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This is a list of notable Danish people. Actors Ellen Aggerholm (1882 ... Ellen Andersen (1898–1989), museum curator, specializing in the history of textiles;
Adam of Bremen was an 11th century German chronicler. Although not Danish himself, he spent time in the court of the Danish king Svend Estridson.Adam claims to derive much of the information on Danish history from his Latin chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ("Deeds of the Bishops of Hamburg") from conversations with Svend (whom he quotes verbatim in several places) and from ...
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This is a list of Danish Nobel laureates. Since the Nobel Prize was established per the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895, 14 of the prize winners have been from Denmark . The first Danish Nobel laureate was Niels Ryberg Finsen , who won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1903 for his work on using light therapy to treat diseases.
Danish and Nordic legendary stories, chronicles and sagas often have accounts of Danish kings and dynasties stretching further back in time than the 7th century, but the historicity of the content and interpretations of these stories are often put to doubt. Chochilaicus—see Hugleik and Hygelac—c. 515 AD, mentioned by Gregory of Tours (538 ...
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Mona Tougaard (b. 2002), Danish fashion model with Ethiopian, Somali, and Turkish ancestry; Literature. Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764) an author, a Lutheran bishop of the Church of Norway, a historian and an antiquarian. [39] Thorkild Bjørnvig (1918–2004), writer [40] Bent Faurby (b. 1937), children's writer [41]
This is a list of Danish writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .