List of Famous people born in Avannaata, Kingdom of Denmark

Nukâka Coster-Waldau, better known professionally as Nukâka, is a Danish-Greenlandic singer, actress, and a former Miss Greenland. She is married to Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and has two daughters with him.

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 sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit.

Elisabeth Johansen was a Greenlandic midwife and politician. She was the first certified midwife in the country, as well as the first woman to attain a political office in Greenland. She was the first women appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.

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

Ricky Enø Jørgensen is a Danish racing cyclist for Designa Køkken-Knudsgaard. Enø Jørgensen was born in Ilulissat, Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark.

Thue Christiansen is a Greenlandic Inuit teacher, artist and politician. Christiansen is best known as the designer of the current flag of Greenland, which was adopted on 21 June 1985. Christiansen also served as the Greenlandic Minister of Culture and Education from 1979, when Greenland was granted home rule, until 1983.