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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;
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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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 ...
Danes (Danish: danskere, pronounced [ˈtænskɐɐ]), or Danish people, are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark. [27] This connection may be ancestral, legal, historical, or cultural.
This is a list of notable Danish musicians and singers: The list A Afenginn Alphabeat Aqua, peaked in 1997 with "Barbie Girl" Artillery B Bamses Venner Julie Berthelsen, singer Bikstok Røgsystem Birmingham 6 The Blue Van Victor Borge Brixx Dieterich Buxtehude (1637–1707), composer C C21 Debbie Cameron Henrik Carlsen Carpark North The Cartoons Tim Christensen Ida Corr D Anna David Daze ...
The history of Denmark as a unified kingdom began in the 8th century, but historic documents describe the geographic area and the people living there—the Danes—as early as 500 AD. These early documents include the writings of Jordanes and Procopius .
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.