List of Famous people with last name Egede

Hans Poulsen Egede was a Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a successful mission among the Inuit and is credited with revitalizing Dano-Norwegian interest in the island after contact had been broken for hundreds of years. He founded Greenland's capital Godthåb, now known as Nuuk.

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.

Paul or Poul Hansen Egede was a Dano-Norwegian theologian, missionary, and scholar who was principally concerned with the Lutheran mission among the Kalaallit people in Greenland that had been established by his father, Hans, in 1721.

Niels Rasch Egede was a Danish-Norwegian merchant and Lutheran missionary in Greenland.