1933), painter/etcher
  • Egill Jacobsen, (1910–1998), painter
  • Robert Jacobsen
    Robert Jacobsen
    Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen was a Danish sculptor and painter. The Danish Robert award was named after him.-Biography:...

    , (1912–1993), sculptor and painter
  • Johan Laurentz Jensen
    Johan Laurentz Jensen
    Johan Laurentz Jensen, often referred to as J. L. Jensen was a Danish artist who specialized in flower painting.-Biography:...

    , (1800-1856), painter
  • Jens Adolf Jerichau
    Jens Adolf Jerichau
    Emil Jens Baumann Adolf Jerichau was a Danish sculptor. He belonged to the generation immediately after Bertel Thorvaldsen, for whom he worked briefly in Tome, but gradually moved away from the static Neoclassicism he inherited from him and towards a more dynamic and realistic style.He was a...

    , (1818–1883), sculptor
  • Viggo Johansen
    Viggo Johansen
    Viggo Johansen was a Danish painter and active member of the group of Skagen Painters who met every summer in the north of Jutland. He was one of Denmark's most prominent painters in the 1890s.-Career:...

    , (1851–1935), painter
  • Asger Jorn
    Asger Jorn
    Asger Oluf Jorn was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International...

    , (1914–1973), painter
  • Jens Juel
    Jens Juel (painter)
    Jens Juel was a Danish painter, primarily known for his many portraits, of which the largest collection is on display at Frederiksborg Castle.-Early life and career:...

    , (1745–1802), painter mainly known for portraits
  • Per Kirkeby
    Per Kirkeby
    Per Kirkeby is a Danish painter, poet, filmmaker and sculptor.-Biography:1962 Studies at the Experimental Art School in Copenhagen; works in the School on painting, graphic arts, 8 millimeter films and performance pieces...

    , (1938–), painter
  • Jesper Knudsen
    Jesper Knudsen
    Jesper Knudsen is a Danish painter. Knudsen’s paintings have been compared to street art because they appear very spontaneously made. While painting, Knudsen turns the canvas around several times...

    , (1964–), painter
  • Peder Severin Krøyer
    Peder Severin Krøyer
    Peder Severin Krøyer , known as P.S. Krøyer, was a Norwegian-Danish painter. He is one of the best known and beloved, and undeniably the most colorful of the Skagen Painters, a community of Danish and Nordic artists who lived, gathered or worked in Skagen, Denmark, especially during the final...

    , (1851–1909), painter
  • Michael Kvium, (1955–), painter and sculptor
  • Christen Købke
    Christen Købke
    Christen Schiellerup Købke , Danish painter, was born in Copenhagen to Peter Berendt Købke, a baker, and his wife Cecilie Margrete. He was one of 11 children...

    , (1810–1848, painter
  • John Kørner, (1967–), painter
  • Poul Lange
    Poul Lange
    Poul Lange, also known as Poul Hans Lange, is a Danish illustrator, graphic designer, photographer, fine artist and children's book creator, who has won numerous awards for his design work...

    , graphic designer, artist, photographer
  • Alhed Larsen
    Alhed Larsen
    Alhed Maria Larsen née Warberg , the wife of Johannes Larsen, was one of the Fynboerne or "Funen Artists" who lived and worked on the Danish island of Funen.-Biography:...

    , (1872–1927), painter
  • Emanuel Larsen
    Emanuel Larsen
    Carl Frederik Emanuel Larsen usually known as Emanuel Larsen was a Danish painter who specialized in marine painting.-Biography:...

    , (1823–1859), painter
  • Johannes Larsen
    Johannes Larsen
    Johannes Larsen was a Danish nature painter.-Biography:Born in Kerteminde on Funen, Larsen studied art at the Free School in Copenhagen under Kristian Zahrtmann in the 1880s. There he met other painters from Funen, notably Fritz Syberg and Peter Hansen, both from the southern port of Faaborg, and...

    , (1867–1961), painter
  • Harald Leth
    Harald Leth
    Harald Leth was a Danish painter whose Naturalistic work was inspired by Johannes Larsen of the Funen Painters and Oluf Høst of the Bornholm School.-Biography:...

    , (1899–1986), painter
  • Christian August Lorentzen
    Christian August Lorentzen
    Christian August Lorentzen was a Danish painter. He was the instructor of Martinus Rørbye.-Biography:Christian August Lorentzen was born on 10 August 1749 as the son of a watchmaker. He arrived in Copenhagen around 1771 where he frequented the Royal Academy of Fine Arts but it is unclear whether...

    , (1749–1828), painter
  • Frederik Christian Lund
    Frederik Christian Lund
    Frederik Christian Lund , commonly known as F. C. Lund, was a Danish genre and history painter...

     (1826–1901), painter
  • Vilhelm Lundstrøm
    Vilhelm Lundstrøm
    Vilhelm Lundstrøm was one of Denmark's most successful modernist painters. It was he who introduced French cubism to Denmark.He was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Art where he studied under Rostrup Böyesen....

    , (1893–1950), painter
  • Christine Løvmand
    Christine Løvmand
    Christine Marie Løvmand was a Danish artist who specialized in paintings of flowers and still lifes. She was one of the few women at the time who gained recognition as a painter.-Biography:...

    , (1803–1872), painter
  • Karl Madsen
    Karl Madsen
    Carl Johan Wilhelm Madsen, commonly known as Karl Madsen, was a Danish painter and art historian who after close connections with the Skagen Painters joined the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he was museum director from 1911–1925....

    , (1855–1938), painter and art historian
  • Wilhelm Marstrand
    Wilhelm Marstrand
    Nicolai Wilhelm Nikolaj Marstrand , painter and illustrator, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to Nicolai Jacob Marstrand, instrument maker and inventor, and Petra Othilia Smith...

    , painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

  • Tage Mellerup, (1911–1988), painter
  • Richard Mortensen
    Richard Mortensen
    Richard Mortensen was a Danish painter.Mortensen studied between 1931 and 1932 at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. Influenced by the works of Wassily Kandinsky, he developed an abstract style...

    , (1910–1993) painter
  • Adam August Müller
    Adam August Müller
    Adam August Müller , a Danish history painter, was one of Eckersberg's favourite students. Though he suffered from poor health and died when only 32, his work is recognized as an important component in Danish art.-Biography:...

    , (1811-1844), painter
  • Christian Mølsted (1862-1930), painter
  • Emil Normann
    Emil Normann
    Emil Wilhelm Normann was a Danish painter and naval officer.-Biography:Normann, who initially developed his painting abilities through his own resources, became a student in Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg's private school in 1825...

     (1798-1881)
  • Kai Nielsen
    Kai Nielsen (sculptor)
    Kai Nielsen was a Danish sculptor.-Early life and education:Kai Nielsen was born on 26 November 1882 in Svendborg, the son of Christian Nielsen, a watchmaker, and his wife Ane Marie. At 15 he became an apprentice painter but was artistically inclined and began to paint landscapes and portraits...

    , (1882–1924), sculptor
  • Knud Odde, (1955–), painter and musician
  • Erik Ortvad
    Erik Ortvad
    Erik Ortvad was a painter and a creator of many drawings. He debuted as a painter in 1935. He is mostly known for colorful surrealistic paintings....

    , (1917–2008), painter
  • Carl-Henning Pedersen
    Carl-Henning Pedersen
    Carl-Henning Pedersen was a Danish painter and a key member of the COBRA movement. He was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall", and was one of the leading Danish artists of the second half of the 20th century....

    , painter
  • Tal R
    Tal R
    Tal R is an artist based in Copenhagen.Tal R studied at Billedskolen, Copenhagen, 1986–1988 and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 1994–2000....

    , (1967–) painter
  • Martinus Rørbye
    Martinus Rørbye
    Martinus Christian Wesseltoft Rørbye was a Danish painter, known both for genre works and landscapes. He was a central figure of the Golden Age of Danish painting during the first half of the 19th century....

    , (1803–1848), painter
  • Hans Smidth
    Hans Smidth
    Hans Ludvig Smidth was a Danish painter. He is remembered above all for his paintings of Jutland and its local inhabitants.-Biography:...

    , (1839–1917)
  • Christine Swane
    Christine Swane
    Christine Swane née Christine Larsen was a Danish painter who first associated with the Funen Painters before developing her own increasingly Cubist style.-Biography:...

    , (1876– 1960), painter
  • Sigurd Swane
    Sigurd Swane
    Sigurd Swane was a Danish painter and writer. He studied in Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy of Art....

    , (1879–1973), painter
  • Anna Syberg
    Anna Syberg
    Anna Louise Birgitte Syberg was a Danish painter who, together with her husband Fritz Syberg, was one of the Fynboerne or "Funen Artists" who lived and worked on the island of Funen...

     (1870–1914), painter
  • Fritz Syberg
    Fritz Syberg
    Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Syberg, generally known as Fritz Syberg, was a Danish painter and illustrator, one of the reactionary Fynboerne or "Funen Painters" group living and working on the island of Funen.-Biography:Syberg, from a poor background in Fåborg, first served a house...

    , ( 1862–1939), painter and illustrator
  • Leif Sylvester, (1940–)
  • Carl Frederik Sørensen
    Carl Frederik Sørensen
    Carl Frederik Sørensen was a Danish artist who specialized in marine painting. His paintings not only attracted customers in Denmark but also in the courts of St Petersburg, London and Athens....

    , (1818–1879)
  • Erik Thommesen, (1916–2008) sculptor
  • Bertel Thorvaldsen
    Bertel Thorvaldsen
    Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor of international fame, who spent most of his life in Italy . Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a Danish/Icelandic family of humble means, and was accepted to the Royal Academy of Arts when he was eleven years old...

    , (1770–1844), sculptor
  • Kurt Trampedach
    Kurt Trampedach
    Kurt Trampedach is a Danish painter and sculptor.By the end of the 1960s Trampedach had his artistic breakthrough after he started studying at the Arts Academy in 1963. Trampedach has often made distorted self-portraits and portraits of his own wife...

    , painter
  • Johannes Wiedewelt
    Johannes Wiedewelt
    Johannes Wiedewelt , Danish neoclassical sculptor, was born in Copenhagen to royal sculptor to the Danish Court, Just Wiedewelt, and his wife Birgitte Lauridsdatter...

    , (1731–1802), scupltor
  • Kathrine Ærtebjerg, (1969–) painter

Business people

  • Hans Niels Andersen
    Hans Niels Andersen
    Hans Niels Andersen was a Danish shipping magnate, businessman and founder of the East Asiatic Company....

    , (1852–1937), founder of the East Asiatic Company
    East Asiatic Company
    The East Asiatic Company was founded by Hans Niels Andersen in Copenhagen in 1897. Service which would eventually include both passenger and freight lines between the Danish capital, Bangkok and the far east was the initial objective. Routes to include the Baltic and Black Seas were...

  • Constantin Brun
    Constantin Brun
    Johan Christian Constantin Brun was a German-Danish. Born in Germany, came to Denmark as Royal administrator of the trade on the Danish West Indies and in the same time built a successful private trading empire during the early Napoleonic Wars of the late 18th century, profiting on Denmark's...

     (1746–1836), merchant, royal administrator of trade on the Danish West Indies
    Danish West Indies
    The Danish West Indies or "Danish Antilles", were a colony of Denmark-Norway and later Denmark in the Caribbean. They were sold to the United States in 1916 in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies and became the United States Virgin Islands in 1917...

  • Ole Kirk Christiansen
    Ole Kirk Christiansen
    Ole Kirk Christiansen was the 10th son of an impoverished farmer family in Jutland in western Denmark. Born in Filskov, Denmark, he trained as a carpenter and started making wooden toys in 1932 to make a living after having lost his job during the depression. In 1942 a fire broke out at the...

    , (1891–1958), inventor of Lego
    Lego
    Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...

  • Mads Clausen
    Mads Clausen
    Mads Clausen born in Elsmark, parish of Havnbjerg, municipality of Nordborg in Denmark, was a Danish industrialist and founder of Danfoss in 1933....

    , founder of Danfoss Industries
  • Janus Friis
    Janus Friis
    Janus Friis is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application KaZaA, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype. In September 2005, he and his partner Niklas Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6B...

    , Skype
    Skype
    Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chat over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system...

    , Kazaa
    Kazaa
    Kazaa Media Desktop started as a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks...

    , Joost
    Joost
    Joost is an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis . During 2007-8 Joost used peer-to-peer TV technology to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in late 2008 this was migrated to use a Flash-based Web player instead.Joost began development in 2006...

     and minor companies
  • Søren Hjorth
    Søren Hjorth
    Søren Hjorth was a Danish railway pioneer and inventor...

     (1801–1870), inventor
  • Henning Holck-Larsen
    Henning Holck-Larsen
    Henning Holck-Larsen was a Dane who co-founded the Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro .- Biography :...

     and Søren Kristian Toubro
    Søren Kristian Toubro
    Søren Kristian Toubro was a Danish engineer who co-founded Larsen & Toubro, an India-based conglomerate.- Early days in India :Toubro began his career as a civil engineer. As an employee of F. L. Smidth & Co...

    , founders of India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n engineering firm Larsen & Toubro
    Larsen & Toubro
    Larsen & Toubro Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company has four main business sectors: technology, engineering, construction and manufacturing. L&T has an international presence, with a global spread of offices and factories, further...

  • J. C. Jacobsen (1811–1887), founder of Carlsberg Brewing
  • William S. Knudsen
    William S. Knudsen
    William Signius Knudsen was a leading automotive industry executive. His experience and success as a key senior manager in the operations sides of Ford Motor Company and later General Motors led the Franklin Roosevelt Administration to commission him as a Lieutenant General in the United States...

    , industrialist (president, General Motors) in USA
  • Martin Lindstrom
    Martin Lindstrom
    Martin Lindstrom is an author and Time Magazine Influential 100 Honoree. Lindstrom's books include Buyology - Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and Brandwashed - Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy , his first title written for consumers, for which Lindstrom...

     (1970–) marketing advisor
  • Arnold Peter Møller
    Arnold Peter Møller
    Arnold Peter Møller, commonly known as A. P. Møller, was a Danish shipping magnate, businessman who was the founder of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group in 1904.-Biography:...

     (1876–1965), founder of A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group
    A.P. Moller-Maersk Group
    A.P. Moller – Maersk Group , also known as Maersk , is a Danish business conglomerate. A.P. Moller – Maersk Group has activities in a variety of business sectors, primarily within the transportation and energy sectors. It is the largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the...

    , the largest Danish company.
  • Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller
    Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller
    Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, is a Danish shipping magnate.-Personal life:Møller is the son of Arnold Peter Møller – founder of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group – and an American, Chastine Estelle Roberta McKinney. He was married to his high-school sweetheart Emma Neergaard Rasmussen from 1940...

  • Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen
    Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen
    Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen was an engineer and industrialist of Danish origin. He moved to Germany and established several automobile and motorcycle manufacturing companies, including DKW and Framo. Rasmussen acquired a majority interest in Audi in 1928, which four years later became Auto Union...

     (1878–1964)
  • Charles E. Sorensen
    Charles E. Sorensen
    Charles Emil Sorensen was a Danish-American principal of the Ford Motor Company during its first four decades. Like most other managers at Ford during those decades, he did not have an official job title, but he served functionally as a patternmaker, foundry engineer, mechanical engineer,...

     (1881–1968), pioneering industrialist at Ford
    Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...

     in USA
  • Carl Frederik Tietgen
    Carl Frederik Tietgen
    Carl Frederik Tietgen was a Danish financier and industrialist. The founder of numerous prominent Danish companies, many of which are still in operation today, he played an important role in the industrialisation of Denmark...

     (1829–1901), financier and industrialist, (co-)founder of many large Danish companies
  • Ole Henriksen
    Ole Henriksen
    Ole Henriksen is a Danish skin cosmetician whose skin care products are sold internationally.-Early years:Ole Henriksen was born and raised in a small town in Denmark. After an impoverished poor upbringing, Henriksen's desire for adventure took him to Indonesia. It was during this period his skin...

     (1951–present) Cosmetologist for Hollywood stars.

Chefs and restaurateurs

  • Bo Bech, (1972–)
  • Søren Gericke, (1947–)
  • Rasmus Kofoed
    Rasmus Kofoed
    Rasmus Kofoed is a Danish chef and restaurateur who won the gold medal at the 2011 Bocuse d'Or, after previously taking the bronze medal of the 2005 and the silver medal in 2007 in the same competition...

    , (1974–)
  • Erwin Lauterbach. (1948–)
  • Claus Meyer
    Claus Meyer
    Claus Meyer is a professional chef, co-founder of the restaurant Noma , cookbook author, professor, and a host on New Scandinavian Cooking....

    , (1963–)
  • René Redzepi
    René Redzepi
    René Redzepi is the chef and co-owner of the two-Michelin star restaurant Noma in the Christianshavn neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. His restaurant was voted the best restaurant in the world in 2010 San Pellegrino Awards and 2011...

    , (1977–), chef, co-founder of Noma
    Noma (restaurant)
    Noma is a two Michelin star restaurant run by chef René Redzepi in Copenhagen, Denmark. The name is an acronym of the two Danish words "nordisk" and "mad" , and the restaurant is known for its reinvention and interpretation of the Nordic Cuisine...

  • Lertchai Treetawatchaiwong
    Lertchai Treetawatchaiwong
    Lertchai Treetawatchaiwong is a Thai-Danish software engineer, restaurateur and entrepreneur. With his business partner, the Danish sommelier and chef Henrik Yde-Andersen, he has founded and operates a host of restaurants in Copenhagen, ranging from the Michelin-starred restaurant Kiin Kiin to...


Comedians

  • Anders Bircow
    Anders Bircow
    Anders Bircow, is a Danish entertainer. Anders Bircow was born in the town of Helsinge, and attended schools in Nærum, Ramløse and Helsinge. He received an education as a bank worker in Helsinge, and later worked as a school teacher in Vorgod in Herning.Bircow played guitar and bass in a band...

    , comedian, musician
  • Rasmus Bjerg
    Rasmus Bjerg
    Rasmus Bjerg is a Danish actor.He has enjoyed much success alongside Jonas Schmidt, in series like P.I.S. - Politiets Indsats Styrke, Wulffmorgenthaler, Dolph & Wulff and Jul i Verdensrummet....

    , comedian
  • Victor Borge
    Victor Borge
    Victor Borge ,born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark,The Unmelancholy Dane,and The Great Dane.-Early life and career:...

    , (1909–2000), comedian, musician
  • Casper Christensen
    Casper Christensen
    Casper Lindholm Christensen is a Danish comedian. He has hosted many shows including Casper & Mandrilaftalen, the Danish airing of Shooting Stars and Don't Forget Your Toothbrush , and the Danish version of Deal or No Deal...

    , (1968–), comedian
  • Drengene fra Angora
    Drengene fra Angora
    Drengene fra Angora is a Danish television satirical comedy series.First airing in 2004, it has acquired cult status in its native Denmark. Among its more popular sketches are Team Easy On, Landmandssønnerne og far, and Spændende mennesker....

    , comedy trio
  • Thomas Eje
    Thomas Eje
    Thomas Eje is a Danish actor and entertainer. In Denmark he is best known for his work with hugely successful comedy trio Linie 3, as well as for a number of one man shows. On November 15, 2006 he made his Las Vegas debut at the Suncoast Casino, under the moniker Tom Dane.After 4 years in Las...

    , comedian, musician, touring in U.S. as Tom Dane
  • Jan Gintberg
    Jan Gintberg
    Jan Gintberg is a Danish stand-up comedian and television and radio host.He started his career as a stand-up comedian in 1992 where he was number three in the competition to be the best Danish stand-up comedian...

    , (1963–), comedian
  • Lars Hjortshøj
    Lars Hjortshøj
    Lars Hjortshøj is a Danish stand-up comedian and television and radio host.He has taken part in many Danish shows, including Casper & Mandrilaftalen and in the sit-com Langt fra Las Vegas....

    , (1967–), comedian
  • Frank Hvam
    Frank Hvam
    Frank Hvam is a Danish stand-up-comedian.Hvam was born in Viborg and grew up on a farm in Ørum Sønderlyng. Shortly before completing training as a veterinarian, he dropped out to try his luck as a comedian....

    , (1970–), comedian
  • Rune Klan
    Rune Klan
    Rune Klan, is a Danish comedian and magician. He has conjured since 1987 and has released an instructional video for magicians called Three Pieces of Silver. Klan has lived in the Middle East and in Canada and has toured in the U.S. where he has taught other magicians...

    , comedian
  • Simon Kvamm
    Simon Kvamm
    Simon Kvamm , is a Danish-Faroese actor and singer.He is most well known as member of the Danish rock band Nephew, where he is the lead vocalist and keyboard player. The band has had several hits in Denmark such as Igen & Igen &, Superliga, En Wannabe Darth Vader and Movie Klip, which have won them...

    , (1975–), comedian, musician
  • Morten Lindberg
    Morten Lindberg
    Morten Lindberg , also known as "Master Fatman," is a well known Danish media personality, comedian, disc jockey, film director and singer....

    , comedian also known as "Master Fatman"
  • Anders Matthesen
    Anders Matthesen
    Anders "Anden" Matthesen is a Danish stand-up comedian, actor and rapper. He is known for creating a wide array of memorable characters and stereotypes which he uses as alter-egos in performances....

    , (1975–), comedian
  • De Nattergale
    De Nattergale
    De Nattergale is a Danish comedy band/act. They have made several CDs and three TV advent calendars on TV2, of which the most famous is The Julekalender...

    , comedy trio
  • Lasse Rimmer
    Lasse Rimmer
    Lasse Rimmer Nielsen is a Danish stand-up comedian and television and radio host.He made his first appearance as a stand-up comedian in 1993 at Café Din's in Copenhagen and participated in DM i Stand-Up in the same place in October 1993.He wrote and took part in DR2's Casper & Mandrilaftalen in...

    , (1972–), comedian
  • Jonathan Spang, comedian
  • Sandi Toksvig
    Sandi Toksvig
    Sandra Brigitte “Sandi” Toksvig is a Danish comedian, author and presenter on British radio and television.-Career:...

    , comedian in the UK
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

  • Mads Vangsø
    Mads Vangsø
    Mads Vangsø is a Danish comedian.Mads Vangsø gained popularity with "Tæskeholdet" alongside Jan Gintberg, Søren Søndergaard and Casper Christensen. "Tæskeholdet" was a huge success on P3 , and even appeared on television following the enormous popularity...

    , comedian
  • Mick Øgendal comedian

Criminals

  • Peter Adler Alberti, abuse of power
    Abuse of Power
    Abuse of Power is a novel written by radio talk show host Michael Savage.- Plot :Jack Hatfield is a hardened former war correspondent who rose to national prominence for his insightful, provocative commentary...

     as Minister of Justice by impeachment
    Impeachment
    Impeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as other punishment....

     and embezzlement
    Embezzlement
    Embezzlement is the act of dishonestly appropriating or secreting assets by one or more individuals to whom such assets have been entrusted....

  • Stein Bagger
    Stein Bagger
    Stein Bagger is a Danish businessman, entrepreneur and former CEO of the now-bankrupt company IT Factory. Before bankruptcy and subsequent fraud-scandal, he was named "Danish Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young, and his company was named "Denmark's best IT-company" two years in a row by the...

    , the IT Factory Fraud Case
  • The Blekinge Street Gang
    The Blekinge Street Gang
    The Blekinge Street Gang was a group of about a dozen communist political activists who during the 1970s and 80s committed a number of highly professional robberies in Denmark and sent the money to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...

    , robbery
    Robbery
    Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take something of value by force or threat of force or by putting the victim in fear. At common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the person of that property, by means of force or fear....

    , financial aid to PFLP
  • Peter Brixtofte
    Peter Brixtofte
    Peter Brixtofte was a Member of the Danish Parliament representing Venstre from 1973 to 1977, from 1979 to 1981, during 1983 and from 1990 to 8 February 2005. Brixtofte served as Tax Minister from 19 November 1992 to 24 January 1993. He is best known as the former Mayor of Farum...

    , abuse of power
    Abuse of Power
    Abuse of Power is a novel written by radio talk show host Michael Savage.- Plot :Jack Hatfield is a hardened former war correspondent who rose to national prominence for his insightful, provocative commentary...

     as Mayor
    Mayor
    In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

     of Farum
    Farum
    Farum is a town in the northeast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark, 20 km northwest of Copenhagen. The town has a population of 18,521 .The town is part of Furesø municipality. Until 2006, it constituted Farum municipality....

  • Peter Lundin
    Peter Lundin
    Bjarne Skounborg , born Peter Kenneth Bostrøm Lundin, and more commonly known as Peter Lundin, is a Danish convicted serial killer.- Early life :...

    , four cases of murder
    Murder
    Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

  • Erik Ninn-Hansen
    Erik Ninn-Hansen
    Erik Ninn-Hansen is a Danish politician. He served in the Cabinet of Hilmar Baunsgaard, first as Defence Minister, and later as Finance Minister...

    , abuse of power
    Abuse of Power
    Abuse of Power is a novel written by radio talk show host Michael Savage.- Plot :Jack Hatfield is a hardened former war correspondent who rose to national prominence for his insightful, provocative commentary...

     as Minister of Justice by impeachment
    Impeachment
    Impeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as other punishment....

  • Palle Sørensen
    Palle Sørensen
    Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen , is a former small-time criminal who shot and killed four police officers in September 1965 while escaping in a stolen car....

    , murder of four Police Officers

Dancers

  • Frank Andersen
    Frank Andersen
    Frank Andersen is a former Danish ballet dancer who was twice artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. He has been an influential supporter of the Danish choreographer August Bournonville.-Biography:...

     (b. 15 April 1953), Royal Danish Ballet: ballet dancer and ballet master
  • August Bournonville
    August Bournonville
    August Bournonville was a Danish ballet master and choreographer. August was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a dancer and choreographer trained under the French choreographer, Jean Georges Noverre, and the nephew of Julie Alix de la Fay, née Bournonville, of the Royal Swedish Ballet.August was...

    , (1805–1879) ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Erik Bruhn
    Erik Bruhn
    Erik Belton Evers Bruhn was a Danish ballet dancer, choreographer, company director, actor, and author.- Biography :...

    , (1929–1986) ballet dancer
  • Camilla Dallerup
    Camilla Dallerup
    Camilla Dallerup is a British-based Danish ballroom dancer, dance teacher and model.-Dance career:Dallerup started dancing at the age of two and a half when her mother took her to her first class in Aalborg. She won the Danish Junior Championships at the age of 12...

    , (b.1974) British based Danish ballroom dancer
  • Anine Frölich
    Anine Frölich
    Anine Marie Magdalene Frölich, was a Danish ballerina, one of the first professional native ballet dancers in Denmark and a prima donna within the Danish ballet in her days...

    , (1762–1784), ballet dancer
  • Nikolaj Hubbe
    Nikolaj Hübbe
    Nikolaj Hübbe is artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. He was born on 30 October th, 1967, and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark. He began his dance training at age 10 at the Royal Danish Ballet School and became an apprentice to the Royal Danish Ballet in 1984. He was promoted soloist in 1988....

    , (b. 1967) Royal Danish Ballet
    Royal Danish Ballet
    The Royal Danish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, it originates from 1748, when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded, and was finally organized in 1771 in response to the great popularity of French and Italian styles of dance...

     balletmaster and former New York City Ballet
    New York City Ballet
    New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

     principal dancer
  • Palle Jacobsen
    Palle Jacobsen
    Palle Jacobsen was a Danish ballet dancer, choreographer and instructor with the Royal Danish Ballet and ballet master at the Pantomine Theatre in the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.-Biography:...

     (1940–2009), ballet dancer and ballet master
  • Henning Kronstam
    Henning Kronstam
    Henning Kronstam was a famousDanish ballet dancer, ballet master and company director.Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, he began training with the Royal Danish Ballet at the age of nine...

    , dancer, balletmaster, theatre director, Royal Danish Ballet
    Royal Danish Ballet
    The Royal Danish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, it originates from 1748, when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded, and was finally organized in 1771 in response to the great popularity of French and Italian styles of dance...

  • Nilas Martins, (living) New York City Ballet
    New York City Ballet
    New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

     principal dancer
  • Peter Martins
    Peter Martins
    Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...

    , (b. 1946) New York City Ballet
    New York City Ballet
    New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

     balletmaster in chief, choreographer and former ballet dancer

Economists

  • Tim Bollerslev
    Tim Bollerslev
    Tim Peter Bollerslev is a Danish economist, currently the Juanita and Clifton Kreps Professor of Economics at Duke University. A fellow of the Econometric Society, Bollerslev is known for his ideas for measuring and forecasting financial market volatility and for the GARCH model...

     (born 1958), economist and professor at American institutions
  • Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes
    Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes
    Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes was a Danish economist, writer, and newspaper editor best known for editing the Kjøbenhavns Børs-Tidende, which published articles written by leading Danish men of letters, including future Nobel Prize winner Henrik Pontoppidan, during a period later hailed as the...

     (1844–1892), economist and editor
  • Johan Christian Fabricius
    Johan Christian Fabricius
    Johan Christian Fabricius was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others...

     (1745–1808), economist and entomologist

Explorers

  • Vitus Bering
    Vitus Bering
    Vitus Jonassen Bering Vitus Jonassen Bering Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correNavy]], a captain-komandor known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich. He is noted for being the first European to discover Alaska and its Aleutian Islands...

    , (1680–1741)
  • Hans Egede
    Hans Egede
    Hans Poulsen Egede was a Norwegian-Danish Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a successful mission among the Inuit and is credited with revitalizing Dano-Norwegian interest in the island after contact...

  • Peter Freuchen
    Peter Freuchen
    Peter Freuchen, born Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen was a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist.-Biography:...

    , (1886–1957), Greenland
  • Thomas Vilhelm Garde, (1859–1926), Greenland
  • Wilhelm August Graah
    Wilhelm August Graah
    Wilhelm August Graah was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. Graah had mapped areas of West Greenland when he, in 1828-30, was sent on an expedition to the uninhabited eastern coast with the purpose to search for the lost Eastern Norse Settlement...

    , (1793–1863), Greenland
  • Gustav Frederik Holm
    Gustav Frederik Holm
    right|thumb|400px|Gustav Holm at [[Qaqortoq]], Greenland, in 1894, when he was captain of the steamer HvidbjørnenGustav Frederik Holm was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer, born at Copenhagen...

    , (1849–1940), Greenland
  • Erik Holtved
    Erik Holtved
    Dr. Erik Holtved was a Danish artist, archaeologist, linguist, and ethnologist...

  • Godske Lindenov
    Godske Lindenov
    Godske Christoffersen Lindenov was a Danish naval offiver and Arctic explorer. He is most noted for his role in King Christian IV's Expeditions to Greenland...

    , (died 1612), Greenland
  • Conrad Malte-Brun
    Conrad Malte-Brun
    Conrad Malte-Brun , born Malthe Conrad Bruun, was a Danish-French geographer and journalist. His second son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, was also a geographer.-Biography:...

    , (1755–1826), Danish-born French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     geographer
    Geographer
    A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...

  • Ejnar Mikkelsen
    Ejnar Mikkelsen
    Ejnar Mikkelsen , was a Danish polar explorer and author, born in Jutland. He served in the Georg Carl Amdrup expedition to Christian IX Land, East Greenland , and in the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition to Franz Joseph Land .With Ernest de Koven Leffingwell he organized the Anglo-American polar...

    , (1880–1971), Greenland
  • Harald Moltke
    Harald Moltke
    Harald Moltke was a Danish painter and author, who was educated on The Royal Danish Academy of Art 1889–1893. Moltke participated in several expeditions as draughtsman, for instance to Greenland in 1898 and 1902–04...

    , (1871–1960), Greenland
  • Jens Munk
    Jens Munk
    Jens Munk was a Danish navigator and explorer who was born in Norway where his father, Erik Munk, had received several fiefs for his achievements in the Northern Seven Years' War. He returned to Denmark at the age of eight...

  • Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen
    Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen
    Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen was a Danish author, ethnologist, and explorer, from Ringkøbing. He was most notably an explorer of Greenland. With Count Harald Moltke and Knud Rasmussen he formed the Danish Literary expedition to West Greenland, and in the early stages discovered near Evigheds Fiord two...

    , (1872–1907), Greenland
  • Ole Olufsen
    Ole Olufsen
    Ole Olufsen was a Danish military officer and explorer. He made several notable expeditions in the 1890s to the Emirate of Bukhara, including the Pamir Mountains. He also served as Secretary of the Royal Danish Geographical Society...

    , (1865–1929), Central Asia
  • Didrik Pining
    Didrik Pining
    Didrik Pining was a German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland and Vardøhus. He is most notable because some have proposed that he may have landed in North America in the 1470s, almost twenty years before Columbus' voyages of discovery...

    , (c. 1428–1491), Greenland
  • Hans Pothorst
    Hans Pothorst
    Hans Pothorst was a privateer, likely from the German city Hildesheim. He is mostly notable because some have proposed that he may have discovered America along with Didrik Pining in the 1470s, almost twenty years before Columbus....

    , (c. 1440–c. 1490), Greenland
  • Knud Rasmussen, (1879–1933), the Arctic
  • Barclay Raunkiær
    Barclay Raunkiær
    Anders Christian Barclay Raunkiær was a Danish explorer and author, who died very young. On behalf of the Royal Danish Geographical Society, he made a journey in 1912 in eastern Arabia. His travel description is still a valuable source and an entertaining read.Barclay Raunkiær was born in...

    , (1889–1915), Arabia
  • Carl Ryder
    Carl Ryder
    thumb|right|200px|The schooner Fylla in Copenhagen harbourCarl Hartvig Ryder was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer.He was a member of several expeditions:...

    , (1858–1923), Greenland
  • Peder Olsen Walløe
    Peder Olsen Walløe
    Peder Olsen Walløe was a Dano-Norwegian Arctic explorer most noted for his historic exploration of the former Norse settlements on Greenland.-Biography:...

    , (1716–1793), Greenland

Fictional Danes

  • Dani Beck
  • Beowulf
    Beowulf
    Beowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single...

  • King Claudius
    King Claudius
    King Claudius is a character and the antagonist from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. He is the brother to King Hamlet, second husband to Gertrude and uncle to Hamlet. He obtained the throne of Denmark by murdering his own brother with poison and then marrying the late king's widow...

  • Holger Danske
    Holger Danske
    Holger Danske, or Ogier the Dane, is a legendary character appearing in medieval chansons de geste.Holger Danske may also refer to:*Holger Danske a Danish resistance group of World War II...

  • Gertrude
    Gertrude (Hamlet)
    In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark. Her relationship with Hamlet is somewhat turbulent, since he resents her for marrying her husband's brother Claudius after he murdered the King...

  • King Hamlet
    King Hamlet
    The ghost of Hamlet's father is a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, also known as The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In the stage directions he is referred to as "Ghost."...

  • Prince Hamlet
    Prince Hamlet
    Prince Hamlet is a fictional character, the protagonist in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark, nephew to the usurping Claudius and son of the previous King of Denmark, Old Hamlet. Throughout the play he struggles with whether, and how, to avenge the murder of his father, and...

  • Annika Hansen
  • The Little Mermaid
    The Little Mermaid
    "The Little Mermaid" is a popular fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince...

  • Petra
    Petra (comics)
    Petra is a fictional character, a mutant appearing in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appears in the limited series X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1 . Petra was created by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Pete Woods and is one of the "Missing X-Men".-Fictional character biography:Petra...

  • Skærmtrolden Hugo
  • Thumbelina
    Thumbelina
    "Thumbelina" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Traveling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. "Thumbelina" is about a tiny girl and...


Film directors

  • Bille August
    Bille August
    Bille August is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director. His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme D'or, Academy Award and Golden Globe. He is one of the very few directors to win the Palme D'or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1991 for The Best...

    , (1948–), director
  • Erik Balling, (1924–2005), director
  • Susanne Bier
    Susanne Bier
    Susanne Bier is a Danish film director best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding and the Academy-Award-winning In a Better World.-Life and work:Susanne Bier was born to Jewish parents in Copenhagen, Denmark...

    , (1960–), director, writer
  • August Blom
    August Blom
    August Blom was a Danish film director, production leader and pioneer of silent films during the "golden age" of Danish filmmaking from 1910 to 1914.-Career:...

    , (1869–1947), director, producer
  • Ole Bornedal
    Ole Bornedal
    Ole Bornedal is a Danish film director, actor and producer.He wrote and directed Nattevagten , a thriller about a law student who works in a morgue as a night-watchman, and becomes implicated in a series of murders of prostitutes...

    , director
  • Carl Theodor Dreyer
    Carl Theodor Dreyer
    Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema.-Life:Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark...

    , film director
  • Peter Elfelt
    Peter Elfelt
    Peter Elfelt was a Danish photographer and film director known as the first film pioneer in Denmark when he began making documentary movies in 1897.-Biography:Peter Elfelt was born Peter Lars Petersen in Denmark on 1 January 1866...

    , (1866–1931), photographer, silent film director
  • Per Fly
    Per Fly
    Per Fly Plejdrup is a Danish film director, generally credited simply as Per Fly. He is married to Danish actress Charlotte Fich. They have the children Anton and Aksel together.-Biography:...

  • Bodil Ipsen
    Bodil Ipsen
    Bodil Ipsen was a Danish actress and film director, and is considered one of the great stars of Danish cinematic history. Her acting career, which began in theater and silent films, was marked by leading roles in large folk comedies and melodramas...

    , (1889–1964), director, actress
  • Anders Thomas Jensen
    Anders Thomas Jensen
    Anders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director.Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night...

  • Lau Lauritzen Jr.
    Lau Lauritzen Jr.
    Lau Lauritzen, Jr., , was a Danish actor, screenwriter, and film director. As a director, he was a 4-time recipient of the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Lauritzen co-founded the Danish film studio ASA Film and served as the studio's artistic director and administrative director .-Career:Lau...

    , (1910–1977), director, actor, producer
  • Jørgen Leth
    Jørgen Leth
    Jørgen Leth is a Danish poet and film director who is considered a leading figure in experimental documentary film making. Most notable are his epic documentary A Sunday in Hell and his surrealistic short film The Perfect Human...

    , filmmaker and poet
  • Nils Malmros
    Nils Malmros
    Nils Malmros , a Danish film director and screenwriter, is considered a leading auteur of realism in Danish cinema. Malmros is noted for his detailed focus on the common growing pains of adolescence and the loss of innocence, which he draws from his childhood experiences growing up in Århus, Denmark...

    , filmmaker
  • Nicolas Winding Refn, director
  • Mikael Salomon
    Mikael Salomon
    Mikael Salomon is a Danish filmmaker, cinematographer of The Abyss and Backdraft , and director of Band of Brothers ....

    , director, writer
  • Lone Scherfig
    Lone Scherfig
    Lone Scherfig is a Danish film director. She graduated in 1984, and began her career as a director with "A Birthday Trip". She is part of the Dogme 95 film movement, which espouses a form of cinéma vérité She made her mark with the Dogme95-film, Italian for Beginners , a romantic comedy which...

    , (1959–), director
  • Lars von Trier
    Lars von Trier
    Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....

    , (1956–), director
  • Thomas Vinterberg
    Thomas Vinterberg
    Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production....

    , (1969–), director

Linguists

  • Ada Adler
    Ada Adler
    Ada Sara Adler was a Danish classical scholar and librarian.She is best known for her critical, standard edition of the Suda, which she published in 5 volumes...

    , (1878–1946)
  • Una Canger
    Una Canger
    Una Canger is a Danish linguist specializing in languages of Mesoamerica. She has published mostly about the Nahuatl language with a particular focus on the dialectology of Modern Nahuatl, and is considered among the world's leading specialists in this area...

     linguist
  • Christian Falster
    Christian Falster
    Christian Falster was a Danish poet and philologist, born at Branderslev . He became rector of the school at Ribe. He preferred to live there, refusing to accept better positions, and keeping his rectorship...

    , (1690–1752), poet and philologist
  • Eli Fischer-Jørgensen
    Eli Fischer-Jørgensen
    Eli Fischer-Jørgensen was professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, she was a member of the Danish resistance movement fighting against the German occupation of Denmark....

    , (1911–2010), phonetician
  • Louis Hjelmslev
    Louis Hjelmslev
    Louis Hjelmslev was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics. Born into an academic family , Hjelmslev studied comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris...

    , (1899–1955)
  • Otto Jespersen
    Otto Jespersen
    Jens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language.He was born in Randers in northern Jutland and attended Copenhagen University, earning degrees in English, French, and Latin...

    , (1860–1943)
  • Johan Nicolai Madvig
    Johan Nicolai Madvig
    Johan Nicolai Madvig , was a Danish philologist and Kultus Minister.He was born on the island of Bornholm. He was educated at the classical school of Frederiksborg and the University of Copenhagen. In 1828 he became reader, and in 1829 professor of Latin language and literature at Copenhagen, and...

    , (1804–1886)
  • Axel Olrik
    Axel Olrik
    Axel Olrik was a Danish folklorist, and a pioneer in the methodical study of oral narrative.His Principles for Oral Narrative Research, recently translated by K. Wolf and J. Jensen, Bloomington, Ind., 1992, was first published in 1921, after Olrik's early death...

    , (1864–1917)
  • Holger Pedersen (linguist)
    Holger Pedersen (linguist)
    Holger Pedersen was a Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about 30 authoritative works concerning several languages....

    , (1867–1953), linguist
  • Rasmus Rask - linguist
  • Jørgen Rischel
    Jørgen Rischel
    Jørgen Rischel was a Danish linguist who worked extensively with different subjects in linguistics, especially phonetics, phonology, lexicography and documentation of endangered languages.-Childhood:...

     linguist
  • Kim Ryholt
    Kim Ryholt
    Kim S B Ryholt is a Danish Egyptologist, who works at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Copenhagen....

     philologist and egyptologist
  • Vilhelm Thomsen
    Vilhelm Thomsen
    Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen was a Danish linguist. In 1893, he deciphered the Turkish Orkhon inscriptions in advance of his rival, Wilhelm Radloff...

    , (1842–1927)
  • Karl Verner
    Karl Verner
    Karl Verner was a Danish linguist. He is remembered today for Verner's law, which he discovered in 1875.Verner, whose interest in languages was stimulated by reading about the work of Rasmus Christian Rask, began his university studies in 1864. He studied Oriental, Germanic and Slavic languages,...

    , (1846–1896), linguist

Models

  • May Andersen
    May Andersen
    May Andersen is a Danish model. She is most known for her work with Victoria's Secret and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.-Early life:...

    , model
  • Anine Bing
    Anine Bing
    Anine Irmelin Bing is a Danish model/singer best known for appearances in Swedish men's magazines including four covers of Café Magazine. She is also known for her high profile relationship with footballer Anders Svensson....

    , model
  • Oliver Bjerrehuus
    Oliver Bjerrehuus
    Oliver Bjerrehuus is a model. He was born in Denmark to actress-turned-writer Suzanne Bjerrehuus. In 1997, Oliver traveled to New York, where his career took off when he landed jobs for such entities as Calvin Klein, Nautica, and Giorgio Armani. In 2003, Bjerrehuus moved back to Denmark. He is...

    , model
  • Helena Christensen
    Helena Christensen
    Helena Christensen is a Danish fashion model, Victoria's Secret Angel, beauty queen, and photographer. She has also served as creative director for Nylon magazine, designed clothing, and supported funding for breast cancer organizations and other charities.-Early life:Christensen was born in...

    , model
  • Kira Eggers
    Kira Eggers
    Kira Eggers is a model from Copenhagen, Denmark. She was named #34 in FHM magazine's list of the Top 100 Sexiest Women of 2004 and is currently guest-starring in several episodes of Hotel Erotica Cabo....

    , adult model
  • Freja Beha Erichsen
    Freja Beha Erichsen
    Freja Beha Erichsen also known as Freja Beha, is a Danish model.-Career:Discovered on the streets of her native Denmark by a modeling agent passing by in a taxi, Erichsen made her debut as a model in 2005 at the fall Paris and Milan shows of Prada, Louis Vuitton, and Miu Miu...

    , model
  • Maria Gregersen
    Maria Gregersen
    Maria Gregersen is a Danish fashion model.-Notable Work:She is the model in the 2006 adverts for Lacoste Inspiration perfume ....

    , model
  • Gitte Hanspal
    Gitte Hanspal
    Gitte Hanspal is a Danish/Indian model who won the Miss Scandinavia 2005 contest.-Early life:She was born in Roskilde to a Danish mother and an Indian father in 1982. She has one brother and one sister. Gitte Hanspal is married to a Denmark based Indian and has a son.She completed her Masters...

    , model
  • Majken Haugedal
    Majken Haugedal
    Majken Haugedal was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar....

    , model
  • Katja K
    Katja K
    Katja K, also known as Katja Kean , is a Danish former pornographic actress.She also starred in two adult hardcore films produced by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lars von Trier's company Zentropa: Constance and Pink Prison .In 2002, Katja changed her stage name from "Katja Kean" to "Katja...

    , pornstar
  • Eddie Klint
    Eddie Klint
    Eddie Klint is a Danish male model. He is perhaps best known as the "muse" of fashion house Prada for several seasons.- Biography :Klint was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on December 5, 1987. Before entering the world of modeling in 2005, he was training to become a chef, as well as participating...

    , male model
  • Mathias Lauridsen
    Mathias Lauridsen
    Mathias Lauridsen is a Danish model from Copenhagen, Denmark and has been featured in numerous ad campaigns including Jil Sander, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Lacoste, Louis Vuitton and Hermès....

    , male model
  • Yaya Pagh, model
  • Louise Pedersen, model
  • Mia Rosing
    Mia Rosing
    Mia Rosing is a Danish fashion model. She has been in campaigns for Miss Sixty, Escada and several others. She's appeared on magazine covers such as ELLE, Topmodel and Madame Figaro...

    , model
  • Renee Simonsen
    Renee Simonsen
    Renée Toft Simonsen is a former model from Denmark, who currently works as a writer. Simonsen was one of the most successful models in the world during the 1980s.- Biography :...

    , model
  • Elsa Sorensen
    Elsa Sorensen
    Elsa Sørensen is a Danish model who did most of her work under the pseudonym Dane Arden. Under her real name, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the September 1956 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland.Sørensen was Miss Denmark 1955 prior to her Playboy appearance...

    , model
  • Tania Strecker
    Tania Strecker
    Tania Strecker is a Danish model and television presenter in the UK.Her break into TV began with Channel 4's Naked Elvis, and she then co-hosted MTV's SELECT with Richard Blackwood...

    , model
  • Catharina Svensson
    Catharina Svensson
    Catharina Brink is an international beauty queen from Copenhagen, Denmark who won the Miss Earth 2001. Catharina is a model and lawyer by profession...

    , model, Miss Earth 2001
  • Cecilie Thomsen
    Cecilie Thomsen
    Cecilie Thomsen is a Danish actress and model.She is internationally best known for playing professor Inga Bergstrom opposite Pierce Brosnan in the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies....

    , model, appeared in Tomorrow Never Dies
    Tomorrow Never Dies
    Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Bruce Feirstein wrote the screenplay, and it was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. It follows Bond as he tries to stop a media mogul from engineering...


A

  • Afenginn
    Afenginn
    Afenginn is a band from Denmark. They play high energy Nordic folk with elements of "classical composition, Balkan ball music & gypsy fun & perhaps klezmer" throwing in fast polkas and ska-like elements in a "whole new combination called by the group bastard-ethno". In 2005 Afenginn won the "Best...

  • Alphabeat
    Alphabeat
    Alphabeat are a Danish pop band from Silkeborg, fronted by singers Stine Bramsen and Anders SG and signed to Polydor Records. Their single "Fascination" was a major hit in Denmark during the summer of 2007 and a significant hit in the United Kingdom in 2008...

  • Artillery
    Artillery (band)
    Artillery is a Danish technical thrash metal band. They participated in the early development of the genre, and their highly energetic, riff-centric and often fast-paced music is similar in style to that of Voivod, Coroner, Megadeth and Sabbat from the same era...

  • Aqua
    Aqua (band)
    Aqua is a Danish dance-pop group, best known for their 1997 breakthrough single "Barbie Girl". The group formed in 1989 and achieved huge success across the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The group managed to top the UK Singles Chart with their first three singles. The group released two...

    , peaked in 1997 with Barbie Girl

B

  • Lisbeth Balslev
    Lisbeth Balslev
    Lisbeth Balslev is a Danish operatic soprano with an international career, especially in Wagnerian operas.Balslev was born in Aabenraa and originally trained as a nurse. She then studied singing, first at the Academy of Music and Music Communication in Esbjerg, then at the opera academy of the...

    , operatic soprano
  • Bamses Venner
  • Julie Berthelsen
    Julie Berthelsen
    Julie Ivalo Broberg Berthelsen is a Greenlandic singer and songwriter. She is known largely for her success on the TV series Popstars. Although she finished in second place, she has become more popular and successful than the first place winner...

    , singer
  • Bikstok Røgsystem
    Bikstok Røgsystem
    Bikstok Røgsystem is a Danish dancehall band consisting of Eaggerman , Pharfar and Blæs B . The band is one of the first to perform reggae and dancehall in Danish....

  • Birmingham 6
    Birmingham 6 (band)
    Birmingham 6 is a Danish electro-industrial/EBM group founded in 1991 and named after the Birmingham Six, a group of Irish men mistakenly imprisoned for the Birmingham pub bombings. Members include Kim Løhde Petersen and Michael Hillerup....

  • Black Rose
    Black Rose (band)
    Black Rose was a Danish hard rock / heavy metal band with King Diamond on vocals. The band was started in 1979, largely inspired by bands such as Judas Priest , Deep Purple and Golden Earring. King Diamond already had a very theatrical stage act, for which he later got fame in Mercyful Fate...

  • The Blue Van
    The Blue Van
    The Blue Van are a blues-rock band from Denmark consisting of Steffen Westmark , Søren Christensen , Allan Villadsen , and Per Jørgensen .-History:...

  • Brats
    Brats (band)
    Brats was a Danish band formed in 1977 as a punk band. Original line-up featured Hank Shermann on guitar, vocalist Franz De Zaster, drummer Eddie Haircut and bassist Mickey Rat...

  • Brixx
    Brixx
    Brixx was a Danish pop group which represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982, in which it sang "Video, Video".The group members were Brixx Hawthorne, Jens Brixtofte, John Hatting, Torben Jacobse, Steen Eljer Olsen and Bjørn Holmgård Sørensen....

  • Dieterich Buxtehude
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Dieterich Buxtehude was a German-Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and in church services...

    , (1637–1707), composer
  • B#Sharp

C

  • C21
    C21 (band)
    C21 was a Danish boy band consisting of three key members: Søren Bregendal , Esben Duus , and David Pepke...

  • Debbie Cameron
    Debbie Cameron
    Deborah Cameron is an American singer of Bahamian ethnicity who has had a career in music in Denmark....

  • Steve Cameron
    Steve Cameron
    Steven Andre Cameron is an American and Danish singer.He came to Denmark in 1979 and studied at a private conservatory in Copenhagen the first 3 years. He has been a band leader in various groups and worked with different artists including his mother and sister Etta Cameron and Debbie...

  • Carpark North
    Carpark North
    Carpark North is a Danish electronic rock band. The band was formed in Aarhus, Denmark on 28 July 1999 by Lau Højen , Søren Balsner and Morten Thorhauge...

  • The Cartoons
  • Tim Christensen
    Tim Christensen
    Tim Christensen is a Danish singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, bass guitar, drums, Mellotron, harmonium, keyboard, piano and organ...


D

  • D-A-D
    D-A-D
    D-A-D is a Danish rock band previously known as "Disneyland After Dark", a name that had to be changed after a threatening lawsuit from The Walt Disney Company. Their style of music is often categorized as melodic heavy rock...

  • Anna David
    Anna David (singer)
    Anna David is a Danish RnB and Soul singer.At the age of 14 she got her first recording contract in Germany where she released 5 singles....

  • Daze
    Daze (Eurodance band)
    Daze was a Danish Eurodance/Bubblegum dance band whose 1997 debut album Super Heroes became a double platinum international hit. The band was a trio composed of Lucas Seiber, Jesper Tønnov, and Trine Bix, and their style of "zany" "turbo-pop" music was compared to the Danish-Norwegian pop band Aqua...

  • DeFilm
    DeFilm
    DeFilm was a Danish Concept Rock band that enjoyed moderate success and popularity within their home country, and parts of Western Europe during the 1980s....

  • Lonnie Devantier
  • Tina Dickow, singer
  • René Dif
    René Dif
    René Dif is a musician and actor, best known as the male vocalist in the Danish pop-dance group Aqua.-Biography:...

    , singer, member of Aqua
  • Dizzy Mizz Lizzy
    Dizzy Mizz Lizzy
    Dizzy Mizz Lizzy was an alternative rock band from Denmark that started in 1988. Between 1994 and 1997, they were highly successful in Denmark and Japan, heading the early 1990s rock revival in Denmark. The trio consisted of Tim Christensen , Martin Nielsen and Søren Friis...

  • DJ Encore
  • Dominus
    Dominus (band)
    Dominus was a death metal band from Ringsted, Denmark, which formed in 1991 and split up in 2000-2001. They released one single, two demos and four albums, each differing in style...

  • DQ
    DQ (artist)
    DQ is a Danish singer and drag queen who won the Danish Melodi Grand Prix 2007 and therefore represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Drama Queen". The song was eliminated in the semi-final stage.- External links :* *...


E

  • Efterklang
    Efterklang
    Efterklang is an indie rock group from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in December 2000. To date, the band has released three studio albums and are currently signed to the 4AD label, as well as their own record label Rumraket.-History:...

  • MC Einar
    MC Einar
    MC Einar was a Danish pioneer rap music group from 1987 to 1990, who released the first Danish language rap album in 1988. They described the Copenhagen youth culture with humorous texts, and attained mainstraim popularity with Jul, Det' Cool and Arh, Dér!...

    , rap band
  • Michael Elo
    Michael Elo
    Michael Elo is a Danish musician. He composed the Danish Eurovision Song Contest 1991 entry, "Lige der hvor hjertet slår", which was performed by Anders Frandsen....

    , composer
  • Amir El-Falaki
    Amir El-Falaki
    Amir El-Falaki is a Danish vocalist. He is a member of the band Toy-Box.Amir is of Moroccan descent and speaks Danish, English, Arabic, and French....

  • Envelope
    Envelope (band)
    Envelope is a pop/rock band from Denmark that has been very much influenced by bands such as The Beatles. Envelope was formed in May 1998 and has to this day been actively involved in performing....

  • Evil Masquerade
    Evil Masquerade
    -Biography:Evil Masquerade was founded in the summer of 2003 in Copenhagen by guitarist Henrik Flyman . He hooked up with Dennis Buhl behind the drums, Kasper Gram on bass and Henrik Brockmann on vocals to record the band's debut album. It was released early 2004 under the name "Welcome to the...


F

  • Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
  • Fate
    Fate (band)
    Fate, Danish heavy metal band originally formed in 1984. They released four albums between 1984-1990 before disbanding in 1993. However after a one-off reunion at a German music festival in 2004, Fate was reformed and released a new album, V, in 2006...

  • Fielfraz
    Fielfraz
    Fielfraz was a Danish band which had its heyday between 1990 and 1996. The band members were Claus Hempler on guitar and vocals, Nils Brakchi on bass, Kenneth Priisholm on guitar and Jens Langhorn on drums...

  • Figurines
    Figurines
    Figurines is an indie rock band from Denmark, formed in the mid-1990s. The band released their first EP, The Detour, in 2001 and their first full-length album, Shake a Mountain, in 2004. The band began to receive national attention in Denmark around the time of the full-length release, and began...


  • Sharin Foo
  • Anders Frandsen
    Anders Frandsen
    Anders Frandsen is a Danish musician, singer, actor and TV presenter.Anders Frandsen is not a trained actor, but he appeared in theatre performances during the 1980s...

  • Lars Frederiksen
    Lars Frederiksen
    Lars Erik Frederiksen is an American guitarist and vocalist, most notably for the punk rock band Rancid, and as the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and The Old Firm Casuals. He was also briefly a member of the UK Subs in 1991...

    , vocalist of Rancid
    Rancid (band)
    Rancid is an American punk rock band formed in Berkeley, California in 1991. Founded by Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, both of whom previously played in the ska punk band Operation Ivy, Rancid is credited—along with Green Day and The Offspring—for reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the...


G

  • Jacob Gade
    Jacob Gade
    Jacob Thune Hansen Gade was a Danish violinist and composer, mostly of orchestral popular music....

  • Niels W. Gade
  • Gangway
  • Gasolin'
    Gasolin'
    Gasolin was a Danish rock band from Christianshavn in Copenhagen formed by Kim Larsen, Franz Beckerlee and Wili Jønsson in 1969. Their first drummer was the late Bjørn Uglebjerg. He was replaced by Søren Berlev in 1971...

  • Susanne Georgi
    Susanne Georgi
    Susanne Jonah-Lynn Georgi Puigcercos, commonly known as Susanne Georgi, is a Danish singer who lives and works in Andorra....

    , one half of Me & My
    Me & My
    Me & My are a Danish Eurodance-Bubblegum sister duo signed under the EMI record label. They are best known for their first international hit song "Dub-I-Dub" , which has been featured on many compilations including the Dancemania series albums...

  • Good Time Charlie, musician, entertainer
  • Peder Gram
    Peder Gram
    Peder Gram was a Danish composer and organist.Gram was born in Copenhagen and studied at the Leipzig Conservatory under Stephan Krehl, Arthur Nikisch and Hans Sitt. From 1908, he worked as a conductor in Copenhagen and from 1918 to 1932, he led the performances of the Dansk Koncertforening...

    , (1881–1956), composer

H

  • Lars Hannibal
    Lars Hannibal
    Lars Hannibal is a Danish classical guitarist and lutenist who frequently performs with his wife Michala Petri playing the recorder.-Biography:...

    , born 1951, guitarist and lutenist
  • Hatesphere
    Hatesphere
    Hatesphere is a Danish death and thrash metal band from Aarhus. The band was formed in 1998 by guitarist Peter “Pepe” Hansen. As of 2010, the band consists of vocalist Esben "Esse" Hansen, guitarists Peter “Pepe” Hansen, and Jakob Nyholm, bass player Jimmy Nedergaard and drummer Mike Park. The band...

  • Caroline Henderson
    Caroline Henderson
    Caroline Henderson is a Danish–Swedish pop and jazz singer. She moved to Copenhagen from Sweden in 1983 and spent her youth singing in various jazz bands. Her breakthrough was in 1989 as part of pop group Ray Dee Ohh...

  • Hit'n'Hide
    Hit'n'Hide
    Hit'N'Hide is a bubblegum dance group from Denmark. They are most famous for their single Space Invaders. There have been 3 members of the band. They are : Jeanne C. , Morgan Jalsing. , Christina S...

  • Horrorpops
    HorrorPops
    HorrorPops are a Danish punk band that formed in 1996. The band's sound is rooted in psychobilly, pop punk, rockabilly, and new wave.-History:...

  • Hurdy Gurdy
    Hurdy Gurdy (band)
    Hurdy Gurdy formed from the Danish group Peter Belli and the Boom Boom Brothers in June 1967. Three of the B.B. Brothers, guitarist Claus Bohling, drummer Jens Otzen and British vocalist and bassist Mac MacLeod formed the power trio...

  • Hot Eyes
    Hot Eyes
    Hot Eyes was the name adopted for international acts by the Danish singing duo known in their home country as Kirsten and Søren. It was formed by Kirsten Siggard and Søren Bundgaard ....

  • Húsakórið
    Húsakórið
    Húsakórið is a Faroese choir situated in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the oldest and largest Faroese choir outside the Faroe Islands, and has become an important social institution for Faroese living in the Copenhagen area. Its conductors have been Marianne Clausen , the famous Faroese composer...

     (Faroese/Danish)

I

  • Illdisposed
    Illdisposed
    Illdisposed is a death metal band from Aarhus, Denmark that was formed in 1991 by vocalist Bo Summer. As of 2011, the band consists of vocalist Bo Summer, guitarists Jakob "Batten" Hansen, guitarist Ken Holst, bassist Jonas "Kloge" Mikkelsen, and drummer Thomas "Muskelbux" Jensen.Since their...

  • Illnath
  • Infernal
    Infernal (band)
    Infernal is dance/pop group from Denmark, consisting of members Lina Rafn and Paw Lagermann. They made their Danish debut in 1997 with the release of the track "Sorti de L'enfer", and have gone on to international chart success in recent years. Their most successful single to date has been "From...

  • Grethe Ingmann
    Grethe Ingmann
    Grethe Ingmann was a Danish singer. She performed as a member of the duet, Grethe og Jørgen Ingmann, along with her husband, guitarist Jørgen...

  • Jørgen Ingmann
    Jørgen Ingmann
    Jørgen Ingmann is a musician from Copenhagen, Denmark.He worked with Svend Asmussen, the jazz violinist, during the 1940s and part of the 1950s....

  • Ida Corr
    Ida Corr
    Ida Corr is a Danish singer, songwriter and music producer.-Career:At the age of 11 Corr won the first Danish Children Songcontest...


K

  • Kashmir
    Kashmir (band)
    Kashmir is a Danish alternative rock band consisting of Kasper Eistrup ; Mads Tunebjerg ; Asger Techau and Henrik Lindstrand .-History:...

  • King Diamond
    King Diamond
    Kim Bendix Petersen , better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Grammy Award nominated Danish heavy metal musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his extensive vocal range, in particular his usage of falsetto. He is the lead vocalist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King Diamond...

    , (1956–)
  • Birthe Kjær
    Birthe Kjær
    Birthe Kjær is a Danish singer who began her career in the late 1960s. Kjær had made previous bids to represent Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980, 1986 and 1987, before being chosen in 1989 with the cabaret-style song "Vi maler byen rød"...

  • Kliché
    Kliché
    Kliché was a Danish new wave band , influenced by Kraftwerk, punk rock, Devo, and David Bowie. They had, however, a distinct sound mainly due to lead singer Lars Hug's original voice...

  • Klutæ
    Klutæ
    Klutæ is an industrial music project founded by Danish musician Claus Larsen, who is best known for his main project, Leæther Strip. Originally formed in 1991 under the name Klute, the project went dormant after 1996's Excel. It reformed in 2006 as Klutæ, to avoid confusion with drum and bass...

  • Kølig Kaj
    Kølig Kaj
    Kølig Kaj was a Danish rapper who gained national fame in 1997 by winning Dansk Melodi Grand Prix with his song "Stemmen i mit liv"....


L

  • Laban
    Laban (artist)
    Laban was a 1980s Synthpop duo consisting of Lecia Jønsson and Ivan Pedersen. Both members were born in Denmark and originally sang in Danish, before moving onto English language releases...

  • Zindy Laursen
    Zindy Laursen
    Zindy Laursen is a Danish American singer, songwriter, performer, model and actress.After beginning her career with the Danish band Smallstars that performed Laursen's original tunes, Laursen made her television debut in 1992 on Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, the Danish preselection program for the...

  • Laid Back
    Laid Back
    Laid Back is a Danish Post-punk group formed in Copenhagen by John Guldberg and Tim Stahl in 1979...

  • Kim Larsen
    Kim Larsen
    thumb|250px|Kim Larsen, Nibe Festival 2009.Kim Melius Flyvholm Larsen is a Danish rock musician.Inspired by The Beatles and rock and roll, Larsen began as a songwriter and guitarist...

  • Jeppe Laursen
    Jeppe Laursen
    Jeppe Breum Laursen is a Danish singer-songwriter and producer. Performing under the name "Senior," Jeppe was the lead vocalist for the dance-rock band Junior Senior. Dazed and Confused praised Jeppe's music for its "urgency and club appeal" and described it as "industrial synth-pop and...

  • Lazyboy
    Lazyboy
    Lazyboy is a musical project started by Aqua member Søren Nystrøm Rasted, also known as Lazy B in the UK. It is not to be confused with the British musical project also known as Lazyboy, which consists of Dan Carey and Rob da Bank...

  • Rasmus Lerdorf
    Rasmus Lerdorf
    Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He authored the first two versions...

  • Leæther Strip
    Leæther Strip
    Leæther Strip is a Danish musical project founded on January 13, 1988 by Claus Larsen. Its influence has been most felt in the electronic body music and electro-industrial genres. Perhaps to a certain extent, it may have influenced various film score productions. Leæther Strip was one of the...

  • Anne Linnet
    Anne Linnet
    Anne Linnet Anne Linnet Anne Linnet (born 30 July 1953 in Århus, Denmark, is a Danish singer, musician and composer. She has released a number of solo albums and has also been a member of several bands, such as Shit & Chanel, Anne Linnet Band, and Marquis de Sade. Anne Linnet is one of a small...

  • Luke
    Luke (Danish band)
    Luke is a Danish electronica band. Their personal style contains elements of many other genres such as bossa nova, rock, lounge, trip-hop. The three front figures of Henry, Tanja and Mike, have played together for more than 15 years.-Members:* Tanja Thulau...

  • Hans Christian Lumbye
    Hans Christian Lumbye
    Hans Christian Lumbye was a Danish composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, among other things.As a child, he studied music in Randers and Odense, and by age 14 he was playing the trumpet in a military band. In 1829, he joined the Horse Guards in Copenhagen, still continuing his music...


M

  • Frederik Magle
    Frederik Magle
    Frederik Magle is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist. He studied composition and music theory with Leif Thybo and attended the Royal Danish Academy of Music where he studied composition and organ...

  • Malk de Koijn
    Malk de Koijn
    Malk de Koijn is a Danish rap group formed in 1993, known for their innovative use of the Danish language. The group has 3 members, Tue Track , Blæs Bukki and Geolo G .-Biography:...

  • Manticora
    Manticora
    Manticora is a Heavy metal band from Hvidovre, Denmark formed in 1996 by Lars and Kristian Larsen. Their current label is Locomotive Music. Their lyrical content typically consists of literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Although they are considered to be a progressive power metal band, they...

  • Mames Babegenush
    Mames Babegenush
    Mames Babegenush is a Danish Klezmer band formed in 2004 Copenhagen. In the beginning it playing quite traditional Klezmer music—with inspiration from artists such as Naftule Brandwein, Abe Schwartz and Dave Tarras—but has increasingly developed its own sound.The name means "Mom's...

  • Me & My
    Me & My
    Me & My are a Danish Eurodance-Bubblegum sister duo signed under the EMI record label. They are best known for their first international hit song "Dub-I-Dub" , which has been featured on many compilations including the Dancemania series albums...

  • Medina (singer)
    Medina (singer)
    Medina Danielle Oona Valbak , known by the mononym Medina is a Danish pop, dance and R&B singer and songwriter....

  • Menfolk
  • Mercenary
    Mercenary (band)
    Mercenary is a metal band from Denmark that was formed in 1991. Although they are usually labelled as a melodic death metal band, they use aspects of power metal in their music, as well as thrash metal in their earlier work.-Biography:...

  • Mercyful Fate
    Mercyful Fate
    Mercyful Fate was a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen. Initially active from 1981 to 1985, they reunited in 1992. The band went on hiatus again in 2000, when frontman King Diamond decided to continue his solo career...

  • Mew
    Mew (band)
    Mew is a Danish alternative music band consisting of Jonas Bjerre, Bo Madsen, and Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen. Bassist Johan Wohlert was also a founding member of the band, but left in 2006...

  • Michael Learns to Rock
    Michael Learns to Rock
    Michael Learns to Rock are a Danish pop-soft rock band that performs songs in English. Formed in 1988, the band has sold over 11 million records worldwide, mainly in Asia, and in addition, another 6 million or more paid downloads for their single "Take Me To Your Heart" which was awarded "Most...

  • Christine Milton
    Christine Milton
    Christine Milton is a Danish pop singer, songwriter and professional dancer. She was one of the participants in the second series of Denmark's popular Popstars series. Although she did not win she was signed to record label BMG...

  • Anila Mirza
    Anila Mirza
    Aneela Mirza, or Anila Mirza is a Danish singer, born and raised in Denmark.Her mother is half Pakistani-half Iranian, and her father is a Parsi....

    , (1974–), singer
  • Miss Papaya
  • Mnemic
    Mnemic
    Mnemic is a Danish metal band, formed in Aalborg, Denmark in 1998. Their music has been described as a fusion between metalcore, melodic death metal, industrial metal and progressive metal, with additional elements of thrash metal and groove metal, to form a style the band themselves have...

  • Mofus
  • John Mogensen
    John Mogensen
    John Mogensen was a Danish singer, song writer and pianist.He was a member of the song quartet Four Jacks and already then getting popularity as a song writer but after some years he had a remarkable come back as a solo singer from 1971...

  • Malene Mortensen
    Malene Mortensen
    Malene Winter Mortensen is a Danish singer. She made her entrance into the Danish music scene in 2001, during the first season of "Stjerne for en aften", the Danish edition of Star for a Night. She made it to the finals, with her rendition of Moloko's "Sing it back"...


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  • The Naked
    The Naked (band)
    The Naked was a Danish indie-rock band that existed from the end of the 1980s and disbanded in 1999. The band started out under the name Naked Lunch, later shortening the name to Naked, and finally to The Naked....

  • Nanna
    Nanna Lüders Jensen
    Nanna Lüders Jensen , known by the stage name of Nanna, is a Danish songwriter and singer. She is best known for her hit single "Buster" from 1984, the theme song for Bille August's children's television series and movie Busters verden. Since then she has released several albums...

  • Natasja Saad
    Natasja Saad
    Natasja Saad , also known as Dou T, Double T and Natasja, was a Danish rapper and reggae singer whose vocals on a popular reggae fusion remix of "Calabria" gained her worldwide fame and a number one spot on Billboards Hot Dance Airplay chart six months after her death in a car accident.- Early life...

  • Nekromantix
    Nekromantix
    The Nekromantix are a Danish-American psychobilly band formed in 1989 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Their music is generally structured around monster and horror themes. A central icon of the band's image is founder and frontman Kim Nekroman's "coffinbass", a custom-built double bass with a body in the...

  • Nephew
    Nephew (band)
    Nephew is a Danish rock band, formed in 1996, in Århus. They had their breakthrough in 2004 with the release of their second album USADSB. The release coincided with lead singer Simon Kvamm's highly successful appearances on Danish television in the cult comedy show Drengene fra Angora, which...

  • Filip Nikolic
  • Carl Nielsen
    Carl Nielsen
    Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...

    , (1865–1931), composer
  • Nik og Jay
  • Claus Norreen
    Claus Norreen
    Claus Norreen is a Danish musician and record producer known for being a part of the band Aqua, which sold around 33 million records.-Early life:...

    , composer
  • Rasmus Nøhr
    Rasmus Nøhr
    Rasmus Nøhr is a Danish musician, composer, and guitarist who had a breakthrough in Denmark with the song Det glade pizzabud, a duet with Ida Corr. In 2004 he released his debut album called "Rasmus Nøhr". In 2006 he released his second album - "Lykkelig Smutning"...

  • Per Nørgård
    Per Nørgård
    Per Nørgård is a Danish composer.-Biography:Nørgård studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and subsequently with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. To begin with, he was strongly influenced by the Nordic styles of Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen and Vagn Holmboe...


O

  • Oh No Ono
    Oh No Ono
    Oh No Ono is a grammy nominated quintet from Aalborg, Denmark. The band was formed in 2003 by Kristoffer Rom , Aske Zidore , Kristian Olsen and Malthe Fischer .-History:...

  • Oh Land
  • Olsen Brothers
    Olsen Brothers
    Olsen Brothers are a Danish rock/pop music duo, and are brothers Jørgen and "Noller" Olsen. They formed their first band, The Kids, in 1965. The Kids warmed up for The Kinks in the K.B...

  • Outlandish
    Outlandish
    Outlandish is a multi-award–winning hip-hop group based in Denmark. Formed in 1997, it consists of Isam Bachiri , Waqas Ali Qadri , and Lenny Martinez . All three members are religious, with Isam and Waqas being Muslims and Lenny being Catholic...

  • Aage Oxenvad
    Aage Oxenvad
    Aage Oxenvad was a Danish clarinetist who played in the Royal Danish Orchestra from 1909. Carl Nielsen wrote his Clarinet Concerto for Oxenvad who played at its premiere in 1928.-Early life:...

     (1884–1944), clarinetist

P

  • Parzival
    Parzival (band)
    Parzival is a band from Copenhagen, Denmark. Their musical style is somewhat reminiscent of that of Slovenian pioneers Laibach, but differs from it in that it has a less electronic sound, and incorporates elements of medieval music, Gregorian chants, and an overall epic feel...

  • Michala Petri
    Michala Petri
    Michala Petri is a Danish recorder player. Petri is sought after as a soloist with many noted orchestras, including the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. She has released 34 recordings, toured extensively over four continents, and has had dozens of pieces written for her...

    , born 1958, recorder player
  • Press Play on Tape
  • Pretty Maids
    Pretty Maids
    Pretty Maids are a Danish heavy metal band from Horsens, Denmark. Formed in 1981 by Ronnie Atkins and Ken Hammer. Their sound and music can be described as classic guitar-laden heavy rock with a strong emphasis on melodic elements like vocals and keyboards....

  • Psyched Up Janis
    Psyched Up Janis
    Psyched Up Janis was a Danish rock band started by Sune Rose Wagner, now a member of The Raveonettes, Martin Bjerregaard, and Jakob Jørgensen.-Biography:...

  • Pyramaze
    Pyramaze
    Pyramaze is a Danish/American progressive power metal band.-Biography:Pyramaze was formed in 2001 by guitarist Michael Kammeyer. Next to join were fellow Danes drummer Morten Sørensen and bassist Niels Kvist. American keyboardist Jonah Weingarten, who originally met Kammeyer over the Internet,...


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  • Lina Rafn
    Lina Rafn
    Lina Rafn Sørensen , known professionally as Lina Rafn is a Danish female singer, songwriter and producer and is currently active in the band Infernal...

  • Søren Nystrøm Rasted
    Søren Nystrøm Rasted
    Søren Nystrøm Rasted is a Danish musician, producer and songwriter. He plays keyboard, guitar and sings backing vocals...

    , composer
  • Simon Ravn
    Simon Ravn
    Simon Ravn is a composer who composes orchestral music for film, television and video games.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he wrote music in the MOD format under the pseudonym "Melomaniac", and scored music for the Amiga game, Foundation.- Video games :*Genetic Species *1999 Foundation *2004 ...

    , film composer
  • Raunchy
  • The Raveonettes
    The Raveonettes
    The Raveonettes are a Danish indie rock duo, consisting of Sune Rose Wagner on guitar, instruments, and vocals, and Sharin Foo on bass, guitar and vocals...

  • Bryan Rice
    Bryan Rice
    Brian Risberg Clausen, better known as Bryan Rice , is a Danish pop singer and songwriter.His debut single "No Promises" was a huge hit in Denmark in the fall of 2005/spring of 2006. The song was covered and released by British X Factor winner Shayne Ward reaching #2 in the official U.K...

  • Ridin' Thumb
    Ridin' Thumb
    Ridin' Thumb is a Danish soul/funk orchestra formed in 1989 by the two guitarists Martin Finding og Nicolai Halberg. In 1997 Jonas Winge Leisner replaced Niels H.P. as the primary vocalist. Their style can be compared to artists such as Tower of Power and Jamiroquai. To date the group has released...

  • Remee
    Remee
    Remee is a Danish producer, composer and song writer.-Career:Throughout his career Remee has written more than 60 hits around the world and has sold over 25 million records...

    , composer
  • Rollo & King
    Rollo & King
    Rollo & King is a Danish group, formed by Søren Poppe and Stefan Nielsen. The two men named themselves after two dog names. They topped the charts with their very first album "Midt i en løbetid" which stayed in the charts for 13 weeks in 2000-2001....

  • Rune RK
    Rune RK
    Rune Reilly Kølsch , also known as Rune RK, Rune and Enur, is a record producer and DJ from Denmark. Together with his half-brother Johannes Torpe they make up the musical production team Artificial Funk.-Career:...

  • Rasmus Seebach
    Rasmus Seebach
    Rasmus Seebach is a Danish singer-songwriter and record producer who had his debut with the Danish language single "Engel" in April 2009....

  • Rasmus Kjær Ravn

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  • Safri Duo
    Safri Duo
    Safri Duo is a Danish percussion duo composed of Uffe Savery and Morten Friis . Initially classically oriented, by 1999 they were discovered by a label executive working on classical music. After being signed, a track mixing both tribal sound and modern electronica was set to be released in 2000...

  • Sanne Salomonsen
    Sanne Salomonsen
    Sanne Salomonsen is a notable Danish singer. She has been performing since 1975, and various songs by her band Sneakers were on the charts continuously from 1979 to 1985...

  • Savage Rose
  • Saybia
    Saybia
    -History:From 1998 to 2000 they privately recorded three EPs before signing to EMI in the spring of 2001. In the summer EMI released the 6 track EP "Saybia". In September 2001 the band went to Sweden to record their debut album The Second You Sleep...

  • Morten Schjolin
    Morten Schjolin
    Morten Schjolin is a Danish music producer and composer, now living in United Kingdom.- Early career :He began his musical career with the band Harlot, where the later-to-be famous TV presenter, Alex Nyborg Madsen, was the vocalist....

    , composer
  • Sebastian
  • Tommy Seebach
    Tommy Seebach
    Tommy Seebach , born Tommy Seebach Mortensen in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a popular Danish singer, composer, organist, pianist and producer. He is best known as front man of Sir Henry and his Butlers and for numerous contributions to the Danish version of the Eurovision Song contest, Dansk Melodi...

  • Sidsel Ben Semmane
    Sidsel Ben Semmane
    Sidsel Ben Semmane is a Danish musician who represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens on May 20, 2006. She won the chance to sing on the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix on February 11, 2006 with the song "Twist of Love", written by Niels Drevsholt, which she later went onto sing at the...

  • Shu-Bi-Dua
    Shu-Bi-Dua
    Shu•bi•dua or Shu-bi-dua is a Danish pop group which was formed in 1973 in Copenhagen with an expansion of the group Passport. Throughout their 30-year history, Shu-bi-dua has changed its lineup many times, however its lead singer Michael Bundesen has been with the band throughout, except...

  • Spleen United
    Spleen United
    Spleen United is a Danish electro-rock band consisted of the brothers Bjarke and Gaute Niemann , Kasper Nørlund , Rune Wehner and Janus Nevel Ringsted . It was formed in Århus, Denmark in 2002....

  • S.O.A.P.
    S.O.A.P.
    S.O.A.P. were a Danish pop music duo made up of sisters, Heidi and Saseline Sørensen. Their music was primarily written and produced by Holger Lagerfeldt and Remee Zhivago for Sony Music Entertainment Denmark. They are best known for their single, "This Is How We Party."They were selected by the...

  • Sort Sol
    Sort Sol
    Sort Sol is a pioneer rock band from Copenhagen, Denmark. The band was formed in 1977 as a punk rock outfit, originally under the name Sods. Despite drastic changes in the group's line-up, their current name, which translates to English as black sun, has remained with them since the early 1980s...

  • Superheroes
    Superheroes (band)
    Superheroes was a Danish pop/rock band that split up in 2006.- Members :*Thomas Troelsen *Thomas Christensen *Tanja Simonsen *Lars Hovendahl *Bjarke Staun *Asger Tarpgaard...

  • Jakob Sveistrup
    Jakob Sveistrup
    Jakob Sveistrup is a Danish singer. He entered the Danish music scene in 2003 as a competitor in the Danish televised talent contest Stjerne for en aften . He made it to the finals. Unusually, Sveistrup is not a professional singer — by day he teaches autistic children...

  • Bent Sørensen
    Bent Sørensen
    Bent Sørensen is a Danish composer.Sørensen studied composition with Ib Nørholm at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and with Per Nørgård at the Jutland Music Academy....


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  • Tiggy
    Tiggy
    Tiggy is a Danish Bubblegum Dance/Eurodance artist whose music is energetic, bouncy and sugar-coated. She is perhaps best known for her remix of the Sandy Fox song "Freckles" in DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6thMIX, originally the English version of the song "Sobakasu" by Judy and Mary from the...

  • Toy-Box
    Toy-Box
    Toy-Box was a Danish pop group, consisting of vocalists Anila Mirza and Amir El-Falaki. Mirza was born on October 8, 1974 in Hillerød, Denmark to a half-Pakistani, half-Iranian mother, and a Parsi father. El-Falaki was born August 12, 1973 in Copenhagen, Denmark to Moroccan parents...

  • Jette Torp
    Jette Torp
    Jette Torp is a Danish singer and entertainer. Born in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, the family moved to Ry near Skanderborg in Jutland when she was five years old.She studied music first at Århus University then at Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus....

  • Thomas Troelsen
    Thomas Troelsen
    Thomas Troelsen is a composer and producer from Denmark.- History :Thomas Troelsen is a singer, songwriter, and producer responsible for chart-topping hits, like Junior Senior's "Move Your Feet", Monrose's "Hot Summer", PRIVATE's "My Secret Lover", and BoA’s “Eat You Up." He was also the lead...

  • TV-2
    TV-2 (band)
    TV-2 , is a Danish pop rock band group formed in 1981 in Aarhus. The group is composed of Steffen Brandt , Hans Erik Lerchenfeld , Georg Olesen , and Sven Gaul...

  • Mike Tramp
    Mike Tramp
    Mike Tramp is a Danish singer and songwriter who is best known for his work with the hard rock bands White Lion and Freak of Nature...

    , (1961-), singer in White Lion
    White Lion
    White Lion is an American/Danish hard rock/heavy metal band that was formed in New York City in 1983 by Danish vocalist Mike Tramp and American guitarist Vito Bratta. Mainly active in the 1980s and early 1990s, the band achieved double platinum status with their #8 hit "Wait" and #3 hit "When the...

  • Trentemøller
    Trentemøller
    Anders Trentemøller is a Danish electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Copenhagen, Denmark.-History:...


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  • Sune Rose Wagner
    Sune Rose Wagner
    Sune Rose Wagner is the songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist for noise pop duo, The Raveonettes. Previously, he was part of the band Psyched Up Janis. He currently resides in NYC....

  • Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse
    Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse
    Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse was a Danish composer.Weyse was born at Altona, now in German territory, but Danish at the time the composer was born. He studied music with Johann Abraham Peter Schulz in Copenhagen...

  • Whigfield
    Whigfield
    Sannie Charlotte Carlson , best known as Whigfield and also as Naan, is a Danish singer best known for the song "Saturday Night", a hugely popular single during the summer of 1994.-Biography:...

  • Birthe Wilke
    Birthe Wilke
    Birthe Wilke is a popular Danish singer. She grew up in a musical family in Copenhagen's Vesterbro area.When she was in her teens, she won a talent competition at the National Scala Theatre in Copenhagen, sang as soloist with Bruno Henriksen's Orchestra at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, made her...

  • Gustav Winckler
    Gustav Winckler
    Gustav Frands Wilzeck Winckler was a popular Danish singer, composer and music publisher. He grew up in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen and started his career as a decorator....

  • Lars Winther
    Lars Winther
    Lars Winther is a Danish pianist, composer, producer and arranger. He released the debut-album LIVE_2005 with Lars Winther Trio in 2005, followed by the double-disc CD/DVD Nordic By Nature in 2007 — receiving many positive reviews for the latter, as well as distribution throughout Europe and in...


Philosophers

  • N.F.S. Grundtvig, educationalist, philosopher and social reformer.
  • Harald Høffding
    Harald Høffding
    Harald Høffding was a Danish philosopher.-Life:Born and educated in Copenhagen, he became a schoolmaster, and ultimately in 1883 a professor at the University of Copenhagen...

    , (1843–1931)
  • Søren Kierkegaard
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel...

    , (1813–1855), philosopher
  • Knud Ejler Løgstrup
    Knud Ejler Løgstrup
    Knud Ejler Løgstrup was a Danish philosopher and theologian.Løgstrup was an ethical intuitionist who was critical of rule-based ethics of the type advocated by Immanuel Kant...

    , Christian philosopher
    Christian philosophy
    Christian philosophy may refer to any development in philosophy that is characterised by coming from a Christian tradition.- Origins of Christian philosophy :...

  • Johannes Sløk
    Johannes Sløk
    Johannes Sløk was a Danish philosopher, Professor at the University of Aarhus and founder of "Idéhistorie" , an interdisciplinary discipline mainly about writings pertaining to the ideas of Western culture from Antiquity until today...

     Christian philosopher
    Christian philosophy
    Christian philosophy may refer to any development in philosophy that is characterised by coming from a Christian tradition.- Origins of Christian philosophy :...

     and translator of Shakespeare
  • Martinus Thomsen
    Martinus Thomsen
    Martinus Thomsen, referred to as Martinus was a Danish writer and mystic.Thomsen was born to a poor family and had a simple education. He worked as a dairyman....

    , (1890–1981), referred to as Martinus, writer and mystic

Photographers

  • Mads Alstrup
    Mads Alstrup
    Mads Alstrup was the first Danish portrait photographer with his own studio. For 16 years, he produced an enormous number of daguerreotypes, in Copenhagen and the provinces, before his business suffered from the financial crisis of 1857. He moved to Sweden in 1858 and continued to take portraits...

    , (1808–1876), first Danish photographer with own studio
  • Pietro Boyesen
    Pietro Boyesen
    Pietro Thyge Boyesen was a Danish photographer who spent most of his professional life in Rome. He is remembered in particular for his portraits of Scandinavians visiting Rome, many of which are now in the Royal Library in Copenhagen....

    , (1819–1882), photographer in Rome
  • Per Bak Jensen
    Per Bak Jensen
    Per Bak Jensen , one of Denmark's leading artistic photographers, is a pioneer of modern landscape photography. His desolate images of nature or industrial sites often convey an almost metaphysical impression. His unusual subjects include corn stubble, twigs in the snow or a few isolated rocks...

    , (b. 1949), influential photographer with an innovative artistic landscape style
  • Morten Bo
    Morten Bo
    Morten Bo , is a Danish photographer who has specialized in documentary work with a social impact. His 15 travelling exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s proved quite controversial. In the 1980s, he turned to more abstract photography with lines, contours and contrasts of light and shade...

    , (b. 1945), influential photographer, author of many photo books
  • Krass Clement
    Krass Clement
    Krass Clement Kay Christensen is a Danish photographer who has specialized in documentary work. He graduated as a film director in Copenhagen but soon turned to still photography, publishing his first book Skygger af øjeblikke in 1978. He has since become an active documentary photographer,...

    , (b. 1946), specializing in the photo-essay style
  • Peter Faber
    Peter Faber (Danish telegraph specialist)
    Peter Christian Frederik Faber was a Danish telegraphy pioneer. In Denmark, he is remembered first and foremost for his songwriting...

    , (1810–1877), took oldest photo on record
  • Frederikke Federspiel
    Frederikke Federspiel
    Frederikke Jakobine Federspiel was the first female photographer to practice in Denmark. For many years, she ran her own photographic studio in Aalborg, always keeping abreast of the latest developments...

    , (1839–1913), first female photographer to practice in Denmark
  • Kristen Feilberg
    Kristen Feilberg
    Kristen Feilberg or Christen Schjellerup Feilberg was an early Danish photographer who is known mainly for his images captured far beyond the borders of Denmark. From the 1860s until the 1890s, Feilberg participated in expeditions to Sumatra, Singapore, and Penang...

     (1839–1919), remembered for many early photographs in Dutch East Indies
  • Jens Fink-Jensen
    Jens Fink-Jensen
    Jens Fink-Jensen is a Danish poet, author, photographer, composer and architect.-Biography:Jens Fink-Jensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. From 1968 to 1972 Fink-Jensen attended school in Store Heddinge where he was a classmate with the Danish poet Søren Ulrik Thomsen...

    , (b. 1956), contemporary artistic photographer
  • Jan Grarup
    Jan Grarup
    Jan Grarup is a Danish photojournalist who has worked both as a staff photographer and as a freelance, specializing in war and conflict photography. He has won many prizes including the World Press Photo award for his coverage of the war in Kosovo....

    , (b. 1968), award winning press photographer specializing in war and conflict
  • Ludvig Grundtvig
    Ludvig Grundtvig
    Ludvig Grundtvig was a Danish photographer and portrait painter. He based many of his later paintings on his own photographs.-Early life:Born in Nykøbing Falster, Grundtvig studied at the Danish Academy from 1851 to 1857, winning two awards....

    , (1836–1901), photographer and portrait painter
  • Georg Emil Hansen
    Georg Emil Hansen
    Georg Emil Hansen was one of Denmark's pioneering photographers in the second half of the 19th century. He had his own studio in Copenhagen and later became a successful court photographer.-Early life:...

    , (1833–1891), pioneering court photographer
  • Christian Hedemann
    Christian Hedemann
    Christian Jacob Hedemann was a Danish mechanical engineer who settled in Hawaii in 1878 where he worked at the Hana Sugar Plantation and the Honolulu Iron Works. He is however remembered primarily as an avid amateur photographer who helped found the Hawaiian Camera Club...

     (1852–1932), remembered for his early photographs of Hawaii
  • Keld Helmer-Petersen
    Keld Helmer-Petersen
    Keld Helmer-Petersen is a Danish photographer who achieved his international breakthrough in 1948 when he published 122 Farvefotografier/122 Colour Photographs, a collection of experiments with shapes inspired by Albert Renger-Patzsch and the poetic realism of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement...

    , (b. 1920), pioneer in colour photography in the 1940s
  • Jesper Høm
    Jesper Høm
    Ib Jesper Brieghel Høm was a Danish photographer and film director. After opening his own studio in Copenhagen, he travelled widely, finally working for Agence VISA in Paris. Jesper Høm was a co-founder of Copenhagen's Delta Photos, an organization designed to inspire and assist press photographers...

    , (1931–2000), influential press photographer and film director
  • Jacob Holdt
    Jacob Holdt
    Jacob Holdt is a Danish photographer, writer and lecturer. His mammoth work, American Pictures, gained international fame in 1977 for its effective photographic revelations about the hardships of America's lower classes....

    , (b. 1947), using photography to encourage social reform
  • Kirsten Klein
    Kirsten Klein
    Kirsten Klein is a Danish photographer who since the mid-1970s has lived on the island of Mors. She has become one of Denmark's foremost landscape photographers, developing a highly characteristic, somewhat melancholic style, frequently achieved by employing older photographic techniques.-Early...

    , (b. 1945), specializing in black-and-white landscapes
  • Astrid Kruse Jensen
    Astrid Kruse Jensen
    Astrid Kruse Jensen is a Danish photographer who specializes in artistic night photography where she brings out the mysteriously unreal, working on the play between artificial light and darkness...

    , (b. 1975), specializing in night photography with an unreal dimension
  • Claus Bjørn Larsen
    Claus Bjørn Larsen
    Claus Bjørn Larsen is an award-winning Danish press photographer, now working as a freelance. He gained special recognition in 2000 when he won the World Press Photo of the Year competition for his work in Kosovo.-Early life:...

    , (b. 1963), award-winning press photographer
  • Anton Melbye
    Anton Melbye
    Daniel Hermann Anton Melbye was a Danish painter. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and was a private student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg...

    , (1818–1875), artist using photography as an aid to painting
  • Israel B. Melchior
    Israel B. Melchior
    Israel Berendt Melchior was a Danish engineer, manufacturer and amateur photographer. He is remembered in particular for the photographs he took of Hans Christian Andersen.-Career:Born on 12 May 1827, Melchior was educated as a civil engineer...

     (1827–1893), amateur photographer who photographed Hans Christian Andersen
  • Rigmor Mydtskov
    Rigmor Mydtskov
    Rigmor Mydtskov was a Danish court photographer who is remembered for her portraits of artists performing in Danish theatres but especially for her many portraits of Queen Margrethe and other members of the Danish royal family....

    , (1925–2010), theatre photography and court photographer for Queen Margrethe
  • Viggo Rivad
    Viggo Rivad
    Viggo Rivad is a Danish photographer who started as an autodidact in 1946 and went on to win numerous competitions in the 1950s and 1960s. Around 1960, he adopted his so-called essay approach resulting in series of related photographs such as Et farvel and Laurits...

    , (b. 1922), used photographic essays to portray ordinary citizens
  • Leif Schiller
    Leif Schiller
    Leif Schiller was a Danish-born fashion and commercial photographer. During his working career, Schiller worked with supermodels Helena Christensen, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour and many more...

    , (1939-2007), photographer
  • Lars Schwander
    Lars Schwander
    Lars Schwander is a Danish photographer and gallerist. As a photographer he is most known for his portraits of international artists. In 1996 he founded Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, an exhibition space for art photography....

    , (b. 1957), portraits of international artists
  • Jacob Aue Sobol
    Jacob Aue Sobol
    Jacob Aue Sobol is a Danish photographer. He has worked around the world, including in East Greenland, Guatemala, Tokyo, Bangkok and Copenhagen.Since 2007 Sobol has been a nominee at Magnum Photos...

    , (b. 1976), award-winning collections from Greenland, Guatemala and Tokyo
  • Mary Steen
    Mary Steen
    Mary Dorothea Frederica Steen was a Danish photographer and feminist. At the age of 28, she opened a studio in Copenhagen where she specialized in indoor photography. She later became Denmark's first female court photographer, working not only with the Danish royals but, at the invitation of...

    , (1856–1939), pioneer of indoor photography, including royalty
  • Rudolph Striegler
    Rudolph Striegler
    Rudolph Striegler was one of Denmark's early photographers, specialising in portrait photography.Trained as a picture-framer, Strieger opened Odense's first daguerreotype studio in 1846. With his experience of gold-plating, he was able to combine photography with ornate framing...

    , (1816–1876), pioneering portrait photography
  • Heinrich Tønnies
    Heinrich Tønnies
    Johan Georg Heinrich Ludwig Tønnies was an early German-Danish photographer who had a studio in Aalborg, Denmark.-Biography:Born in Grünenplan, Germany, he was trained as a glass painter and cutter....

    , (1825–1903), early studio in Aalborg, portraits and landscapes
  • Sigvart Werner
    Sigvart Werner
    Sigvart Werner was a Danish amateur photographer who gained fame through his artistic landscape photographs, published in book form....

    , (1872–1959), amateur who gained fame from Danish landscapes in book form
  • Mary Willumsen
    Mary Willumsen
    Mary Birgitte Cecilie Magdalene Willumsen was a Danish photographer who, as early as 1916, sold postcards with photographs of women in scanty clothing or nude postures taken at Copenhagen's Helgoland beach establishment. She discontinued her work when the police began to show interest in kiosks...

    , (1884–1961), sold postcards of scantily-dressed women from 1916
  • Benedicte Wrensted
    Benedicte Wrensted
    Benedicte Marie Wrensted was a notable Danish-American photographer, who emigrated to the United States after running a studio for a few years in Horsens, Denmark. She is remembered above all for the many photographs she took of the Shoshone native people in Idaho.-Early life:Benedicte Wrensted...

    , (1859–1949), took photographs of native Americans in Idaho

Politicians

  • Yildiz Akdogan
    Yildiz Akdogan
    Yildiz Akdogan is a Turkish Danish politician. She was a member of the Folketing—the parliament of Denmark—for the Social Democrats between 2007 and 2011....

    , politician (Social Democrats
    Social Democrats (Denmark)
    The Social Democrats , is a Danish political party committed to the political ideology of social democracy. It is the major coalition partner in Denmark's government since the 2011 parliamentary election, and party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the current Prime Minister of Denmark...

    )
  • Svend Auken
    Svend Auken
    Svend Gunnarsen Auken was a Danish politician. He represented the Social Democrats as a member of the Danish parliament from 1971 until his death....

    ,1943–2009, politician Social Democrats
    Social Democrats (Denmark)
    The Social Democrats , is a Danish political party committed to the political ideology of social democracy. It is the major coalition partner in Denmark's government since the 2011 parliamentary election, and party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the current Prime Minister of Denmark...

  • Bendt Bendtsen
    Bendt Bendtsen
    Bendt Bendtsen is a Danish Member of the European Parliament. He was the leader of the Conservative People's Party from 1999 to 2008. He was the Minister of Trade and Industry from 2001 to 2008 under Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen....

    , politician (Konservative Folkeparti)
  • Klaus Bondam
    Klaus Bondam
    Klaus Bondam is a Danish actor and politician.Klaus Bondam got his breakthrough in the movie Festen and has starred in the series Langt fra Las Vegas as the sexually driven boss Buckingham...

    , politician, actor (Det Radikale Venstre
    Det Radikale Venstre
    The Danish Social Liberal Party is a social liberal political party in Denmark. The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.-Origin:...

    )
  • Kristian Thulesen Dahl
    Kristian Thulesen Dahl
    Kristian Thulesen Dahl has been a member of the Folketing for Danish People's Party since 1994. He is the party's spokesman on finance. He is Knight of the Dannebrog.-External links:...

    , politician (Dansk Folkeparti)
  • Lene Espersen
    Lene Espersen
    Lene Espersen is a Danish politician and member of parliament who has been Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs since 23 February 2010 and was leader of the Conservative People's Party and Deputy Prime Minister from 9 September 2008 to 13 January 2011...

    , politician (Konservative Folkeparti)
  • Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup
    Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup
    Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, , was a Danish politician, member of the Højre party. He was Interior Minister from 1865 to 1869 in the Cabinet of Frijs and Council President as well as Finance Minister from 1875 to 1894 as the leader of the Cabinet of Estrup.-Biography:Estrup was son of the...

    , (1825–1913), Council President
  • Mette Frederiksen
    Mette Frederiksen
    Mette Frederiksen , is a Danish Social Democrat politician. She has been a member of the Folketing—the parliament of Denmark—since 2001. She became current Minister of Employment of Denmark on October 3, 2011....

    , politician (Social Democrats
    Social Democrats (Denmark)
    The Social Democrats , is a Danish political party committed to the political ideology of social democracy. It is the major coalition partner in Denmark's government since the 2011 parliamentary election, and party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the current Prime Minister of Denmark...

    )
  • Louise Frevert
    Louise Frevert
    Louise Frevert is a former member of the Danish parliament, born in Frederiksberg. She was elected as member of parliament for the Danish People's Party in the 2001 election and reelected in 2005. She left the party in 2007, and later joined the Centre Democrats, which did not stand for reelection...

    , politician (No political party)
  • Christopher Ilfeldt, politician (Socialistisk Folkeparti)
  • Marianne Jelved
    Marianne Jelved
    Marianne Bruus Jelved née Hirsbro is a Danish politician, and is educated as a teacher and in the theory of education...

    , politician (Det Radikale Venstre
    Det Radikale Venstre
    The Danish Social Liberal Party is a social liberal political party in Denmark. The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.-Origin:...

    )
  • Frank Jensen
    Frank Jensen
    Frank Jensen is a Danish politician, member of the Danish Social Democrats, and has been Lord Mayor of Copenhagen since 1 January 2010...

    , politician (Social Democrats
    Social Democrats (Denmark)
    The Social Democrats , is a Danish political party committed to the political ideology of social democracy. It is the major coalition partner in Denmark's government since the 2011 parliamentary election, and party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the current Prime Minister of Denmark...

    ), Lord Mayor of Copenhagen
    Copenhagen
    Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

  • Anker Jørgensen
    Anker Jørgensen
    Anker Jørgensen is a former Danish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. He led or represented the Social Democratic Party for well over 30 years.-Early political and personal life:...

    , politician, Danish prime minister 1972 - 1982 (Social Democrats)
  • Naser Khader
    Naser Khader
    Naser Khader is Danish-Syrian and a former member of the Parliament of Denmark for the Conservative Party. As a member of Parliament, he has represented both Social Liberal Party and Liberal Alliance, the latter as founding leader, until January 5, 2009...

    , politician (Konservative Folkeparti)
  • Pia Kjærsgaard
    Pia Kjærsgaard
    Pia Merete Kjærsgaard is a Danish politician. She is a co-founder and current leader of the Danish People's Party, a nativist, national conservative political party in Denmark...

    , politician (Dansk Folkeparti)
  • Mogens Lykketoft
    Mogens Lykketoft
    Mogens Lykketoft is a Danish politician, former government minister and current Speaker of the Folketing. In December 2002 he succeeded former Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen as leader of the Social Democratic party ....

    , politician (Social Democrats
    Social Democrats (Denmark)
    The Social Democrats , is a Danish political party committed to the political ideology of social democracy. It is the major coalition partner in Denmark's government since the 2011 parliamentary election, and party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the current Prime Minister of Denmark...

    )
  • Brian Mikkelsen
    Brian Mikkelsen
    Brian Arthur Mikkelsen is a Danish politician. He is a member of the Conservative People's Party, and has been a member of parliament since 21 September 1994....

    , politician (Konservative Folkeparti)
  • Per Stig Møller
    Per Stig Møller
    Per Stig Møller was Culture Minister of Denmark. He has been a member of Folketinget for the Conservative People's Party since 1984, and was Minister for the Environment from December 18, 1990 to January 24, 1993 as part of the Cabinet of Poul Schlüter IV and Foreign Minister from November 27,...

    , politician (Konservative Folkeparti)
  • Holger K. Nielsen
    Holger K. Nielsen
    Holger Kirkholm Nielsen, known as Holger K. Nielsen for short, is a Danish politician, member of the Danish Folketinget parliament for the Socialist People's Party...

    , policitian (Socialistisk Folkeparti)
  • Anders Fogh Rasmussen
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a Danish politician, and the 12th and current Secretary General of NATO. Rasmussen served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 27 November 2001 to 5 April 2009....

    , Danish prime minister 2001 -2009 (Venstre
    Venstre (Denmark)
    VenstreThe party name is officially not translated into any other language, but is in English often referred to as the Liberal Party. Similar rules apply for the name of the party's youth wing Venstres Ungdom. , full name Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti , is the largest political party in Denmark...

    )
  • Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
    Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
    Poul Nyrup Rasmussen , informally Poul Nyrup, born 15 June 1943), was Prime Minister of Denmark from 25 January 1993 to 27 November 2001 and is currently President of the Party of European Socialists . He was the leader of the governing Social Democrats from 1992 to 2002...

    , politician, Danish prime minister 1993 - 2001 (Social Democrats
    Social Democrats (Denmark)
    The Social Democrats , is a Danish political party committed to the political ideology of social democracy. It is the major coalition partner in Denmark's government since the 2011 parliamentary election, and party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the current Prime Minister of Denmark...

    )
  • Lars Løkke Rasmussen
    Lars Løkke Rasmussen
    Lars Løkke Rasmussen is a Danish politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from April 2009 to October 2011. He is the leader of the centre-right liberal party, Venstre....

    , politician, Danish prime minister 2009 - 2011 (Venstre
    Venstre (Denmark)
    VenstreThe party name is officially not translated into any other language, but is in English often referred to as the Liberal Party. Similar rules apply for the name of the party's youth wing Venstres Ungdom. , full name Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti , is the largest political party in Denmark...

    )
  • Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil
    Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil
    Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil is a former member of Folketinget for the Red-Green Alliance.-Politics and political career:...

    , politician (Social Democrats
    Social Democrats (Denmark)
    The Social Democrats , is a Danish political party committed to the political ideology of social democracy. It is the major coalition partner in Denmark's government since the 2011 parliamentary election, and party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the current Prime Minister of Denmark...

    )
  • Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen
    Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen
    Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen is a member of the Danish parliament for the Red-Green Alliance, and a member of the executive committee of the party...

    , politician (Enhedslisten
    Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)
    The Red-Green Alliance is a socialist political party in Denmark.- History :The party was formed in 1989 as an electoral alliance by three left-wing parties, Left Socialists , Communist Party of Denmark and Socialist Workers Party...

    )
  • Villy Søvndal
    Villy Søvndal
    Villy Søvndal is a Danish politician and Minister for Foreign Affairs in the government of Denmark since October 2011. Søvndal, a member of the Danish Parliament since 1994, is also leader of the Socialist People's Party....

    , politician (Socialistisk Folkeparti)
  • Helle Thorning Schmidt, politician, danish prime minister 2011 - (Social Democrats
    Social Democrats (Denmark)
    The Social Democrats , is a Danish political party committed to the political ideology of social democracy. It is the major coalition partner in Denmark's government since the 2011 parliamentary election, and party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the current Prime Minister of Denmark...

    )
  • Thorvald Stauning
    Thorvald Stauning
    Thorvald August Marinus Stauning was the first social democratic Prime Minister of Denmark. He served as Prime Minister from 1924 to 1926 and again from 1929 until his death in 1942....

    , politician, Danish prime minister 1924 - 26 & 1929 - 42 (Social Democrats
    Social Democrats (Denmark)
    The Social Democrats , is a Danish political party committed to the political ideology of social democracy. It is the major coalition partner in Denmark's government since the 2011 parliamentary election, and party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the current Prime Minister of Denmark...

    )
  • Margrethe Vestager
    Margrethe Vestager
    Margrethe Vestager is a Danish politician representing Det Radikale Venstre. She has been a Member of Parliament since 20 November 2001. On 15 June 2007 she was appointed parliamentary group leader of her party, replacing Marianne Jelved....

    , politician (Det Radikale Venstre)
  • Frank Aaen
    Frank Aaen
    Frank Aaen is a Danish economist and Member of Parliament for Enhedslisten. On 15 March 2006, he suffered a thrombosis, but was back in the Folketing by April. He has been a member of parliament from 1994 to 2001 and 2005 to the present.- References :*. Folketinget....

    , politician (Enhedslisten)

Danish Monarchs

  • Abel of Denmark
    Abel of Denmark
    Abel of Denmark was Duke of Schleswig from 1232 to 1252 and King of Denmark from 1250 until his death in 1252. He was the son of Valdemar II by his second wife, Infanta Berengária of Portugal, and brother to Eric IV and Christopher I....

  • Canute the Great
    Canute the Great
    Cnut the Great , also known as Canute, was a king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden. Though after the death of his heirs within a decade of his own and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, his legacy was largely lost to history, historian Norman F...

     (Knud den Store), King of England, Denmark and Norway
  • Canute III
  • Canute IV
  • Canute V
  • Canute VI
  • Christian I
    Christian I of Denmark
    Christian I was a Danish monarch, king of Denmark , Norway and Sweden , under the Kalmar Union. In Sweden his short tenure as monarch was preceded by regents, Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and Erik Axelsson Tott and succeeded by regent Kettil Karlsson Vasa...

  • Christian II
  • Christian III
  • Christian IV
  • Christian V
  • Christian VI
  • Christian VII
  • Christian VIII
  • Christian IX, King known as the "Father-in-law of Europe"
  • Christian X, King during German occupation
  • Christopher I
    Christopher I of Denmark
    Christopher I was King of Denmark between 1252 and 1259. He was the son of Valdemar II of Denmark by his wife, Infanta Berengária of Portugal. He succeeded his brothers Eric IV Plovpenning and Abel of Denmark on the throne. Christopher was elected King upon the death of his older brother Abel in...

  • Christopher II
    Christopher II of Denmark
    Christopher II was king of Denmark from 1320 to 1326 and again from 1329 until his death. He was son of Eric V. His name is connected with national disaster, as his rule ended in an almost total dissolution of the Danish state.-Biography:Being the brother of King Eric VI, Christopher was a...

  • Christopher of Bavaria
    Christopher of Bavaria
    Christopher of Bavaria or Christopher the Bavarian; as king named Christopher ; Danish and Norwegian: Christoffer af/av Bayern; Swedish Kristofer av Bayern was union king of Denmark , Sweden and Norway .-Biography:He was probably born at Neumarkt in...

  • Eric I
    Eric I of Denmark
    Eric I Evergood , also known as Eric the Good, , was King of Denmark following his brother Olaf I Hunger in 1095. He was a son of king Sweyn II Estridsson, by his wife Gunhild Sveinsdotter, and married Boedil Thurgotsdatter.-Biography:...

  • Eric II
    Eric II of Denmark
    Eric II the Memorable was king of Denmark between 1134 and 1137. Eric was an illegitimate son of Eric I of Denmark, who ruled Denmark from 1095 to 1103. Eric the Memorable rebelled against his uncle Niels of Denmark, and was declared king in 1134. He punished his adversaries severely, and...

  • Eric III
    Eric III of Denmark
    Eric III Lamb was the King of Denmark from 1137 until 1146. He was the grandson of Eric I of Denmark and the nephew of Eric II of Denmark, whom he succeeded on the throne. He abdicated in 1146, as the first and only Danish monarch to do so. His succession led to a period of civil war between...

  • Eric IV
    Eric IV of Denmark
    Eric IV, also known as Eric Ploughpenny , was king of Denmark from 1241 until his death in 1250. He was the son of King Valdemar II of Denmark by his wife, Infanta Berengária of Portugal, and brother to King Abel and King Christopher I.-Early life:...

  • Eric V
    Eric V of Denmark
    Eric V "Klipping" was King of Denmark and son of Christopher I. Until 1264 he ruled under the auspices of his mother, the competent Queen Dowager Margaret Sambiria. Between 1261 and 1262, Eric was a prisoner in Holstein following a military defeat...

  • Eric VI
    Eric VI of Denmark
    Eric VI Menved was King of Denmark and a son of Eric V and Agnes of Brandenburg.He became king in 1286 at age 12, when his father was murdered 20 November by unknown assailants...

  • Eric of Pomerania
    Eric of Pomerania
    Eric of Pomerania KG was King Eric III of Norway Norwegian Eirik, King Eric VII of Denmark , and as Eric King of Sweden...

  • Frederick I
    Frederick I of Denmark
    Frederick I of Denmark and Norway was the King of Denmark and Norway. The name is also spelled Friedrich in German, Frederik in Danish, and Fredrik in Swedish and Norwegian...

  • Frederick II
  • Frederick III
    Frederick III of Denmark
    Frederick III was king of Denmark and Norway from 1648 until his death. He instituted absolute monarchy in Denmark and Norway in 1660, confirmed by law in 1665 as the first in western historiography. He was born the second-eldest son of Christian IV of Denmark and Anne Catherine of Brandenburg...

  • Frederick IV
    Frederick IV of Denmark
    Frederick IV was the king of Denmark and Norway from 1699 until his death. Frederick was the son of King Christian V of Denmark and Norway and Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel .-Foreign affairs:...

  • Frederick V
    Frederick V of Denmark
    Frederick V was king of Denmark and Norway from 1746, son of Christian VI of Denmark and Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.-Early life:...

  • Frederick VI
  • Frederick VII
  • Frederick VIII
  • Frederick IX
  • Gorm the Old
    Gorm the Old
    Gorm the Old , also called Gorm the Sleepy , was the first historically recognized King of Denmark, reigning from to his death . He ruled from Jelling, and made the oldest of the Jelling Stones in honour of his wife Thyra. Gorm was born before 900 and died .-Ancestry and reign:Gorm is the reported...

  • Harald Bluetooth
    Harald I of Denmark
    Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. He died in 985 or 986 having ruled as King of Denmark from around 958 and King of Norway for a few years probably around 970...

  • Harald II
    Harald II of Denmark
    Harald II of Denmark was King of Denmark from 1014 to 1018. He was the eldest son of Sweyn I of Denmark and Gunhilda, and was regent while his father was fighting Ethelred the Unready in England. He inherited the Danish throne in 1014, and held it while his brother, the later king Cnut the Great...

  • Harald III
    Harald III of Denmark
    Harald III Hen was King of Denmark from 1074 to 1080. Harald III was an illegitimate son of Danish king Sweyn II Estridsson, and contested the crown with some of his brothers. He was a peaceful ruler who initiated a number of reforms. Harald was married to his cousin Margareta Hasbjörnsdatter, but...

  • John I
    John I of Denmark
    John, also known as Hans; né Johannes was King of Denmark , Norway and as John II of Sweden in the Kalmar Union, and also Duke of Schleswig and Holstein...

  • Magnus the Great
    Magnus I of Norway
    Magnus I , known as the Good or the Noble, was the King of Norway from 1035 to 1047 and the King of Denmark from 1042 to 1047. He was an illegitimate son of king Olaf II of Norway, but fled with his mother in 1028 when his father was dethroned. In 1035 he returned to Norway and was crowned king at...

  • Margrethe I, (1353–1412), unified
    Kalmar Union
    The Kalmar Union is a historiographical term meaning a series of personal unions that united the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway , and Sweden under a single monarch, though intermittently and with a population...

     the Scandinavia
    Scandinavia
    Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

    n countries.
  • Margrethe II, (1940–), also a writer, painter, translator and illustrator of books.
  • Niels of Denmark
    Niels of Denmark
    Niels of Denmark was King of Denmark from 1104 to 1134, following his brother Eric Evergood, and is presumed to have been the youngest son of king Sweyn II Estridson. Niels actively supported the canonization of Canute IV the Holy, and his secular rule was supported by the clergy...

  • Oluf I
    Olaf I of Denmark
    Olaf I of Denmark was king of Denmark from 1086 to 1095, following the death of his brother Canute IV the Holy. He was a son of king Sweyn II Estridsson, and the third of Sweyn's sons to rule. He married Ingegard, the daughter of Harald III of Norway, but did not have any children...

  • Oluf II
    Olaf II of Denmark
    Olaf Haraldsen was a Danish anti-king who ruled Scania for a few years from 1139. He never won control over the rest of Denmark, and he is not included in the list of Danish monarchs used by the Danish monarchy or Den Store Danske Encyklopædi...

  • Sweyn I
    Sweyn I of Denmark
    Sweyn I Forkbeard was king of Denmark and England, as well as parts of Norway. His name appears as Swegen in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and he is also known in English as Svein, Swein, Sven the Dane, and Tuck.He was a Viking leader and the father of Cnut the Great...

  • Sweyn II
    Sweyn II of Denmark
    Sweyn II Estridsson Ulfsson was the King of Denmark from 1047 to 1074. He was the son of Ulf Jarl and Estrid Svendsdatter. He was married three times, and fathered 20 children or more, including the five future kings Harald III Hen, Canute IV the Saint, Oluf I Hunger, Eric I Evergood and Niels...

  • Sweyn III
    Sweyn III of Denmark
    Sweyn III Grathe was the King of Denmark between 1146 and 1157, in shifting alliances with Canute V and his own cousin Valdemar I. In 1157, the three agreed a tripartition of Denmark...

  • Valdemar I
    Valdemar I of Denmark
    Valdemar I of Denmark , also known as Valdemar the Great, was King of Denmark from 1157 until 1182.-Biography:...

  • Valdemar II
    Valdemar II of Denmark
    Valdemar II , called Valdemar the Victorious or Valdemar the Conqueror , was the King of Denmark from 1202 until his death in 1241. The nickname Sejr is a later invention and was not used during the King's own lifetime...

  • Valdemar III
    Valdemar III of Denmark
    Valdemar III of Denmark was a king of Denmark from 1326 to 1329 briefly when underage, as well as in 1325–26 and from 1330 to 1364 Duke of Schleswig as Valdemar V. He was a rival king set up against the unsuccessful Christopher II and was widely opposed by his many subjects. His term was ended...

  • Valdemar IV Atterdag

Other Danish royalty

  • Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
    Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
    Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark , is the husband of the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II.-Early life:Henrik was born in Talence, Gironde, France...

     (born 1934), Prince Consort of Denmark
  • Princess Marie of Denmark
    Princess Marie of Denmark
    Marie Agathe Odile, Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, is the second wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark.-Early life:...

     (born 1976), Princess of Denmark
  • Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
    Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
    Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, is the wife of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark...

     (born 1972), Crown Princess of Denmark
  • Prince Nikolai of Denmark
    Prince Nikolai of Denmark
    Prince Nikolai William Alexander Frederik of Denmark, Count of Monpezat , is a member of the Danish Royal Family. He is the elder son of Prince Joachim and his former wife, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg...

    , (1999–)
  • Prince Felix of Denmark
    Prince Felix of Denmark
    Prince Felix Henrik Valdemar Christian of Denmark, Count of Monpezat , is a member of the Danish Royal Family. He is the younger son of Prince Joachim and his former wife, Alexandra Christina, Countess of Frederiksborg...

    , (2002–)
  • Prince Christian of Denmark
    Prince Christian of Denmark
    Prince Christian Valdemar Henri John of Denmark, Count of Monpezat , is a member of the Danish Royal Family. He is the elder son of Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, the Australian born Crown Princess Mary. He is a grandson of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and her husband Prince Henrik...

    , (2005–)

Foreign royalty

  • Alexandra of Denmark
    Alexandra of Denmark
    Alexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...

    , Queen of the United Kingdom, daughter of Christian IX
    Christian IX of Denmark
    Christian IX was King of Denmark from 16 November 1863 to 29 January 1906.Growing up as a prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg which had ruled Denmark since 1448, Christian was originally not in the immediate line of succession to the Danish...

  • Anne of Denmark
    Anne of Denmark
    Anne of Denmark was queen consort of Scotland, England, and Ireland as the wife of King James VI and I.The second daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark, Anne married James in 1589 at the age of fourteen and bore him three children who survived infancy, including the future Charles I...

     (1574–1619), Queen of Scotland, England and Ireland, daughter of Frederick II
    Frederick II of Denmark
    Frederick II was King of Denmark and Norway and duke of Schleswig from 1559 until his death.-King of Denmark:Frederick II was the son of King Christian III of Denmark and Norway and Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg. Frederick II stands as the typical renaissance ruler of Denmark. Unlike his father, he...

  • Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
    Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
    Queen Anne-Marie of Greece is the wife of former King Constantine II of Greece, who was deposed in referendums in 1973 and in 1974. Her title "Queen of Greece" is not recognized under the terms of the republican Constitution of Greece...

     (born 1946), daughter of Frederick IX
    Frederick IX of Denmark
    Frederick IX was King of Denmark from 20 April 1947 until his death on 14 January 1972....

  • George I of Greece
    George I of Greece
    George I was King of Greece from 1863 to 1913. Originally a Danish prince, George was only 17 years old when he was elected king by the Greek National Assembly, which had deposed the former king Otto. His nomination was both suggested and supported by the Great Powers...

    , King of Greece, son of Christian IX
    Christian IX of Denmark
    Christian IX was King of Denmark from 16 November 1863 to 29 January 1906.Growing up as a prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg which had ruled Denmark since 1448, Christian was originally not in the immediate line of succession to the Danish...

  • Ingeborg of Denmark
    Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France
    Ingeborg was a Danish-born queen consort of France.She was a daughter of Valdemar I of Denmark and Sofia of Minsk. Her maternal grandparents were Volodar of Minsk and Richeza of Poland...

     (1175–1238), Queen of France, daughter of Valdemar I of Denmark
    Valdemar I of Denmark
    Valdemar I of Denmark , also known as Valdemar the Great, was King of Denmark from 1157 until 1182.-Biography:...

  • Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, daughter of Christian IX
    Christian IX of Denmark
    Christian IX was King of Denmark from 16 November 1863 to 29 January 1906.Growing up as a prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg which had ruled Denmark since 1448, Christian was originally not in the immediate line of succession to the Danish...


Science

  • Ove Arup
    Ove Arup
    Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE known as Ove Arup, was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer and generally considered to be one of the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time...

    , (1895–1988) Danish-born leading engineer, founder of Arup
    Arup
    Arup is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm is present in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe and the...

  • Harald Bohr
    Harald Bohr
    Harald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and football player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr...

    , (1887–1951), mathematician
  • Niels Bohr
    Niels Bohr
    Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...

    , (1885–1962), physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Aage Bohr, (1922–2009), physicist
    Physicist
    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

     and Nobel Prize laureate
  • A. K. Erlang
    Agner Krarup Erlang
    Agner Krarup Erlang was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory....

    , engineer, industrial and systems engineer
  • Thomas Fincke
    Thomas Fincke
    Thomas Fincke was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years.Fincke was born in Flensburg, Schleswig and died in Copenhagen...

    , (1561–1656), mathematician
  • Bent Flyvbjerg
    Bent Flyvbjerg
    Bent Flyvbjerg is the first Chair and BT Professor of Major Programme Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School and is Founding Director of the University's BT Centre for Major Programme Management. He was previously Professor of Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark and Chair of...

    , geographer and theorist of phronetic social science
    Phronetic social science
    Phronetic social science is an approach to the study of social – including political and economic – phenomena based on a contemporary interpretation of the Aristotelian concept phronesis, variously translated as practical judgment, common sense, or prudence. Phronesis is the intellectual virtue...

  • Jørgen Pedersen Gram
    Jørgen Pedersen Gram
    Jørgen Pedersen Gram was a Danish actuary and mathematician who was born in Nustrup, Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark....

  • Peter Wilhelm Lund
    Peter Wilhelm Lund
    Peter Wilhelm Lund was a Danish paleontologist, zoologist, archeologist and who spent most of his life working and living in Brazil...

     (1801–1880). paleontologist and zologist, founder of Brazilian paleontology
  • Lene Hau
    Lene Hau
    Lene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish physicist. In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a superfluid, succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to momentarily stop a beam.In 1989, Hau accepted a two-year appointment as a postdoctoral...

    , (1959–), physicist and professor at Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Piet Hein
    Piet Hein (Denmark)
    Piet Hein was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone"...

    , (1905–1996), poet and designer
  • Georg Mohr
    Georg Mohr
    Jørgen Mohr was a Danish mathematician. He travelled in the Netherlands, France, and England.Mohr was born in Copenhagen...

    , (1640–1697), mathematician
  • Ebbe Nielsen (1950–2001), entomologist
  • Jakob Nielsen
    Jakob Nielsen (mathematician)
    Jakob Nielsen was a Danish mathematician known for his work on automorphisms of surfaces. He was born in the village Mjels on the island of Als in North Schleswig, in modern day Denmark. His mother died when he was 3, and in 1900 he went to live with his aunt and was enrolled in the Realgymnasium...

    , mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

  • Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld
    Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld
    Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld was a Danish civil engineer who specialized in the theory of steel and reinforced concrete structures. He is now considered to be the founding father of the theory of structures in Denmark....

     (1866–1931), civil engineer
    Civil engineer
    A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...

  • Julius Petersen
    Julius Petersen
    Julius Peter Christian Petersen was a Danish mathematician.-Biography:Petersen's interests in mathematics were manifold .His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs was a fundamental...

    , (1839–1910), mathematician
  • Thorvald Thiele, statistician, discoverer of cumulant
    Cumulant
    In probability theory and statistics, the cumulants κn of a probability distribution are a set of quantities that provide an alternative to the moments of the distribution. The moments determine the cumulants in the sense that any two probability distributions whose moments are identical will have...

    s
  • Caspar Wessel
    Caspar Wessel
    Caspar Wessel was a Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer. In 1799, Wessel was the first person to describe the complex numbers. He was the younger brother of poet and playwright Johan Herman Wessel....

    , (1745–1818), Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

    -Danish mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

  • Rasmus Lerdorf
    Rasmus Lerdorf
    Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He authored the first two versions...

    , PHP
    PHP
    PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

    , (born in Greenland
    Greenland
    Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

    , lives in USA)
  • Peter Naur
    Peter Naur
    Peter Naur is a Danish pioneer in computer science and Turing award winner. His last name is the N in the BNF notation , used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages...

    , (1928–), Algol 60
    ALGOL 60
    ALGOL 60 is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It gave rise to many other programming languages, including BCPL, B, Pascal, Simula, C, and many others. ALGOL 58 introduced code blocks and the begin and end pairs for delimiting them...

     and Backus-Naur form. Turing Award
    Turing Award
    The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...

     winner.
  • Jakob Nielsen
    Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant)
    Jakob Nielsen is a leading web usability consultant. He holds a Ph.D. in human–computer interaction from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen.-Early life and background:...

    , (1957–), Usability
    Usability
    Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object. The object of use can be a software application, website, book, tool, machine, process, or anything a human interacts with. A usability study may be conducted as a primary job function by a usability analyst or as a secondary job...

    , (lives in USA)
  • Christen C. Raunkiær
    Christen C. Raunkiær
    Christen Christensen Raunkiær was a Danish botanist, who was a pioneer of plant ecology. He is mainly remembered for his scheme of plant strategies to survive an unfavourable season and his demonstration that the relative abundance of strategies in floras largely corresponded to the Earth's...

    , (1860–1938), ecologist and botanist, plant life-form
  • Bjarne Stroustrup
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Bjarne Stroustrup ; born December 30, 1950 in Århus, Denmark) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C++ programming language...

    , (1950–), C++
    C++
    C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

    , (lives in USA)
  • Anders Hejlsberg
    Anders Hejlsberg
    Anders Hejlsberg is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools...

    , Turbo Pascal
    Turbo Pascal
    Turbo Pascal is a software development system that includes a compiler and an integrated development environment for the Pascal programming language running on CP/M, CP/M-86, and DOS, developed by Borland under Philippe Kahn's leadership...

    , Delphi language, C#, (lives in USA)
  • David Heinemeier Hansson
    David Heinemeier Hansson
    David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki...

    , Ruby on Rails
    Ruby on Rails
    Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...

    , (lives in USA)
  • Jens Martin Knudsen
    Jens Martin Knudsen
    Jens Martin Knudsen was a Danish astrophysicist. During his scientific career Knudsen authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific articles, and was a long time advisor to NASA.-Early years:...

    , (1930–2005)
  • Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
    Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
    Heinrich Louis d'Arrest was a German astronomer, born in Berlin. His name is sometimes given as Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest....

    , Prussia
    Prussia
    Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...

    n astronomer, died in Copenhagen.
  • Tycho Brahe
    Tycho Brahe
    Tycho Brahe , born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations...

    , (1546–1601), provided the observational data for Kepler's laws of planetary motion
    Kepler's laws of planetary motion
    In astronomy, Kepler's laws give a description of the motion of planets around the Sun.Kepler's laws are:#The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci....

    .
  • Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer, (1852–1926), Danish-born astronomer
  • Peter Andreas Hansen
    Peter Andreas Hansen
    Peter Andreas Hansen was a Danish astronomer, was born at Tønder, Schleswig.-Biography:The son of a goldsmith, Hansen learned the trade of a watchmaker at Flensburg, and exercised it at Berlin and Tønder, 1818–1820...

    , (1795–1874)
  • Ejnar Hertzsprung
    Ejnar Hertzsprung
    Ejnar Hertzsprung was a Danish chemist and astronomer.Hertzsprung was born in Copenhagen. In the period 1911–1913, together with Henry Norris Russell, he developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram....

    , (1873–1967), astronomer
  • Ole Rømer, (1644–1710), first to calculate the speed of light
    Rømer's determination of the speed of light
    Rømer's determination of the speed of light was the demonstration in 1676 that light has a finite speed, and so doesn't travel instantaneously. The discovery is usually attributed to Danish astronomer Ole Rømer ,There are several alternative spellings of Rømer's surname: Roemer, Rœmer, Römer etc....

    .
  • Bengt Strömgren
    Bengt Strömgren
    Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.Bengt Strömgren was born in Gothenburg. His parents were Hedvig Strömgren and Svante Elis Strömgren, who was professor of astronomy at the University of Copenhagen and director of the University Observatory in Copenhagen...

    , (1908–1987)
  • Thorvald Sørensen
    Thorvald Sørensen
    Thorvald Julius Sørensen was a Danish botanist and evolutionary biologist.Sørensen was professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College 1953-1955 and at the University of Copenhagen 1955-1972...

    ,(1902–1973), botanist
  • Rasmus Bartholin
    Rasmus Bartholin
    Rasmus Bartholin was a Danish scientist and physician. As part of his studies, he travelled in Europe for ten years. Professor at the University of Copenhagen, first in Geometry, later in Medicine...

    , (1625–1698)
  • Hans Christian Ørsted
    Hans Christian Ørsted
    Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism...

    , (1777–1851), physicist, discoverer of electromagnetism
    Electromagnetism
    Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental interactions in nature. The other three are the strong interaction, the weak interaction and gravitation...

    , speed of light
    Speed of light
    The speed of light in vacuum, usually denoted by c, is a physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its value is 299,792,458 metres per second, a figure that is exact since the length of the metre is defined from this constant and the international standard for time...

  • Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
    Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
    Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted born in Varde was a Danish physical chemist.He received a degree in chemical engineering in 1899 and his Ph. D. in 1908 from the University of Copenhagen. He was immediately appointed professor of inorganic and physical chemistry at Copenhagen.In 1906 he published his...

    , (1879–1947)
  • Jens Christian Skou
    Jens Christian Skou
    Jens Christian Skou is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate.Skou was born in Lemvig, Denmark to a wealthy family. His father Magnus Martinus Skou was a timber and coal merchant. His mother Ane-Margrethe Skou took over the company after the death of his father. At the age of 15 Skou entered a...

    , chemist and Nobel Prize laureate 1997
  • Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen, (1868–1939), chemist
  • Conrad Malte-Brun
    Conrad Malte-Brun
    Conrad Malte-Brun , born Malthe Conrad Bruun, was a Danish-French geographer and journalist. His second son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, was also a geographer.-Biography:...

    , (1775–1826)
  • Claudius Clavus (Claudius Claussøn Swart), (1388–?)
  • Willi Dansgaard
    Willi Dansgaard
    Willi Dansgaard was a Danish paleoclimatologist. He was Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at the University of Copenhagen and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Icelandic Academy of Sciences, and the Danish Geophysical Society.-...

    , (1922–), geophysics
  • Inge Lehmann
    Inge Lehmann
    Inge Lehmann FRS , was a Danish seismologist who, in 1936, argued that the Earth's core is not one single molten sphere, but that an inner core exists which has physical properties that are different from those of the outer core.-Life:Inge Lehmann was born and grew up in Østerbro, a part of...

    , (1888–1993)
  • Nicolas Steno / Niels Stensen
    Nicolas Steno
    Nicolas Steno |Latinized]] to Nicolaus Steno -gen. Nicolai Stenonis-, Italian Niccolo' Stenone) was a Danish pioneer in both anatomy and geology. Already in 1659 he decided not to accept anything simply written in a book, instead resolving to do research himself. He is considered the father of...

    , (1638–1686), geologist
  • Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
    Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
    Christian Jürgensen Thomsen was a Danish archaeologist.In 1816 he was appointed head of 'antiquarian' collections which later developed into the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. While organizing and classifying the antiquities for exhibition, he decided to present them chronologically...

    , Archaeologist, inventor of the Three-age system
    Three-age system
    The three-age system in archaeology and physical anthropology is the periodization of human prehistory into three consecutive time periods, named for their respective tool-making technologies:* The Stone Age* The Bronze Age* The Iron Age-Origin:...

  • Carl Peter Henrik Dam, (1895–1976)
  • Hans Christian Gram
    Hans Christian Gram
    Hans Christian Joachim Gram was a Danish bacteriologist.He was the son of Frederik Terkel Julius Gram, a professor of jurisprudence, and Louise Christiane Roulund....

    , (1853–1938), bacteriologist (Gram staining
    Gram staining
    Gram staining is a method of differentiating bacterial species into two large groups ....

    )
  • Emil Christian Hansen
    Emil Christian Hansen
    Emil Christian Hansen was a Danish mycologist and fermentation physiologist.Born in Ribe, he financed his education by writing novels and he was awarded a gold medal in 1876 for an essay on fungi....

    , (1842–1909) Saccharomyces carlsbergensis
  • Wilhelm Johannsen
    Wilhelm Johannsen
    Wilhelm Johannsen was a Danish botanist, plant physiologist and geneticist. He was born in Copenhagen. While very young, he was apprenticed to a pharmacist and worked in Denmark and Germany beginning in 1872 until passing his pharmacist's exam in 1879...

    , (1857–1927), coined the term gene
    Gene
    A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains...

  • Schack August Steenberg Krogh, physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Johannes Schmidt
    Johannes Schmidt (biologist)
    Johannes Schmidt was a Danish biologist credited with discovering in 1920 that eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn...

  • Caspar Bartholin the Elder
    Caspar Bartholin the Elder
    Caspar Bartholin the Elder was born at Malmø, Denmark and was a polymath, finally accepting a professorship in medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1613...

    , (1585–1629)
  • Caspar Bartholin the Younger
    Caspar Bartholin the Younger
    Caspar Bartholin the Younger , was a Danish anatomist who first described the "Bartholin's gland" in the 17th century...

    , (1655–1738)
  • Thomas Bartholin, (1616–1680)
  • Niels Ryberg Finsen
    Niels Ryberg Finsen
    Niels Ryberg Finsen was a Faroese-Danish physician and scientist of Icelandic descent. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903 "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has...

    , (1860–1904), physician
    Physician
    A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

     and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
    Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
    Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was a Danish scientist, physician, and professor of pathological anatomy who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Fibiger had claimed to find an organism he called Spiroptera carcinoma that caused cancer in mice and rats. He received a Nobel prize for...

    , physician
    Physician
    A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

     and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Niels Kaj Jerne
    Niels Kaj Jerne
    Niels Kaj Jerne, FRS was a Danish immunologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984. The citation read "For theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies"....

    , immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Niels A. Lassen
    Niels A. Lassen
    Niels Alexander Lassen was a Danish medical doctor and pioneer of neuroimaging.His father, H.C.A...

    , neuroimaging
    Neuroimaging
    Neuroimaging includes the use of various techniques to either directly or indirectly image the structure, function/pharmacology of the brain...

     pioneer.
  • Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
    Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
    Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen...

    , (1757–1830)
  • Niels Steensen, (1638–1686) anatomist, Roman Catholic bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

     and saint
    Saint
    A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...

  • Eugen Warming, (1841–1924), ecologist and botanist
  • Jacob B. Winsløw
    Jacob B. Winslow
    Jacob B. Winsløw, also known as Jacques-Bénigne Winslow, Danish-born anatomist .- Life :Winsløw was born in Denmark, later he became a pupil and successor of Guichard Joseph Duverney, as well as a convert to Catholicism, naturalized in France, and finally became professor of anatomy at the Jardin...

    , (1669–1760)
  • Ole Worm
    Ole Worm
    Ole Worm , who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician and antiquary.-Life:...

    , (1588–1654)
  • Bjarne Tromborg
    Bjarne Tromborg
    Bjarne Tromborg is a Danish physicist who has made significant contributions to particle physics and photonics.-Biography:Tromborg was born in Give, Denmark. In 1968, he received the M.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics from the Niels Bohr Institute, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a university...

    , physicist (1940–present)
  • Michael Schwartzbach
    Michael Schwartzbach
    Michael Schwartzbach is a computer scientist from Aarhus, Denmark, working at Aarhus University.He was born on August 15, 1961.He is the co-author of An Introduction to Xml And Web Technologies along with Anders Møller.-References:...

    , computer scientist
    Computer scientist
    A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....

     (1961-present)
  • Thorvald N. Thiele
    Thorvald N. Thiele
    Thorvald Nicolai Thiele was a Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem. He was the first to propose a mathematical theory of Brownian motion...

    , (1883–1910) astronomer
    Astronomer
    An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

    , actuary
    Actuary
    An actuary is a business professional who deals with the financial impact of risk and uncertainty. Actuaries provide expert assessments of financial security systems, with a focus on their complexity, their mathematics, and their mechanisms ....

     and mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

    , most notable for his work in statistics
    Statistics
    Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....

    , interpolation
    Interpolation
    In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a method of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points....

     and the three-body problem.

Badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

  • Morten Frost
    Morten Frost
    Morten Frost or Morten Frost Hansen, aka "Mr Badminton", is a former badminton player and later coach, who represented Denmark...

    , men's single, All England master 1982, 1984, 1986, and 1987.
  • Peter Gade
    Peter Gade
    Peter Høeg Gade is a Danish professional badminton player. He currently resides in Holte in Copenhagen...

    , men's single, All England master 1999.
  • Lene Køppen
    Lene Køppen
    Lene Køppen is a former badminton player from Denmark who won numerous Danish national and major international championships from the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Noted for her speed and athleticism, she and Camilla Martin are the only Danish women to win both the World and All-England ...

    , women's single, World champion 1977, All England master 1979.
  • Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen
    Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen
    Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen is a retired Danish badminton player who won major international singles titles in the 1990s, and ranks among Denmark's badminton greats.-Badminton career:...

    , men's single, 1996 Olympic
    1996 Summer Olympics
    The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

     gold.
  • Camilla Martin
    Camilla Martin
    Camilla Martin Nygaard née Martin is a retired badminton player from Denmark. She and Lene Køppen, who played two decades earlier, are the only Danish women to have won both the All-England and World singles titles....

    , women's single, World champion 1999, All England master 2002.
  • Svend Pri
    Svend Pri
    Svend Pri was a badminton player from Denmark who won numerous major titles from the mid 1960's through the mid 1970's. His play was marked by great power, tenacity, and tactical astuteness...

    , men's single, All England master 1975.

Fencing

  • Ellen Osiier
    Ellen Osiier
    Ellen Osiier was a Danish foil fencer.At the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, women’s fencing made its debut as Osiier won the gold medal at the age of 33 without losing a single bout....

    , foil fencer, Olympic champion
  • Dr. Ivan Osier, épée, foil, and sabre fencer, Olympic silver (épée), 25-time Danish champion

Football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

  • Daniel Agger
    Daniel Agger
    Daniel Munthe Agger is a Danish footballer who plays for Liverpool and the Denmark national football team. He started his senior career at Danish club Brøndby IF in July 2004, with whom he won the 2005 Danish Superliga championship. The Liverpool fans have created a song for him to the tune of...

    , defender, Brøndby IF
    Brøndby IF
    Brøndby IF is a Danish professional football club based in Brøndbyvester, Brøndby, on the western outskirts of Copenhagen and is the biggest football club in Denmark with almost 2000 members. The club is also known as Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening, or Brøndby and BIF for short...

     2004–2006. Liverpool F.C.
    Liverpool F.C.
    Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...

     2006–Present
  • Preben Arentoft
    Preben Arentoft
    Preben Arentoft is a Danish former football player who played in the midfielder position. He played professionally for a number of clubs, most notably Newcastle United and Blackburn Rovers. He played nine games for the Denmark national football team.Born in Copenhagen, Arentoft started playing...

    , Greenock Morton, Newcastle United F.C.
    Newcastle United F.C.
    Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at its current home ground, St James' Park, since the merger...

    , Blackburn Rovers F.C.
    Blackburn Rovers F.C.
    Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....

    .
  • Nicklas Bendtner
    Nicklas Bendtner
    Nicklas Bendtner , is a Danish international footballer who plays for Sunderland on loan from Arsenal as a striker...

     Forward, Arsenal F.C 2006–
  • Harald Bohr
    Harald Bohr
    Harald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and football player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr...

    , Olympic silver (brother of Niels Bohr
    Niels Bohr
    Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...

    )
  • Charles Buchwald
    Charles Buchwald
    Charles von Buchwald was a Danish amateur football player, who played seven games as a defender for the Denmark national football team. He was Jewish....

    , Olympic 2x silver medalist
  • Jeppe Curth
    Jeppe Curth
    Jeppe Lund Curth is a Danish footballer, who plays for Aalborg Boldspilklub in the Danish Superliga. He has played 43 matches and scored 15 goals for various Danish youth national teams, most recently the Danish national under-21 team....

  • Preben Elkjær
  • Thomas Gravesen
    Thomas Gravesen
    Thomas Gravesen is a retired Danish professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He has played for teams such as Hamburger SV, Everton F.C., Real Madrid CF and Celtic F.C.....

  • Jesper Grønkjær
    Jesper Grønkjær
    Jesper Grønkjær is a former Danish professional football player. A pacey winger, he was able to play on the right or left wing and as a second striker. Grønkjær played a total 400 league games for a number of European clubs, most notably winning the 1999 Dutch Cup with Ajax Amsterdam and playing...

  • Thomas Helveg
    Thomas Helveg
    Thomas Lund Helveg is a former Danish professional Association football player who played as a defensive midfielder and defender for Odense Boldklub in the Danish Superliga, with whom he won the 1989 Danish championship...

  • Martin Jørgensen
    Martin Jørgensen
    Lars Martin Jørgensen , more commonly known as Martin Jørgensen, is a Danish professional football player, who currently plays for Danish club AGF Aarhus. Jørgensen has played 101 matches and scored 12 goals for the Denmark national football team. He is the only player that has represented Denmark...

  • Simon Kjær
    Simon Kjær
    Simon Thorup Kjær is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a centre back for Roma. He was named 2007 Danish under-19 talent of the year and 2009 Danish Talent of the Year, and has played 20 games for the Denmark national football team.-FC Midtjylland:Born in Horsens, Kjær started...

  • Brian Laudrup
    Brian Laudrup
    Brian Laudrup is a Danish former football player and current football commentator, pundit and analyst on TV3+. Along with former international goalkeeper Lars Høgh, Laudrup manages a football academy for marginalized youth...

    , forward, Rangers F.C.
    Rangers F.C.
    Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...

     1994–1998. Euro 92.
  • Michael Laudrup
    Michael Laudrup
    Michael Laudrup is a retired Danish footballer, who works as a manager and last coached La Liga side RCD Mallorca. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of football. His most prominent run of football came with Spanish club Barcelona, with whom he won four straight La...

    , Juventus F.C.
    Juventus F.C.
    Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...

     1985–1989, FC Barcelona
    FC Barcelona
    Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....

     1989–1994.
  • Martin Laursen
    Martin Laursen
    Martin Laursen is a Danish former footballer who played in the centre back position. He played three seasons for Italian club AC Milan, with whom he won the 2003 UEFA Champions League and the 2004 Serie A championship. He also played for Italian clubs Hellas Verona and Parma FC, and was the team...

  • Miklos Molnar
    Miklos Molnar
    Miklos Jon Molnar , nicknamed "Danish Dynamite", is a Danish former professional football player who played as a striker for a number of Danish and foreign clubs. He was the top goalscorer of the 1989 and 1997 Danish championships, and won the 2000 MLS Cup with American team Kansas City Wizards...

  • Jan Mølby
    Jan Mølby
    Jan Mølby is a Danish former international footballer who spent much of his professional football career at English club Liverpool.- Club career :...

    , player and manager
  • Allan Nielsen
    Allan Nielsen
    -External links: *...

  • Kim Milton Nielsen
    Kim Milton Nielsen
    Kim Milton Nielsen is a former international football referee. An IT manager by trade, Nielsen is noted for his impressive height of 1.96m, making him taller than most players. Nielsen began refereeing at 15 years of age, as he wanted to know the Laws of Football...

    , referee
  • Morten Olsen
    Morten Olsen
    Morten Per Olsen is a Danish football manager and former football player. He has been the head coach of the Danish national team since 2000, guiding Denmark to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2004 European Championship and 2010 FIFA World Cup...

    , player and coach
  • Christian Poulsen
    Christian Poulsen
    Christian Bjørnshøj Poulsen is a Danish footballer who plays for Evian in Ligue 1. He has played for a number of European clubs, winning the Danish Superliga championship with F.C...

  • Peter Schmeichel
    Peter Schmeichel
    Peter Bolesław Schmeichel MBE is a retired Danish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and was voted the "World's Best Goalkeeper" in 1992 and 1993...

    , goal keeper, Manchester United
    Manchester United F.C.
    Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...

     1991–1999. Euro 92, CL98/99
    UEFA Champions League
    The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...

    .
  • Allan Simonsen
    Allan Simonsen
    Allan Rodenkam Simonsen is a former Danish footballer and manager. He most prominently played for German team Borussia Mönchengladbach, winning the 1975 and 1979 UEFA Cups, as well as for Barcelona from Spain, winning the 1982 Cup WInners' Cup...

    , 1977 European Footballer of the Year
    European Footballer of the Year
    The "", literally translated as "the golden ball" and often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award, was an annual association football award. It was presented to the player who had been considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year...

  • Ebbe Skovdahl
    Ebbe Skovdahl
    Ebbe Skovdahl Hansen is a retired Danish football manager. He most prominently was a successful manager at Brøndby IF, for whom he had also played in his active years...

    , manager, most notable for popularity at Aberdeen football club.
  • Thomas Sørensen
    Thomas Sørensen
    Thomas Løvendahl Sørensen is a Danish professional football goalkeeper, who plays for Premier League club Stoke City. He has previously represented Premiership teams Sunderland and Aston Villa....

    , goalkeeper, Stoke City
  • Jon Dahl Tomasson
    Jon Dahl Tomasson
    Jon Dahl Tomasson is a retired Danish footballer and assistant manager at the Dutch football club SBV Excelsior....

    , forward, A.C. Milan
    A.C. Milan
    Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan , is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Lombardy, that plays in the Serie A. Milan was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and businessman Alfred Edwards among others...

     2003–2005, VfB Stuttgart
    VfB Stuttgart
    Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club is best known for its football team, which has participated in all but two Bundesliga seasons...

     2005–, UEFA Cup
    UEFA Cup
    The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

     2002.
  • Stig Tøfting
    Stig Tøfting
    Stig Tøfting , nicknamed Tøffe, and The Lawn Mower, is a former Danish professional footballer and assistant coach, who most recently was the assistant of Erik Rasmussen at AGF....


Handball

  • Anja Andersen
    Anja Andersen
    Anja Andersen is a former female handball player and currently coach.-Career:Anja Andersen is known for both her skills as an offensive player, her strong temper and courage to make dramatic scenes and daring tricks during a match. She was an important part of the renaissance in Danish handball...

    , female handball
    Team handball
    Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

     player. 1996 Olympic
    1996 Summer Olympics
    The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

     gold. Elected best player of 1998.
  • Morten Stig Christensen
    Morten Stig Christensen
    Morten Stig Christensen is a former Danish handball player.In 1976 he was a squad member of the Danish team which finished eighth in the Olympic tournament. He was a reserve player and did not play in a match....

    , handball
    Team handball
    Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

    -player turned TV host.

Ice hockey

  • Jannik Hansen
    Jannik Hansen
    Jannik Hansen is a Danish professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League . Hansen began playing professionally at the age of 16 with both the Rødovre Mighty Bulls of the Danish league and the Malmö Redhawks of the Swedish J20...

    , ice hockey player and first Danish citizen to play and register a goal in an NHL playoff game
  • Frans Nielsen
    Frans Nielsen
    Frans Nielsen is a Danish professional ice hockey player currently playing with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League . He is the first Danish citizen to play in the NHL.-Playing career:...

    , ice hockey
    Ice hockey
    Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

     player, first Danish citizen to play in the NHL
    National Hockey League
    The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

    .
  • Poul Popiel
    Poul Popiel
    Poul Peter Popiel is a retired NHL defenceman, and head coach. He played in the OHA, AHL, WHA, NHL, CPHL, and IHL. He played a brief 12 games in the IHL with the Muskegon Mohawks, then halfway through the year, he retired and became the head coach...

    , retired ice hockey
    Ice hockey
    Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

     player, first Danish-born to play in the NHL
    National Hockey League
    The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

    .
  • Peter Regin
    Peter Regin
    Peter Regin Jensen is a Danish professional ice hockey player with the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League . He was drafted by Ottawa in the third round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft...

    , ice hockey
    Ice hockey
    Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

     player

Motorsports

  • Hans Andersen
    Hans Nørgaard Andersen
    Hans Nørgaard Andersen is a motorcycle speedway rider and captain of the Denmark speedway team that won the Speedway World Cup in 2006 and 2008.- Career summary :...

    , Speedway Rider.
  • Kenneth Bjerre
    Kenneth Bjerre
    Kenneth Bjerre Jensen is a Danish international motorcycle speedway rider who races using the name Kenneth Bjerre. He rides in the UK for the Kings Lynn Stars in the Elite League....

    , Speedway Rider.
  • Nicolas Kiesa
    Nicolas Kiesa
    Nicolas Kiesa is a racing driver from Denmark. He participated in five Formula One Grands Prix in the 2003 season...

    , Formula One
    Formula One
    Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

     driver.
  • Tom Kristensen, auto racing. Only driver to win 24 Hours of Le Mans
    24 Hours of Le Mans
    The 24 Hours of Le Mans is the world's oldest sports car race in endurance racing, held annually since near the town of Le Mans, France. Commonly known as the Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency, race teams have to balance speed against the cars' ability to run for 24 hours without sustaining...

     8 times (6 times consecutive).
  • Jan Magnussen
    Jan Magnussen
    Jan Magnussen is a racing driver from Denmark and a GM factory driver. He has competed in several of the most prestigious events in motor sport including CART, NASCAR, the FIA Formula One World Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.- Lower series racing :Magnussen dominated the 1994 British...

    , Formula One
    Formula One
    Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

     driver
  • Ole Olsen, (speedway) (born 1946), Danish speedway rider and three-time World Champion
  • Bjarne Pedersen
    Bjarne Pedersen
    Bjarne Pedersen is an international motorcycle speedway rider who has represented Denmark in the Speedway World Cup, winning it on two occasions: in 2006 and 2008.-Career summary:...

    , Speedway Rider.
  • Nicki Pedersen
    Nicki Pedersen
    Nicki Pedersen is a Danish motorcycle speedway rider. He has won the World Championship in 2003, 2007 and 2008 and was a World Cup winner with Denmark in 2006 and 2008. His brother, Ronni Pedersen, has also ridden in the Speedway Grand Prix and World Cup.-Domestic teams:Pedersen began speedway...

    , Speedway Rider.
  • Jonas Raun
    Jonas Raun
    Jonas Lorenzen Raun is an internationalspeedway racer, formerly with the Belle Vue Aces in the British British Elite League....

    , Speedway Rider

Tennis

  • Kenneth Carlsen
    Kenneth Carlsen
    Kenneth Carlsen is a former Danish professional tennis player, who was active between 1992 and 2007. Carlsen played left-handed with a one-handed backhand. His greatest asset was his powerful serve, and his game was therefore best suited to fast surfaces...

    , tennis
    Tennis
    Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

    , #43 in men singles in 1993.
  • Caroline Wozniacki
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish professional tennis player. She is the current world no. 1 on the WTA Tour. As of 7 November 2011, she has held this position for 56 weeks...

    , tennis
    Tennis
    Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

    , #1 in women's singles in 2010.

Other

  • Morten Andersen
    Morten Andersen
    Morten Andersen , nicknamed "The Great Dane", is a former National Football League kicker. He holds the distinction of being the all-time leading scorer in NFL history, as well as being the all-time leading scorer for two different teams; the New Orleans Saints, with whom he spent 13 seasons, and...

    , American football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

    , most points and field goals ever in the NFL
    National Football League
    The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

    .
  • Jesper Bank
    Jesper Bank
    Jesper Bank is a Danish sailor and Olympic champion.He received a bronze medal in the Soling Class at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul....

    , sailing 1992
    1992 Summer Olympics
    The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same...

    , 2000
    2000 Summer Olympics
    The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

     Summer Olympics gold
  • Eskild Ebbesen
    Eskild Ebbesen
    Eskild Balschmidt Ebbesen is a Danish lightweight rower, who has won a total number of four Olympic and six World Championship gold medals....

    , gold medalist in rowing
  • Thorvald Ellegaard
    Thorvald Ellegaard
    Thorvald Ellegaard was a leading Danish track racing cyclist in the 1900s and 1910s. He won the world professional sprint title six times, three European titles, and 24 Danish titles. Over the course of his long career, which spanned 31 years, he competed in 1,560 significant races, winning 925 of...

    , track racing cyclist, six-fold world professional champion in sprint
  • Paul Elvstrøm, sailing, 1948
    1948 Summer Olympics
    The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...

    , 1952
    1952 Summer Olympics
    The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

    , 1956
    1956 Summer Olympics
    The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations...

    , 1960
    1960 Summer Olympics
    The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...

     olympic gold.
  • Rune Glifberg
    Rune Glifberg
    Rune Glifberg is a professional skateboarder who currently resides in the Leucadia district of Encinitas, California. Glifberg began skating at age 11 after a friend brought a board over to his house. In the early 1990s, Glifberg turned professional as a vert skater and made the trek across the...

    , professional skateboarder
  • Niels Holst-Sørensen
    Niels Holst-Sørensen
    Niels Holst-Sørensen is a former Danish athlete and air force officer. He served as the commander-in-chief of the Royal Danish Air Force from 1970-1982 and Denmark's military representative to NATO from 1982-1986...

    , European champion athlete and commander-in-chief of the Royal Danish Air Force
  • Martin Kampmann
    Martin Kampmann
    Martin Kampmann Frederiksen is a Danish mixed martial artist who is currently fighting out of Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. and trains at the Xtreme Couture gym. He is known for his precise strikes and his quick submissions...

    , mixed martial artist
  • Mikkel Kessler
    Mikkel Kessler
    Mikkel Kessler is a Danish professional boxer and former two time WBA & WBC Super Middleweight champion. In his professional career he has a record of 44–2 with 33 knockouts...

    , boxer
  • Abraham Kurland
    Abraham Kurland
    Abraham Kurland was a Danish wrestler.Kurland was Jewish, and was born in Odense, Syddanmark, Denmark. He was affiliated with the Hakoah Jewish Sports club, København/Bagsværd, København....

    , wrestler, Olympic silver (Greco-Roman lightweight)
  • Bent Larsen
    Bent Larsen
    Jørgen Bent Larsen was a Danish chess Grandmaster and author. Larsen was known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play and he was the first western player to pose a serious challenge to the Soviet Union's dominance of chess...

    , 1956 International Grandmaster
    International Grandmaster
    The title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....

     in chess
    Chess
    Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

    .
  • Ole Laursen
    Ole Laursen
    Ole 'Iron Fist' Laursen is a Danish welterweight Muay Thai kickboxer and lightweight mixed martial artist, fighting out of Ubon Ratchatani, Thailand.-Biography:...

    , mixed martial artist
  • Brian Nielsen, boxer
  • Gunnar Nielsen
    Gunnar Nielsen (athlete)
    Niels Gunnar Nielsen was a Danish middle distance runner who equalled the world record over both 880 yards and 1500 metres. He represented the Østerbro-based club Københavns Idræts Forening throughout his career....

    , runner. Former world record holder over 1500 metres.
  • Michael Rasmussen
    Michael Rasmussen
    Michael Rasmussen is a Danish professional road bicycle racer who rides for the Danish team Christina Watches-Onfone. In the 2007 Tour de France, Rasmussen, while in the yellow jersey, had his contract terminated by his team and was removed from the Tour...

    , road bicycle racing
    Road bicycle racing
    Road bicycle racing is a bicycle racing sport held on roads, using racing bicycles. The term "road racing" is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously with the winner being the first to the line at the end of the course .Historically, the most...

    , King of the Mountains
    King of the Mountains
    The King of the Mountains is the title given to the best climber in a cycling road race; usually and officially known as the Mountains classification...

     in the 2005
    2005 Tour de France
    The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd Tour de France, taking place from July 2 to July 24, 2005. It comprised 21 stages over 3592.5 km, the winner's average speed was 41.654 km/h. The first stages were held in the département of the Vendée, for the third time in 12 years. The 2005 Tour was...

     and 2006
    2006 Tour de France
    The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd Tour de France, taking place from July 1 to July 23, 2006. It was won by Óscar Pereiro following the disqualification of apparent winner Floyd Landis....

     Tour de France
    Tour de France
    The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...

    .
  • Bjarne Riis
    Bjarne Riis
    Bjarne Lykkegård Riis , nicknamed The Eagle from Herning , is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer who placed first in the 1996 Tour de France, and is now the team owner and manager of Danish UCI ProTour outfit Team Saxo Bank Sungard...

    , road bicycle racing
    Road bicycle racing
    Road bicycle racing is a bicycle racing sport held on roads, using racing bicycles. The term "road racing" is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously with the winner being the first to the line at the end of the course .Historically, the most...

  • Tommy Sass, American Football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     O-Lineman, Cineplexx Blue Devils, Austria
  • Jesper Skibby
    Jesper Skibby
    Jesper Skibby was born 21 March 1964 in Silkeborg, Denmark. He was a professional rider in road bicycle racing, and one of the most popular in Denmark, not only because of his talent, but also because of his wit and his constant banter...

    , road bicycle racing
    Road bicycle racing
    Road bicycle racing is a bicycle racing sport held on roads, using racing bicycles. The term "road racing" is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously with the winner being the first to the line at the end of the course .Historically, the most...

  • Gus Hansen
    Gus Hansen
    Gustav "Gus" Hansen is a professional Danish poker player who lives in Monaco. In his poker career, Hansen has won three World Poker Tour open titles, the 2007 Aussie Millions main event and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament...

    , high stakes poker player

Writers

  • Jussi Adler-Olsen
    Jussi Adler-Olsen
    Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who, after following several different courses of study and engaging in various professions, embarked on his literary career with two books about Groucho Marx in 1984...

    , (1950–), novelist

  • Hans Christian Andersen
    Hans Christian Andersen
    Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling."...

    , (1805–1875), Fairy Tales
  • Jens Immanuel Baggesen
    Jens Immanuel Baggesen
    Jens Immanuel Baggesen was a Danish poet.-Early life and education:Baggesen was born at Korsør. His parents were very poor, and before he was twelve he was sent to copy documents at the office of the clerk of the district. He was a melancholy, feeble child, and before this he had attempted suicide...

    , (1764–1826)
  • Karen Blixen
    Karen Blixen
    Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke , , née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She also wrote under the pen names Osceola and Pierre Andrézel...

     (aka. Isak Dinesen), (1885–1962), author
  • Georg Brandes
    Georg Brandes
    Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture...

    , (1842–1927)
  • Stig Dalager
    Stig Dalager
    Stig Dalager is a Danish writer. He is the author of 51 literary works of all kinds, mostly novels and plays, of which several have been translated or staged internationally...

    , poet, playwright and novelist (b. 1952)
  • Tove Ditlevsen
    Tove Ditlevsen
    Tove Ditlevsen was a female Danish poet and author.She was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the working-class neighbourhood of Vesterbro. Her childhood experiences were the focal points of her work. Ditlevsen was married four times.She published 29 books including short stories, poetry and...

    , (1918–1976), poet and author
  • Jens Fink-Jensen
    Jens Fink-Jensen
    Jens Fink-Jensen is a Danish poet, author, photographer, composer and architect.-Biography:Jens Fink-Jensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. From 1968 to 1972 Fink-Jensen attended school in Store Heddinge where he was a classmate with the Danish poet Søren Ulrik Thomsen...

    , (1956–)
  • Karl Gjellerup, (1857–1919), author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

     and Nobel Prize laureate,
  • Piet Hein
    Piet Hein (Denmark)
    Piet Hein was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone"...

    , (1905–1996)
  • William Hillcourt, (1900–1992, born Vilhelm Hans Bjerregaard Jensen), prolific writer for the Boy Scouts of America
    Boy Scouts of America
    The Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with over 4.5 million youth members in its age-related divisions...

  • Ludvig Holberg
    Ludvig Holberg
    Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian double monarchy, who spent most of his adult life in Denmark. He was influenced by Humanism, the Enlightenment and the Baroque...

    , (1684–1754), dramatist, historian
    Historian
    A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

    , essayist and playwright
  • Peter Høeg
    Peter Høeg
    Peter Høeg is a Danish writer of fiction. He received a Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Copenhagen in 1984.-Early life:Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark...

    , author (1957–)
  • FP Jac
    FP Jac
    F. P. Jac , born Flemming Palle Jakobsen, was a Danish poet.His first publication was the poetry collection Spontane kalender-blade from 1976. Even if his production is much "lighter" in tone than his peers of that day, he is counted as belonging to the so-called eighties-generation of poets...

    , (1955–2008), poet
  • Jens Peter Jacobsen
    Jens Peter Jacobsen
    Jens Peter Jacobsen was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen" and pronounced "I. P. Jacobsen"...

    , (1847–1885), novelist, poet and translator
  • Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
    Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
    *Not to be confused with German author Wilhelm Jensen .Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, in Denmark always called Johannes V. Jensen, was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944...

    , (1873–1950), novelist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Thit Jensen
    Thit Jensen
    Maria Kirstine Dorothea Jensen was a Danish novelist, but also author of short stories, plays and society critical articles....

    , (1876–1957) writer and worker for women's suffrage
  • Hans Kirk
    Hans Kirk
    Hans Kirk was a celebrated Danish author, who penned the best-selling novel of all-time in his native Denmark, The Fishermen . Kirk was a long-time Communist Party member in Denmark and remained active until his death...

    , (1898–1962), author
  • Margrethe Lasson
    Margrethe Lasson
    Anna Margrethe Lasson was a Danish novelist, the first novelist in Denmark.Lasson was born in Copenhagen, to Jens Lassen , a judge on Fyn, and Margrethe Christensdatter Lund, and grew up on Dalum Kloster manor...

    , (1659–1738), the first female novelist.
  • Queen Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
  • Kaj Harald Leininger Munk, (1898–1944), dramatist
  • Martin Andersen Nexø
    Martin Andersen Nexø
    Martin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He was the first significant Danish author to depict the working class in his writings, and the first great Danish socialist, later communist, writer.-Biography:...

    , (1869–1954), writer
  • Tor Nørretranders
    Tor Nørretranders
    Tor Nørretranders is a Danish author of popular science. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His books and lectures have primarily been focused on science and its role in society, often with Nørretranders' own advice about how society should integrate new findings in science...

    , (1955–), science popularizer
  • Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
    Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
    Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger was a Danish poet and playwright. He introduced romanticism into Danish literature.-Biography:He was born in Vesterbro, then a suburb of Copenhagen, on 14 November 1779...

    , (1779–1850)
  • Henrik Pontoppidan
    Henrik Pontoppidan
    Henrik Pontoppidan was a realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but despairing, later in his...

    , author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

     and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Jacob Riis
    Jacob Riis
    Jacob August Riis was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific...

    , (1849–1914), photographer, journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

     and social activist in USA
  • Carl Erik Soya
    Carl Erik Soya
    Carl Erik Soya, , also known by the single appellation Soya, was a Danish author and dramatist. His works were often satirical provocations against double-standards and dishonesty...

    , (1896–1993), author, playwright, poet, satirist
  • Villy Sørensen
    Villy Sørensen
    Villy Sørensen was a Danish short-story writer, philosopher and literary critic of the Modernist tradition. His fiction was heavily influenced by his philosophical ideas, and he has been compared to Franz Kafka in this regard...

    , (1929–2001), author
  • Dan Turéll
    Dan Turèll
    Dan Turèll , affectionately nicknamed "Onkel Danny" , was a popular Danish writer with notable influence on Danish literature.-Overview:...

    , (1946–1993), author
  • Pia Tafdrup
    Pia Tafdrup
    Pia Tafdrup is a Danish writer; primarily a poet, she has also written a novel and two plays, as well as works for radio....

    , (1952–), poet
  • Klaus Rifbjerg
    Klaus Rifbjerg
    Klaus Rifbjerg is a Danish writer. He has written more than 170 novels, books and essays.- Biography :Rifbjerg was born in Copenhagen and grew up on the island of Amager, a part of the city, the child of two teachers...

    , (1931), author
  • Peter Seeberg
    Peter Seeberg
    Peter Seeberg was a Danish modernist novelist and playwright, inspired by the French existentialists. He made his literary debut in 1956 with the novel Bipersonerne....

    , (1925 – 1999), novelist and playwright

Other notables

  • Finn Andersen
    Finn Andersen
    Finn Andersen is Secretary General of the Danish Cultural Institute.-External links:*...

    , Secretary General of Danish Cultural Institute
  • Henrik Kurt Carlsen
    Henrik Kurt Carlsen
    Kurt Carlsen was a Danish-born sea-captain who became world-famous in January 1952 when he stayed on his sinking freighter, the Flying Enterprise, for 13 days. It eventually sank less than from safe harbour at Falmouth, Cornwall in England, minutes after the Captain was forced to abandon ship...

    , Sea Captain
  • Natasja Crone Back
    Natasja Crone Back
    Natasja Crone Back is a Danish journalist and TV-show presenter. She is well known from several big shows on Danish television....

    , journalist, host at the Eurovision Song Contest 2001
    Eurovision Song Contest 2001
    The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was the 46th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 12 May 2001 in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was the first time in 36 years that Denmark hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, thanks to the Olsen Brothers' win the previous year in Stockholm...

  • Biker-Jens
    Biker-Jens
    Jens Romundstad, commonly known as Biker-Jens is a Danish television personality. He is a former professional soldier and educated Civiløkonom . In 2002, he served in Kyrgyzstan with the Royal Danish Air Force in mission Enduring Freedom...

    , reality TV star
  • B.S. Christiansen
    B.S. Christiansen
    Bjarne Slot Christiansen is a former professional soldier from the Danish special force army unit Jægerkorpset, who is currently working with coaching and team building. His many television appearances and a popular book called Et liv på kanten have made him a celebrity in his home country.B.S...

    , Danish special force soldier, TV personality
  • Jacob Dacian
    Jacob Dacian
    Brother Jacob the Dacian, Jacobo Daciano, or in Latin Iacobus de Dacia, was a Danish Franciscan monk and probable Prince of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. He also called himself Iacobus Gottorpius referring to a royal estate at Gottorp under Danish rule during his lifetime...

    , 16th century Franciscan missionary to Mexico
  • Thomas Dam
    Thomas Dam
    Thomas Dam was a Danish woodcutter who designed and invented the "Good Luck Troll" which was the forerunner of the troll doll. Dam formed the Dam Things from Denmark to market the dolls.-External links:*...

  • Henning Frederik Feilberg
    Henning Frederik Feilberg
    Henning Frederik Feilberg , was a Danish pastor, author and folklorist. His research and publications represent significant contributions to the field of Danish folklore.-Biography:...

     (1831–1921), philologist, folklorist and writer
  • Nicolai Frahm
    Nicolai frahm
    Nicolai Frahm is an art dealer and contemporary art collector based in London.-Life and career:Frahm is the eldest son of Flemming Frahm, a Danish business entrepreneur who founded Skandinavisk Kaffekompani a coffee company. The company was acquired by Kraft Foods in 1989.Frahm first began to...

    , art advisor and collector
  • Adam Duvå Hall
    Adam Duvå Hall
    Adam Duvå Hall is a Danish radio and tv personality.Adam Duvå Hall is the breed of DR's youth brand. Adam was seen on a lot of youth programs under his alias "Adam Duvall". He hosted such programs as Go' Røv og Go' Weekend, Torsdag i 2'eren and Boogie. He continued being host on a new radio...

    , TV and Radio presenter
  • Gus Hansen
    Gus Hansen
    Gustav "Gus" Hansen is a professional Danish poker player who lives in Monaco. In his poker career, Hansen has won three World Poker Tour open titles, the 2007 Aussie Millions main event and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament...

    , professional poker player
  • Mogens Herman Hansen
    Mogens Herman Hansen
    Mogens Herman Hansen FBA is a Danish classical philologist who is one of the leading scholars in Athenian Democracy and the Polis....

    , classical philologist
  • Jacob Holdt
    Jacob Holdt
    Jacob Holdt is a Danish photographer, writer and lecturer. His mammoth work, American Pictures, gained international fame in 1977 for its effective photographic revelations about the hardships of America's lower classes....

    , photographer, writer
  • Knud W Jensen, art collector and founder of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
    Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
    The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located directly on the shore of the Øresund Sound in Humlebæk, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the most visited art museum in Denmark with an extensive permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, dating from World War II and up...

  • Jørgen Jørgensen
    Jørgen Jørgensen
    Jørgen Jørgensen was a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. During the Action of 2 March 1808 his ship was captured by the British. In 1809 he sailed to Iceland, declared the country independent from Denmark and pronounced himself its ruler...

    , 19th century adventurer famous for ruling Iceland
    Iceland
    Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

     for 2 months
  • Anders Lassen
    Anders Lassen
    Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen VC, MC & Two Bars was a Danish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-History:Anders Lassen was the son of Emil Victor Schau...

    , British Major, only foreigner to be awarded the Victoria Cross in the Second World War
  • Rasmus Lerdorf
    Rasmus Lerdorf
    Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He authored the first two versions...

    , creator of PHP
    PHP
    PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

     (Greenland
    Greenland
    Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

    )
  • Bjørn Lomborg
    Bjørn Lomborg
    Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish author, academic, and environmental writer. He is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and a former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen...

    , sceptical environmentalist.
  • Jørgen de Mylius
    Jørgen de Mylius
    Jørgen de Mylius is a Danish radio and TV personality that is best known for his work in connection with the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix as a host and commentator...

    , TV and Radio presenter
  • Benedict Nordentoft
    Benedict Nordentoft
    Benedict Nordentoft was a Danish educator and cleric, principally remembered for the years he spent in Solvang, California, where he and his colleagues established a Danish community with a Lutheran church and a folk high school....

     (1873–1942), Danish educator and cleric, co-founder of Solvang, California
    Solvang, California
    Solvang is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It is one of the communities that make up the Santa Ynez Valley. The population was 5,245 at the 2010 census, down from 5,332 at the 2000 census...

  • Knud Olsen
    Knud Olsen
    Knud Olsen Præstø, Denmark) is a Danish builder and designer of boats, who was the designer of one of the most popular sailing dinghies in use over the past 50 years, the OK Dinghy, which became an ISAF International Class in 1974...

    , boat designer.
  • Camilla Ottesen
    Camilla Ottesen
    Camilla Ottesen is a Danish television presenter.-External links:...

    , TV host
  • Mogens Amdi Petersen, founder of the Tvind
    Tvind
    Tvind is an international school centre in the small town of Ulfborg in Denmark, founded in 1970. The schools in Denmark are a progressive part of the Danish educational landscape and have educated more than 40,000 students over the years...

     empire
  • Valdemar Poulsen
    Valdemar Poulsen
    Valdemar Poulsen was a Danish engineer who developed a magnetic wire recorder in 1899.-Biography:He was born on 23 November 1869 in Copenhagen...

    , (1869–1942) inventor of the tape recorder
  • Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph
    Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph
    Andrea Elisabeth Rudolph is a Danish TV and radio host. She was previously a co-host in the morning show Morgenhyrderne on Radio 100FM along with Lasse Rimmer and Lars Hjortshøj...

    , radio and TV host
  • Evald Tang Kristensen
    Evald Tang Kristensen
    Evald Tang Kristensen was a Danish folklore collector and author. Working first as a schoolteacher and later solely as a collector, he assembled and published a huge amount of detailed information on all aspects of folklore as he visited country people throughout his native Jutland.-Early...

     (1843–1929), folklore collector
  • Tollund Man
    Tollund Man
    The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the time period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in 1950 buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, which preserved his body. Such a find is...

    , mummified corpse from 4th century BC

,*Andreas Aagesen
Andreas Aagesen
Andreas Aagesen was a Danish jurist.-Biography:Aagesen was educated for the law at Christiania and Copenhagen, and interrupted his studies in 1848 to take part in the First Schleswig War, in which he served as the leader of a reserve battalion.In 1855 Aagesen became a professor of jurisprudence...

, (1826–1879)

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