List of Famous people born in Kingdom of Denmark
Jan Magnussen
Jan Ellegaard Magnussen is a Danish professional racing driver and a factory driver for General Motors. He has competed in Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), NASCAR, the FIA Formula One World Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Charlotte Fich
Charlotte Fich is a Danish stage, film and television actress. She is most often recognized for her role as police officer Ingrid Dahl in the Emmy awarded (2002) Danish television series Unit One (2000–2004). She is married to Danish film director Per Fly.
Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Kamilla Rytter Juhl is a retired Danish badminton player. She announced her retirement in July 2018, due to her pregnancy.
Ludvig Munk
Ludvig Ludvigsen Munk was born in 1537 in Vejle, and died 8 April 1602 at Nørlund Slot in Funen. He was a Danish official and Count. He was the son of Ludvik Munk (1500-1537), and is also referred to as Ludvig Ludvigsen Munk von Schleswig-Holstein and Ludvig Munk til Nørlund.
Erling Jepsen
Erling Jepsen is a Danish author and playwright whose output primarily deals with his hometime of Gram and the culture in the surrounding region of Southern Jutland. His novel Frygtelig lykkelig was adapted into the 2008 neo-noir thriller Terribly Happy, and his autobiographical novel Kunsten at Græde i Kor (The Art of Crying) was adapted into the 2006 film The Art of Crying.
Ida Ørskov
Ida Ørskov was a Danish physician and bacteriologist whose dissertation Om Klebsiella was the first scientific study pointing to the risk of bacterial cross-infection in hospitals.
Holger Juul Hansen
Holger Juul Hansen was a Danish actor.
Bent Mejding
Bent Mejding is a Danish actor, stage director and theatre manager. He won a Danish Film Academy Award in 1985 and 2007. He is married to the actress Susse Wold.
Laurits Andersen Ring
Laurits Andersen Ring was one of the foremost Danish painters of the turn of the 20th century, who pioneered both symbolism and social realism in Denmark. Considered one of the masterpieces of Danish culture, his painting Summer Day by Roskilde Fjord was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon.
Ida Jessen
Ida Jessen is a Danish writer. Jessen was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and won several awards for her work.