List of Icelanders - Scholarship and Academia

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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