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This is a list of speakers of the Althing , the Icelandic parliament.
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The Speaker of the Althing (Icelandic : Forseti Alþingis, literally the President of the Althing ) is the presiding officer (speaker) of that legislature.
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This is a list of speakers of the Althing , the Icelandic parliament.
The Speaker of the Althing (Icelandic : Forseti Alþingis, literally the President of the Althing ) is the presiding officer (speaker) of that legislature.
| Name | Period | Party |
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| Salome Þorkelsdóttir | 1991 – 1995 | Independence Party |
| Ólafur Garðar Einarsson | 1995 – 1999 | Independence Party |
| Halldór Blöndal | 1999 – 2005 | Independence Party |
| Sólveig Pétursdóttir | 2005 – 2007 | Independence Party |
| Sturla Böðvarsson | 2007 – 2009 | Independence Party |
| Guðbjartur Hannesson | 2009 | Social Democratic Alliance |
| Ásta Jóhannesdóttir | 2009 – 2013 | Social Democratic Alliance |
| Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson | 2013 – 2016 | Independence Party |
| Steingrímur J. Sigfússon | 2016 – 2017 | The Left-Green Movement |
| Unnur Brá Konráðsdóttir | 2017 – 2017* | Independence Party |
| Steingrímur J. Sigfússon | 2017 – 2021 | The Left-Green Movement |
| Birgir Ármannsson | 2021- | Independence Party |
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson was the second president of Iceland, from 1952 to 1968. He was a Freemason and served as Grand Master of the Icelandic Order of Freemasons.
Hannes Þórður Pétursson Hafstein was an Icelandic politician and poet. In 1904 he became the first Icelander to be appointed to the Danish Cabinet as the minister for Iceland in the Cabinet of Deuntzer and was – unlike the previous minister for Iceland Peter Adler Alberti – responsible to the Icelandic Althing.
Björn Jónsson was minister for Iceland from 31 March 1909 to 14 March 1911. He was the father of Sveinn Björnsson, the only regent of Iceland and first president of Iceland. Björn became Minister for Iceland after Hannes Hafstein and his supporters suffered losses in the elections of 1908, where the voters rejected the draft of a new constitution. Björn was forced to resign after forcing the General Director of the National Bank, Tryggvi Gunnarsson, out of that post due to heavy criticism of their supporters. Björn and other opponents of the Draft won a landslide victory in the 1908 elections. He served as speaker of the Althing in 1909.
Sigurður Eggerz was minister for Iceland from 21 July 1914 to 4 May 1915, and prime minister of Iceland from 7 March 1922 to 22 March 1924.
Tryggvi Þórhallsson was prime minister of Iceland from 28 August 1927 to 3 June 1932. He served as speaker of the Althing in 1933. He was a member of the Progressive Party.
Steingrímur Steinþórsson was Icelandic politician. He served as speaker of the Althing from 1949 to 1950. He served as prime minister of Iceland from 14 March 1950 to 11 September 1953. He was a member of the Interim Triumvirate from 26 January to 31 July 1952, and was a member of the Progressive Party, though never its chairman.
Bjarni Benediktsson was an Icelandic politician of the Independence Party who served as prime minister of Iceland from 1963 to 1970. His father, Benedikt Sveinsson (1877–1954), was a leader in the independence movement in Iceland and a member of the Althingi from 1908 to 1931.
Halldór Blöndal is a politician of the Independence Party (Iceland). He is the son of Kristjana Benediktsdóttir, Bjarni Benediktsson's sister. He worked as a teacher and a journalist from 1959 until 1980. From 1971 to 1979, he frequently sat on Althingi as a substitute member. He gained a seat of his own in the Parliament in 1979, where he has served for Iceland's North Eastern Constituency. Counted as strong supporter of whaling due to his summertime jobs in whale processing from 1954 to 1974, he helped building whale watching tourism industry while he was Minister of Communication and Tourism 1991 to 1999. He was also Minister of Agriculture in the first term of Davíð Oddsson as prime minister from 1991 to 1995.
Guðrún Helgadóttir was a prominent writer of children's literature in Iceland. She was born in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. Her first book, Jón Oddur og Jón Bjarni, appeared in 1974 when she worked at the National Health and Insurance Office. It concerned scheming twins. Several more books in this series were released. In 1981, they became the basis for a film. By the late 1980s she won several awards, and she was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1988. She has written a small amount of drama for adults, but most of her work is for young children.
Sólveig Guðrún Pétursdóttir is an Icelandic politician a former speaker of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, serving between 2005 and 2007. She was a parliament member from 1991, for the Reykjavík Constituency (1991–2003), and the Reykjavik Constituency South (2003–2007). She is a member of the Independence Party. Sólveig was Iceland's Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs 1999–2003. She is a lawyer from the University of Iceland (1977).
Gylfi Þorsteinsson Gíslason was an Icelandic politician.
Sturla Böðvarsson is an Icelandic politician who was President of the Althing between 2007 and 2009. He is a member of the Independence Party and has been a member of the Althing since 1991, from the Western Constituency from 1991 to 2003 and from the North West Constituency since 2003. From 1999 to 2007, he was Minister of Communications. He was also the mayor of Stykkishólmur from 1974 to 1991 and 2014 to present.
Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson is an Icelandic politician. He was speaker of the Althing, in office 2013 until 2016. He was Iceland's Minister of Fisheries from September 2005, and became Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture when the two ministries merged on 1 January 2008 until 1 February 2009.
Guðbjartur Hannesson was an Icelandic politician and was welfare minister. He was affiliated with the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin).
Ragnhildur Helgadóttir was an Icelandic politician. She was a member of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing, first from 1956 for the Independence Party. From 1961 to December 1962 she was the First President of the Lower House, and she was president of the parliament several times. From 1983 to 1987 she was a government minister, first of education, then of health, social and communication.
Friðjón Skarphéðinsson was an Icelandic politician and former minister for social affairs from December 1958 to November 1959. He served as speaker of the Althing from 1959 to 1963.
Eysteinn Jónsson was an Icelandic politician and former minister. He was the Minister of Finance of Iceland from 1934 to 1939 and from 1950 to 1954 and from 1954 to 1958. He served as speaker of the Althing from 1971 to 1974.
Salome Þorkelsdóttir, sometimes transliterated as Salome Thorkelsdottir, is a retired Icelandic politician and first woman to be Speaker of the unicameral Althing. Before that she had been Speaker of the Upper House of the Althing. She was of the Independence Party.
Pétur Pétursson was a prominent political leader in Iceland, eventually becoming the fourth Bishop of Iceland from 1866 to 1889.
Hallgrímur Sveinsson was an Icelandic prelate who serviced as Bishop of Iceland from 1889 till 1908.