Johan Martin Fredrik Poulsen (September 26, 1890 – June 24, 1980) was a Faroese teacher and politician for the Union Party.

[3] He graduated from the Faroese Teachers School (Faroese: Føroya Læraraskúli) in 1908 and took a one-year program at the State Teachers School (Danish: Statens Lærerhøjskole) in Copenhagen from 1914 to 1915.

[1][2] Poulsen worked as a teacher in Glyvrar, Lamba, and Søldarfjørður from 1908 to 1917, and in Strendur from 1917 to 1958.

[1] Poulsen was a member of the parish council in the Municipality of Sjóvar from 1919 to 1962, chairing it from 1933 to 1952.

He was a member of the Sjóvar municipal council from 1931 to 1934, head of the Sjóvar municipal health insurance organization from 1919 to 1933, and secretary and treasurer at the Faroese Central Association of Health Insurance Organizations from 1921 to 1959 (and became a board member in 1926).