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Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Copenhagen
3 notable people grew up or lived in and around Copenhagen. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
Lars Ulrich1963–1980
📍 Hellerup, Gentofte, Denmark
Lars Ulrich was born in December 1963 in Gentofte, a prosperous municipality on the northern edge of Copenhagen, and grew up in Hellerup, a leafy, seaside suburb of grand villas along the…
Niels Bohr1932–1962
📍 Carlsberg Honorary Residence, Copenhagen, Denmark
I spent the last and most productive years of my life in the Carlsberg Honorary Residence in Copenhagen — a magnificent mansion provided to Denmark's most distinguished citizen by the…
Queen Margrethe IIfrom 1940
📍 Amalienborg, 1257 Copenhagen, Denmark
Margrethe was born in April 1940 at Frederik VIII's Palace, part of the Amalienborg palace complex in Copenhagen, just a week after Nazi Germany occupied Denmark, and her birth was greeted…