List of Famous people born in Kingdom of Denmark
Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ
Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ was a Greenlandic politician for Siumut party.
Anders Antonsen
Anders Antonsen is a Danish badminton player. He won the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the boys singles event, and at the same year was awarded the European Young Player of the Year. Together with the national team, he won the European Men's Team Championships in 2016 and 2018; also European Mixed Team Championships in 2017 and 2019. Antonsen was the champion at the 2019 Minsk European Games, and the silver medalists at the 2017 European Championships, and the 2019 World Championships.
Hans Fogh
Hans Marius Fogh was one of the most successful competitive sailors in history, with dozens of national and international championships and in many different classes, including two Olympic medals.
Asta Nielsen
Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta.
Niels Markussen
Niels Markussen was a Danish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a silver medal in the Dragon class at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, together with Paul Lindemark Jørgensen and Aage Birch.
Maximilian von Spee
Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee was a naval officer of the German Kaiserliche Marine, who commanded the East Asia Squadron during World War I. Spee entered the navy in 1878 and served in a variety of roles and locations, including on a colonial gunboat in German West Africa in the 1880s, the East Africa Squadron in the late 1890s, and as commander of several warships in the main German fleet in the early 1900s. During his time in Germany in the late 1880s and early 1890s, he married his wife, Margareta, and had three children, his sons Heinrich and Otto and his daughter Huberta. By 1912, he had returned to the East Asia Squadron as its commander, and was promoted to the rank of Vizeadmiral the following year.
Hans-Pavia Rosing
Hans-Pavia Rosing was a Greenlandic politician and civil servant. He received Greenland Peace Prize in the year 1985. In 1987, he became Greenland Parliament member. He remained Minister of Economic Affairs for a specific time.
Klaus Pagh
Klaus Pagh was a Danish actor, film producer and director. He appeared in 32 films between 1956 and 2001.
Allan Michaelsen
Allan Richard Michaelsen was a Danish football player and manager.
Jens Christian Skou
Jens Christian Skou was a Danish biochemist and Nobel laureate.