Editing Helsingør (section)

== Notable people ==
=== Public service ===
[[File:Johan Isaksen Pontanus.jpg|thumb|140px|Johan Isaksen Pontanus]]
* [[Christiern Pedersen]] (c.1480–1554), canon, humanist scholar, writer and publisher
* [[Johannes Isacius Pontanus]] (1571–1639), Dutch [[historiographer]].
* [[Niels Claussøn Senning]] (c.1580–1617), Danish/Norwegian clergyman, [[Diocese of Oslo|Bishop of Oslo]]
* [[Hans Ulrik Gyldenløve]] (1615–1645), illegit. son of King [[Christian IV of Denmark]] and Navy officer
* [[Jørgen Iversen Dyppel]] (1638–1683), first governor of the [[Danish West Indies]] 1672/1680.
* [[Christian de Meza]] (1792–1865) commanded the [[Danish Army]] in the [[Second Schleswig War]]
* [[Robert Chapman (Plymouth Brethren)|Robert Cleaver Chapman]] (1803–1902), pastor, teacher and evangelist, the ''apostle of Love''
* [[Olivia Nielsen]] (1852–1910), a Danish trade unionist and politician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1113/origin/170/|title=Olivia Nielsen (1852 - 1910)|publisher=Kvinfo|author=Sandvad, Karin|access-date=31 August 2016|language=da|archive-date=11 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911113538/http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1113/origin/170/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Hans Wright]] (1854–1925), city architect in Copenhagen from 1904 to 1925
* [[William Thalbitzer]] (1873–1958), a philologist and professor of [[Greenlandic Inuit|Eskimo]] studies
* [[Morten Løkkegaard]] (born 1964), Danish politician and [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]].

=== Arts ===
[[File:Ove Verner Hansen 2013.jpg|thumb|150px|Ove Verner Hansen 2013]]
[[File:Jan-grarup DSC08102.jpg|150px|thumb|Jan Grarup, 2017]]
* [[Pieter Isaacsz]] (1569–1625), a Danish-born [[Dutch Golden Age]] painter.
* [[Bernhard Keil]] (1624–1687), Danish Baroque painter, became a pupil of [[Rembrandt]].
* [[Johan Frederik Møller]] (1797–1871), Danish painter and photographer.
* [[Anton Melbye]] (1818–1875), [[Vilhelm Melbye]] (1824–1882) & [[Fritz Melbye]] (1826–1869), brothers and Danish [[marine art]]ists 
* [[August Schiøtt]] (1823–1895), Danish portrait painter.
* [[Peter Elfelt]] (1866–1931), photographer and cinema pioneer, made early Danish films <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253298/  IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217180237/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253298/ |date=17 February 2017 }} retrieved 29 June 2020</ref>
* [[Harald Moltke]] (1871–1960), a painter, author and explorer on four Arctic expeditions
* [[Alfred Lind]] (1879–1959), cinematographer, screenwriter and silent era film director <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511155/  IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217123738/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511155/ |date=17 February 2017 }} retrieved 29 June 2020</ref>
* [[Valdemar Andersen]] (1889–1956), screenwriter and film director for [[Nordisk Film]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026276/  IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601055859/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026276/ |date=1 June 2019 }} retrieved 30 June 2020</ref>
* [[Ove Verner Hansen]] (1932–2016), Danish opera singer and actor <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0361037/  IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418174432/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0361037/ |date=18 April 2017 }} retrieved 29 June 2020</ref>
* [[Erik Wedersøe]] (1938–2011), a Danish actor, director and author <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917186/  IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190918162956/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917186/ |date=18 September 2019 }} retrieved 30 June 2020</ref>
* [[Birte Tove]] (1945–2016), a Danish actress
* [[Morten Rudå]] (born 1960), a Norwegian actor <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0749062/  IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318010433/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0749062/ |date=18 March 2017 }} retrieved 29 June 2020</ref>
* [[Fredrik Lundin]] (born 1963), jazz saxophonist and bandleader, brought up in Helsingør
* [[Martin Glyn Murray]] (born 1966), a Danish-born British actor <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615163/  IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190908142328/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615163/ |date=8 September 2019 }} retrieved 30 June 2020</ref>
* [[Jan Grarup]] (born 1968 in Kvistgaard), a photojournalist, does war and conflict photography
* [[Helle Fagralid]] (born 1976), Danish actress of [[Faroe Islanders|Faroese]] descent <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0265149/  IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506111237/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0265149/ |date=6 May 2017 }} retrieved 29 June 2020</ref>
* [[Vicki Berlin]] (born 1977), a Danish actress <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1365203/  IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213050751/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1365203/ |date=13 February 2020 }} retrieved 30 June 2020</ref>
* [[Susanne Grinder]] (born 1981), principal dancer with the [[Royal Danish Ballet]]

=== Science and business ===
[[File:Sophie Brahe portrait.jpg|150px|thumb|Sophie Brahe, 1602]]
* [[Sophia Brahe]] (1559–1643), a Danish noble woman and horticulturalist with knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, and medicine; lived in Helsingør from 1616
* [[Stephen Hansen]] (1701–1770), industrialist, businessman and [[General War Commissioner]]
* [[Jean Abraham Grill]] (1736–1792), merchant, director of the [[Swedish East India Company]].
* [[Hans Christian Amberg]] (1749–1815), a Danish lexicographer
* [[Hartvig Marcus Frisch (1754–1816)|Hartvig Marcus Frisch]] (1754–1816), director of the [[Royal Greenland Trading Department]]
* [[Edward Knox (Australian politician)|Sir Edward Knox]] (1819–1901), Danish-born Australian politician, sugar refiner and banker.
* [[Ludvig Lorenz]] (1829–1891), physicist and mathematician, named the [[Lorenz gauge condition]]
* [[Jens Levin Tvede]] (1830–1891), a Danish distiller, industrialist and politician; member of Helsingør City Council from 1857 and of the [[Landstinget]]
* [[Gordon Norrie]] (1855–1941), Danish surgeon and ophthalmologist, named [[Norrie disease]]
* [[Wilhelm Johannsen]] (1857–1927), Danish botanist, plant physiologist and geneticist
* [[Simon Spies]] (1921–1984), Danish [[tycoon]].
* [[Steen Rasmussen (physicist)|Steen Rasmussen]] (born 1955), a physicist, works on [[artificial life]] and [[complex systems]]
* [[Mette Blomsterberg]] (born 1970), Danish pastry chef, restaurateur and cookbook writer

=== Sport ===
[[File:Mikkel Hansen-20160416-PSG-TOULOUSE.JPG|150px|thumb|Mikkel Hansen, 2016]]
* [[Fairfax Fenwick]] (1852–1920), a New Zealand cricketer 
* [[Edgar Aabye]] (1865–1941), a Danish athlete and journalist, team gold medallist in the tug of war at the [[1900 Summer Olympics]]
* [[August Sørensen]] (1896–1979), track and field athlete, competed in the [[1920 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Willy Hansen]] (1906–1978), a Danish track cyclist, silver medallist at the [[1924 Summer Olympics]] and gold and bronze medallist at the [[1928 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Jørn Steffensen]] (born 1944), a modern pentathlete, competed at the [[1968 Summer Olympic Games|1968]],  [[1972 Summer Olympics|1972]] and [[1976 Summer Olympics]] 
* [[Mads Vibe-Hastrup]] (born 1978), Danish professional golfer
* [[Tobias Mikkelsen]] (born 1986), a footballer with over 250 club caps and 8 for [[Denmark national football team|Denmark]]
* [[Mikkel Hansen]] (born 1987), [[team handball|handball]] player who won the [[IHF World Player of the Year]] 2011, 2015, 2018