List of Famous people born in Denmark, Kingdom of Denmark

Kasper Hjulmand

Kasper Hjulmand is a Danish football manager and a former player. He is currently the head coach for the Danish national team.

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Alba August

First Name Alba
Last Name August
Born on June 6, 1993 (age 32)

Alba Adèle August is a Danish-Swedish actress and singer-songwriter.

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Aage Niels Bohr

First Name Aage
Born on June 19, 1922
Died on September 8, 2009 (aged 87)

Aage Niels Bohr was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection". Starting from Rainwater's concept of an irregular-shaped liquid drop model of the nucleus, Bohr and Mottelson developed a detailed theory that was in close agreement with experiments. Since his father, Niels Bohr, had won the prize in 1922, he and his father were one of the six pairs of fathers and sons who have both won the Nobel Prize and one of the four pairs who have both won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Queen Anne-Marie of Greece

First Name Queen
Last Name Greece
Born on August 30, 1946 (age 79)

Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, RE is the former Queen of Greece as the wife of King Constantine II, who reigned from 1964 until 1973.

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Jørgen Jensen

First Name Jørgen
Born on January 15, 1891
Died on May 31, 1922 (aged 31)

Jørgen Christian Jensen, was a Danish-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in battle that could be awarded to a member of the Australian armed forces. Jensen emigrated to Australia in 1909, becoming a British subject at Adelaide, South Australia, in 1914. A sailor and labourer before World War I, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in March 1915, serving with the 10th Battalion during the latter stages of the Gallipoli campaign. After the Australian force withdrew to Egypt, Jensen was transferred to the newly formed 50th Battalion, and sailed for France with the unit in June 1916. On the Western Front, he was wounded during the battalion's first serious action, the Battle of Mouquet Farm in August, and only returned to his unit in late January 1917. On 2 April, his battalion attacked the Hindenburg Outpost Line at Noreuil, where his actions leading to the capture of over fifty German soldiers resulted in the award of the Victoria Cross.

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Prince Nikolai of Denmark

First Name Prince
Last Name Denmark
Born on August 28, 1999 (age 26)

Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Count of Monpezat is a member of the Danish royal family. He is the elder son of Prince Joachim and his first wife, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg. He is currently seventh in the line of succession to the Danish throne. At the time of his birth, he was third, after his uncle and father.

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Valdemar Poulsen

First Name Valdemar
Born on November 23, 1869
Died on July 23, 1942 (aged 72)

Valdemar Poulsen was a Danish engineer who made significant contributions to early radio technology. He developed a magnetic wire recorder called the telegraphone in 1898 and the first continuous wave radio transmitter, the Poulsen arc transmitter, in 1903, which was used in some of the first broadcasting stations until the early 1920s.

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Mark Madsen

First Name Mark
Last Name Madsen
Born on September 23, 1984 (age 41)

Mark Madsen is a Danish professional mixed martial artist and former Greco-Roman wrestler. As a mixed martial artist, he currently competes in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

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Peter Naur

First Name Peter
Last Name Naur
Born on October 25, 1928
Died on January 3, 2016 (aged 87)

Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner. He is best known as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60.

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Louise Eriksen

First Name Louise
Last Name Eriksen
Born on September 11, 1995 (age 30)

Louise Dannemann Eriksen is a Danish footballer who plays as a defender for KoldingQ in the Elitedivisionen and has appeared for the Denmark women's national under-16 football team.

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