- Teitur Lassen
Teitur (born Teitur Lassen 1977 in Hoyvík) is a singer-songwriter from the Faroe Islands. On March 3, 2007, he was awarded Best Male Singer at the Danish Music Awards. The word "teitur" is Old Norse and means "happy". In Modern Faroese, it is archaic but used as a male given name. Teitur started out in the Faroese pop/rock band Mark No Limits as its lead singer and songwriter.
- Graeme Smith
Graeme Smith (born June 8 1983, in Edinburgh) is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing as goalkeeper for Motherwell. Smith started his career with Rangers, and has also played for Ross County (on loan). On August 24, 2006, he was included in the Scotland squad due to face the Faroe Islands and Lithuania as part of the 2008 European Championship qualifiers. Smith should not be confused with his namesake, also a Scottish goalkeeper, …
- Jóannes Eidesgaard
Jóannes Dan Eidesgaard, is the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands. He has held the position since 3 February 2004, shortly after the general election of 20 January 2004.
- Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor was an American artist, journalist, botanist and traveller. Her travel essays from Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway were published in "Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly", "Atlantic Monthly", "Forest and Stream" and others. Some of her essays are published in "The Far Islands and Other Cold Places" (ISBN 1-880654-11-3). During World War I she was marooned at Eiði in the Faroe Islands, …
- Kristian Blak
Kristian Blak, born 31 march 1947 and originally from Fredericia, Denmark, is living in the Faroe Islands where he is an important composer, musician, and record executive. He is the founder of the folk band Yggdrasil (named after the World tree Yggdrasil). See Music of the Faroe Islands.
- Atli Danielsen
Atli Danielsen (born May 11, 1983) is a Faroese footballer who currently plays for Boldklubben Frem in the Danish 1st Division. Danielsen is a regular in the Faroese national team.
- Rógvi Jacobsen
Rógvi Jacobsen is a Faroese football (soccer) striker for HB Tórshavn and the Faroe Islands national football team. Jacobsen is currently an amateur player who as of 2007 works as a carpenter, but played at the professional level for Icelandic team KR Reykjavík and Danish side SønderjyskE. He is known for having scored the only Faroese goal in the 1-2 home loss to then-World Champions Italy.
- Jens Martin Knudsen
Jens Martin Knudsen is a Faroese footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He is now playing at NSÍ Runavík. He is famous for his 65 appearances for the Faroe Islands national football team and his penchant for wearing a white, wooly bobble hat. Despite being one of the weaker members of UEFA, the Faroe Islands pulled off one of the most famous upsets in soccer history beating then FIFA World Cup 1990 competitors Austria 1-0 in a UEFA 92 qualifier.
- William Heinesen
Andreas William Heinesen (15 January 1900 - 12 March 1991) is the most famous writer from the Faroe Islands. He was also a poet, a composer and a painter.
- Jérémy Toulalan
Jérémy Toulalan is a French footballer who plays central midfielder for Olympique Lyonnais and the France national football team. He was named in the UEFA U-21 Championship 2006 Team of the Tournament as a left winger (to accommodate central midfielders Ismaïl Aissati and Rio Antonio Mavuba, also in that selection). He is a product of the FC Nantes Atlantique youth academy, making his first-team debut during the 2001-02 season.
- Ruth Smith
Ruth Smith Nielsen was a Faroese artist.
- Gunnar Nielsen
Gunnar Nielsen (born 7 October 1986 in the Faroe Islands) is a Faroese footballer, currently playing for Blackburn Rovers. His usual position is as a goalkeeper. Nielsen was signed by Blackburn Rovers for a "small" but undisclosed fee on 2 July 2007 from BK Frem.
- Patrik Berger
Patrik Berger (born 10 November, 1973 in Prague) is a Czech football player. He is currently a midfielder for English Premiership team Aston Villa, having signed from Portsmouth on a free transfer on 1 June 2005. Patrik Berger began his career as junior with Sparta Prague in 1989 then he moved to the city rival Slavia Prague in 1991/92, and moved to Borussia Dortmund in 1995/96, with whom he won the Bundesliga title that year.
- Anfinn Kallsberg
Anfinn Kallsberg is a Faroese politician - Prime Minister of his country 1998-2004 - and the leader of the Faroese People's Party ("Fólkaflokkurin"). First elected to the Faroese parliament in 1980 and consecutively since then, Kallsberg served as Fisheries Minister for 5 months in Jógvan Sundstein's first coalition government in 1989, and as Economics and Finance Minister from 1996 to 1998 in a coalition led by Edmund Joensen (Union Party).
- Julian Johnsson
Julian Johnsson (born 6 May 1972) is a Faroese football midfielder. He got 62 caps and 4 goals for the Faroe Islands national football team between 1995 and 2005.
- Andrius Skerla
Andrius Skerla is a Lithuanian professional football defender, currently playing for Lithuanian A Lyga club FK Vėtra. He is 185 cm tall and weighs 74 kg. Skerla marked his 50th appearance for Lithuania on October 7, 2006 with a first international goal against the Faroe Islands. His former teams include FK Žalgiris Vilnius, PSV Eindhoven, Dunfermline Athletic and FC Tom' Tomsk.
- Høgni Hoydal
Full name Høgni Karsten Hoydal, commonly called Høgni Hoydal. He is a Faroese politician. Currently serving as member of the Faroese Parliament as well as the Danish one. Høgni Hoydal brought the Republican Party back up from 4 MP's to 8 in the 1998 elections and into government, due to popular opinion at the time. Høgni Hoydal became Minister of Justice and deputy Prime Minister.
- François Clerc
François Clerc is a French footballer who plays right back for Olympique Lyonnais. He joined the reigning Ligue 1 titleholders in the summer of 2005 from Toulouse FC, and broke into the first team that season, making 19 appearances in the domestic league and in Europe. He also received a shock call-up (although he would not feature in the match) to the French national team for their March friendly against Slovenia, …
- Sigmundur Brestisson
Sigmundur Brestisson introduced Christianity to the Faroe Islands in 999. He is one of the main characters of the Færeyinga saga. According to the Færeyinga Saga, emigrants who left Norway to escape the tyranny of Harald I of Norway, settled in the islands about the beginning of the 9th century. Early in the 11th century, Sigmundur, whose family had flourished in the southern islands but had been almost exterminated by invaders from the north, was sent from Norway, …
- Sunleif Rasmussen
Sunleif Rasmussen (born on March 19 1961 in Sandur in the Faroe Islands) is the foremost Faroese composer of classical music. Rasmussen studied in Norway, then returned to Tórshavn in the Faroes as music teacher and jazz pianist. From 1990 to 1995 he studied musical composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen under Ib Nørholm and electronic music under Ivar Frounberg.
- Jákup Mikkelsen
Jákup Mikkelsen is a Faroese football goalkeeper. He has got 46 caps for the Faroe Islands national football team since his debut in 1995.
- Julien Escudé
Julien Escudé is a French footballer, currently playing for La Liga side Sevilla FC. His position is centre back. Escudé began his career at AS Cannes, where he appeared twenty-one times in his only season for the club, scoring one goal. His performances attracted other clubs and in 1999 he was signed for Stade Rennais FC by manager Paul Le Guen. He spent the next four seasons at Rennes, making one hundred and forty-two appearances without scoring.
- Høgni Lisberg
Høgni Lisberg is a musician currently living in Leirvík, Eysturoy, and is one of the most famous musician in the Faroe Islands. Høgni was born in 1982 and is son of Sørin Lisberg and Hallbjørg Eliassen. His father is son of Knút Lisberg, who is cousin to Jens Olivur Lisberg (1896-1920) where his great-grandfather (and Jens Olivurs uncle) lived Johan í Smiðjuni. Høgni lived together with his two younger sisters in Leirvík, where he grew up.
- Christian Holst
Christian Lamhauge Holst (b. December 25, 1981) is a Danish/Faroese football player, currently playing for Lyngby Boldklub. In August 2003 he was selected for the Faroe Islands national team, being born to a Danish father and a Faroese mother. In 2004 he was named Profile of the Year in the Danish 2nd Division by the Danish Football Players Association (Spillerforeningen).
- Hans Hansen
Hans Hansen, called Hans í Mikladali (November 14, 1920 – March 8, 1970) from Mikladalur, Faroe Islands was a Faroese painter. Four of his paintings were featured on a series of Faroese stamps issued in September 1998: He was involved with the German expressionist correspondence known as the Glass Chain in which he contributed under the pseudonym Antischmitz.
- Uni Arge
Uni Arge is a Faroese football striker and journalist. He got 37 caps and 8 goals for the Faroe Islands national football team between 1992 and 2002. His father is author and football announcer Jógvan Arge. His uncle, Magni Arge is chairman of the Faroese airline Atlantic Airways
- Súni Olsen
Súni Olsen is a Faroese professional football defender who currently plays for Danish Superliga side Aalborg Boldspilklub. He has previously played for Faroese club GÍ Gøta and FC Zwolle in the Netherlands.
- Cleo Paskal
Cleo Paskal is a widely published foreign correspondent and travel writer who has contributed to, amongst others, "The Economist", "The Independent", and the "Sunday Times". Her writing has won multiple awards and she is the only person to have won the North American Travel Journalists Association's grand prize twice. She has also hosted BBC radio shows and wrote the Emmy-winning TV series "Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within".
- Zacharias Heinesen
Zacharias Heinesen is a Faroese landscape painter. He is the son of the writer William Heinesen. He attended Myndlistaskóli Íslands in Reykjavik between 1957-58. In 1959-1963 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. Through the years he has held a number of exhibitions and his paintings are to be found in several museums. In 1986 he was awarded the Henry Heerup prize.
- Henrik Pedersen
Henrik Pedersen (born June 10, 1975) is a Danish professional football player who plays as a forward. He has played three games for the Danish national team and has recently left Bolton Wanderers after six years. Pedersen started his career with Danish club Silkeborg IF in 1995. He made his debut for the Danish national team in an August 2000 game against the Faroe Islands.
- Grímur Kamban
Grímur Kamban was, according to the Færeyinga saga, the first man to set foot in the Faroe Islands. The name was written "Grímr" in Old Norse and is often referred to as "Grim" in the English literature. The saga says, he was a Norwegian Viking escaping the tyranny of the Norse king Haraldur Hárfagri. However, this is an error in this saga, because Harald's age was in the late 9th century, while the first norse settlers reached the Faroes after 825.
- Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen
Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen occupies a distinct place in Scandinavian literature. He is the only Faroese writer to achieve international best-seller status. This status derives from his sole novel, "Barbara: Roman" (1939; translated, 1948), which has the added cachet of being one of the few Scandinavian novels to be translated twice into English within the space of fifty years. It was also adapted as a motion picture directed by Nils Malmros in 1997.
- Óli Johannesen
Oli Johannesen (born 6 May 1972) is a Faroese football player. He holds the record as the player who has played for the Faroe Islands national football team more than any other player, with 79 caps and 1 goal since his debut in 1992.
- Jón Rói Jacobsen
Jón Rói Jacobsen is a Faroese football defender currently playing for Aalborg Boldspilklub. His previous clubs include HB Torshavn, Brøndby IF and BK Frem. Jacobsen has 25 caps for the Faroese national team.
- Terji Skibenæs
Terji Skibenæs is the guitarist of the Faroese Viking Metal Band Týr. He was born in Tórshavn, but grew up in and currently lives in Skipanes on Eysturoy. When he was 13 and living in Denmark with his family, his older brother bought a guitar. Terji quickly got interested and learned a few chords from his brother. He then taught himself further by studying tablature books in the local library and playing along to his favourite guitarplayers.
- Niels Ryberg Finsen
Niels Ryberg Finsen (December 15, 1860 - September 24, 1904) was a Faroese/Danish physician and scientist. In 1903 he became the first Danish Nobel laureate. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science"
- Todi Jónsson
Todi Jónsson height: 1,80 meter weight: 84 kilos, is a Faroese football striker currently playing for Fremad Amager. His previous clubs include KÍ, B36 Tórshavn, FC København, Lyngby FC and I.K. Start. Jónsson has 45 caps and 9 goals for the Faroese national team, and holds the national goalscoring record.
- Nólsoyar Páll
Nólsoyar Páll (originally, Poul Poulsen Nolsøe is a Faroese national hero. Páll was a seaman, trader, poet, farmer, and boat builder. In Vágur in 1804 he built, as well as the schooner Royndin Fríða, the first ship capable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean since the Middle Ages. In 1809, with this ship he would travel to Britain and stock up on food supplies so as to ward off a famine in the islands.
- Lucas Debes
Lucas Jacobsøn Debes was a Danish priest, topographer and celebrated writer about the Faroe Islands.
- Ingálvur Av Reyni
Ingálvur av Reyni was the most celebrated painter of the Faroe Islands during the last years. Ingálvur av Reyni was born in Tórshavn. He rebelled through his expressionism against the epic content of his predecessors' art, and has opened up new paths in his painting. His art is characterised by a clear, French colourist tone, and his artistic roots go back to Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse.