# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marita-petersen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:14:48.744Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marita-petersen"
name: "Marita Petersen"
slug: "marita-petersen"
description: "Marita Petersen was the first and to date only female Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and the first female speaker of the Løgting (Parliament). She was elected to the Løgting in 1988 for Javnaðarflokkurin .\nIn January 1993, she was elected to the post of prime minister, which she held until September 1994. Later, she became chairman of the parliament from 1994 to 1995. She was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands in a very difficult time with economic crisis. Marita Petersen died of cancer in 2001."
tagline: "Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1940-2001)"
gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1940-10-21"
deathDate: "2001-08-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Marita Petersen"
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    title: "Marita Petersen"
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    title: "Marita Petersen"
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    title: "Marita Petersen"
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    title: "Marita Petersen"
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    title: "Marita Petersen"
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    title: "Մարիտա Պետերսեն"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump