List of Famous people born in Iceland

Arnaldur Indriðason is an Icelandic writer of crime fiction; most of his books feature the protagonist Detective Erlendur.

Selma Björnsdóttir, also known as simply Selma, is an Icelandic actress and singer born on in Reykjavík, best known internationally for representing her country in the Eurovision Song Contest in both 1999 and 2005.

Rúnar Kristinsson is an Icelandic former footballer who played for Lokeren, Lillestrøm SK, Örgryte IS and KR Reykjavík. He is the current manager of KR. His son, Rúnar Alex Rúnarsson is a goalkeeper for Premier League side Arsenal.

Kristján Lúðvík Möller is an Icelandic politician. He has been Iceland's Minister of Communications from 2007 to 2010, and a member of the Althing from 1999 to 2016, for the Northwest Iceland constituency (1999–2003) and the Northeast Iceland constituency (2003–2016). He is the older brother of Alma Möller.

Hrafn Gunnlaugsson is an Icelandic film director. He is the brother of mathematician Þorvaldur Gunnlaugsson and the lawyer Snædís Gunnlaugsdóttir and the actress Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir. He is mostly known for his series of Viking films, sometimes called "Cod Westerns". He was married to Edda Kristjánsdóttir and they have four children: Kristján born 1968 who is a poet and playwright, Tinna who is an actress, Sól who is an art designer and Örk who is an artist and was born in 1993. He won the award for Best Director at the 20th Guldbagge Awards for When the Raven Flies.

Guðmundur Steingrímsson is an Icelandic politician. He is the son and grandson of former Icelandic Prime Ministers Steingrímur Hermannsson and Hermann Jónasson.

Sigurdur Helgason is an Icelandic mathematician whose research has been devoted to the geometry and analysis on symmetric spaces. In particular he has used new integral geometric methods to establish fundamental existence theorems for differential equations on symmetric spaces as well as some new results on the representations of their isometry groups. He also introduced a Fourier transform on these spaces and proved the principal theorems for this transform, the inversion formula, the Plancherel theorem and the analog of the Paley–Wiener theorem.

Björgvin Helgi Halldórsson is an Icelandic pop singer from Hafnarfjörður. He represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the song Núna, ranked in 15th place with 31 points.

Ófeigur Sigurðsson is an Icelandic poet, novelist and translator. He was born in Reykjavík on November 2. 1975.

Jónína Leósdóttir is an Icelandic novelist, playwright, former journalist and Spouse of the Prime Minister of Iceland from 2008 until 2013.