Top 30 most important and famous people from Denmark - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Writer, author of The Emperor's New Clothes and The Little Mermaid	Hans Christian Andersen	94%
Philosopher considered the first existentialist	Søren Kierkegaard	71%
Physicist, who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922	Niels Bohr	69%
Drummer of Metallica	Lars Ulrich	65%
Goalkeeper, legend of Manchester United, European champion with Denmark in 1992	Peter Schmeichel	65%
Footballer of the 1980s and 1990s, legend of Barcelona	Michael Laudrup	63%
King during World War Two	Christian X	59%
Footballer, he played in Ajax, Tottenham, Inter Milan and Manchester United. During Euro 2020 he collapsed on the pitch after suffering a cardiac arrest	Christian Eriksen	55%
Actress and singer, one of the most famous icons of 1980s for his aggressive look and she married Sylvester Stallone	Brigitte Nielsen	53%
Queen from 1972	Margrethe II/Margaret II	49%
Actor, famous for his roles as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the television series Hannibal and as Kaecilius in Marvel's Doctor Strange	Mads Mikkelsen	47%
Female tennis player, winner of Australian Open in 2018	Caroline Wozniacki	43%
Writer, author of Out of Africa and Babette's Feast	Karen Blixen	39%
Director of Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark	Lars von Trier	37%
King who eliminated the elective monarchy in favour of absolute monarchy, which lasted until 1848 in Denmark	Frederick III/Frederick II	29%
Actor, famous for his role as Jaime Lannister in TV series Game of Thrones	Nikolaj Coster-Waldau	27%
Prime Minister since 2019	Mette Frederiksen	22%
Founder of Lego	Ole Kirk Christiansen	22%
Physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields	Hans Christian Ørsted	20%
Sculptor, he was seen as the successor of master sculptor Antonio Canova. One of his most famous public monuments is the statue of Nicolaus Copernicus in Warsaw	Bertel Thorvaldsen	18%
One of the greatest writers of the first half of XX century. Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944, author of The Fall of the King	Johannes V. Jensen	18%
Director of The Passion of Joan of Arc and Michael	Carl Theodor Dreyer	12%
Writer, author of Lucky Per, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917	Henrik Pontoppidan	12%
Actress, who was French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's collaborator in the 1960s, performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier and A Woman Is a Woman	Anna Karina	10%
The leading Danish architect between the late XVIII century and the mid XIX century	Christian Frederik Hansen	10%
Physiologist, who made fundamental discoveries in several fields, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1920 for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle	August Krogh	8%
Pastor and author, he gave rise to a new form of nationalism in the last half of XIX century	N. F. S. Grundtvig	8%
Biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for joint work with Edward Doisy in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology	Henrik Dam	6%
Scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years	Nicolas Steno	4%
Painter of A Nude Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror. Considered the Father of Danish painting	Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg	2%

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