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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.
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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* | Independence Party |
| Steingrímur J. Sigfússon | 2017 – 2021 | The Left-Green Movement |
| Birgir Ármannsson | 2021 – | Independence Party |
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. He was the Minister of Finance of Iceland from 1928 to 1929 and in 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.
Sólveig Guðrún Pétursdóttir is an Icelandic politician and a former speaker of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, serving from 2005 to 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 who graduated from the University of Iceland (1977).
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.
Ásta Ragnheiður Jóhannesdóttir is an Icelandic politician, lawmaker and a former Speaker of Alþingi, Iceland's parliament. She was Iceland's Minister of Social Affairs and Social Security from 1 February 2009 – 14 May 2009. She served as speaker of the Althing from 2009 to 2013. She has been a member of the Alþing since 1995.
Álfheiður Ingadóttir is an Icelandic politician, a former member of the Althing for the Left-Green Movement, Deputy Speaker, and Minister of Health.
Birgir Ármannsson is a member of parliament of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament. He is a member of the Independence Party. He was educated at the University of Iceland and King's College London. Since 2021, he is the Speaker of the Althing.
Unnur Brá Konráðsdóttir was the Speaker of the Althing from the 24th of January 2017 until she failed to be re-elected in the 2017 Icelandic parliamentary election. She has also served as the chair of the Parliament's Judicial Affairs and Education Committee.
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 affairs 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.
Jón Þór Ólafsson is an Icelandic politician.
Bjarkey Olsen Gunnarsdóttir is an Icelandic politician and lawmaker. She has served as Minister of Food, Fisheries and Agriculture from April 2024 and has been member of the Althing since 2013, representing the North East.
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.
Bryndís Haraldsdóttir is an Icelandic politician who is a member of the Althing representing the Southwest constituency and chair of the National Defense and Education Committee. She is also the 25th and incumbent president of the West Nordic Council, succeeding the former prime minister of Greenland, Lars-Emil Johansen in 2016.
Brynjar Níelsson is an Icelandic politician who was a member of the Althing for the Reykjavík North constituency from 2013 to 2016 and the Reykjavík South constituency from 2016 to 2021, representing for the Independence Party.
Hallgrímur Sveinsson was an Icelandic prelate who serviced as Bishop of Iceland from 1889 till 1908.
Halldóra Mogensen is an Icelandic politician from the Pirate Party who was elected to the Althing in 2016.