People

• Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis
  Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis
  Asbjørn Riis is a Danish professional wrestler, actor and TV personality, who is most famous internationally for portraying the role of the 10th warrior, Halga the Wise, in the movie The 13th Warrior featuring Antonio Banderas. He is also known for a Hulk Hogan look a like in the early 1990s,...
  
  , Danish professional wrestler
• Bjarne Riis
  Bjarne Riis
  Bjarne Lykkegård Riis , nicknamed The Eagle from Herning , is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer who placed first in the 1996 Tour de France, and is now the team owner and manager of Danish UCI ProTour outfit Team Saxo Bank Sungard...
  
   (born 1964), Danish former professional road bicycle racer, now the team owner and manager of Danish UCI ProTour outfit Team CSC
• Fredrik Riis
  Fredrik Riis
  Fredrik Riis was a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Christiania, enrolled as a student in 1806 and graduated as cand.jur. in 1809...
  
   (1789-1845), Norwegian county governor
• Jacob Riis
  Jacob Riis
  Jacob August Riis was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific...
  
   (1849-1914), Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer
• Nelson Riis
  Nelson Riis
  Nelson Andrew Riis currently a businessman and is a former Canadian politician and New Democratic Party Member of Parliament .Riis graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.Ed, and MA...
  
   (born 1942), businessman and former Canadian politician and New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament
• Povl Riis
  Povl Riis
  Prof. Povl Riis is a Danish gastroenterologist. He was a Professor at the University of Copenhagenin Denmark from 1974 to 1996....
  
  , gastroenterologist and former Professor in Copenhagen University/Denmark