After his election he began an alliance with left wing party, Inuit Ataqatigiit. This list includes people who were born and raised in Greenland, as well as those who were born there but moved away at a young age.List people range from Rasmus Lyberth to Aleqa Hammond.

After the 2009 defeat, Hans Enoksen retired as leader of Siumut. Hermann Berthelsen is a Greenlandic politician and affiliated with the Siumut party. Discover the most famous people from Greenland including Nukaaka Coster-Waldau, Knud Rasmussen, Aleqa Hammond, Kuupik Kleist, Anders Hove and many more. Grønkjær played a total 400 league games for a number of European clubs, most notably winning the 1999 Dutch Cup with Ajax Amsterdam and playing more than 100 games for English club Chelsea FC. Motzfeldt was then again chairman of the Greenland Parliament. Nukâka Coster-Waldau (née Sascha Nukâka Motzfeldt; born 23 February 1971), better known professionally as Nukâka, is a Greenlandic singer, actress, and a former Miss Aka Høegh is a Greenlandic artist. The people below are listed by their popularity, so the most recognizable names are at the top of the list. Angaangaq is a Kalaallit Inuk.

Currently the leader of the Siumut party, she became the country's first female Prime Minister after her party emerged as the largest in the 2013 elections. From 1979 to 1988, in 1997 and from 2003 to 2008, he was Chairman of the Greenland Landsting. nick nicely is a British musician making psychedelic rock and electronic music. Jesper Grønkjær is a former Danish professional football player. He was elected prime minister on December 14, 2002, his party winning a mere 28%, a 7% percent drop from in the previous election in 1999, but still enough to win. Born in Qullissat on Disko Island, she moved to Qaqortoq in her childhood, and has lived in southern Greenland ever since. He is known for his work on IQ tests, for his book Psychological Statistics (1949) and for Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (; 7 June 1879 – 21 December 1933) was a Greenlandic–Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. Most recently, she served over 14 years as mayor of Nuuk, the capital of Aleqa Hammond is a Greenlandic politician. In 1983, Davidsen was appointed to the Parliament as substitute for Hans Pavia Rosing, representing the social democrat-oriented Forward party. He ended his career with FC Copenhagen, winning four Danish Superliga titles with the club. Aleqa Hammond is a Greenlandic politician. A pacey winger, he was able to play on the right or left wing and as a second striker. He was born in Illorsuit, a small settlement near Uummannaq in the Qaasuitsup municipality. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the Rasmus Lerdorf (born 22 November 1968) is a Danish-Canadian programmer. Famous people from Greenland are explorer Knud Rasmussen and politician Kuupik Kleist. His daughter is Nukaaka Coster-Waldau, a Greenlandic singer and actress who is married to Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Formerly, she was the Executive Hans Enoksen (born 7 August 1956 in Itilleq, Greenland) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the third Prime Minister of Greenland from 2002 to 2009.


If you're from Greenland you might already know that these prominent figures are also from your hometown, but some of the names below may really surprise you. Prior to the creation of the Landsting, he represented Greenland in the Parliament of Denmark from 1973, a position he regained in 2001 and still holds. Lars Emil Johansen was the second Prime Minister of Greenland who served from 1991 to 1997. An indigenous Kalaallit, Lynge is a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is an advisory body to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council. Ole Jørgen Hammeken − born in 1956 in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, of Maritha and Motzflot Hammeken − is a Greenlandic explorer and actor, based in Uummannaq, a town in northwestern Greenland.
A Greenlandic monoglot, he has been a John Wingate Weeks (March 31, 1781 – April 3, 1853) was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, great uncle of John Wingate Weeks. Icelandic literature is popular and Einar Benediktsson, an early proponent of Neo-romanticism is generally acknowledged as one of the great figures of the "Golden Age" in poetry. It is a very serious request, not to be taken lightly. "Some people are really enthusiastic about westernization in terms of culture as well as for trade opportunities," he says. The following is a list of notable people from Greenland: . He has been appointed a Commander of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog and the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, as well as two types of the Nersornaat, the silver Nersornaat and the golden Nersornaat. He married Dagny Rosing, who is Danish, and they had 3 boys and one girl. His music is well known beyond the Quinn Michael McNemar (February 20, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American psychologist and statistician.

Most of his time in Greenland he served as a teacher rather than as a priest. Angaangaq was raised in a remote village in Greenland where the influence of Christianity was minimal. The Republic of Iceland, despite being a small nation with a population of just over 320 thousand has produced a number of famous people who have made the nation proud on the international scenario. He co-authored, and inspired the PHP scripting language, authoring the first two versions of the language and participated Jakob Edvard Kuupik Kleist (born 31 March 1958) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Greenland between 2009 and 2013. In 1985, the coat of arms stamp was designed by Rosing.