Carit Etlar (1816 in Fredericia – 1900), Danish author of Gjøngehøvdingen in 1853 Magdalene Thoresen (1819 in Fredericia – 1903) a Norwegian poet, novelist and playwright Henrik Pontoppidan (1857 in Fredericia – 1943), a Danish realist writer, shared the 1917 Nobel Prize for Literature Svend Rathsack (1885 in Fredericia – 1941) a Danish sculptor Svend Melsing (1888 in Fredericia – 1946), actor, theatre director and playwright [5] Ellen Krause (1905 in Fredericia — 1990) a Danish artist, joined the Odsherred Painters Else Holmelund Minarik (1920 in Fredericia – 2012) an American author of children's books Tage Skou-Hansen (1925 in Fredericia – 2015) a Danish writer, editor and scholar Cecil Bødker (born 1927 in Fredericia) a writer of young adult fiction and a poet Erik Moseholm (1930 in Fredericia – 2012) a jazz composer, bandleader of the DR Big Band Kristian Blak (born 1947 in Fredericia) a composer and musician in the Faroe Islands Martin Zandvliet (born 1971 in Fredericia) a Danish film director and screenwriter [6] Christian Holten Bonke (born 1973 in Fredericia) a documentary filmmaker and screenwriter [7]