26 Notable alumni of
Roskilde University
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Roskilde University is 1336th in the world, 456th in Europe, and 7th in Denmark by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from Roskilde University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Robert Habeck
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianscreenwriterinternational forum participantenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Robert Habeck is a German Green politician and writer who has been serving as Vice Chancellor of Germany, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and as a Member of the German Bundestag for Flensburg – Schleswig since 2021. From 2018 to 2022, he also served as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Annalena Baerbock. For the 2021 German federal election, he was a member of the leading duo, alongside Baerbock, who ran for chancellor of Germany.
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Jeppe Kofod
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participantconsultant
- Biography
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Jeppe Sebastian Kofod is a former Danish politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark between 27 June 2019 to 15 December 2022.
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Trine Bramsen
- Enrolled in Roskilde University
- Studied in 2001-2007
- Occupations
- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Trine Bramsen is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats, who has been a member of the Folketing since 2011. She served as minister of transport from February to December 2022 and minister of defence from 2019 until February 2022.
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Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen
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- politicianwomen's rights activist
- Biography
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Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen is a former member of the Danish parliament for the Red-Green Alliance. Schmidt-Nielsen has been referred to as the "new queen of the Red-Green Alliance" by parts of the press. She now serves as secretary general for Save the Children.
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Galatea Bellugi
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Galatea Bellugi is a French actress.
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Joy Mogensen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joy Mogensen is a notable Danish social democratic politician who served as Minister of Culture and Church from 2019 to 2021.
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Martin Lidegaard
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Martin Lidegaard is a Danish politician who has been the leader of the Social Liberal Party since 2022. He was Denmark's Foreign Minister in the government of Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt from 2014 to 2015, having previously been the Minister of Climate, Energy and Building from 2011 to 2014.
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Simon Emil Ammitzbøll
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- politician
- Biography
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Simon Emil Ammitzbøll-Bille is a former Danish politician, and a former independent member of the Parliament of Denmark. He is former Minister of Economy and Interior.
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Kuupik Kleist
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jakob Edvard Kuupik Kleist is a Greenlandic politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Greenland between 2009 and 2013. A member of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, he was the first Prime Minister not affiliated with Siumut.
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Henrik Sass Larsen
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Henrik Sass Larsen is a Danish politician. He is a former member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He sat in parliament from 2000 to 2019. He was the Danish Minister of Business Affairs and Growth from 2013 to 2015.
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Christine Antorini
- Enrolled in Roskilde University
- Studied in 1989-1994
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christine Edda Antorini is a Danish politician for the Social Democrats, formerly for the Socialist People's Party. From 2011 to 2015 she was the Minister of Education in the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt. She was a member of the Folketing from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2005 to 2018.
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Janus Metz Pedersen
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- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- documentarianfilm directorscreenwriterdirector
- Biography
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Janus Metz Pedersen is a Danish film director and documentary filmmaker.
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Jacob Mark
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jacob Rene Mark is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Socialist People's Party. He was elected into parliament at the 2015 Danish general election.
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Kaare Dybvad Bek
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kaare Dybvad Bek is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He was elected into parliament at the 2015 Danish general election. He has been the Minister for Immigration and Integration since 2022, the Minister for Building and Housing from 2019 to 2022 and Minister of the Interior from 2021 to 2022.
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Rina Ronja Kari
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rina Ronja Kari is a Danish politician and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Denmark. She is a member of the People's Movement against the EU, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left.
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Mette Abildgaard
- Enrolled in Roskilde University
- Studied in 2007-2013
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mette Abildgaard Juulsager is a Danish politician who is a member of the Folketing and the group chairman of the Conservative People's Party. She was elected to Parliament at the 2015 general election.
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Høgni Hoydal
- Enrolled in Roskilde University
- 1988-1994 graduated with Cand.comm.
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Høgni Karsten Hoydal, commonly called Høgni Hoydal, is a Faroese politician. He currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has been the party leader of Tjóðveldi since 1998.
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Lars Aagaard
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Lars Aagaard Møller is a Danish politician of the Moderates. He serves as Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities from December 2022.
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Christian Jungersen
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Christian Jungersen is a Danish novelist whose works have been translated into 20 languages. He has published three novels in Danish – Krat, Undtagelsen (2004, published in English as The Exception in 2006), and Du Forsvinder (2012, published as You Disappear in 2014).
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Kirsten Brosbøl
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kirsten Brosbøl is a Danish politician. She represented the Social Democrats in the Folketing from 2005 to 2019, and served as Minister for the Environment from 2014 to 2015.
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Emilie Turunen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Emilie Turunen is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She was elected to represent the Danish constituency in the 2009 European election as a member of the Socialistisk Folkeparti and the European Green Party. She later switched party affiliation to the Social Democrats and the Party of European Socialists.
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Lone Simonsen
- Enrolled in Roskilde University
- In 1986 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Lone Simonsen is a Danish epidemiologist and professor of population health sciences. Since the beginning of 2020, she has been the director of PandemiX, an interdisciplinary pandemic research center at Roskilde University. In 2023 PandemiX was established as a Center of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.
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Marianne Vind
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Marianne Vind is a Danish trade unionist politician who since June 2019 has been a member of the European Parliament for the Social Democrats, when she replaced Jeppe Kofod. She is a member of the Committee of Employment and Social Affairs as well as the Committee of Transport and Tourism.
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Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen is a Danish mathematician who works in the Department of Science, Systems and Models (IMFUFA) at Roskilde University, and in the Department of Science Education at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests include the philosophy of mathematics, history of mathematics, and mathematics education.
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Boris Benjamin Bertram
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- film directorcinematographer
- Biography
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Boris Benjamin Bertram is a Danish film director, keynote speaker, producer and partner in Good Company Pictures, a documentary production company based in Copenhagen.
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Leif Bjørnø
- Occupations
- acoustician
- Biography
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Leif Bjørnø was born on 30 March 1937 in Svendborg, Denmark. Son of Svend Aage Valdemar and Elna Marie Jensen. Leif Bjørnø, professor and well known acoustician. Named Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark 1991, recipient Gold medal Society Francaise d'Acoustique, 1995, Lord Rayleigh's Gold medal, London, 1997, The Hartmann Prize, Copenhagen, 1999, Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
