List of Famous people born in Kingdom of Denmark

Else Alfelt

First Name Else
Born on September 16, 1910
Died on August 9, 1974 (aged 63)

Else Alfelt was a Danish artist who specialized in abstract paintings. She was one of two female members of the CoBrA movement. She was married to Carl-Henning Pedersen, another prominent CoBrA member.

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Henrik Lund

First Name Henrik
Born on September 29, 1875
Died on June 17, 1948 (aged 72)

Henning Jakob Henrik Lund or Intel'eraq (1875–1948) was a Greenlandic lyricist, painter and priest. He wrote the lyrics to "Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit," in the indigenous Greenlandic language, an Eskimo–Aleut language. The song was adopted as the national anthem of Greenland.

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Ejler Bille

First Name Ejler
Died on May 1, 2004 (aged 34)

Ejler Bille was a Danish artist.

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Grethe Ingmann

First Name Grethe
Born on June 17, 1938
Died on August 18, 1990 (aged 52)

Grethe Ingmann was a Danish singer.

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Niels Gade

Niels Wilhelm Gade
First Name Niels
Born on February 22, 1817
Died on December 21, 1890 (aged 73)

Niels Wilhelm Gade was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. He is considered the most important Danish musician of his day.

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Johannes Achton Friis

First Name Johannes
Last Name Friis
Born on September 5, 1871
Died on December 17, 1939 (aged 68)

Achton Friis was a Danish illustrator, painter and writer. He participated in the Denmark Expedition to Northeast Greenland in 1906–1908, creating a large number of works in the process, both landscape paintings and portraits, as well as a written account which was published in 1909. He later published several comprehensive and richly illustrated works with descriptions of the nature and cultural history of different parts of Denmark. In addition, he designed decorative works for the Bing & Grøndahl porcelain manufacturer.

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Winni Grosbøll

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Jens Baggesen

Jens Immanuel Baggesen
First Name Jens
Last Name Baggesen
Died on October 3, 1826

Jens Immanuel Baggesen was a major Danish poet, librettist, critic, and comic writer.

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Jakob Ejersbo

First Name Jakob
Last Name Ejersbo
Born on April 6, 1968
Died on July 10, 2008 (aged 40)

Jakob Ejersbo was a Danish journalist and writer. His work is considered modern and neorealistic. Authoring the immensely popular novel, Nordkraft, which sold more than 100,000 copies, an unusually high sales figure on the book market in Denmark, Ejersbo became an established writer. A tale about three young people and drug problems in Aalborg, the work was turned into a film in 2005, directed by Ole Christian Madsen. Ejersbo is also well known for writing what is known as the Africa Trilogy, inspired by the author's own childhood experiences in Tanzania.

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Alex Pedersen

Alex Kjeld Pedersen
First Name Alex
Last Name Pedersen
Born on November 15, 1966 (age 59)

Alex Kjeld Pedersen is a Danish former cyclist.

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