The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Faroe Islands
This page contains a list of the greatest Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 1 of which were born in Faroe Islands. This makes Faroe Islands the birth place of the 187th most number of Athletes behind Oman, and British Virgin Islands.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Athletes of all time. This list of famous Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sverri Sandberg Nielsen (b. 1993)
With an HPI of 30.70, Sverri Sandberg Nielsen is the most famous Athlete. His biography has been translated into 10 different languages on wikipedia.
Sverri Sandberg Nielsen (born 14 October 1993) is a Faroese rower who competes for Danske Studenters Roklub and Denmark in the heavyweight single sculls. He also competes in indoor rowing and has set a new Danish record three years in a row, 2015, 2016 and 2017 and again in 2019 and 2020. In 2019 he won silver medal at the World Rowing Championships. In 2020 he won the European Rowing Championship and the following year he won silver at the same event. In 2021 he competed for Denmark at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He also competes for Denmark at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as athletes born between 1993 and 1993. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living athletes include Sverri Sandberg Nielsen. As of April 2024, 1 new athletes have been added to Pantheon including Sverri Sandberg Nielsen.
