Athletes
- Heidi Andreasen, swimmer, three time silver medallist and two time bronze medallist Paralympian
- Einar Hansen, football player
- Pál Joensen, swimmer, triple European Champion for Junor in Beograd 2008, Gold winner in 1500m freestyle at the FINA World Cup in Moscow 2009.
- Ove Joensen, rowing legend
- Todi Jónsson, football player
- Jens Martin Knudsen, football player (goalkeeper)
- Gunnar Nielsen, football player (goalkeeper) for Manchester City Football Club, the first Faroese football player to play in the Premier League.
- Bjørk Herup Olsen, middle and long distance runner, Danish Junior Champion.
- Helgi Dam Ziska, chess player
- Regin Vágadal, a strongman
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Famous quotes containing the word athletes:
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth ... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)