List of Famous people born in Kingdom of Denmark
Jonathan Petersen
Jonathan Petersen was a Greenlandic songwriter. He composed the music to the national anthem of Greenland, Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit. The lyrics were written by the Greenlandic pastor Henrik Lund, and the song was adopted as the national anthem in 1916.
Uffe Haagerup
Uffe Valentin Haagerup was a mathematician from Denmark.
Bent Fabric
Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, better known internationally as Bent Fabric, was a Danish pianist and composer.
Lauge Koch
Lauge Koch was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer.
Christian II of Denmark
Christian II was a Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union. He reigned as King of Denmark and Norway from 1513 until 1523 and of Sweden from 1520 until 1521. From 1513 to 1523, he was concurrently Duke of Schleswig and Holstein in joint rule with his uncle Frederick.
Mads Nissen
Mads Nissen is a Danish documentary photographer and winner of 2015 and 2021 World Press Photo of the Year.
Bjørn Lomborg
Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish author and President of the think tank, Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001), in which he argues that many of the costly measures and actions adopted by scientists and policy makers to meet the challenges of global warming will ultimately have minimal impact on the world's rising temperature.
Nicolaus Steno
Nicolas Steno was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years. Steno was trained in the classical texts on science; however, by 1659 he seriously questioned accepted knowledge of the natural world. Importantly he questioned explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grew in the ground and explanations of rock formation. His investigations and his subsequent conclusions on fossils and rock formation have led scholars to consider him one of the founders of modern stratigraphy and modern geology. The importance of Steno's foundational contributions to geology may be gauged from the fact that half of the twenty papers in a recent miscellany volume on The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment focus on Steno, the "preeminent Baroque polymath and founder of modern geologic thought".
Bjørn Dunkerbeck
Björn Dunkerbeck is a professional windsurfer who has won the Professional Windsurfers Association (PWA) Overall World Championships a record 41 times.
Múte Bourup Egede
Múte Inequnaaluk Bourup Egede is a Greenlandic politician, who since April 2021 has served as Prime Minister of Greenland. He has served as a member of the Inatsisartut, the parliament of Greenland, since, and furthermore as chairman of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party since 2018.