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Famous Danes
Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Secretary General of NATO (2009), Former Prime Minister
A.P. Møller

Arnold Peter Møller, Mærsk founder
Arne Jacobsen

Architect and designer
Asger Jorn

Artist and essayist
Bille August

Film director (Pelle the Conqueror, House of the Spirits)
Bjarne Riis

Cyclist (won Tour de France with help of banned substances)
Bjarne Stroustrup

Inventor of C++ programming language
Bjørn Lomborg

Skeptical environmentalist
Brian Laudrup

Football/soccer player
Brigitte Nielsen

Ex Mrs Stallone
Carl Nielsen

Composer and violinist
Connie Hedegaard

EU Climate Commissioner (2009)
Connie Nielsen

Actress (Gladiator, Basic)
Den Lille Havfrue

The Little Mermaid
Dirch Passer

Actor
Dronning Margrethe

Queen Margrethe
Ebbe Sand

Football/soccer player
Freja

Nordic goddess
Georg Jensen

Silversmith
Ghita Nørby

Actress
H. C. Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen, storyteller
Helena Christensen

Fashion model
Helle Thorning Schmidt

Prime Minister (2011)
Jørn Utzon

Architect (Sydney Opera House)
Karen Blixen

Author (Out of Africa, Babette's Feast)
Kim Larsen

Rock musician
Kong Knud

King Canute
Kurt Trampedach

Painter and sculptor
Lars Løkke Rasmussen

Prime Minister (2009)
Lars von Trier

Film director (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark)
Mads Mikkelsen

Actor (Casino Royale)
Michael Laudrup

Football/soccer player
Niels Bohr

Physicist
Odin

Nordic god
Ole Rømer

Astronomer (also invented first street lights in Copenhagen)
Otto Jespersen

Linguist
Peter Brixtofte

Mayor of Farum, criminal
Peter Høeg

Author (Smilla's Sense of Snow)
Peter Schmeichel

Football/soccer player ("World's Best Goalkeeper" in 1992 and 1993)
Pia Kjærsgaard

Anti-immigration politician, leader of the Danish Folk Party
Piet Hein

Writer, scientist, designer
Søren Kierkegård

Existentialist philosopher and theologian
Stein Bagger

Entrepreneur and fraudster (defrauded 1.2 billion Danish crowns)
Susanne Bier

Film director (Things We Lost in the Fire)
Thor

God of thunder
Tove Ditlevsen

Woman poet and author
Tycho Brahe

Astronomer
Victor Borge

Comedian (aka The Clown Prince of Denmark, The Great Dane)
Viggo Mortensen

Actor (The Lord of the Rings, Hidalgo, The Road)
Villy Søvndal

Minister of Foreign Affairs (2011)
Vitus Bering

Navigator and explorer
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