List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Denmark

List of heads of mission

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom

• 1801–1802: Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens Plenipotentiary
• 1802–1805: Francis Hill chargé d'affaires
• *1803–1804: Robert Liston
• 1805–1807: Benjamin Garlike
• 1807: Brook Taylor ad interim
• 1807: Francis James Jackson ad interim
• 1807: Anthony Merry
• 1807–1814: No diplomatic relations
• 1813: Alexander Hope and Edward Thornton Plenipotentiaries
• 1813–1814: Edward Thornton Plenipotentiary
• 1814–1824: Augustus Foster
• 1824–1853: Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn
• 1852–1853: Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield
• 1858: Sir Henry Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
• 1859–1866: Augustus Paget
• 1863: John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse
• 1866–1869: Hugh MacDonell
• 1881–1884: Hon. Hussey Vivian
• 1884–1888: Hon. Edmund Monson
• 1888–1893: Hugh MacDonell
• 1893–1898: Sir Charles Stewart Scott
• 1898–1900: Edmund Fane
• 1900–1905: Edward Goschen
• 1905–1910: Hon. Sir Alan Johnstone
• 1910–1912: Conyngham Greene
• 1913–1916: Sir Henry Lowther
• 1916–1918: Ralph Spencer Paget
• 1919–1921: Sir Charles Marling
• 1921–1926: Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville
• 1926–1928: Sir Milne Cheetham
• 1928–1933: Thomas Hohler
• 1933–1935: Hugh Gurney
• 1935–1939: Hon. Sir Patrick Ramsay
• 1939–1940: Charles Howard Smith
• 1945–1947: Sir Alec Randall

  Ambassadors

• 1947–1952: Sir Alec Randall
• 1952–1956: Sir Eric Berthoud
• 1956–1960: Sir Roderick Barclay
• 1960–1962: Sir William Montagu-Pollock
• 1962–1966: Sir John Henniker-Major
• 1966–1969: Oliver Wright
• 1969–1971: Sir Murray MacLehose
• 1971–1976: Sir Andrew Stark
• 1976–1983: Dame Anne Warburton
• 1983–1986: Sir James Mellon
• 1986–1988: Peter Unwin
• 1989–1993: Nigel Williams
• 1993–1996: Hugh James Arbuthnott
• 1996-1999: Andrew P. F. Bache
• 1999–2003: Philip Astley
• 2003–2006: Sir Nicholas Browne
• 2006–2008: David Frost
• 2008–2012: Nick Archer
• 2012–2016: Vivien Life
• 2016–: Dominic Schroeder