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Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Denmark
Denmark is the birthplace of 3 famous people
Cleveland Sellers, the civil rights campaigner, is the most widely known, written about in 3 languages. The next two names are Julius Daniels and Harvey N. Middleton. For every 10,000 residents there are 9.6 on the list, well above the typical South Carolina town’s 1.5. Born in 1895, Harvey N. Middleton is the first name on record, and Cleveland Sellers, born in 1944, the most recent.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Cleveland Sellers
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1895
Harvey N. Middleton
Youngest
1944
Cleveland Sellers
The best known
Born in Denmark
First, Cleveland Sellers (3 languages), then Julius Daniels (3) and Harvey N. Middleton (1).
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Known for
What Denmark is known for
Musicians are the most numerous, 1 of them.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Denmark and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.