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COPENHAGEN
Most Famous People Born in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Notable people
- 3,495
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- Median birth year
- 1904
- Most distinctive
- Fencer 6.0×
Nordic letters, in roughly equal measure with Nordic Olympic sport. Copenhagen's distinctive professions are fencers and rowers at the top — the Olympic tradition of a small Nordic capital — alongside painters, architects, composers, sculptors, and photographers in roughly equal columns. The 18th and 19th centuries are unusually well represented, the era of Andersen and Kierkegaard and the Royal Theatre that has shared a few square blocks with the Royal Library and the publishing houses for two hundred years.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Copenhagen during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Copenhagen Is Known For
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Actor is Copenhagen's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (363).
Copenhagen over-indexes on fencer — 6.0× the global rate.
Copenhagen under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Copenhagen's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Johan Ludvig Heiberg (poet)
1791 - 1860
Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
1798 - 1869
Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg
1796 - 1881
Henrik Hertz
1797 - 1870
Princess Caroline of Denmark
1793 - 1881
Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark
1792 - 1863
Henrik Nikolai Krøyer
1799 - 1870
Christian Albrecht Bluhme
1794 - 1866
Emil Bærentzen
1799 - 1868
Peter Georg Bang
1797 - 1861
Lucie Ingemann
1792 - 1868
Just Mathias Thiele
1795 - 1874
Isaac Noah Mannheimer
1793 - 1865
Ludvig Bødtcher
1793 - 1874
Jacob Jacobsen Dampe
1790 - 1867
Ferdinand Eckstein
1790 - 1861
Jens Vahl
1796 - 1854
Niels Laurits Høyen
1798 - 1870
Georg Frederik Ursin
1797 - 1849
Hans Ernst Krøyer
1798 - 1879
Wilhelm August Graah
1793 - 1863
Daniel Frederik Eschricht
1798 - 1863
Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach
1792 - 1862
Georg Gerson
1790 - 1825
Rudolph Bay
1791 - 1856
Steen Andersen Bille (1797–1883)
1797 - 1883
Carl Peter Holbøll
1795 - 1856
Frederikke Dannemand
1790 - 1862
Sophus August Wilhelm Stein
1797 - 1868
Carl Peter Lehmann
1794 - 1876
Andreas Nikolai de Saint-Aubain
1798 - 1865
Urban Kreutzbach
1796 - 1868
Wilhelm Andreas Wexels
1797 - 1866
Janus Lauritz Andreas Kolderup-Rosenvinge
1792 - 1850
Rudolf Christiani (Politiker)
1797 - 1858
Christian Georg Nathan David
1793 - 1874
Emil Normann
1798 - 1881
Christian Flor
1792 - 1875
Hans Mathias Velschow
1796 - 1862
Henriette Jørgensen
1791 - 1847
Birgitte Andersen
1791 - 1875
Ole Schmidt (Architekt)
1793 - 1848
Frederik Ferdinand Friis
1793 - 1865
Hans Harder
1792 - 1873
Eugen von Reventlow
1798 - 1885
Annestine Beyer
1795 - 1884
Carl Adolph Thortsen
1798 - 1878
Frederik Olaus Lange
1798 - 1862
Lars Bastian Ridder Stabell
1798 - 1860
Ole Wilhelm Erichsen
1793 - 1860
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
1795 - 1868
Christian Høyer Bille
1799 - 1853
Iver Johan Unsgaard
1798 - 1872
Frederik von Scholten
1796 - 1853
Johannes Theodorus Suhr
1792 - 1858
Frederik August Paludan
1792 - 1872
Georg Josias Stephan Adler
1792 - 1852