# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bar-ur-a-steig-nielsen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:23:13.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bar-ur-a-steig-nielsen"
name: "Bárður á Steig Nielsen"
slug: "bar-ur-a-steig-nielsen"
description: "Bárður á Steig Nielsen is a Faroese politician and businessman who serves as leader of the Union Party since 2015 and was prime minister from 2019 to 2022. He is also goalkeeper of the VÍF Vestmanna handball team and a former handball player of the Faroe Islands national team."
tagline: "Faroese businessperson and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bardur_Nielsen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1972-04-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.044388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Барур а Стай Нільсэн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bárður Nielsen"
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    title: "Bárður á Steig Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bárður á Steig Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bárður Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bárður á Steig Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump