List of Danes

This is a list of notable Danish people.

Actors

Archaeologists

Architects and designers

Artists

Business people

Chefs and restaurateurs

Comedians

Criminals

Dancers

Economists

Explorers

Fictional Danes

Film directors

Gamers

Historians

Linguists

Models

Music

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Philanthropists

Philosophers

Photographers

  • Mads Alstrup (1808–1876), first Danish photographer with own studio
  • Per Bak Jensen (1949–), influential photographer with an innovative artistic landscape style
  • Morten Bo (1945–), influential photographer, author of many photo books
  • Pietro Boyesen (1819–1882), photographer in Rome
  • Krass Clement (1946–), specializing in the photo-essay style
  • Peter Faber (1810–1877), took oldest photo on record
  • Frederikke Federspiel (1839–1913), first female photographer to practice in Denmark
  • Kristen Feilberg (1839–1919), remembered for many early photographs in Dutch East Indies
  • Jens Fink-Jensen (1956–), contemporary artistic photographer
  • Jan Grarup (1968–), award-winning press photographer specializing in war and conflict
  • Ludvig Grundtvig (1836–1901), photographer and portrait painter
  • Caroline Hammer (1832–1915), early woman photographer with a studio on the Frisian island of Föhr
  • Georg Emil Hansen (1833–1891), pioneering court photographer
  • Christian Hedemann (1852–1932), remembered for his early photographs of Hawaii
  • Keld Helmer-Petersen (1920–2013), pioneer in colour photography in the 1940s
  • Jacob Holdt (1947–), used photography to encourage social reform
  • Jesper Høm (1931–2000), influential press photographer and film director
  • Kirsten Klein (1945–), specializing in black-and-white landscapes
  • Astrid Kruse Jensen (1975–), specializing in night photography with an unreal dimension
  • Claus Bjørn Larsen (1963–), award-winning press photographer
  • Anton Melbye (1818–1875), artist using photography as an aid to painting
  • Israel B. Melchior (1827–1893), amateur photographer who photographed Hans Christian Andersen
  • Rigmor Mydtskov (1925–2010), theatre photography and court photographer for Queen Margrethe
  • Viggo Rivad (1922–), used photographic essays to portray ordinary citizens
  • Leif Schiller (1939–2007), photographer
  • Lars Schwander (1957–), portraits of international artists
  • Jacob Aue Sobol (1976–), award-winning collections from Greenland, Guatemala and Tokyo
  • Mary Steen (1856–1939), pioneer of indoor photography, including royalty
  • Rudolph Striegler (1816–1876), pioneering portrait photography
  • Heinrich Tønnies (1825–1903), early studio in Aalborg, portraits and landscapes
  • Sigvart Werner (1872–1959), amateur who gained fame from Danish landscapes in book form
  • Mary Willumsen (1884–1961), sold postcards of scantily-dressed women from 1916
  • Benedicte Wrensted (1859–1949), took photographs of Native Americans in Idaho

Politicians

Religion

  • Absalon, (c. 1128–1201), bishop of Roskilde (1158–1192), archbishop of Lund (1178–1201)
  • Johanne Andersen, one of the first three women to be ordained as priests of the Church of Denmark
  • Henning Toft Bro (1956–), bishop of Aalborg
  • Hans Adolph Brorson (1694–1764), pietist and hymn writer, bishop of Ribe (1741–1764)
  • Jacob Dacian, 16th-century Franciscan missionary to Mexico
  • Karen Horsens (1932–), first female minister of the Church of Denmark to become a dean
  • Thomas Kingo (1634–1703), poet and hymn writer, bishop of Funen (1677–1703)
  • Czeslaw Kozon (1951–), Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Copenhagen
  • Stygge Krumpen (c. 1485–1551), last catholic bishop i Denmark (before the Lutheran reformation)
  • Hans Ludvig Martensen (1927–2012), bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen (1965–1995)
  • Bent Melchior (1929–), chief rabbi of Denmark (1969–1996)
  • Knut Ansgar Nelson (1906–1990), Roman Catholic bishop of Stockholm (1957–1962)
  • Edith Brenneche Petersen (1896–1973), one of the first three women to be ordained as Church of Denmark priests
  • Kirsten Stoffregen Petersen (1932–2017), nun, theologian, iconographer
  • Lise-Lotte Rebel (1951–), first woman to become a bishop in the Church of Denmark (1995)
  • Hans Tausen (1494–1561), Lutheran reformator, bishop of Ribe (1542–1561)
  • Ruth Vermehren (1894–1983), one of the Church of Denmark's first three women priests

Royalty

Danish monarchs

Queen Margrethe II

Other Danish royalty

Danes becoming kings or regents in other countries

Other foreign royalty

Science and research

Sports

Writers

Hans Christian Andersen

Other notables

See also

References

    Citations

    • Jensen, Elisabeth Møller, ed. (2003). "Søg" [Search]. Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon [Danish Dictionary of Women's Biography] (in Danish) (Digital ed.).
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