The Most Famous
HANDBALL PLAYERS from Faroe Islands
This page contains a list of the greatest Handball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 420 Handball Players, 1 of which were born in Faroe Islands. This makes Faroe Islands the birth place of the 40th most number of Handball Players behind Côte d'Ivoire, and Uzbekistan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Handball Players of all time. This list of famous Handball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jóhan Hansen (b. 1994)
With an HPI of 37.75, Jóhan Hansen is the most famous Handball Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Jóhan á Plógv Hansen (born 1 May 1994) is a Faroese-born Danish handball player for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and the Danish national team. He has previously represented Faroe Islands national team, but due to the structure of the Danish Realm Greenlandic and Faeroese players can themselves decide which national team they wish to represent. As Hansen had already played for Faroe Islands national team, his wishes to representing the Danish national team resulted in a two-year suspension from international handball. Former Danish national coach Ulrik Wilbek expressed that he hoped and wished for Jóhan Hansen to change his nationality in order to be available for the Danish national team.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as handball players born between 1994 and 1994. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living handball players include Jóhan Hansen. As of April 2024, 1 new handball players have been added to Pantheon including Jóhan Hansen.
