1. Margrethe Vestager (1968)

Danish Politician

Danish politician who has served as the European Commissioner for Competition between 2014-2019. She was subsequently elected as the Executive Vice President-Designate of the European Commission for a Europe fit for the...

2. Naser Khader (1963)

Danish Politician

Syrian born Danish politician and former member of the Parliament of Denmark. He is one of the founders of the Liberal Alliance and has advocated for the co-existence of democracy...

3. Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen (1984)

Danish Politician

Danish politician who has risen to fame for her career in the Folketinget as a top member of the Red-Green Alliance. She was named by Danish press outlets Ekstrabladet and Informatíon...

4. Mette Frederiksen (1977)

Danish Politician

Rose to fame as the 27th Prime Minister of Denmark when she assumed office in June 2019. She was previously the Leader of the Social Democrats in 2015.

5. Helle Thorning-Schmidt (1966)

Danish Politician

Known for her leadership of the Danish Social Democratic Party, she took office in 2011 as Prime Minister of Denmark. She also served a five-year term in the European Union...

6. Rina Ronja Kari (1985)

Danish Politician

Rina Ronja Kari is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She replaced Søren Søndergaard as MEP for the People's Movement against the EU and is associated member...

7. Peter Christensen (1975)

Danish Politician

Peter Christensen is a Danish politician representing the Liberal Party Venstre. He is an electrician by profession and has been a Member of Parliament since November 20 2001. He is...

8. Lene Espersen (1965)

Danish Politician

Lene Espersen is a Danish politician and member of parliament who was Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs from 23 February 2010 to 3 October 2011 and was leader of the...

9. Pia Christmas-Møller (1961)

Danish Politician

Pia Christmas-Møller is a Danish politician a member of parliament from 1987 until 2011. She represented the Conservative People's Party from 1987 until 2007 and led her party between 1998...

10. Niels Neergaard (1854)

Danish Politician

Niels Thomasius Neergaard was a Danish historian and political figure a member of the Liberal Moderate Venstre and since 1910 of Venstre. He served as Council President of Denmark between...

11. Karen Jespersen (1947)

Danish Politician

Karen Moustgaard Jespersen is a Danish journalist and politician representing the party Venstre.

12. Poul Weber (1949)

Danish Politician

Poul Weber is a Danish politician representing the Liberal party Venstre. He served as the last County Mayor of Funen County. Effective January 1 2007 Funen forms part of Region...

13. Søren Krarup (1937)

Danish Politician

Søren Krarup is a Danish pastor writer politician and Member of Parliament for the Danish People's Party from 2001 until 2011. Krarup is a significant and influential critic from the...

14. Henrik Thorup (1946)

Danish Politician

15. Carl Jeppesen (1858)

Danish Politician

Carl Jeppesen was a Danish-born Norwegian worker newspaper editor and politician. He edited the newspaper Social-Demokraten from 1887 to 1892 and from 1906 to 1912. He was among the founders...

16. Alsing Andersen (1893)

Danish Politician

Alsing Emanuel Andersen was a Danish social democrat politician. Andersen served as the Minister of Defense for Denmark. From 8 July 1940 to 1945 he served as the vice chairman...

17. Carl Gottlob Rafn (1769)

Danish Politician

Carl Gottlob Rafn was a Danish Enlightenment scientist and civil servant. He wrote influential papers on a broad array of basic and applied sciences.

18. Christian Mejdahl (1939)

Danish Politician

Christian Mejdahl is a Danish politician representing the liberal party Venstre. He was a Member of Parliament—the Folketing—from 9 September 1987 to 13 November 2007 and served as Speaker of...

19. Verner Dalskov (Unknow)

Danish Politician

Verner Dalskov was born in the town of Allested-Vejle Denmark. He was a member of the Socialdemokratiet and was mayor of Odense from 1973-1993 at which time he was followed...

20. Ingeborg Hansen (1886)

Danish Politician

Ingeborg Cathrine Hansen was a Danish lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party. Elected speaker of the Landsting in 1950 she was the world's first female Parliament speaker. She...

21. Lone Dybkjær (1940)

Danish Politician

Lone Dybkjær is a Danish politician. She graduated from Rungsted Statsskole in 1958 and took a Master of Engineering in chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark in 1964. She...

22. Karl Skytte (1908)

Danish Politician

Karl Skytte was a Danish politician member of Folketinget for the Social Liberal Party 1947-1978. Farmer by profession. As Minister for Agriculture 1957-1964 he had only limited success in resisting...

23. Mogens Camre (1936)

Danish Politician

Mogens Niels Juel Camre is a Danish politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the Danish People's Party a Vice-Chairman of the Union for a Europe of Nations...

24. Tom Høyem (1941)

Danish Politician

Tom Høyem was born on 10 October 1941. Between September 1982 and September 1987 he served as Minister for Greenland within the Danish government under the premiership of Poul Schlüter.

25. Ritt Bjerregaard (1941)

Danish Politician

Ritt Bjerregaard is a former Danish politician. She is a member of the Danish Social Democrats and was Lord Mayor of Copenhagen from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2009....

26. Karl Kristian Steincke (1880)

Danish Politician

Karl Kristian Vilhelm Steincke was a Danish politician. He was Justice Minister of Denmark from 1924 to 1926 in the Cabinet of Stauning I Social Minister from 1929 to 1935...

27. Mogens Fog (1906)

Danish Politician

Mogens Ludolf Fog was a Danish physician politician and resistance fighter. In the 1930s he headed the Socialistiske Læger who opposed Fascism. During the Second World War and the German...

28. Jens-Peter Bonde (1948)

Danish Politician

Jens-Peter Rossen Bonde is a former Member of the European Parliament with the June Movement. He resigned as an MEP in May 2008. Bonde was elected to the European Parliament...

29. Mogens Glistrup (1926)

Danish Politician

Mogens Glistrup was a controversial Danish politician lawyer tax protestor and member of the Danish parliament and founder of the Progress Party. From 1956 to 1963 Glistrup was an associate...

30. Jens Otto Krag (1914)

Danish Politician

Jens Otto Krag was a Danish politician. He was Prime Minister from 1962 to 1968 and again from 1971 to 1972.

31. Villy Søvndal (1952)

Danish Politician

Villy Søvndal is a Danish politician who served as Denmark's Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2013. He has represented the Socialist People's Party in Parliament from 1994 to...

32. Özlem Cekic (1976)

Danish Politician

Özlem Sara Cekic is a Danish politician member of parliament for the Socialist People's Party. A nurse by training she was first elected to the central committee of the Socialist...

33. Nina Bang (1866)

Danish Politician

Nina Henriette Wendeline Bang née Ellinger was a Danish social democratic politician and historian. In 1924 she was appointed Minister for Education becoming the first female minister in an internationally...

34. Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff (1712)

Danish Politician

Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff Danish statesman who came of a very ancient Mecklenburg family was the son of Joachim Engelke von Bernstorff Chamberlain to the elector of Hanover.

35. Ulla Sandbæk (1943)

Danish Politician

Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk is a former Danish Member of the European Parliament for the June Movement. She served from 1994 to 2004. She was responsible for the Sandbæk report that...

36. Bertel Haarder (1944)

Danish Politician

Bertel Geismar Haarder is a Danish politician. He represents Venstre the Danish liberal party. From November 2001 to February 2005 he was Minister for Refugees Immigrants and Integration in the...

37. Astrid Krag (1982)

Danish Politician

Astrid Krag is a Danish politician member of parliament for the Social Democrats and former Socialist People's Party Minister of Health and Prevention in the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt...

38. Bent Hindrup Andersen (Unknow)

Danish Politician

Bent Hindrup Andersen is a Danish politician. He was elected to parliament for the Red–Green Alliance 21 September 1994. He was a member until the 10 March 1998. On 1...

39. Karin Riis-Jørgensen (1952)

Danish Politician

Karin Riis-Jørgensen is a Danish politician andMember of the European Parliament with the Venstrea Vice-Chairwoman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits onthe European Parliament's Committee...

40. Thor Pedersen (1945)

Danish Politician

Thor Pedersen is a Danish politician representing the Liberal party Venstre. He was Finance Minister from 27 November 2001 to 23 November 2007 as part of the Cabinets of Anders...

41. Hans Christian Schmidt (1953)

Danish Politician

Hans Christian Schmidt is a Danish politician and former Minister of Transport. A teacher by profession he was the Danish Minister of Food from 2004 to 2007. Before that he...

42. Viggo Christensen (1880)

Danish Politician

Viggo Christensen was the first Lord Mayor of Copenhagen holding that office from 1938 to 1946 for the Social Democratic Party. From 1917 to 1938 he held the office of...

43. Helle Degn (1946)

Danish Politician

Helle Degn is a Danish politician. She is a member of the Danish Social Democrats and chairman of Mandela Center Denmark. In 2000 she was made a Commander of the...

44. Christoffer Gabel (1617)

Danish Politician

Christoffer Gabel was a Danish statesman. He was born on January 6 1617 at Glückstadt. His father Wulbern or Waldemar Gabel originally a cartographer and subsequently recorder of Glückstadt was...

45. Mogens Lykketoft (1946)

Danish Politician

Mogens Lykketoft is a Danish politician former government minister and current Speaker of the Folketing.

46. Michael Aastrup Jensen (1976)

Danish Politician

Michael Aastrup Jensen is a Danish politician. He is a former mayor of Randers and current Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party since 2005. He has been politically active...

47. Johannes Lebech (1948)

Danish Politician

Niels Johannes Lebech is a Danish politician and member of the European Parliament and former Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs for the Danish Social Liberal Party.

48. Hans Engell (1948)

Danish Politician

Hans Engell is a Danish former politician and journalist who until 6 September 2007 was the editor-in-chief of the tabloid Ekstra Bladet a position he had held for seven years.

49. Vilhelm Buhl (1881)

Danish Politician

Vilhelm Buhl was Prime Minister of Denmark from 4 May 1942 to 9 November 1942 as head of the Unity Government during the German occupation of Denmark of World War...

50. Uffe Elbæk (1954)

Danish Politician

Uffe Elbæk is a Danish politician who served as Minister of Culture 2011-2012 and who has been a Member of the Danish Parliament or Folketing since 2011. Initially a member...