List of Famous people born in Kingdom of Denmark
Gustav Schröder
Gustav Schröder was a German sea captain who in 1939 attempted to save 937 German Jews, who were passengers on his ship, MS St. Louis, from the Nazis.
Gitte Hænning
Gitte Hænning is a Danish singer and film actress, who rose to fame as a child star in the 1950s.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
Pierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and also the Denmark national team.
Lars Mikkelsen
Lars Dittmann Mikkelsen is a Danish actor. He has played Copenhagen mayoral election candidate Troels Hartmann in the drama series The Killing, Charles Augustus Magnussen in the third series of Sherlock, the Russian president Viktor Petrov in the American House of Cards on Netflix, and Grand Admiral Thrawn in Star Wars Rebels. In 2011, he won the Reumert Prize of Honour.
Frederick IV of Denmark
Frederick IV was the king of Denmark and Norway from 1699 until his death. Frederick was the son of Christian V of Denmark-Norway and his consort Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel.
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye
Sigurd Snake-in-the-eye was a semi-legendary Viking warrior and Danish king active from the mid to late 9th century. According to multiple Saga sources and Scandinavian histories from the 12th century and later, he is one of the sons of the legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and Áslaug. His historical prototype might have been the Danish King Sigfred who ruled briefly in the 870s.
Nukâka Coster-Waldau
Nukâka Coster-Waldau, better known professionally as Nukâka, is a Danish-Greenlandic singer, actress, and a former Miss Greenland. She is married to Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and has two daughters with him.
Thomas Vinterberg
Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. He is best known for the films The Celebration (1998), Submarino (2010), The Hunt (2012), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), and Another Round (2020), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director.
Lars Høgh
Poul Lars Høgh-Pedersen was a Danish footballer, who played his entire career as a goalkeeper for Odense BK. He won three Danish football championships and three Danish Cup trophies with OB, and won the Danish Best Goalkeeper of the Year award five times. He played eight matches for the Denmark national team, and was selected for the 1986 World Cup and 1996 European Championship squads. He was a part of the Danish team which won the 1995 King Fahd Cup.
Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer, also known as Lukas Graham is a Danish singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and former actor. He is the lead singer and best known as multi-instrumentalist for the Danish band Lukas Graham. As a child, Forchhammer starred in the Danish family movie series Krummerne.