List of Famous people born in Denmark, Kingdom of Denmark

Magnus Landin Jacobsen is a Danish handballer for THW Kiel and the Danish national team.

Lars Lunde is a Danish former professional football player, who played in the striker position. Lunde got his breakthrough with Brøndby IF in 1983, and he made his debut for the Denmark national football team in October 1983. He was sold to Young Boys Bern in Switzerland, before moving to German club Bayern Munich in 1986. He was a part of the Bayern team which won the German Bundesliga championship in 1987, and he came on as a late substitute when Bayern lost the 1987 European Cup Final to FC Porto. He played the last of his three matches for the Danish national team in April 1987, before leaving Bayern during the 1987–88 season. He went on to play for a number of smaller clubs, ending his career with FC Baden in Switzerland.

Henrik Toft Hansen is a Danish handball player for Paris Saint-Germain and the Danish national team.

Bodil Ipsen was a Danish actress and film director, and is considered one of the great stars of Danish cinematic history. Her acting career, which began in theater and silent films, was marked by leading roles in large folk comedies and melodramas. However, it was as a director that she was most influential: directing the first Danish film noir and making several dark psychological thrillers during the 1940s and 1950s. Ipsen's name along with that of Bodil Kjer is given to Denmark's most celebrated film prize, the Bodil Award.

Henrik Pontoppidan was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but despairing, later in his life, of its realization — present an unusually comprehensive picture of his country and his epoch. As a writer he was an interesting figure, distancing himself both from the conservative environment in which he was brought up and from his socialist contemporaries and friends. He was the youngest and in many ways the most original and influential member of the Modern Break-Through.

Ole Beich was a Danish musician best known as the bass guitarist for the original lineups of L.A. Guns and Guns N' Roses.

Erling Mandelmann was a Danish photographer. He began his career as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1960s.

Trine Bramsen is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats, who has been a member of the Folketing since 2011. She is the current Minister of Defence.

Poul Holmskov Schlüter is a Danish politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993. He was the first member of the Conservative People's Party to become Prime Minister, as well as the first conservative to hold the office since 1901.

Freja Beha Erichsen, also known as Freja Beha, is a Danish model. Dubbed as the "Queen of Cool", she is known for her androgynous look and for being one of the muses of the late Karl Lagerfeld.