List of Famous people born in Capital Region, Iceland

Katrín Júlíusdóttir, is a former Icelandic politician. She was elected to the Parliament of Iceland in 2003 and served as Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism from May 2009 to January 2012 and as Minister of Finance and Economy from 2012 to 2013. In 2016 she left Politics and has since then been the Managing Director of Finance Iceland. In 2020 she received the Svartfuglinn-Award for her first Crime Novel, Sykur, published by Veröld in October 2020. Katrín is married to the Icelandic author Bjarni M. Bjarnason and they have four sons.

Ólafur Davíð Jóhannesson is an Icelandic football manager and former player who formerly managed the Icelandic national team.

Gylfi Magnússon is an Icelandic economist, an associate professor at University of Iceland and former chair of the Icelandic Competition Authority (Samkeppniseftirlitið). He was Minister for Economic Affairs in the coalition government of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. He served as Minister of Business Affairs from 1 February 2009 until 1 October the same year and then served as Minister of Economic Affairs until 2 September 2010.

Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason is an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a retired NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a 12-day mission to study changes in the Earth's atmosphere.

Björn Bjarnason is an Icelandic politician. His father was Bjarni Benediktsson, Prime Minister of Iceland, Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs and Mayor of Reykjavík.

Ágúst Gylfason is an Icelandic football manager and a former player. He was manager of Breiðablik until 2019, when he became manager of Grótta's men's football team.

Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson, known internationally as Páll Óskar and Paul Oscar, is an Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockey. He had a musical childhood, singing at private functions, with choirs and for media advertisements, but was affected by bullying in school and tension between his parents at home. He came out as gay to his family at the age of 16 years.

Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir is an Icelandic actress and musician. In the 1990s, she was also a saxophonist and vocalist of the group Reptile.

Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir is an Icelandic politician with the Left-Green Movement. She was a member of the Althing for Reykjavík constituencies from 1999. She didn't get reelected in 2009. She was Minister for the Environment and Minister for Nordic Cooperation, in 2009. She is President of ECA - European Council of Artists (2011).