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List of Greenlanders
The following is a list of notable people from Greenland:
- Naja Abelsen (born 1964), artist, book illustrator
- Arnarsaq (c. 1716 – fl. 1778), translator, interpreter and missionary
- Arnarulunnguaq (1896–1933), native Greenlandic woman who accompanied Knud Rasmussen on his Fifth Thule Expedition
- Aron of Kangeq (1822–1869), hunter, painter, and oral historian
- Julie Berthelsen (born 1979), singer-songwriter
- Jørgen Brønlund (1877–1907), explorer, educator, and catechist
- Bibi Chemnitz (born 1983), fashion designer
- Kathrine Chemnitz (1894–1978), politician and champion of Greenlandic women's education
- Nukaaka Coster-Waldau (born 1971), singer, actress, and Miss Greenland, 1990
- Aviâja Egede Lynge (born 1974), indigenous rights activist, childhood rights commissioner
- Jesper Grønkjær (born 1977), professional footballer
- Ole Jørgen Hammeken (born 1956), explorer and actor
- Hans Hendrik (1832–1889), Arctic traveller and interpreter
- Arnannguaq Høegh (1956–2020), graphic artist and educator
- Ricky Enø Jørgensen (1989), racing cyclist
- Jessie Kleemann (born 1959), poet, performance artist
- Makka Kleist (born 1951), actress
- Nina Kreutzmann Jørgensen (born 1977), singer
- Angunnguaq Larsen, actor (Borgen)
- Thorkell Leifsson (11th cent.), son of Leif Erikson, paramount chieftain of Greenland
- Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968), creator of the PHP programming language
- Henrik Lund (1875–1948), lyricist, painter and priest
- Nauja Lynge (born 1965), writer, lecturer
- Anders Olsen (1718-1786), trader and colonial administrator
- Maligiaq Padilla (born 1982), famous kayaker
- Johan Carl Christian Petersen (1813–1880), seaman and interpreter
- Gertrud Rask (1673–1735), wife of missionary Hans Egede and mother of Paul
- Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933), polar explorer and anthropologist
- Signe Rink (1836–1909), writer and ethnologist
- Lars Rosing (born 1972), actor, brother of film director Otto
- Otto Rosing (born 1967), film director, brother of actor Lars
- Minik Wallace (c.1890–1918), an Inughuaq child brought to New York in 1897 by Robert Peary
- Karla Jessen Williamson (born 1954), executive director of the Arctic Institute of North America
- Qupanuk Olsen (born 1985), Greenlandic YouTuber, content creator, and engineer
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