| Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
|---|
| Fredrik Bajer | Peace | 1908 | |
| Niels Henrik David Bohr | Physics | 1922 | "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them" |
| Aage Niels Bohr | Physics | 1975 | "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection" |
| Henrik Carl Peter Dam | Medicine | 1943 | "for his discovery of vitamin K" |
| Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger | Medicine | 1926 | "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma" |
| Niels Ryberg Finsen | Medicine | 1903 | "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science" |
| Karl Adolph Gjellerup | Literature | 1917 | "for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals" |
| Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | Literature | 1944 | "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style" |
| Schack August Steenberg Krogh | Medicine | 1920 | "for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism" |
| Morten Meldal | Chemistry | 2022 | "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry" |
| Dale T. Mortensen | Economics | 2010 | "for their analysis of markets with search frictions" |
| Ben Roy Mottelson | Physics | 1975 | "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection" |
| Henrik Pontoppidan | Literature | 1917 | "for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark" |
| Jens C. Skou | Chemistry | 1997 | "for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase" |
| Sigrid Undset | Literature | 1928 | "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages" |