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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.