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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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