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Gwili Andre, actress, immigrant from Denmark; Earl W. Bascom, actor, maternal grandfather was from Denmark; Rowan Blanchard, American actress [2] Alexis Bledel, actress, paternal grandfather of Danish descent [3] Michael Bowen, actor, son of actress Sonia Sorel (née Henius), who is the daughter of Danish-American biochemist Max Henius
B.S. Christiansen, Danish special force soldier, TV personality; Louise Conring (1824–1891), first trained nurse in Denmark, head of Copenhagen's Deaconess Institute; Natasja Crone Back, journalist, host at the Eurovision Song Contest 2001; Alma Dahlerup (1874–1969), Danish-American philanthropist; Thomas Dam
Carl Christian Anton Christensen, is America's Danish-American equivalent of "Grandma Moses." Another early Danish-American artisan was Peter Hanson, a landscape painter, tulip authority, and daguerreian. Hanson was born in Denmark in 1821 and came to America c. 1847, when he settled in Brooklyn, NY, with a photography studio in the Bowery.
Victor Borge was born Børge Rosenbaum on 3 January 1909 in Copenhagen, Denmark, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family. His parents, Bernhard and Frederikke (née Lichtinger) Rosenbaum, were both musicians: his father a violist in the Royal Danish Orchestra, [5] [6] and his mother a pianist. [7]
Pages in category "American people of Danish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 373 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Like the Danish original, “Famous Last Words” will center on “notable personalities who have spent their lives making significant contributions to humanity and culture.
Following World War II, there was an increase in interest in ethnic origins in the United States, which saw more Scandinavian Americans refer to themselves as Norwegian-American, Danish-American, etc. Remaining communities became concerned with cultural activism and preservationism.
An American mother living abroad in Denmark gave people an inside look at the country’s free paediatric dentistry system inside elementary schools.