List of Famous people born in Denmark, Kingdom of Denmark

Schack August Steenberg Krogh was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing the Krogh Principle.

Mads Mensah Larsen is a Danish handball player for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and the Denmark national team.

Søren Kragh Andersen is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team DSM. He is the younger brother of Asbjørn Kragh Andersen, also a professional cyclist, with Team DSM.

Ulrich Thomsen is a Danish actor and filmmaker, known for his role of Kai Proctor in the Cinemax original series Banshee (2013-2016).

Christian IV was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 to 1648. His 59-year reign is the longest of Danish monarchs, and of Scandinavian monarchies.

Prince Felix of Denmark is a member of the Danish royal family. He is the younger son of Prince Joachim and his first wife, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg. Prince Felix is currently eighth in the line of succession to the Danish throne.

Isaac Noah Mannheimer was a Jewish preacher.

Ib Niels Carl Glindemann Nielsen was a Danish jazz musician, the leader of the Ib Glindemann Orchestra. When in Europe, saxophonist Stan Getz was a frequent guest star of the orchestra.

John the Younger or John of Denmark was the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.

Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was a Danish physician and professor of anatomical pathology at the University of Copenhagen. He was the recipient of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma". He demonstrated that the roundworm which he called Spiroptera carcinoma could cause stomach cancer in rats and mice. His experimental results were later proven to be a case of mistaken conclusion. Erling Norrby, who had served as the Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Professor and Chairman of Virology at the Karolinska Institute, declared Fibiger's Nobel Prize as "one of the biggest blunders made by the Karolinska Institute."