List of Famous people born in Denmark, Kingdom of Denmark
Emil Bærentzen
Emilius Ditlev Bærentzen, usually known as Emil Bærentzen, was a Danish portrait painter and lithographer, active during the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He founded Em. Bærentzen & Co..
Nicolaj Kopernikus
Nicolaj Kopernikus is a Danish actor most famous for his portrayal of Vagn Skærbæk in the first series of the crime drama series The Killing.
Charlotte Baden
Charlotte Baden was a Danish writer, feminist and letter-writer.
Henning Carlsen
Henning Carlsen was a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama Hunger (Sult) was nominated for the Palme D'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Carlsen also won the Bodil Award the following year for the comedy People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart. Acting as his own producer since 1960, Carlsen has directed more than 25 films, 19 for which he wrote the screenplay. In 2006, he received the Golden Swan Lifetime Achievement Award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival.
Carl Frederik Bricka
Carl Frederik Bricka was a Danish archivist, historian, and biographer.
Søren Pind
Søren Pind is a Danish lawyer and politician, a member of the center-right party Venstre. He served as Danish Minister of Justice from 2015 to 2016, and has served as Minister of Science, Technology, Information and Higher Education from 2016 to May 2018, where he resigned because he was tired of politics.
Johan Henrik Nebelong
Johan Henrik Nebelong was a Danish architect. He worked in Norway from 1840 to 1853 and was best known for interior design work on Oscarshall (1847–1852). Nebelong also taught at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen.
George Schnéevoigt
George Schnéevoigt was a Danish film director, cinematographer, and actor of the 1910s to early 1940s. Schnéevoigt was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 23 December 1893 to the Finnish-born photographer and actress Siri Schnéevoigt, and Hermann Friedrich Fischer. He was the father of photographer Alf Schnéevoigt.
Kristian Jensen
Kristian Jensen is a Danish politician who was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark from 2015 to 2016, and Minister of Finance from 2016 to 2019. Jensen is a member of the liberal party Venstre. He briefly served as acting chairman of Venstre in 2019.
Inger Støjberg
Inger Støjberg is a Danish politician and Member of Parliament, who served as the Minister for Immigration, Integration and Housing from June 2015 until June 2019. A member of the Danish parliament since the 2001 elections, she is a member of the liberal Venstre party. She has previously served as Minister for Employment.