Scholarship and Academia
- Agnar Helgason, PhD, anthropologist
- Ari Þorgilsson, documentarian, chronicler
- Árni Magnússon, documentarian
- Ásgeir Helgason, PhD, psychologist, public health scientist
- Eiríkr Magnússon, librarian and lecturer at Cambridge University, co-translator with William Morris
- Gisli Gudjonsson, Professor of Forensic Psychology
- Gísli Pálsson, PhD, anthropologist
- Guðbrandur Vigfússon, lexicographer, editor, and lecturer at Oxford University
- Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson, PhD, political scientist
- Helgi Valdimarsson, MD, immunologist
- Hjörtur Þórðarson, inventor
- Kári Stefánsson, MD, founder of deCODE genetics
- Magnús Eiríksson, theologian
- Margrét Hermanns Auðardóttir, PhD, archaeologist
- Niels Finsen, physician, Nobel Prize winner (Icelandic parents)
- Páll Skúlason, PhD, philosopher, former Rector of the University of Iceland
- Reynir Bödvarsson, PhD, seismologist
- Sigurdur Helgason, mathematician
- Sigurður Nordal, PhD, philosopher
- Sigurður Þórarinsson, PhD, geologist, volcanologist, professor
- Snorri Sturluson, documentarian, writer
- Vilhjálmur Árnason, PhD, philosopher
- Þór Whitehead, historian
- Þorsteinn Gylfason, philosopher
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