Danish Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Is a Danish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour Team Saxo Bank.Chris Anker Sørensen sta

Is a Danish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour Team Saxo Bank.Chris Anker Sørensen started his professional career in 2007 with Team CSC. After a promising performance in the 2008 Tour of Austria, he competed for Denmark (along with Nicki Sørensen and Brian Vandborg) in the 2008 Olympic road race, finishing 12th overall.

Is a Danish swimmer. He participated for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the disciplin

Is a Danish swimmer. He participated for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the disciplines 200 metre breaststroke and the 200 metre individual medley. His swimming club is West-Swim Esbjerg.

Is a Danish professional football striker, who currently plays for Danish Superliga side Sønderjysk

Is a Danish professional football striker, who currently plays for Danish Superliga side SønderjyskE.

Is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a winger for FC Energie Cottbus in the Fussba

Is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a winger for FC Energie Cottbus in the Fussball-Bundesliga. From 2000 to 2003, he played 23 games and scored two goals for the Denmark national under-21 football team. He started his senior career for Farum BK (later known as FC Nordsjælland) in 1999, before moving to FC Midtjylland in 2004.

Is a Danish orienteering competitor and World champion.[1] He won a gold medal in the 1997 World Ori

Is a Danish orienteering competitor and World champion.[1] He won a gold medal in the 1997 World Orienteering Championships in Grimstad with the Danish Relay team. He received a silver medal in the 2005 World Orienteering Championships in Aichi (middle distance). He won the overall World Cup in 1998, and received a silver medal in the 2004 European Championships with the Danish relay team.[2]

Was a Danish pharmaceutical botanist and bryologist.The standard author abbreviation Hesselbo is use

Was a Danish pharmaceutical botanist and bryologist.The standard author abbreviation Hesselbo is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

Was a Danish botanist, who was a pioneer of plant ecology. He is mainly remembered for his scheme of

Was a Danish botanist, who was a pioneer of plant ecology. He is mainly remembered for his scheme of plant strategies to survive an unfavourable season ("life forms") and his demonstration that the relative abundance of strategies in floras largely corresponded to the Earth's climatic zones. This scheme, the Raunkiær system, is still widely used today and may be seen as a precursor of modern plant strategy schemes, e.g. J. Philip Grime's CSR system.

Danish painter, was born on the Krabbesholm estate on the fjord near Skive, and was son of the estat

Danish painter, was born on the Krabbesholm estate on the fjord near Skive, and was son of the estate owner, Jens Dalsgaard.Later that year he traveled to Copenhagen and began his art studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) in October 1841. In December 1841 he began private studies with painter Martinus Rørbye. These last until 1847.

Was a Danish physician and botanist and pupil of Carolus Linnaeus.He studied at the University of Co

Was a Danish physician and botanist and pupil of Carolus Linnaeus.He studied at the University of Copenhagen, first theology, then medicine, in which in took his doctorate degree in 1755 (De morbis deuteropathicis seu Sympathier). He then travelled abroad 1757-1761 to further his studies of medicine, and to study chemistry and botany - the latter subject at Uppsala University with Linnaeus. From 1761, he was executive at the Botanic Garden in Copenhagen, and succeeded Georg Christian Oeder as its director i 1770. He was appointed professor at the Chair of Medicine in 1776 and received the title of "royal adviser" (konferensråd) in 1784.

Danish painter, was born in Copenhagen to Peter Berendt Købke, a baker, and his wife Cecilie Margre

Danish painter, was born in Copenhagen to Peter Berendt Købke, a baker, and his wife Cecilie Margrete. He was one of 11 children. Købke is one of the best known artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

Was a Danish astronomer.He visited Frauenburg, where Copernicus had made his observations, took a ma

Was a Danish astronomer.He visited Frauenburg, where Copernicus had made his observations, took a masters degree at Rostock, and at Copenhagen found a patron in Christian Friis, chancellor of Denmark, who employed him in his household. Appointed in 1603 rector of the school of Viborg, he was elected two years later to a professorship in the University of Copenhagen, and his promotion to the chair of mathematics ensued in 1607. This post he held till his death.Longomontanus was not an advanced thinker. He adhered to Tycho's erroneous views about refraction, believed that comets were messengers of evil, and imagined that he had squared the circle. He found that the circle whose diameter is 43 has for its circumference the square root of 18252 which gives 3.14185 ... for the value of p. John Pell and others tried in vain to convince him of his error

Is a Danish football player currently playing for FC Nordsjælland. Coming from Herfølge BK on July

Is a Danish football player currently playing for FC Nordsjælland. Coming from Herfølge BK on July 1, 2007, he has mostly been used as a marginal player not having his final breakthrough, however, being a versatile player, he has played some games now on different positions on the field - mainly defence and midfield.

Is a Danish former football player and now manager. He is currently the manager of Boldklubben Frem.

Is a Danish former football player and now manager. He is currently the manager of Boldklubben Frem.As player he played for B 1903, Cercle Brugge, FC Lorient and Akademisk Boldklub and played two caps for the Danish national football team.

Is a Danish football player who currently plays for Thisted FC in the Viasat Sport Divisionen. He st

Is a Danish football player who currently plays for Thisted FC in the Viasat Sport Divisionen. He started his career as a youth player at AaB but soon moved on to Randers FC where he would have a better chance of eventually making the 1st team. He signed his first professional contract with Randers in 2007. Andreasen made his debut for the Randers FC senior squad on March 30, 2008 in a game against AC Horsens.

Was a Danish track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. He w

Was a Danish track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. He was a member of Københavns Idræts Forening and served as the club's president from 1903-1905 and from 1916-1918.

Was a Danish painter. He was the instructor of Martinus Rørbye

Was a Danish painter. He was the instructor of Martinus Rørbye

Is a Danish professional football player, who currently plays for the Danish Superliga club FC Midtj

Is a Danish professional football player, who currently plays for the Danish Superliga club FC Midtjylland.Poulsen was called up for the league national team, which will play a number of unofficial national team games in the United States, El Salvador and Honduras in January 2007, by national team manager Morten Olsen. He played the first game of the tour; a 3-1 defeat to the United States national team in Los Angeles, California.

Is a Danish racing driver, who competed in the 2007 and 2008 GP2 Series seasons, albeit hindered by

Is a Danish racing driver, who competed in the 2007 and 2008 GP2 Series seasons, albeit hindered by a recurrent back injury. Prior to GP2 he competed in British Formula Three and Formula BMW.Bakkerud competed in Formula BMW from 2002 to 2004, joining the British version of the series in the latter year after two seasons in Germany.

Was a Danish physicist.Christiansen first taught at the local polytechnical school. In 1886 he was a

Was a Danish physicist.Christiansen first taught at the local polytechnical school. In 1886 he was appointed to a chair for physics at the University of Copenhagen.He mainly studied radiant heat and optical dispersion, discovering the Christiansen effect (Christiansen filter). He found numerous absorption spectra with abnormal dispersion, among them aniline red.

Is a Danish professional football player, currently playing as an attacking midfielder for Dutch sid

Is a Danish professional football player, currently playing as an attacking midfielder for Dutch side Ajax Amsterdam.Christian Eriksen started playing football in his hometown Middelfart before his third birthday. In 2005 he switched to Odense Boldklub, who competed in the danish youth championships. His team lost the semi finale against Brøndby IF, but afterwards he was named "Best Technical Player". The following year Odense Boldklub won the tournament , where he scored the only goal.

Is a Danish author. He has written several collections of poems as well as crime fiction.In 1988, Ch

Is a Danish author. He has written several collections of poems as well as crime fiction.In 1988, Christian Dorph was admitted at the Forfatterskolen (a 2-year artistic education) in Copenhagen. He has studied Danish literature at the University of Aarhus, and today he teaches a writing class at the Testrup Folk High School (in Danish: Testrup Højskole).

Is a retired Danish professional basketball player who in March 2008 was released from his contract

Is a retired Danish professional basketball player who in March 2008 was released from his contract with Virtus Roma and is a former player of SISU Copenhagen, the Florida Gators, Winterthur FCB and Virtus Bologna. He was also a Danish national team playe

Is a Danish filmmaker.A graduate of the National Film School of Denmark, he worked in lower position

Is a Danish filmmaker.A graduate of the National Film School of Denmark, he worked in lower positions on a number of Danish films before producing his first hit movie, Nynne (2005), a comedy directed by Jonas Elmer.He then produced and directed the social realist drama Råzone (2006), also known as Life Hits, which was nominated for a Bodil Award as Best Film, and nominated for two Robert Awards as Best Children/Family Film, as well as for Best Director.

Is a Danish football midfielder currently playing for Thisted FC. He is the son of Danish internatio

Is a Danish football midfielder currently playing for Thisted FC. He is the son of Danish international player Ove Flindt Bjerg.

Is a Danish-born, Norweigan sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Compe

Is a Danish-born, Norweigan sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the C-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992.He found better success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight medals. This includes six golds (C-2 1000 m: 1989, 1993; C-2 10000 m: 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993), one silver (C-2 500 m: 1993), and one bronze (C-2 10000 m: 1986).