List of Famous people born in Kingdom of Denmark
Ferdinand Meldahl
Ferdinand Meldahl was a Danish architect best known for the reconstruction of Frederiksborg Castle after the fire in 1859. Meldahl was one of the leading proponents of historicism in Denmark.
Charlotte Baden
Charlotte Baden was a Danish writer, feminist and letter-writer.
Emil Bærentzen
Emilius Ditlev Bærentzen, usually known as Emil Bærentzen, was a Danish portrait painter and lithographer, active during the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He founded Em. Bærentzen & Co..
Jacob Kornerup
Jacob Kornerup was a Danish archeoloigist and painter who is remembered above all for discovering and restoring medieval frescos in Danish churches.
Osvald Helmuth
Osvald Helmuth was a Danish stage and film actor and revue singer.
Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen
Kristian Jensen
Kristian Jensen is a Danish politician who was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark from 2015 to 2016, and Minister of Finance from 2016 to 2019. Jensen is a member of the liberal party Venstre. He briefly served as acting chairman of Venstre in 2019.
René Jørgensen
René Jørgensen is a former road bicycle racer from Denmark.
Oluf Høst
Oluf Høst was a Danish Expressionist painter, the only member of the Bornholm school who was a native Bornholmer. Although he studied in Copenhagen, he returned to the Danish island of Bornholm in 1929 where he remained with his family for the rest of his life. Bognemark, a little farmhouse near Gudhjem, was one of Høst's favourite motifs. From 1935 on, he painted the farm some 200 times under varying conditions at different times of the year, often reflecting his particular mood at the time. His home in Gudhjem, built from two fishermen's cottages with a rocky garden in the rear, is named "Norresân" after the nearby harbour, Nørresand Havn, where he painted many of his works.
Louis Hjelmslev
Louis Trolle Hjelmslev was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics. Born into an academic family, Hjelmslev studied comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris. In 1931, he founded the Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague. Together with Hans Jørgen Uldall he developed a structuralist theory of language which he called glossematics, which further developed the semiotic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure. Glossematics as a theory of language is characterized by a high degree of formalism. It is interested in describing the formal and semantic characteristics of language in separation from sociology, psychology or neurobiology, and has a high degree of logical rigour. Hjelmslev regarded linguistics — or glossematics — as a formal science. He was the inventor of formal linguistics. Hjelmslev's theory became widely influential in structural and functional grammar, and in semiotics.