List of people on stamps of Denmark
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Denmark
has issued stamps since 1851. The first person to be featured on a Danish stamp was King Christian IX
. The years appearing after each name refer to when that person was first featured on a stamp.
This list is complete through early 2003.
Danish West Indies
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
has issued stamps since 1851. The first person to be featured on a Danish stamp was King 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...
. The years appearing after each name refer to when that person was first featured on a stamp.
This list is complete through early 2003.
Danish West Indies
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- Nicolai A. AbildgaardNikolaj Abraham AbildgaardNikolaj 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 :...
(1984) - Peder Christian Abildgaard (1973)
- Søren AbildgaardSøren AbildgaardSøren Pedersen Abildgaard was a Danish naturalist, writer and illustrator. He was born in Flekkefjord in Norway and died in Copenhagen in Denmark....
(1998) - Absalon, Archbishop and statesmanAbsalonAbsalon was a Danish archbishop and statesman, who was the Bishop of Roskilde from 1158 to 1192 and Archbishop of Lund from 1178 until his death. He was the foremost politician and churchfather of Denmark in the second half of the 12th century, and was the closest advisor of King Valdemar I of...
(1980) - Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-SchwerinAlexandrine of Mecklenburg-SchwerinAlexandrine Auguste of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was the queen consort of King Christian X of Denmark.-Family:She was born a Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in the city of Schwerin...
(1939 semi-postal) - Michael Ancher (1996)
- Hans Christian AndersenHans Christian AndersenHans 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."...
(1935) - Ib AndersenIb AndersenIb Andersen is a Danish dancer and choreographer. He is currently the artistic director of Ballet Arizona in Phoenix, Arizona.Internationally admired as both a dancer and choreographer, Andersen’s contribution to the world of dance is the product of a journey through multiple influences...
(1991) - Mogens Andersen (1998)
- Valdemar Andersen (1991)
- Anne-Marie of Denmark Queen consort of Greece (1950 semi-postal)
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- Otto BacheOtto BacheOtto Bache was a Danish painter. Many of his pictures depict key events in Danish history.-Biography:Bache was born on 21 August 1839. Only 10 years old, on a dispensation, he was admitted into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, from 1854 studying under Wilhelm Marstrand...
(1976) - Jens Bang (1978)
- Poul Anker BechPoul Anker BechPoul Anker Bech was a Danish painter.He started painting in the 1960s and studied at The Jutland Academy of Art in Aarhus, 1966-67. He quit his job in 1988 to become a full-time painter....
(2003) - Wilhelm BendzWilhelm BendzWilhelm Ferdinand Bendz Danish painter mainly known for genre works and portrait which often portray his artist colleagues and their daily lives...
(1994) - Benedikte, Princess of DenmarkPrincess Benedikte of DenmarkPrincess Benedikte of Denmark, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, , , is the second daughter of King Frederick IX of Denmark and Ingrid of Sweden...
(1964 semi-postal) - Vitus BeringVitus BeringVitus 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...
(1941) - Ejler BilleEjler BilleEjler 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...
(1987) - Thorvald BindesbøllThorvald BindesbøllThorvald Bindesbøll was a Danish architect. He was one of Denmark's most important architects at the turn of the twentieth century....
(1996) - Jens BirkemoseJens BirkemoseJens Birkemose is a contemporary Danish painter.Originally a student of piano, music theory, and composition, Birkemose went on to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris....
(2002) - Steen Steensen BlicherSteen Steensen BlicherSteen Steensen Blicher was an author and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark.- Biography :Blicher was the son of a literarily inclined Jutlandic parson whose family was distantly related to Martin Luther....
(1982) - Karen BlixenKaren BlixenBaroness 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...
(a.k.a. Isak Dinesen) (1980) - Thor Bøgelund (1993)
- Niels BohrNiels BohrNiels 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...
(1963) - Kay BojesenKay BojesenKay Bojesen was a Danish silversmith and designer who is best known for creating a wooden monkey which was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert museum in London in the nineteen-fifties, and which today is considered a design classic....
(1989) - August BournonvilleAugust BournonvilleAugust 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...
(1979) - Tycho BraheTycho BraheTycho Brahe , born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations...
(1946) - Georg BrandesGeorg BrandesGeorg 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...
(1971) - Sven Brasch (1991)
- Stig Brøgger (1993)
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- Georg CarstensenGeorg CarstensenJohan Bernhard Georg Carstensen was one of the developers of Tivoli Gardens and a Danish army officer. He spent most of his childhood in the Near East. He travelled widely and had a career in the military Royal Guards, reaching the rank of lieutenant...
(1962) - Povl Christensen (1970)
- Christian IV of DenmarkChristian IV of DenmarkChristian IV was the king of Denmark-Norway from 1588 until his death. With a reign of more than 59 years, he is the longest-reigning monarch of Denmark, and he is frequently remembered as one of the most popular, ambitious and proactive Danish kings, having initiated many reforms and projects...
(1924) - Christian V of DenmarkChristian V of DenmarkChristian V , was king of Denmark and Norway from 1670 to 1699, the son of Frederick III of Denmark and Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
(1983) - Christian IX of DenmarkChristian IX of DenmarkChristian 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...
(1904) - Christian X of DenmarkChristian X of DenmarkChristian X was King of Denmark from 1912 to 1947 and the only King of Iceland between 1918 and 1944....
(1913) - Franciska ClausenFranciska ClausenFranciska Clausen was a Danish painter. She studied with László Moholy-Nagy in Berlin in 1922 and with Fernand Léger in Paris from 1924 to 26.-References:...
(1993) - Saint Canute IV of DenmarkCanute IV of DenmarkCanute IV, later known as Canute the Holy or Canute the Saint , was King of Denmark from 1080 until 1086. Canute was an ambitious king who sought to strengthen the Danish monarchy, devotedly supported the Roman Catholic Church, and had designs on the English throne. Slain by rebels in 1086, he was...
(1985)
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- Enrico Mylius Dalgas (1966)
- Henning Damgaard-Sørensen (2001)
- Magrius Otto Sophus Count Danneskjold-Samsoe (2001)
- Leon Degand (1988)
- Johan Hendrik Deuntzer (2000)
- Carl Theodor DreyerCarl Theodor DreyerCarl 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...
(1989)
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- Caroline Ebbeson (1985 semi-postal)
- Christoffer Wilhelm EckersbergChristoffer Wilhelm EckersbergChristoffer 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...
(1983) - Hans EgedeHans EgedeHans 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...
(1971) - Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer (1956)
- Eric of PomeraniaEric of PomeraniaEric of Pomerania KG was King Eric III of Norway Norwegian Eirik, King Eric VII of Denmark , and as Eric King of Sweden...
(1997) - Edvard EriksenEdvard EriksenEdvard Eriksen was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor. He is best known as the creator of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, which he completed in 1913.-External links:...
(1989)
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- Martinus William Ferslew (2001)
- Mathide Fibiger (1971)
- Niels R. Finsen (1960)
- Ole Fisk (2003)
- Wilhelm FreddieWilhelm FreddieWilhelm 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...
(1993) - Frederik V of Denmark (1937)
- Frederik VII of Denmark (1975)
- Frederik VIII of Denmark (1907)
- Frederik IX of Denmark (1948)
- Frederik, Crown Prince of DenmarkFrederik, Crown Prince of DenmarkFrederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, is the heir apparent to the throne of Denmark. Frederik is the elder son of Queen Margrethe II and Henrik, the Prince Consort.-Name and christening:...
(1969 semi-postal) - Lorenz Fröhlich (1975)
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- Jacob GadeJacob GadeJacob Thune Hansen Gade was a Danish violinist and composer, mostly of orchestral popular music....
(1979) - Vincenzo Galeotti (1986)
- Johan Vilhelm GertnerJohan Vilhelm GertnerJohan Vilhelm Gertner was a Danish painter, best known for his portraiture. One of the last students of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, who was known as the father of the Golden Age of Danish Painting, Gertner belonged to the tail end of the Golden Age, a period during which Danish art moved...
(1982) - Harald GiersingHarald GiersingHarald Giersing , a Danish painter, was instrumental in developing the classic modernism movement in Denmark around 1910-1920...
(1991) - Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1972)
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- Vilhelm Hammershoi (1997)
- Constantin HansenConstantin HansenCarl 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...
(1989) - Emil Christian HansenEmil Christian HansenEmil 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....
(1976) - Peter HansenPeter HansenPeter Hansen may refer to:*Peter Marius Hansen, , Danish painter*Peter Hansen , Danish relief worker*Peter Andreas Hansen , Danish astronomer*Peter Hansen , American actor*Peter O...
(1988) - Vilhelm Hansen (2002)
- Hanne Hastrup (2002)
- Osvald HelmuthOsvald HelmuthOsvald Helmuth was a Danish stage and film actor and revue singer.-Biography:HIs career began in Randers in 1913, and he later appeared in the Nørrebro Teater in Copenhagen...
(1999) - Poul HenningsenPoul HenningsenPoul 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:...
(1991) - Sys Hindsbo (2003)
- Ludvig HolbergLudvig HolbergLudvig 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...
(1972)
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- Bernhard Severin IngemannBernhard Severin IngemannBernhard Severin Ingemann was a Danish novelist and poet.Ingemann was born in Thorkildstrup, on the island of Falster, Denmark. The son of a vicar, he was left fatherless in his youth. While a student at the University of Copenhagen he published his first collection of poems Bernhard Severin...
(1989) - Ingrid, Queen of Denmark (1941 semi-postal)
- Bodil IpsenBodil IpsenBodil 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...
(1989) - Pieter IsaacszPieter IsaacszPieter Isaacsz , was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Biography:According to van Mander his father was from Haarlem and he learned to paint in Amsterdam for a year and a half by Cornelis Ketel, and later by Hans von Achen...
(1988)
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- Jacob Christian JacobsenJacob Christian JacobsenJacob Christian Jacobsen , mostly known as J. C. Jacobsen, was a Danish industrialist and philanthropist best known for founding the brewery Carlsberg....
(1947) - Robert JacobsenRobert JacobsenRobert Julius Tommy Jacobsen was a Danish sculptor and painter. The Danish Robert award was named after him.-Biography:...
(1985) - Georg JensenGeorg JensenGeorg 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...
(1966) - Johannes Vilhelm JensenJohannes 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...
(1973) - Frantz Christopher von Jessen (2001)
- Phillip Stein Jönsson (1992)
- Johan Knud Victor Rasmussen (1933)
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- Preben KaasPreben KaasPreben Kaas was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 55 films between 1943 and 1980.He was born in Aalborg, Denmark and died in Denmark.Preben Kaas was married to Anne Marie Lie and Lisbet Dahl...
(1999) - Frans KannikFrans KannikFrans Kannik , was in the beginning educated as danish Screen printing printer. As artist he was self educated and has a wide range. He expressed in paintings, Graphics, Installation arts, Performance arts and some sculptor....
(2002) - Søren KierkegaardSøren KierkegaardSøren 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...
(1955) - Per KirkebyPer KirkebyPer 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...
(1998) - Kirsten KleinKirsten KleinKirsten 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...
(2002) - Thomas Kluge (1999)
- Christen KøbkeChristen KøbkeChristen 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...
(1989) - Johan Peter KochJohan Peter KochJohan Peter Koch was a Danish captain and explorer of the Arctic dependencies of Denmark, born at Vestenskov.He participated in Amdrup's expedition to east Greenland in 1900 and was one of the general staff of the surveying expeditions to Iceland in 1903-1904.In 1906-1908 he was a member of the...
(1994) - Christen Kold (1966)
- August KroghAugust KroghSchack August Steenberg Krogh FRS was a Danish professor of Romani background at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916-1945...
(1980) - Axel Johannes Krøyer (1990)
- Peder Severin KrøyerPeder Severin KrøyerPeder 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...
(1988)
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- Niels LergaardNiels LergaardNiels Lergaard was a Danish painter. After training as a house painter, he spent a few years in Norway, where he became interested in Norwegian landscape painting...
(1995) - Jørn Larsen (2001)
- Johan Thomas Lundbye (1992)
- Vilhelm Lundstrøm (1993)
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- Peter MadsenPeter Madsen (cartoonist)Peter Madsen is an award-winning Danish cartoonist, illustrator, and author. Along with editor Henning Kure and fellow cartoonist Rune T...
(2002) - Lise Malinovsky (1999)
- Margaret I of DenmarkMargaret I of DenmarkMargaret I was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden and founder of the Kalmar Union, which united the Scandinavian countries for over a century. Although she acted as queen regnant, the laws of contemporary Danish succession denied her formal queenship. Her title in Denmark was derived from her...
(1992) - Margrethe II of DenmarkMargrethe II of DenmarkMargrethe II is the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Denmark. In 1972 she became the first female monarch of Denmark since Margaret I, ruler of the Scandinavian countries in 1375-1412 during the Kalmar Union.-Early life:...
(1941 semi-postal) - Wilhelm MarstrandWilhelm MarstrandNicolai Wilhelm Nikolaj Marstrand , painter and illustrator, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to Nicolai Jacob Marstrand, instrument maker and inventor, and Petra Othilia Smith...
(1984) - Andrew MitchellAndrew MitchellThe Right Honourable Andrew John Bower Mitchell MP is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield...
(1990) - Jørgen Mogensen (1992)
- Flemming Quist Møller (2002)
- Henrik de Monpezat (1967)
- Bernard Law Montgomery (1995)
- Kaj Munk (1981)
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- Martin Andersen Nexø (1969)
- Asta NielsenAsta NielsenAsta 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...
(1996) - Carl NielsenCarl NielsenCarl 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...
(1965) - Ejnar NielsenEjnar NielsenEjnar Nielsen was a Danish painter and illustrator, who was a central proponant of Symbolist painting in Danish art. He is also known for his large mosaic on Stærekassen, an extension to the Royal Danish Theatre on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen...
(1966)
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- Dirch PasserDirch PasserDirch 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....
(1999) - Carl-Henning PedersenCarl-Henning PedersenCarl-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....
(1987) - Vilhelm PedersenVilhelm PedersenThomas Vilhelm Pedersen was a Danish artist best known for being the first artist to illustrate the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen....
(1975) - Kjeld PetersenKjeld PetersenKjeld Petersen was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 41 films between 1945 and 1962.He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in Denmark.-Filmography:*Den usynlige hær - 1945*Far betaler' - 1946...
(1999) - Robert Storm PetersenRobert Storm PetersenRobert Storm Petersen was a Danish cartoonist, writer, animator, illustrator, painter and humorist. He is known almost exclusively by his pen name Storm P.- Biography :...
(1982) - Erich Pontoppidan (1998)
- Christian PoulsenChristian PoulsenChristian 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...
(1991) - Valdemar PoulsenValdemar PoulsenValdemar Poulsen was a Danish engineer who developed a magnetic wire recorder in 1899.-Biography:He was born on 23 November 1869 in Copenhagen...
(1969)
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- Rasmus Rask (1987)
- Helge Refn (1985)
- Poul Reichhart (1986 semi-postal)
- Poul ReumertPoul ReumertPoul Reumert was a Danish stage and film actor.-Filmography:* Afgrunden * Frøken Kirkemus * Søren Søndervold * Afsporet * Det brændende spørgsmål...
(2000) - Ole Rømer (1944)
- Borchardt Rollufse (1980)
- Jørgen Ryg (1999)
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- Peter Christian Skovgaard (1992)
- Jens Søndergaard (1995)
- Hans Christian Sonne (1967)
- Nina Sten-Knudsen (2000)
- Niels StensenNicolas StenoNicolas 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...
(1969) - Fritz SybergFritz SybergChristian 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...
(1988)
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- Hans TausenHans TausenHans Tausen , the protagonist of the Danish Reformation, was born at Birkende on Funen in 1494 and died in Ribe in 1561.- Life :...
(1936) - Andreas Thiele (2001)
- Bertel ThorvaldsenBertel ThorvaldsenBertel 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...
(1938) - Kurt TrampedachKurt TrampedachKurt 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...
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- Liva WeelLiva WeelLiva Weel was a Danish singer and actress. She is listed in the book of The 20th century's 100 most important people in Denmark.- Filmography :* Odds 777 * De blaa drenge * Cocktail...
(1999) - Alfred WegenerAlfred WegenerAlfred Lothar Wegener was a German scientist, geophysicist, and meteorologist.He is most notable for his theory of continental drift , proposed in 1912, which hypothesized that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth...
(1994) - Hans WegnerHans WegnerHans Jørgen Wegner, , was a successful Danish furniture designer who contributed to the international popularity of mid-century Danish design. His work belongs to a modernist school with emphasis on functionality. He is probably best known for his chairs.-Early years:Born to cobbler Peter M...
(1991) - Edvard WeieEdvard WeieViggo Thorvald Edvard Weie was a Danish painter. His style was influenced by journeys to Italy and Paris where he came into contact with French impressionists such as Cézanne....
(1991) - Nikoline Werdelin (1992)
- Peter Wessel (1990)
- Jens Ferdinand (1997)
- Bjørn Winblad (1986)
- Niels Winkel (1988)
- Ole Woldbye (2003)
- Ole WormOle WormOle Worm , who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician and antiquary.-Life:...
(1988) - Troels WörselTroels WörselTroels Wörsel is a Danish painter, currently based in Cologne and Pietra Santa."Troels Wörsel is self-taught and since the 1970s.In the 1970s he was interested mostly in Pop art and conceptual art...
(1993)
Danish West Indies
- Christian IX of DenmarkChristian IX of DenmarkChristian 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...
(1905) - Christian X of DenmarkChristian X of DenmarkChristian X was King of Denmark from 1912 to 1947 and the only King of Iceland between 1918 and 1944....
(1915) - Frederik VIII of Denmark (1907)