







The Most Famous
Athletes from Denmark
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 98 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 37th most number of Athletes behind Kazakhstan and Greece.
Top 10 Danish Athletes
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Danish Athletes of all time. This list of famous Danish Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Danish Athletes.
- #1

Viggo Jensen
1874 - 1930
HPI 61.9328 langsDanish sportsman
- #2

Karen Hoff
1921 - 2000
HPI 59.5721 langsDanish canoeist
- #3

Edgar Aabye
1865 - 1941
HPI 59.3123 langsDanish tug of war competitor (1865–1941)
- #4

Lis Hartel
1921 - 2009
HPI 59.1920 langsDanish equestrian
- #5

Karen Harup
1924 - 2009
HPI 58.5923 langsDanish swimmer
- #6

Eugen Schmidt
1862 - 1931
HPI 56.5922 langsDanish sportsman
- #7

Charles Winckler
1867 - 1932
HPI 56.4722 langsDanish shot putter (1867–1932)
- #8

Ernst Schultz
1879 - 1906
HPI 56.0218 langsDanish sprinter
- #9

Hans Jacob Nielsen
1899 - 1967
HPI 55.5219 langsDanish boxer
- #10

Lily Carlstedt
1926 - 2002
HPI 55.5117 langsDanish javelin thrower (1926-2002)
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Danish Athletes grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
2000s(2)
1990s(23)
1980s(15)
1970s(11)
1920s(10)
1900s(1)
1890s(1)
Overlapping Lives
Which Athletes were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 16 most globally memorable Athletes since 1700.































































