Famous people who grew up or lived in Denmark
4 notable people grew up or lived in Denmark. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
Hans Christian Andersen1807–1819
📍 Munkemøllestræde 3, 5000 Odense, Denmark
From the age of two until I was fourteen, home was a little yellow half-timbered house on Munkemøllestræde, in one of the poorest quarters of Odense. Three families shared it, and ours had…
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…