List of Famous people born in Denmark, Kingdom of Denmark

Hannibal Sehested

First Name Hannibal
Last Name Sehested
Born on November 16, 1842
Died on September 19, 1924 (aged 81)

Hannibal Sehested was Danish landowner and Council President from 27 April 1900 to 24 July 1901 as the leader of the Cabinet of Sehested. He was the last Danish Council President appointed by the king without support from the Danish Parliament before Denmark switched to a parliamentary system and the secret ballot.

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Emilie Mundt

First Name Emilie
Born on August 22, 1842
Died on October 25, 1922 (aged 80)

Caroline Emilie Mundt was a Danish painter, known for her portraits of children.

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Fredrik Nielsen

First Name Fredrik
Born on October 30, 1846
Died on March 24, 1907 (aged 60)
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Niels Peter Jensen

First Name Niels
Born on July 23, 1802
Died on October 19, 1846 (aged 44)

Niels Peter Jensen was a Danish composer, flutist and organist.

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Poul Schierbeck

First Name Poul
Last Name Schierbeck
Born on June 8, 1888
Died on February 9, 1949 (aged 60)

Poul Schierbeck was a Danish composer and organist. He was a pupil of Carl Nielsen and Thomas Laub. From 1931 he taught composition and instrumentation at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. His pupils include Axel Borup-Jørgensen, Jørgen Jersild, Leif Kayser, Svend S. Schultz, and Leif Thybo.

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Marie Luplau

First Name Marie
Last Name Luplau
Born on December 7, 1848
Died on August 16, 1925 (aged 76)

Henriette Marie Antonette Luplau was a Danish artist and educator, active in the women's movement. She conducted an art school for women in Copenhagen with her partner, artist Emilie Mundt.

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M.C. Lottrup

First Name M.C.
Born on May 12, 1815
Died on November 21, 1870 (aged 55)

Malthe Conrad Lottrup was a Danish merchant, politician and brewer.

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Alfred Lind

Søren Estrup Alfred Lind
First Name Alfred
Born on March 27, 1879
Died on April 29, 1959 (aged 80)

Alfred Lind was a Danish cinematographer, screenwriter, and film director of the silent era. Lind was a prominent director in early Scandinavian cinema, and also worked in the German film industry. He is believed to have shot the earliest surviving footage of Iceland from 1906.

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Louise Ravn-Hansen

First Name Louise
Last Name Ravn-Hansen
Born on July 19, 1849
Died on January 17, 1909 (aged 59)

Louise Christiane Ravn-Hansen was a Danish landscape painter and etcher.

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Johan Christian Fabricius

First Name Johan
Died on March 3, 1808

Johan Christian Fabricius was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others. He was a student of Carl Linnaeus, and is considered one of the most important entomologists of the 18th century, having named nearly 10,000 species of animals, and established the basis for the modern insect classification.

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