Top 30 most important and famous people from Denmark

Painter of A Nude Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror. Considered the Father of Danish painting

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

The leading Danish architect between the late XVIII century and the mid XIX century

Writer, author of The Emperor's New Clothes and The Little Mermaid

Writer, author of Lucky Per, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917

Writer, author of Out of Africa and Babette's Feast

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

Pastor and author, he gave rise to a new form of nationalism in the last half of XIX century

Philosopher considered the first existentialist

King who eliminated the elective monarchy in favour of absolute monarchy, which lasted until 1848 in Denmark

King during World War Two

Queen from 1972

Prime Minister since 2019

Scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years

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

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

Physicist, who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922

Physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields

Director of Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark

Director of The Passion of Joan of Arc and Michael

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

Actor, famous for his role as Jaime Lannister in TV series Game of Thrones

Actor, famous for his roles as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the television series Hannibal and as Kaecilius in Marvel's Doctor Strange

Actress and singer, one of the most famous icons of 1980s for his aggressive look and she married Sylvester Stallone

Drummer of Metallica

Footballer of the 1980s and 1990s, legend of Barcelona

Goalkeeper, legend of Manchester United, European champion with Denmark in 1992

Footballer, he played in Ajax, Tottenham, Inter Milan and Manchester United. During Euro 2020 he collapsed on the pitch after suffering a cardiac arrest

Female tennis player, winner of Australian Open in 2018

Founder of Lego