List of Faroese people information

This is a list of famous or important Faroese people. In a small island-society of fewer than 50,000 inhabitants, each person can gain certain meaning...

Faroese people or Faroe Islanders (Faroese: føroyingar; Danish: færinger) are an ethnic group native to the Faroe Islands. The Faroese are of mixed Norse...

and other aspects of the population. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Faroese, of North Germanic descent. Ethnic Faroese are, in genetic terms...

Skarði Joensen (1908–1975), journalist, teacher, feminist List of Faroese people List of Danish women writers List of Danish writers List of women writers...

Faroese Americans (Faroese: føroyskir amerikumenn) are Americans of Faroese descent or Faroe Islands-born people who reside in the United States. The Faroe...

Danish, but Faroese was the language of ordinary people. The orthography of Faroese had been set by Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb in the middle of the 19th...

five thousand Faroese people. In 1843, V. U. Hammershaimb proposed the modern Faroese orthography. He also made translations of parts of the Bible, which...

This is a list of notable Danish people. Ellen Aggerholm (1882–1963), stage and screen actress Ane Grethe Antonsen (1855–1930), actress Anna Bård (1980–)...

Lists of Americans are lists of people from the United States. They are grouped by various criteria, including ethnicity, religion, state, city, occupation...

The Faroese independence movement (Faroese: Føroyska Tjóðskaparrørslan), or the Faroese national movement (Føroyska Sjálvstýrisrørslan), is a political...

List of novels for adults, which were written in Faroese. The written form of the Faroese language is rather recent. The spelling rules, as devised by...

The flag of the Faroe Islands (in Faroese: Merkið) is an offset cross, representing Christianity. It is similar in design to other Nordic flags – a tradition...

chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. There are two major ideological cleavages in Faroese politics...

Denmark with a population above 50,000 people. Denmark is populated by the Danes, the Faroe Island by the Faroese, and Greenland by the Greenlandic Inuit...

Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. The official language of the country is Faroese, which is closely related to and partially...

and Faroese Minister of Foreign Affairs Jenis av Rana stated that he could not support Søren Pape Poulsen, the leader of the Conservative People's Party...

This is a list of the oldest people by country and in selected territories. It includes the individual(s) for each given country or territory who are...

English Equatoguineans Eritreans Estonians Ethiopians Falkland Islanders Faroese Fijians Finns Finnish Swedish Filipinos French citizens Gabonese Gambians...

Atlantic Airways (Nasdaq Iceland: FO-AIR, Faroese: Atlantsflog) is the national airline of the Faroe Islands, operating domestic helicopter services and...

The list of early Germanic peoples is a register of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilisations...

The Faroese chain dance (Faroese: Føroyskur dansur, Danish: Kædedans) is the national circle dance of the Faroe Islands, accompanied by kvæði, the Faroese...

List of Faroese members of the parliament of Denmark. The Faroe Islands elect two members for the Danish parliament. From 1849 to 1953 the Folketing was...

century. Modern groups descended from the North Germanic peoples are the Danes, Faroese people, Icelanders, Norwegians and Swedes. These groups are often...

The Faroe Islands men's national football team (Faroese: Føroyska fótbóltsmanslandsliðið, Danish: Færøernes fodboldlandshold) represents the Faroe Islands...