Elísabet Jökulsdóttir

female, 51 years old
Elísabet Jökulsdóttir is a writer born in Reykjavík on April 16, 1958. She lived in Greece for a year in her youth and had a variety of jobs befo...

Þorsteinn Gylfason

male, deceased (2005)
Þorsteinn Gylfason was an influential Icelandic philosopher, translator, musician, poet, art enthusiast and intellectual. Þorsteinn was born and ra...

Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir

female, 31 years old
Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is a photographer from Iceland who was named the "Web's Top Photographer" by the Wall Street Journal on July 29, 2006. She li...
Luke McShane

Luke McShane

male, 25 years old
Luke J. McShane is an English chess player. In the June 2005 FIDE rating list, McShane had an Elo rating of 2625, making him the third highest...

Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval

male, deceased (1972)
Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval was an Icelandic painter. He is one of the most famous artists of Iceland. The paintings of Kjarval are very different i...
Jean-Baptiste Charcot

Jean-Baptiste Charcot

male, deceased (1936)
Jean-Baptiste Charcot, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist...

Einar Pálsson

male, deceased (1996)
Einar Pálsson was born in Reykjavík, Iceland. He is best known for his theories about the origin of the Icelandic Saga literature as relict my...

Grímur Thomsen

male, deceased (1896)
Grímur Thomsen, Icelandic poet and editor, was born in Bessastaðir in 1820. He was the son of Þorgrímur Tómasson, a goldsmith. In 1837 he went to th...

Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir

female, 71 years old
Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir is an Icelandic writer who was born in Reykjavík on March 18, 1938. After High School she went to Catalonia and later work...
Bjarni Tryggvason

Bjarni Tryggvason

male, 64 years old
Bjarni Tryggvason, D.Eng "(honoris causa)" (born September 21, 1945) is a Canadian/Icelandic astronaut. Tryggvason was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, b...