List of Famous people born in Denmark, Kingdom of Denmark
Dan Frost
Dan Frost is a retired male track cyclist from Denmark, who won the gold medal for his native country in the men's points race at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. His other major victories include the world title in the same event in 1986. He is the brother of cyclist Ken Frost. After retiring from racing he worked in management for Bjarne Riis's Team CSC for nine seasons before joining Team Sky as a directeur sportif for 2014 before leaving competitive cycling to organise bike trips and work with the Amaury Sport Organisation, the organisers of the Tour de France.
Czeslaw Kozon
Czesław Kozon is the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Copenhagen.
Jimmi Madsen
Jimmi Madsen is a Danish former cyclist who raced professionally from 1993 to 2004. He rode for Denmark on the track in four Olympic Games: 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000. He won the bronze medal in the Men's team pursuit in the 1992 Summer Olympics. Madsen was also part of the Danish squad that took the bronze in the team pursuit at the 1993 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He was a three-time European track champion, winning the European madison title in 1996 and 1997 alongside Jens Veggerby, and a European Derny championship in 2000. Madsen also won ten six-day races during his career.
Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ
Carl Christopher Georg Andræ was a Danish politician and mathematician. From 1842 until 1854, he was professor of mathematics and mechanics at the national military college. He was elected to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1853. Andræ was by royal appointment a member of the 1848 Danish Constituent Assembly. In 1854, he became Finance Minister in the Cabinet of Bang before also becoming Council President of Denmark 1856-1857 as leader of the Cabinet of Andræ. After being replaced as Council President by Carl Christian Hall in 1857 Andræ continued as Finance Minister in the Cabinet of Hall I until 1858. Being an individualist he, after the defeat of the National Liberals, never formally joined any political group but remained for the rest of his life a sceptical de facto conservative spectator of the Constitutional Struggle.
Johannes Knudsen
Martin Pedersen
Martin Pedersen is a Danish professional road bicycle racer for UCI Continental Team Christina Watches–Dana. He rode with Team PH in 2004, and after a great 2005 season with many wins for the small, talent producing Team GLS, he signed his first professional contract with Team CSC for the 2006 and 2007 seasons.
Peter Rasmussen
Peter Rasmussen is a Danish former association football player. He won the 1995 Danish Superliga with AaB and played 254 games and scored 68 goals in two stints with the club, interrupted by two seasons with VfB Stuttgart in the Fußball-Bundesliga. He ended his career with Viborg FF in 1998. He played 13 games for the Denmark national football team from 1989 to 1996, and scored two goals against Mexico and Argentina as Denmark won the 1995 FIFA Confederations Cup.
Jacob Paludan
Casper Jørgensen
Casper Jørgensen is a retired Danish professional racing cyclist. He was forced to retire due to a knee injury. He is the current national team coach for the Men's team pursuit.
Reinhardt Kristensen
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen is a Danish invertebrate biologist, noted for the discovery of three new phyla of microscopic animals: the Loricifera in 1983, the Cycliophora in 1995, and the Micrognathozoa in 2000. He is also considered one of the world's leading experts on tardigrades. His recent field of work revolves mostly around arctic biology.