- Viggo Mortensen
Young Viggo was an artistic kid, always to be seen with a pencil and paper on hand. This would continue back in New York State when, his parents divorcing in 1969, he and his brothers would move with their mother from Argentina back to Watertown.
- Victor Borge
Victor Borge (January 3 1909 - December 23 2000) was a Danish-Jewish humorist, entertainer and world-class pianist affectionately known as "the Clown Prince of Denmark" and "the Great Dane".
- Jacob Riis
Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer, was born in Ribe, Denmark. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the less fortunate in New York City, which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and photographic essays. As one of the first photographers to use flash, he is considered a pioneer in photography.
- Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress. Alba rose to prominence with the television series Dark Angel, then expanding her résumé to film, predominantly within the confines of action and comedy. Alba appears frequently on the "Hot 100" section of Maxim and was voted AskMen.com's number one on their list of "99 Most Desirable Women" in 2006, as well as "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007.
- Lauritz Melchior
Lauritz Melchior (born March 20, 1890 – died March 18, 1973) was a Danish and later American opera singer. He was the pre-eminent Wagnerian tenor of the late 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and has since come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type.
- Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. She rose to fame with her role in 1998's "The Horse Whisperer" and subsequently gained critical acclaim for her roles in "Ghost World", "Lost in Translation" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring", the latter two earning her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003.
- Gutzon Borglum
(John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 - March 6, 1941) was an American artist and sculptor famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, as well as dozens of other impressive public works of art.
- Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author of the genre's Golden Age. Poul Anderson also wrote several works of fantasy. He received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married the former Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to the science fiction author Greg Bear. He was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972.
- Lars Ulrich
Lars Ulrich (born December 26 1963) is the drummer and co-founder of Metallica. He was born in Gentofte, Denmark to an upper middle-class family. A tennis prodigy in his youth, Ulrich moved to Los Angeles, California at age seventeen to pursue his training, but instead of playing tennis, he ended up as a drummer. After publishing an advertisement in a local Los Angeles newspaper called "The Recycler", he met James Hetfield and created Metallica.
- Virginia Madsen
Virginia Madsen (born September 11, 1961) is an American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. During the 2000s, she once again became known after an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated role in the film "Sideways".
- Eliza Patricia Dushku
Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980) is an American film actress, who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as "True Lies", "The New Guy", "Bring It On", and "Wrong Turn". She is also well known for her acting on television, such as her recurring appearances on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" as Faith, as well as the main character in the series "Tru Calling".
- Michael Madsen
Michael Soren Madsen (born September 25, 1958) is an American actor.
- Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt (July 12, 1886 - June 2, 1956) was a Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning Danish actor who lived in the United States. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark to a stage family, Hersholt went on to become a well-known actor in the United States. According to the Internet Movie Database, he appeared in 140 films and directed four. His first two films were made in Germany in 1906.
- Leslie Nielsen
Leslie William Nielsen OC is a Canadian-American comedian and actor. Although Nielsen’s acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and movies, he achieved his greatest film success in comedies, including "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" series of films. His portrayal of serious characters seemingly oblivious of (and complicit in) their absurd surroundings gave Nielsen a reputation as a comedian.
- Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr., (February 11 1921 - May 23 2006) was a four-term United States senator (1971 until 1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. Treasury Secretary during the early years of the Clinton administration.
- William Petersen
William Louis Petersen (born February 21, 1953) is an American actor, best known for playing Gil Grissom on CSI.
- Janet Reno
Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the first female Attorney General of the United States (1993-2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. She was the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt.
- Joshua Alba
Joshua Lauren Alba (born July 8, 1982, Biloxi, Mississippi) is an American actor best known for his role as Krit on the television series "Dark Angel".
- Jack Anderson
Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 - December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.
- David Gress
David Gress (born 29 January 1953), is a Danish-American historian, known for his 1998 survey "From Plato to Nato" on Western identity and grand narratives. He was born in Copenhagen. He was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, where he read classics. He was awarded a doctorate in medieval history from Bryn Mawr College in 1981. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1982 to 1992.
- Jim Nussle
James Allen "Jim" Nussle (born June 27 1960, Des Moines, Iowa) is an American politician. Nussle was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007. Nussle was the Republican nominee for the November 2006 election for Governor of Iowa, and was defeated by Chet Culver. On June 19, 2007, President George W. Bush nominated Nussle to succeed Rob Portman as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
- Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin (February 21 1903 - January 14 1977) was a French-born author of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published journals, which span more than sixty years, beginning when she was eleven years old and ending shortly before her death. Anais is also famous for her erotica, which not only proves sensual, but also acts as a study of human sexuality in its perfection and flaws.
- William S. Knudsen
William Signius "Big Bill" Knudsen (March 25, 1879 - April 27, 1948), was a leading automobile industry executive and a General in the U.S. Army. Knudsen was born in Denmark. His name was originally "Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen". He came to the United States in 1900. Working first for the Ford Motor Company and later for General Motors, Knudsen became an expert on mass production and a skilled manager.
- Steny Hoyer
"Congressman Hoyer is a skilled legislator. He recently forced Republicans to scuttle budget legislation that included a number of cuts in programs important to labor and working families by attaching an increase in the minimum wage to the bill." - Abe Breehey , assistant director of government affairs
- Poul Andersen
Poul Dalby Andersen was a printer who served in the Danish resistance movement during World War II and later published one of the remaining two Danish-language newspapers in the United States. Andersen was knighted in 1982 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark for his efforts in uniting the Danish American community. Andersen was born in Ringk%C3%B8bing, a small town on the west coast of Denmark. His grandfather was a co-founder of the town's daily newspaper.
- Karl Dane
Karl Dane (October 12, 1886 in Copenhagen - died April 15, 1934 in Los Angeles) was a comedian and actor of the silent film era, and a sad example of the fate that befell many silent movie stars who were unable to make the transition to talkies. Born Rasmus Karl Therkelsen Gottlieb in Copenhagen, Denmark to a theatrical family, Dane first appeared on stage at the age of 14. In January 1916, …
- Lars Frederiksen
Lars Erik Frederiksen (born Lars Erik Dapello in Campbell, California on August 30, 1971) is a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Rancid, and the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, he is also notable as a producer having worked with the Dropkick Murphys, Agnostic Front, Union 13, The Gadjits,Pressure Point, and The Business.
- Clifford Hansen
Clifford Peter Hansen (born October 16, 1912) is a retired Republican politician from the American state of Wyoming. He served as both governor (1963-1967) and U.S. senator (1967-1978). Earlier, he was the president of the board of trustees of his "alma mater", the University of Wyoming at Laramie (Albany County), the state's only four-year institution of higher learning. He was also a county commissioner in Jackson, the seat of Teton County.
- Chris Madsen
Chris Madsen was a lawman of the Old West who is best known as being one of The Three Guardsmen, the name given to Madsen and two other Deputy US Marshals who were responsible for the apprehension and/or killing of several outlaws of that era. The Three Guardsmen consisted of Madsen, Bill Tilghman, and Heck Thomas. Madsen was born in Denmark. He claimed to have been a soldier in the Danish Army, and later immigrated to the United States in 1876.
- Solon Borglum
Solon Hannibal de la Mothe Borglum (22 December 1868 - 1922) was an American sculptor. Born in Ogden, Utah, younger brother of Gutzon Borglum of Mount Rushmore fame. The son of Danish immigrants who settled on the great plains, Solon Borglum spent his early years as a rancher in western Nebraska. Though he later lived in Paris and New York and achieved a reputation as one of America's best sculptors, it was his depiction of frontier life, …
- Maren Jensen
Maren Kawehilani Jensen (September 23, 1956, Arcadia, California) is an American actress best known for portraying Athena in the 1970s television series "Battlestar Galactica". She was raised in Glendale where she attended Herbert Hoover High School from 1971 to 1974. Jensen was a longtime companion of singer/songwriter Don Henley. According to the Internet Movie Database, Jensen was one of the first Hollywood Actors to get sick with EBV, …
- Jamil Fearrington
Jamil Fearrington is a Danish-American football defender playing for Stavanger I.F.. He can play center back, right back or along the right flank. Jamil has publicly stated his intention to play for the US National Team. Fearrington started playing football in the youth team of Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB), the reserve team of multiple Danish champions F.C. Copenhagen (FCK). In the autumn 2006 he was included in the FCK first team, …
- Richard Nielsen
Richard Nielsen of Houston, Texas, an amateur researcher on the linguistics and runology of the Kensington Runestone, grew up in a Danish-speaking home in California, earned a doctorate in materials science from the Technical University of Denmark, and developed an intense interest in the Kensington Runestone (KRS) while living in Scandinavia working as a consulting engineer. When Dr. Nielsen returned to the USA in 1985, …
- Ellen Corby
Ellen Corby (June 3, 1911 - April 14, 1999) was an Oscar-nominated American character actress. She is most widely remembered for the role of "Grandma Walton" on the television series "The Waltons", for which she won three Emmy Awards.
- Peter Blegvad
Peter Blegvad is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the avant-rock band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums since Slapp Happy split up. He is the son of Lenore and Erik Blegvad, who are respectively, a children's book author and illustrator. Blegvad collaborated with bassist John Greaves (recording "Kew.
- Akiane Kramarik
Akiane Kramarik (born July 9, 1994) is an American artistic prodigy and poet. Akiane Kramarik was born in Mount Morris, Illinois to a Lithuanian mother and an American father. According to her website, she is homeschooled. Primarily a self-taught painter, Akiane Kramarik started drawing at age four, painting at six, and writing poetry at seven. Her first completed self-portrait sold for ten thousand US dollars.
- Carl Christian Anton Christensen
Carl Christian Anton Christensen was a Danish-American artist who is known for his paintings illustrating the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. C.C.A. Christensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen. In 1850 he joined the LDS Church and subsequently served as a missionary in his native Denmark. In 1857 he emigrated to Utah, traveling with one of the handcart companies.
- Christian Mortensen
Thomas Peter Thorvald Kristian Ferdinand Mortensen, known as an adult as Christian Mortensen, was born in Skaarup, Denmark, on August 16, 1882 and baptized in Fruering Church that December 26. By the time he died on April 25, 1998, he had become the oldest man ever whose age is not disputed, although the Guinness Book of World Records still ranks him second to the disputed case of Shigechiyo Izumi.
- Floyd Gottfredson
Arthur Floyd Gottfredson (May 5, 1905-July 22, 1986) was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the "Mickey Mouse" comic strip. He has probably had the same impact on the Mickey Mouse comics as Carl Barks had on the Donald Duck comics. Two decades after his death, his memory was honored with the Disney Legends citation in 2003 and induction into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.
- Ted Sorensen
Theodore Chaikin "Ted" Sorensen (b. May 8, 1928) is of Counsel (retired Senior Partner) at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and writer, best known as President John F. Kennedy's Special Counsel & Adviser, legendary speechwriter, and "alter-ego." President Kennedy once called him his "intellectual blood bank."