List of Famous people born in Iceland

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.

Steingrímur Jóhann Sigfússon is an Icelandic politician. He has been a member of the Althing since 1983 and was the founding chairman of the Left-Green Movement from 1999 until 2013. He was the Minister for Agriculture and Communications from 1988 to 1991. He was Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2011. In 2011 he took on the roles of Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture and Minister of Economic Affairs.

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.

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.

Valdís Óskarsdóttir is an Icelandic film editor whose work includes The Celebration, Les Misérables, Finding Forrester and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Össur Skarphéðinsson is an Icelandic politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from February 2009 to May 2013.

Valgerður Sverrisdóttir is an Icelandic politician. She was a member of the Althing for the Progressive Party for the Northeast constituency starting in 1987 and was Chairman of the Progressive Party parliamentary group from 1995 to 1999, Minister of Industry and Commerce from 1999 to 2006, and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2004 to 2005. She was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 15 June 2006 to 24 May 2007. She has been a member of the Progressive Party's central committee since 1983.

Bjarni Benediktsson, known colloquially as Bjarni Ben, is an Icelandic politician, who served as Prime Minister from January to November 2017. He has been the leader of the Icelandic Independence Party since 2009, and previously served as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs from 2013 to 2017, a post he later retained under Katrin Jakobsdottir.