Other Notable Knights
Previous knights have included:
- Tycho Brahe, astronomer (1578)
- Heinrich Rantzau, German-Danish humanist writer and statesman (1580)
- de:Ernst Albrecht von Eberstein, military leader (17th century) (German Wikipedia)
- Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, Dutch lieutenant-admiral (1659)
- Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch vice-admiral (1659)
- Cornelis Tromp, Dutch and Danish admiral-general (1676)
- Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann, politician and landowner (1790)
- J.B.S. Estrup, Danish landowner, politician and President of the Council of State (1878)
- Vilhelm Thomsen, Professor, Dr. Phil., Danish linguist (1912)
- H.N. Andersen, Danish businessman, Consul-General, titular Councilor of State (1919)
- C.G.E. Mannerheim, President of the Republic of Finland, Marshal of Finland (1919)
- Stanisław Wojciechowski, President of the Republic of Poland (1923)
- Tomáš Masaryk, President of the Czechoslovak Republic (1925)
- Reza Shah of Persia (former name of Iran) (1937)
- Miklós Horthy, Austro-Hungarian vice-admiral, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (1940)
- Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British Field Marshal (1945)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, General of the Army (1945)
- Niels Bohr, Professor, Dr. Phil. & Scient. & Techn., Danish physicist and Nobel laureate, Manifested Copenhagen interpretation ("atom theory") (1947)
- Sir Winston Churchill, British prime minister and Nobel laureate (1950)
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1954)
- Julius Nyerere, President of the United Republic of Tanzania (1970)
- Josip Broz Tito, President of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (1974)
- Nicolae Ceauşescu, President of the Socialist Republic of Romania (Note: Awarded on the November 1980 state visit to Denmark, but revoked by the Queen on December 23, 1989. The insignia have been returned to Denmark and Ceauşescu's name has been deleted from the official rolls.)
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