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Anders Fogh Rasmussen |
Secretary General of NATO (2009), Former Prime Minister |
Kong Knud |
King Canute |
A.P. Møller |
Arnold Peter Møller, Mærsk founder |
Kurt Trampedach |
Painter and sculptor |
Arne Jacobsen |
Architect and designer |
Lars Løkke Rasmussen |
Prime Minister (2009) |
Asger Jorn |
Artist and essayist |
Lars von Trier |
Film director (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark) |
Beowulf |
Epic hero |
Mads Mikkelsen |
Actor (Casino Royale) |
Bille August |
Film director (Pelle the Conqueror, House of the Spirits) |
Michael Laudrup |
Football/soccer player |
Bjarne Riis |
Cyclist (won Tour de France with help of banned substances) |
Niels Bohr |
Physicist |
Bjørn Lomborg |
Skeptical environmentalist |
Odin |
Nordic god |
Brian Laudrup |
Football/soccer player |
Ole Rømer |
Astronomer (also invented first street lights in Copenhagen) |
Brigitte Nielsen |
Ex Mrs Stallone |
Otto Jespersen |
Linguist |
Carl Nielsen |
Composer and violinist |
Peter Brixtofte |
*Mayor of Farum, criminal |
Connie Hedegaard |
EU Climate Commissioner (2009) |
Peter Høeg |
Author (Smilla's Sense of Snow) |
Connie Nielsen |
Actress (Gladiator, Basic) |
Peter Schmeichel |
Football/soccer player ("World's Best Goalkeeper" in 1992 and 1993) |
Den Lille Havfrue |
The Little Mermaid |
Pia Kjærsgaard |
Anti-immigration politician, leader of the Danish Folk Party |
Dirch Passer |
*Actor |
Piet Hein |
*Writer, scientist, designer |
Dronning Margrethe |
Queen Margrethe |
Søren Kierkegård |
Existentialist philosopher and theologian |
Ebbe Sand |
Football/soccer player |
Stein Bagger |
Entrepreneur and fraudster (defrauded 1.2 billion Danish kroner) |
Freja |
Nordic goddess |
Susanne Bier |
Film director (Things We Lost in the Fire) |
Georg Jensen |
Silversmith |
Thor |
God of thunder |
Ghita Nørby |
*Actress |
Tove Ditlevsen |
*Female poet and author |
H. C. Andersen |
Hans Christian Andersen, storyteller |
Tycho Brahe |
Astronomer |
Helena Christensen |
Fashion model |
Victor Borge |
Comedian (aka The Clown Prince of Denmark, The Great Dane) |
Jørn Utzon |
Architect (Sydney Opera House) |
Viggo Mortensen |
Actor (The Lord of the Rings, Hidalgo, The Road) |
Karen Blixen |
Author (Out of Africa, Babette's Feast) |
Vitus Bering |
Navigator and explorer |
Kim Larsen
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*Rock musician |
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