Frequent persons on Denmark's street signs

Odin

92 Odin is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge,...

Thor

84 Thor is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, the protection of...

Freyja

69 In Norse mythology, Freyja is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, is...

Prince Valdemar of Denmark

43 Prince Valdemar of Denmark was a member of the Danish royal family. He was the third son and youngest child of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. He had a lifelong naval career.

Frederik IX of Denmark

41 Frederik IX was King of Denmark from 1947 to 1972.                                                 

Bernhard Severin Ingemann

38 Bernhard Severin Ingemann was a Danish novelist and poet.                                           

Jeppe Aakjær

38 Jeppe Aakjær was a Danish poet and novelist, a member of the 'Jutland Movement' in Danish literature". A regionalist, much of his writings were about his native Jutland. He was known for writings...

Steen Steensen Blicher

38 Steen Steensen Blicher was an author and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark.                   

Niels Bjerre

36 Niels Jakob Jakobsen Bjerre var en dansk maler og fætter til Kristen Bjerre.                       

Thomas Kingo

36 Thomas Hansen Kingo was a Danish bishop, poet and hymnwriter born in Slangerup, near Copenhagen. His work marked the high point of Danish baroque poetry.

Hans Christian Andersen

34 Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.

Hans Christian Ørsted

33 Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism....

Niels Juel

33 Niels Juel was a Danish admiral and naval hero. He served as supreme command of the Dano-Norwegian Navy during the late 17th century and oversaw development of the Danish-Norwegian Navy.

Ole Rømer

32 Ole Christensen Rømer was a Danish astronomer who, in 1676, made the first measurement of the speed of light and discovery that light travels at a finite speed. Rømer also invented the modern...

Niels Bohr

31 Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr...

Ludvig Holberg

29 Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano–Norwegian dual monarchy. He was influenced by...

Louise of Sweden

28 Louise of Sweden was Queen of Denmark from 1906 until 1912 as the wife of King Frederick VIII.     

Kaj Munk

28 Kaj Harald Leininger Munk was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II. He is commemorated as a...

Herman Bang

27 Herman Joachim Bang was a Danish journalist and author, one of the men of the Modern Breakthrough. 

Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg

25 Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg was Queen of Denmark as the second spouse of King Christian VIII between 1839 and 1848.

Niels Ryberg Finsen

24 Niels Ryberg Finsen was a physician and scientist. In 1903, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially...

Christian Winther

24 Rasmus Villads Christian Ferdinand Winther was a Danish lyric poet.                                 

Dagmar of Bohemia

23 Dagmar of Bohemia was Queen of Denmark as the first spouse of King Valdemar II. She was the daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia and his first wife, Adelaide of Meissen.

Eric I of Denmark

23 Eric I, also known as Eric the Good, was King of Denmark following his brother Olaf I Hunger in 1095. He was a son of Sweyn II. His mother's identity remains unknown. He married Boedil Thurgotsdatter.

Johannes Ewald

23 Johannes Ewald was a Danish national dramatist, psalm writer and poet. The lyrics of a song from one of his plays are used for one of the Danish national anthems, Kong Christian stod ved højen mast...

Jens Baggesen

21 Jens Immanuel Baggesen was a major Danish poet, librettist, critic, and comic writer.               

Johan Skjoldborg

21 Johan Skjoldborg was a Danish educator, novelist, playwright and memoirist.                        

Ingrid of Sweden

20 Ingrid of Sweden was Queen of Denmark from 20 April 1947 to 14 January 1972 as the wife of King Frederik IX and continued to be styled Queen Ingrid of Denmark after his death.

Johan Ludvig Heiberg (historian)

19 Johan Ludvig Heiberg was a Danish philologist and historian. He is best known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and for his edition of Euclid's Elements that...

Jacob Ellehammer

18 Jacob Christian Hansen-Ellehammer was a Danish watchmaker and inventor born in Bakkebølle, Denmark. He is remembered chiefly for his contributions to powered flight.

Herluf Trolle

17 Herluf Trolle was a Danish naval hero, Admiral of the Fleet and co-founder of Herlufsholm School, a private boarding school at Næstved on the island of Zealand in Denmark.

Prince George of Denmark

17 Prince George of Denmark and Norway was the husband of Anne, Queen of Great Britain. He was the consort of the British monarch from Anne's accession on 8 March 1702 until his death in 1708.

Olaf Rye

17 Olaf Rye was a Norwegian-Danish military officer. He died in battle during the First Schleswig War and is considered to have been a Danish war hero.

Saint George

17 Saint George, also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army. Of Cappadocian Greek origin,...

Peter Willemoes

17 Peter Willemoes was a Danish naval officer. He fell in the Battle of Zealand Point. He is commemorated by a statue on the harbourfront in his native town of Assens.

Hans Egede

16 Hans Poulsen Egede was a Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a successful mission among...

Hans Tausen

16 Hans Tausen (Tavsen) nicknamed the “Danish Luther” was the leading Lutheran theologian of the Danish Reformation in Denmark. He served as Bishop of Ribe and published the first translation of the...

Carl Nielsen

15 Carl August Nielsen was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.

Esbern Snare

13 Esbern Snare, also known as Esbern the Resolute, (1127–1204) was a høvding, or chieftain, royal chancellor and crusader. His family were members of the powerful Hvide clan. In 1192, during the...

Knud Rasmussen

13 Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog...

Kai Lykke

13 Kai Lykke or Cai Lykke was a Danish nobleman and courtier.                                         

Mads Clausen

13 Mads Clausen born in Elsmark, parish of Havnbjerg, municipality of Nordborg in Denmark, was a Danish industrialist and founder of Danfoss in 1933. He died in transit from Elsmark to Sønderborg.

Vitus Bering

12 Vitus Jonassen Bering, also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering, was a Danish cartographer and explorer in Russian service, and an officer in the Russian Navy. He is known as a leader of two Russian...

Carit Etlar

12 Carit Etlar, the better-known pen name of Carl Brosbøll, was a Danish author, known mostly for his 1853 book Gjøngehøvdingen about the eponymous Svend Poulsen Gønge.

Karen Blixen

12 Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen,...

Jens Søndergaard

12 Jens Søndergaard was a Danish expressionist painter. He specialised in strongly coloured landscapes depicting his feelings for the power of nature and the sea. Søndergaard won both national and...

Peder Skram

11 Peder Skram was a Danish Admiral and naval hero.                                                   

Johan Rantzau

11 Johan Rantzau was a German-Danish general and statesman known for his role in the Count's Feud. His military leadership ensured the succession of Christian III to the throne, which brought about the...

Carl Ploug

11 Carl Parmo Ploug was a Danish poet, editor and politician.                                         

Henrik Ibsen

11 Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most...

Holger Drachmann

11 Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann was a Danish poet, dramatist and painter. He was a member of the Skagen artistic colony and became a figure of the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough Movement.

Margrethe II

11 Margrethe II is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until her abdication on 14 January 2024. Having reigned for exactly 52 years, she was the...

Georg Brandes

11 Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who greatly influenced Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist...

Cort Adeler

10 Cort Sivertsen Adeler, known in Denmark as Coort Sifvertsen Adelaer, in the Netherlands as Koert Sievertsen Adelaer and in Italy as Curzio Suffrido Adelborst, was the name of honour given to Kurt...

Jakob Knudsen

10 Jakob Christian Lindberg Knudsen was a Danish author, educator and clergyman.                       

Hans Christian Lumbye

10 Hans Christian Lumbye was a Danish composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, among other things.

Niels Gade

10 Niels Wilhelm Gade was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. Together with Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, he was the leading Danish musician of his day, in the period known as...

Olfert Fischer

10 Johan Olfert Fischer was a Danish officer in the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy. He commanded the Dano-Norwegian fleet against British forces under Lord Nelson during the Danish defeat at Copenhagen on 2...

Mathilde Fibiger

10 Mathilde Fibiger was a Danish feminist, novelist, and telegraphist.                                 

Peder Severin Krøyer

10 Peder Severin Krøyer, also known as P. S. Krøyer, was a Danish painter.                             

Saint Peter

10 Saint Peter, also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He...

Gustav Wied

10 Gustav Johannes Wied was a Danish writer. He was generally known as a satirical critic of society in his time and he deliberately used his writing talents to expose the establishment, bourgeoisie and...

Christen Mikkelsen Kold

10 Christen Mikkelsen Kold was a Danish teacher, notable for creating the Danish Folk high school system, for non-degree education of adults.

Albert Dam

10 (Niels) Albert Dam var en dansk forfatter.                                                         

Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen

9 Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen was a Danish chemist noted in thermochemistry for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle.

Thit Jensen

9 Maria Kirstine Dorothea Jensen was a Danish novelist and author who wrote under the name Thit Jensen. She is known for her short stories, plays, and socially-critical articles.

Niels Ebbesen

9 Niels Ebbesen was a Danish squire and national hero, known for assassinating Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg in 1340. From 1332 to 1340, Count Gerhard was the lord of both Jutland and Funen....

Poul Møller

9 Poul Møller was a Danish Conservative People's Party politician.                                   

Thøger Larsen

9 Thøger Larsen var en dansk digter, oversætter og maler.                                             

Carsten Hauch

9 Johannes Carsten Hauch was a Danish poet.                                                           

Frederik Paludan-Müller

9 Frederik Paludan-Müller was a Danish poet, the third son of Jens Paludan-Müller and born in Kerteminde, on the island of Funen.

Peter Holm (museum director)

9 Peter Holm was a Danish museum director and curator. Holm is best known for creating The Old Town Museum in Aarhus, Denmark, an open-air 'living' museum on the history of Danish life and architecture...

Skjalm Hvide

8 Skjalm Hvide, was the Earl of Zealand in Denmark in the end of the Viking Age (793–1066) and up to his death. Skjalm's father was Toke Trylle, whose father was Slag, based on Absalon, a medieval...

Steen Bille

8 Steen Bille (1565–1629) was a Danish councillor and diplomat.                                       

Johannes V. Jensen

8 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century. He was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the rare strength and...

Anna Ancher

8 Anna Ancher was a Danish artist associated with the Skagen Painters, an artist colony on the northern point of Jylland, Denmark. She is considered to be one of Denmark's greatest visual artists.

Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen

8 Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen was a Danish author, ethnologist, and explorer, from Ringkøbing. He was most notably an explorer of Greenland.

Fridtjof Nansen

8 Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and...

Henrik Gerner

7 Henrik Gerner (1742–1787) was a Danish naval officer who specialised in shipbuilding and naval architecture. His interests as an entrepreneurial engineer led to unsinkable gun platforms, horse-driven...

Erik Bøgh

7 Erik Bøgh was a Danish journalist, playwright and songwriter. From 1881 to 1899 he worked at the Royal Danish Theatre.

Christian X of Denmark

7 Christian X was King of Denmark from 1912 until his death in 1947. He was also the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, holding the title as a result of the personal union between Denmark and...

Martin of Tours

7 Martin of Tours, also known as Martin the Merciful, was the third bishop of Tours. He has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints in France, heralded as the patron saint of...

Olaf Rude

7 Olaf Rude was a Danish painter. He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Art from 1953 to 1956. He is remembered in particular for his paintings of oak trees at Skejten on Lolland, two of...

Nis Petersen

7 Nis Petersen var en af sin tids mest populære danske digtere og forfattere. Han var fætter til Kaj Munk. Han debuterede i 1926 med digtsamlingen Nattens pibere. Hans største romaner er Sandalmagernes...

Peter Hansen (painter)

7 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.

Peter Lange-Müller

6 Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller was a Danish composer and pianist. His compositional style was influenced by Danish folk music and by the work of Robert Schumann; Johannes Brahms; and his Danish...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

6 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually...

Buris Henriksen

6 Buris Henriksen også kendt som Prins Buris var søn af Henrik Skadelår og Ingerid Ragnvaldsdatter (no). Han forsøgte uden held at vælte Valdemar den Store af tronen i 1167, og blev fængslet på Søborg...

Franz Schubert

6 Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works,...

Skipper Clement

6 Klemen Andersen "Skipper Clement" was a Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of the peasant rebellion that was part of the civil war known as the Count's Feud.

Holger Danske (resistance group)

6 Holger Danske was a Danish resistance group during World War II. It was among the largest Danish resistance groups and consisted of around 350 volunteers towards the end of the war. The group carried...

Jens Jessen

6 Jens Jessen var en dansk journalist og politiker.                                                   

Niels Peter Høeg Hagen

6 Niels Peter Høeg Hagen was a Danish military officer, polar explorer and cartographer. He participated and perished in the ill-fated Denmark expedition to NE Greenland in 1906.

Nicolas Steno

6 Niels Steensen ; 1 January 1638 – 25 November 1686 [NS: 11 January 1638 – 5 December 1686]) was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later...

Carl Bloch

6 Carl Heinrich Bloch was a Danish artist.                                                           

Marie Grubbe

6 Fru Marie Grubbe (1643–1718) was a member of the Danish nobility who drew a lot of attention by her many extramarital affairs. She has been the inspiration for books, plays and operas.

Stig Andersen Hvide

6 Stig Andersen Hvide was a Danish nobleman and magnate, known as the leading man among the outlaws after the murder of King Eric V of Denmark. In Danish tradition, he is known as Marsk Stig.

Valdemar Poulsen

6 Valdemar Poulsen was a Danish engineer who developed a magnetic wire recorder called the telegraphone in 1898. He also made significant contributions to early radio technology, including the first...

Eric VI of Denmark

6 Eric VI Menved was King of Denmark (1286–1319). A son of King Eric V and Agnes of Brandenburg, he became king in 1286 at age 12, when his father was murdered on 22 November by unknown assailants. On...

Iver Huitfeldt

6 Iver Huitfeldt was a Danish-Norwegian naval officer who was killed in action, when he commanded the ship Dannebroge during the Great Northern War 1700–1721.

Søren Kierkegaard

6 Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on...

Otte Rud

6 Otte Ruud, born 1520, died 1565, was a Danish-Norwegian admiral during the Northern Seven Years' War, who died in Swedish captivity. He spent his youth in foreign military service, and then held...

Niels Ebbesen Hansen

6 Niels Ebbesen Hansen was a Danish-American horticulturist, botanist, and agricultural explorer for the United States Department of Agriculture and the state of South Dakota. He searched the harsh...

Morten Børup

6 Morten Børup (1446–1526) was a Danish educator, cathedral cantor and Latin poet.                   

Roald Amundsen

6 Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Christian Richardt

6 Christian Richardt was a Danish writer. He wrote the libretto for the opera Drot og marsk by Peter Heise.

Knuth Becker

6 Carl Henrik Knuth Becker var en dansk forfatter og godsejer.                                       

Jens Munk

5 Jens Munk was a Danish-Norwegian navigator and explorer. He entered into the service of King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway and is most noted for his attempts to find the Northwest Passage.

Canute Lavard

5 Canute Lavard was a Danish prince. Later he was the first Duke of Schleswig and the first border prince who was both a Danish and a German vassal, a position leading towards the historical double...

Tycho Brahe

5 Tycho Brahe, generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer of the Renaissance, known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations. He was known during his...

Emil Reesen

5 Emil Reesen was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist. Aside from composing for ballets and operas he was also a noted film score composer. He is remembered mainly for his operetta Farinelli...

J. Hans D. Jensen

5 Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen was a German nuclear physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, where he contributed to the separation of...

Peder Oxe

5 Peder Oxe was a Danish finance minister and Steward of the Realm.                                   

Hans Peter Hansen

5 Hans Peter Hansen was a Danish xylographer who specialized in portraits.                           

H. C. Hansen

5 Hans Christian Svane Hansen, often known as H. C. Hansen or simply H. C., was a Danish politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1955 until his death in 1960. A Social Democrat, Hansen...

Niels Bugge

5 Niels Bugge var en jysk stormand og oprørsleder.                                                   

Peter Freuchen

5 Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen was a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist. He is notable for his role in Arctic exploration, namely the Thule Expeditions.

Tove Ditlevsen

5 Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen was a Danish poet and author. With published works in a variety of genres, she was one of Denmark's best-known authors by the time of her death.

Ejnar Mikkelsen

5 Ejnar Mikkelsen was a Danish polar explorer and writer. He is most known for his expeditions to Greenland.

Hans Christian Gram

5 Hans Christian Joachim Gram was a Danish bacteriologist noted for his development of the Gram stain, still a standard technique to classify bacteria and make them more visible under a microscope.

Ludwig van Beethoven

4 Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music...

Joseph Haydn

4 Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical...

Laurids Skau

4 Laurids Pedersen Skau var bestemt til at være landmand, men blev siden amtsforvalter og politiker. Han blev en fremtrædende person i kampen for danske interesser og bevarelsen af det danske sprog i...

Peter Bang (engineer)

4 Peter Boas Bang was a Danish engineer and entrepreneur. In the year 1925 he founded the company Bang & Olufsen with Svend Olufsen.

Gioachino Rossini

4 Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music. He set new standards...

Svend Poulsen

4 Svend Poulsen, also referred to as Svend Poulsen Gønge was a Danish military commander in the 17th century, serving in the armies of Christian IV, Frederick III, and Christian V. He fought in the...

Thomas Edison

4 Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These...

Gustav Johannsen

4 Gustav Henrik Jøns Johannsen var en dansk journalist og politiker.                                 

Orla Lehmann

4 Peter Martin Orla Lehmann was a Danish statesman, a key figure in the development of Denmark's parliamentary government.

Henrik Hertz

4 Henrik Hertz was a Danish poet.                                                                     

Sophus Bauditz

4 Sophus Gustav Bauditz var en dansk skolemand, forfatter og dramatiker.                             

Eric V of Denmark

4 Eric V Klipping was King of Denmark from 1259 to 1286. After his father Christopher I died, his mother Margaret Sambiria ruled Denmark in his name until 1266, proving to be a competent regent....

Selma Lagerlöf

4 Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was...

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

4 Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, also known by his abbreviated nickname NHØP, was a Danish jazz double bassist.

Ole Jensen (neuroscientist)

4 Ole Jensen is a Danish neuroscientist and professor of translational neuroscience at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. He is known for his research work on applying...

Søren Kanne

4 Søren Kanne var en dansk husmand, bosat ved Grenaa, der i 1835 opnåede berømmelse ved at redde en forlist skipper.

Asser Rig

4 Asser Rig was a jarl and chieftain from Zealand, Denmark, a son of Skjalm Hvide and Signe Asbjørnsdatter. They are sometimes referred to as Asser Rig Skjalmsen Hvide.

Klaus Berntsen

4 Klaus Berntsen was a Danish politician, representing the Liberal party, Venstre. He was Council President of Denmark from 1910 to 1913. He served as minister of defence from 1910 to 1913 and again...

Ole Worm

4 Ole Worm, who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he taught...

Asger Jorn

4 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. He was born in Vejrum, in...

Gertrud Rask

4 Gertrud Rask was the first wife of the Danish-Norwegian missionary to Greenland Hans Egede and was the mother of the missionary and translator Paul Egede.

Jørgen Brønlund

4 Jørgen Brønlund was a Greenlandic polar explorer, educator, and catechist. He participated in two Danish expeditions to Greenland in the early 20th century.

Jacob Gade

4 Jacob Thune Hansen Gade was a Danish violinist and composer, mostly of orchestral popular music. He is remembered today for a single tune, Jalousie.

Rudolf Diesel

4 Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer who is famous for having invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel; both are named after him.

Erik Eriksen

4 Erik Eriksen was a Danish politician, who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1950 to 1953 and as the fourth President of the Nordic Council in 1956. Eriksen was leader of the Danish Liberal...

Johannes Brahms

4 Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes...

Inge Lehmann

4 Inge Lehmann was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist who is known for her discovery in 1936 of the solid inner core that exists within the molten outer core of the Earth. The seismic discontinuity...

Christian IX of Denmark

3 Christian IX was King of Denmark from 15 November 1863 until his death in 1906. From 1863 to 1864, he was concurrently Duke of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg.

Edith Rode

3 Edith Rode née Nebelong was a Danish novelist and a journalist with Berlingske Tidende. She also ran a popular correspondence column for the magazine Familie Journalen. In addition to fiction, she...

Frederick VII of Denmark

3 Frederick VII was King of Denmark from 1848 to 1863. He was the last Danish monarch of the older Royal branch of the House of Oldenburg and the last king of Denmark to rule as an absolute monarch....

Harald Kidde

3 Harald Henrik Sager Kidde was a Danish writer and brother of the politician Aage Kidde. He is best known for the novel Helten, which is one of the key novels in Danish literature. Kidde died of...

Niels Hemmingsen

3 Niels Hemmingsen, Latinized Nicolaus Hemmingius, was a Danish Lutheran theologian. He was pastor of the Church of the Holy Ghost, Copenhagen and professor at the University of Copenhagen. The street...

Rasmus Rask

3 Rasmus Kristian Rask was a Danish linguist and philologist. He wrote several grammars and worked on comparative phonology and morphology. Rask traveled extensively to study languages, first to...

Helge Rode

3 Helge Rode was a Danish writer and critic, and journalist for Politiken, Berlingske Tidende, and Illustreret Tidende. He was a son of Margrethe Rode, the brother of politician Ove Rode, and father of...

Olaf Poulsen

3 Olaf Poulsen may refer to:Olaf Poulsen (actor), Danish actor Olaf Poulsen (Norway), Norwegian sports official Olaf Klitgaard Poulsen, Danish rower

Holger Sørensen (arkitekt)

3 Holger Verner Sørensen var en dansk modernistisk arkitekt.                                         

Mary Magdalene

3 Mary Magdalene was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection. She is mentioned by name...

Ove Gjedde

3 Ove Gjedde was a Danish nobleman and Admiral of the Realm (Rigsadmiral). He established the Danish colony at Tharangambadi and constructed Fort Dansborg as the base for Danish settlement. He was a...

Rasmus Nielsen (philosopher)

3 Rasmus Nielsen was a Danish philosopher and professor, as well as a critic of Søren Kierkegaard.   

Jens Peter Jacobsen

3 Jens Peter Jacobsen was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern...

Michael Ancher

3 Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish realist artist, and widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen.

Carl Andersen

3 Carl Andersen may refer to:Carl Andersen (gymnast) (1879–1967), Danish architect who competed as a gymnast in the 1906 and 1908 Olympics Carl Rudolf Andersen (1899–1983), Danish gymnast who competed...

Karl Jensen (painter)

3 Karl Georg Jensen was a Danish painter. He is remembered for his landscapes of northern Zealand and for his architectural interiors.

Anders Nielsen (politician)

3 Anders Nielsen was a Danish farmer, editor, politician, and Minister for Agriculture. He was elected for Venstre, and served as minister from 1908 to 1909 in the governments of both Niels Neergaard...

Arnold Peter Møller

3 Arnold Peter Møller, better known as A. P. Møller, was a Danish shipping magnate, businessman who was the founder of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group in 1904.

Frédéric Chopin

3 Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era,...

Frederik Jensen

3 Frederik Jensen was a Danish stage and film actor.                                                 

Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

3 Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was Queen of Denmark from 1912 to 1947, as well as Queen of Iceland from 1918 to 1944 as the spouse of King Christian X.

H.P. Hanssen

3 Hans Peter Hanssen, også kaldet H.P. Hanssen Nørremølle var en sønderjysk politiker og organisator af den danske bevægelse i den periode, hvor Sønderjylland var tysk.

Peder Madsen

3 Peder Madsen was a Danish theologian and Bishop of the Diocese of Zealand from 1909 until his death in 1911. Prior to being ordained as a bishop, he had been a professor and the rector of the...

Jens Jensen (landscape architect)

3 Jens Jensen was a Danish-American landscape architect.                                             

Kjeld Abell

3 Kjeld Abell was a Danish playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical designer. Born in Ribe, Denmark, Abell's first designs were seen in ballets directed by George Balanchine at Copenhagen's Royal...

Peder Nielsen

3 Peder Nielsen was a Danish librarian and entomologist who specialised in the order Diptera especially Nematocera.

J.P. Nielsen

3 Jens Peter Nielsen var en dansk politiker.                                                         

Niels Nielsen (mathematician)

3 Niels Nielsen was a Danish mathematician who specialised in mathematical analysis.                 

Johannes Gutenberg

3 Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in...

Jens Winther

3 Jens Winther was a Danish jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader. He composed for and played in a long line of European big bands and other orchestras. His work includes compositions for...

Niels Johannes Fjord

3 Niels Johannes Fjord, often referred to as N. J. Fjord, was a Danish Professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University. He was a pioneer in dairy and milk research in the mid-1800s. He...

Emma Gad

3 Emma Gad, born Emma Halkier, was a Danish writer and socialite who wrote plays and books that were often satirical. Although she was a prolific writer, many of her works fell into obscurity after her...