Tórshavn, usually locally referred to as simply Havn, is the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the northwest of the city lies the 347-meter-high (1,138 ft) mountain Húsareyn, and to the southwest, the 350-meter-high (1,150 ft) Kirkjubøreyn. They are separated by the Sandá River. The city itself has a population of 14,099 (2024), and the greater urban area has a population of 23,194, including the suburbs of Hoyvík and Argir.
Símun av Skarði was a Faroese poet, politician, and teacher.
Jens Christian Svabo was a pioneering Faroese linguist, scholar, and ethnographer. At the time the islands were part of Denmark-Norway. Svabo was born in Miðvágur, Vágar, the Faroe Islands to a minister and his wife. Svabo studied history, music, and theology in Miðvágur and later in Tórshavn. Between 1765 and 1800 he lived in Denmark and studied music there, especially the violin. In 1800, he returned to Tórshavn and lived in a house known as the Pætursarstova: it was in the attic of this home that in 1928 a book of songs written by Svabo was found. This manuscript is now part of the collection of the Føroya Landsbókasavn.
Heðin Brú was the pen-name of Hans Jacob Jacobsen, a Faroese novelist and translator.
Christian Matras was a Faroese poet and academic. He was the founding professor of the University of the Faroe Islands. He is one of the most important poets in Faroese literature.
Jákup Dahl was a Faroese Provost and Bible translator. In 1908 he became known as a linguist with the first Faroese grammar lessons for school students.
Jákup Pauli Gregoriussen was the leading architect of the Faroe Islands. He was also a graphic artist and author of publications about the Faroese church.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Faroe Islands:
Jens Hendrik Oliver Djurhuus, called Janus Djurhuus, was the first modern Faroese poet. He and his younger brother Hans Andreas Djurhuus, also a poet, are called the Áarstova brothers after the house where they grew up.
Sámal Johansen was a Faroese writer and teacher. He was the father of Marita Petersen, the first female prime minister of the Faroe Islands.
Hanus Kamban is a Faroese short story writer, essayist, biographer and poet. He was born Hanus Andreassen, but changed his last name to Kamban in 2000.
Jens Pauli Heinesen was a Faroese writer. He received the Faroese Literature Prize four times and the Faroese Cultural Prize once. From 1968 to 1975, Heinesen was president of the Association of Writers of the Faroe Islands. He wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, a children's book, and translated books from foreign languages into Faroese.
Hans Andrias Djurhuus was a Faroese poet and teacher. Hans Andrias Djurhuus was one of the most productive Faroese poets. He is well known for his national poems and for his children's songs, but he also wrote psalms, short stories, plays, fairytales and one novel.
The levels of education in the Faroe Islands are primary, secondary and higher education. Most institutions are funded by the state; there are few private schools in the country. Education is compulsory for 9 years between the ages of 7 and 16.
Louis Christian Oliver Zachariasen known as Louis Zachariasen was a Faroese writer and politician for the New Self-Government party. He was the first deputy prime minister of the Faroe Islands after the islands received home rule in 1948.
Andrias Christian Evensen was a Faroese priest, editor, writer, and politician for the Home Rule Party. Together with Jákup Dahl, he was one of the first to propagate the use of Faroese, including as a church language in preference to Danish.
Rasmus Rasmussen, also known as Regin í Líð and Rasmus á Háskúlanum, was a Faroese folk high school teacher, writer, and independence activist.
Anna Suffía Rasmussen, was a Faroese educator.
Sigrið av Skarði Joensen, also Sigrið av Skarði, was a Faroese journalist, teacher, and feminist.
Georg Lindenskov Samuelsen was a Faroese editor.
