1957 in Denmark

Events from the year 1957 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederik IX
 * Prime minister – H. C. Hansen

Events

 * 3 March - Denmark places third in Eurovision Song Contest

Badminton

 * 20–25 March – All England Badminton Championships
 * Anni Hammergaard Hansen and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Women's Doubles
 * Finn Kobberø and Kirsten Thorndahl win gold in Mixed Doubles.

Football

 * 28 April – AGF wins the 1956–57 Danish Cup by defeating Esbjerg fB 2–0 in the final.

Date unknown

 * Fritz Pfenninger (SUI) and Jean Roth (SUI) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

January–March

 * 31 January – Henrik Dam Kristensen, politician
 * 17 February – Lars Brygmann, actor
 * 30 March – Stig L. Andersson, landscape architect

April–June

 * 6 April – Jesper Bank, sailor
 * 28 April – Tøger Seidenfaden, journalist, editor-in-chief of Politiken (died 2011)
 * 9 May – Kristian Levring, film director
 * 17 May – Peter Høeg, writer of fiction

July–September

 * 11 September – Preben Elkjær, footballer
 * 5 October – Jakob Nielsen, computer scientist
 * 20 November – John Eriksen, John Eriksen (died 2002)
 * 13 December – Lars Schwander, photographer, gallerist

January–March

 * 2 January – Søren Absalon Larsen, physicist active in the field of electroacoustics; the Larsen effect was named after him (born 1871)

April–June

 * 14 April – Thorvald Madsen, physician and bacteriologist (born 1870)
 * 18 April – Jens Laursøn Emborg, organist and composer (born 1876)
 * 6 May – Ebbe Kornerup, writer and painter (born 1874)
 * 14 May – Thit Jensen, novelist and author of short stories, plays and society critical articles (born 1876)
 * 21 May – Jens Søndergaard, painter (born 1895)
 * 26 May – Peter Bang, engineer (born 1900)
 * 9 June – Aksel Jørgensen, painter and wood engraver (born 1883)
 * 17 June – Olaf Rude, painter (born 1886)

July–September

 * 5 July – Magdalene Lauridsen, educator (born 1873)
 * 2 September – Peter Freuchen, explorer, writer and traveller (born 1886)

Date unknown

 * Axel Andersen Byrval, amateur football player and manager, national football team manager 1913–15 and 1917–18 (born 1875)