List of Famous people born in Denmark, Kingdom of Denmark

Louise Rasmussen

First Name Louise
Last Name Rasmussen
Died on March 6, 1874

Louise Christine Rasmussen, also known as Countess Danner, was a Danish Ballet dancer and stage actor. She was the mistress and later the morganatic spouse of King Frederick VII of Denmark. She was not a queen consort, but officially styled Countess Danner.

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John Louis Emil Dreyer

First Name John
Last Name Dreyer
Born on February 13, 1852
Died on September 14, 1926 (aged 74)

John Louis Emil Dreyer was a Danish/British astronomer.

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Nils Malmros

Nils Malmros, a Danish film director and screenwriter, is considered a leading auteur of realism in Danish cinema. Malmros is noted for his detailed focus on the common growing pains of adolescence and the loss of innocence, which he draws from his childhood experiences growing up in Århus, Denmark. His most notable films form a trilogy about schoolchildren in 1950s Århus: Lars-Ole 5c, Boys and Tree of Knowledge. The latter film, 1981's Tree of Knowledge, is one of ten films listed in Denmark's cultural canon by the Danish Ministry of Culture.

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Just Mathias Thiele

First Name Just
Last Name Thiele
Born on December 13, 1795
Died on November 9, 1874 (aged 78)

Just Mathias Thiele was a Danish scholar and librarian. A central personage during the Danish Golden Age, he contributed to Danish cultural life in a number of capacities. He collected and published Danish folk tales with inspiration from the Brothers Grimm and founded the Royal Print Collection, today part of the Danish National Gallery. After the death of Bertel Thorvaldsen, he saved his archives and other papers and based on them he wrote his first biography.

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Harald Jerichau

First Name Harald
Born on August 17, 1852
Died on March 6, 1878 (aged 25)

Harald Adolf Nikolaj Jerichau was a Danish landscape painter.

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Marie Krøyer

First Name Marie
Last Name Krøyer
Born on June 11, 1867
Died on May 25, 1940 (aged 72)

Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén commonly known as Marie Krøyer, was a Danish painter. She is remembered principally as the wife of Peder Severin Krøyer, one of the most successful members of the artists' colony known as the Skagen Painters, which flourished at the end of the 19th century in the far north of Jutland. Marie was also a part of the small group of Danish painters in her own right. From an early age, Marie aspired to become an artist, and after training privately in Copenhagen she went to Paris to continue her studies.There she was educated in the principals of Naturalism, and was influenced greatly by the French Impressionists. It was there, in early 1889, that she met Krøyer, who immediately fell madly in love with her. Although he was sixteen years her senior, the couple married that summer and in 1891 settled in Skagen. Clearly inspired by Marie's beauty, Krøyer had ample opportunity to paint her portraits both indoors and outdoors, especially on the beach. Married life became more difficult as Krøyer experienced periods of mental illness from 1900, and Marie eventually began an affair with the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén who had also been taken by her beauty. The couple had a child, Marie divorced Krøyer and moved to Sweden with Alfvén. They married in 1912, but marital problems once again resulted in divorce. Marie was reluctant to paint after meeting Krøyer, whom she looked up to as a far more competent artist, and she is remembered more as the subject of some of his best-known paintings than for her own work, although several of her pictures have recently attracted renewed interest. She is now also recognized for her significant contributions to design and architecture.

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Charles J. T. Hambro

First Name Charles
Last Name Hambro
Born on October 2, 1834
Died on April 11, 1891 (aged 56)

.Charles Joseph Theophilus Hambro was a British Conservative Party politician. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark but was a British Subject.

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Christopher, Duke of Lolland

First Name Christopher,
Last Name Lolland
Died on June 11, 1363

Christopher, Duke of Lolland, was the son of King Valdemar IV of Denmark and his wife, Helvig of Schleswig. Christopher was appointed duke in 1359 and also was selected to succeed as king.

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Wilhelm Dinesen

First Name Wilhelm
Last Name Dinesen
Born on December 19, 1845
Died on March 28, 1895 (aged 49)
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Kirsten Holst

First Name Kirsten
Last Name Holst
Born on March 18, 1936
Died on September 23, 2008 (aged 72)

Kirsten Johanne Holst Høybye was a Danish author, best remembered for her book Min ven Thomas (1987).

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