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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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- Filtered to 1840s Clear ×
George I of Greece
1845 - 1913
Georg Brandes
1842 - 1927
Holger Drachmann
1846 - 1908
Harald Høffding
1843 - 1931
Vilhelm Thomsen
1842 - 1927
Carl Jacobsen
1842 - 1914
Thorvald Bindesbøll
1846 - 1908
Joachim Andersen
1847 - 1909
Theodor Philipsen
1840 - 1920
Edvard Brandes
1847 - 1931
Wilhelm Dinesen
1845 - 1895
Carl Bock (explorer)
1849 - 1932
Johan Henrik Deuntzer
1845 - 1918
Helena Nyblom
1843 - 1926
Otto Malling
1848 - 1915
Gustav Frederik Holm
1849 - 1940
C. F. E. Horneman
1840 - 1906
Troels Frederik Lund
1840 - 1921
Carl Thomsen
1847 - 1912
Victor Gardthausen
1843 - 1925
Sophus Müller
1846 - 1934
Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen
1844 - 1917
Edvard Petersen
1841 - 1911
Carl Frederik Bricka
1845 - 1903
Frederik Winkel Horn
1845 - 1898
Laurence Gronlund
1846 - 1899
Otto Haslund
1842 - 1917
Hugo Egmont Hørring
1842 - 1909
Thorvald Hansen (composer)
1847 - 1915
Erna Juel-Hansen
1845 - 1922
Pietro Krohn
1840 - 1905
Anthonore Christensen
1849 - 1926
Peter Alfred Schou
1844 - 1914
Godfred Christensen
1845 - 1928
Christian Fenger
1840 - 1902
Anna Petersen
1845 - 1910
Carl Aller
1845 - 1926
Peter Jerndorff
1842 - 1926
Eduard Holst
1843 - 1899
Orla Rosenhoff
1844 - 1905
Axel Helsted
1847 - 1907
Olaf Poulsen
1849 - 1923
Julius Bechgaard
1843 - 1917
Nanna Liebmann
1849 - 1935
Vilhelm Groth
1842 - 1899
Carl Feilberg
1844 - 1887
Margrethe Vullum
1846 - 1918
Henry Petersen (Archäologe)
1849 - 1896
Niels Juel Simonsen
1846 - 1906
Holger Roed
1846 - 1874
Ernst von der Recke (Dichter)
1848 - 1933
Leopold Rosenfeld
1849 - 1909
Catherine Engelhart Amyot
1845 - 1926
Sophie Alberti
1846 - 1947
Vilhelm Pacht
1843 - 1912
Axel Liebmann
1849 - 1876
Alfred Lagerheim
1843 - 1924
Erik Skram
1847 - 1923
Nicoline Tuxen
1847 - 1931
Herman Trier
1845 - 1925
Carl Frederick Pechüle
1843 - 1914
Sophus Hagen
1842 - 1929
Carl Hall (mountaineer)
1848 - 1908
William Mollerup
1846 - 1917
Isaac Salmonsen
1846 - 1910
Angul Hammerich
1848 - 1931
Carl Frederick Wandel
1843 - 1930
Harald Brix
1841 - 1881
William Faber
1847 - 1883
Louise Ravn-Hansen
1849 - 1909
Carl Christian Andersen
1849 - 1906
Emil Blichfeldt
1849 - 1908
Peter Christian Hauberg
1844 - 1928
Rudolf Bissen
1846 - 1911
Peter Christian Bønecke
1841 - 1914
Valdemar Ingemann
1840 - 1911
Peter Hansen (författare)
1840 - 1905
William Bloch
1845 - 1926
Emil Gigas
1849 - 1931
Frederik Hendriksen
1847 - 1938
Oscar Bloch (läkare)
1847 - 1926
Jonas Collin (zoolog)
1840 - 1905
Fritz Bendix
1847 - 1914
Niels Bredal
1841 - 1888
Ludvig Petersen
1848 - 1935
Carl Ferdinand Andersen
1846 - 1913
Axel Liljefalk
1848 - 1915
Viggo Kalhauge
1840 - 1905
Georg Rung
1845 - 1903
Ludvig Knudsen
1843 - 1924
Poul Andræ
1843 - 1928
Urban Gad
1841 - 1920
Peter Michael Johan Brock
1842 - 1906
Peter Wilken Heiberg
1840 - 1920
Carl Julius Salomonsen
1847 - 1924
Christian Pram-Henningsen
1846 - 1892
Anton Svendsen
1846 - 1930
Carl Christian Lumbye
1841 - 1910
Alfred Hage
1843 - 1922
Lauritz Baltzer
1845 - 1917
Georg August Lumbye
1843 - 1922
Julius Schou
1849 - 1929
Severin Abrahams
1843 - 1900
Tagea Brandt
1847 - 1881
Anton Bing
1849 - 1926
Axel Frederik Pacht
1847 - 1898
Carl Attrup
1848 - 1892
Jesper Jespersen
1848 - 1914
Martin Frederick Christensen
1849 - 1915
Gerhard Grothusen
1843 - 1878
Kristiane Konstantin-Hansen
1848 - 1925
Henry L. Hertz
1847 - 1926
Oscar Alexander Ræder
1844 - 1877
Sophus Neumann
1846 - 1912
Victoria Jensen
1847 - 1930
Waldemar Ewerlöf
1845 - 1911
Franz Hildebrand
1842 - 1898
Alexander Haslund
1844 - 1906
Axel Guldbrandsen
1848 - 1923
Alexander Friedenreich
1849 - 1932