Baroness Alma Dahlerup née Brøndum (1874–1969) was a Danish-American philanthropist who supported Danish seamen in World War II through radio broadcasts and speaking assignments. As founder and president of the Danish-American Women's Association, she is remembered in particular for proposing and raising funding for the statue of Hans Christian Andersen in New York's Central Park in memory of the 150th anniversary of his birth.

On a trip to the United States in 1893, she met the influential Danish-American author Baron Joost Dahlerup. She married him in Cape Town on 12 February 1898 and they had two children: Ida-Gro (1899) and Joost (1911). After the birth of their first child, they emigrated to the United States where they both promoted Danish-American relations.

She was a sister of the Danish author Karin Michaëlis.

References

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Dahlerup
• https://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/468/origin/170/
• https://books.google.co.za/books?id=1ZyYa0cAPbkC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&d...
• Profile picture supplied by Roger Andrew VAN WYK: HANS * CHRISTIAN * ANDERSEN / THIS MONUMENT IS THE GIFT OF / THE CHILDREN OF DENMARK AND / NEW YORK CITY AND THEIR FRIENDS / 1956 / SPONSORED BY / THE DANISH AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION / BARONESS ALMA DAHLERUP FOUNDER /