13 Finance ministers of Iceland

Árni M. Mathiesen is an Icelandic politician. From September 2005 through 31 January 2009, he was Minister of Finance in Iceland. From 1999 to 2005 he was Minister of Fisheries. Mathiesen was first elected to the Althing for the Independence Party in 1991, when he was the youngest member of the Althing at the age of 33.

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.

Bjarni Benediktsson, known colloquially as Bjarni Ben, is an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from January to November 2017. He has been the leader of the Icelandic Independence Party since 2009, and served as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs from 2013 to 2017, a post he later retained under Katrin Jakobsdottir.

Geir Hilmar Haarde is an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 15 June 2006 to 1 February 2009 and as president of the Nordic Council in 1995. Geir was chairman of the Icelandic Independence Party from 2005 to 2009. Since 23 February 2015 he has served as the ambassador of Iceland to the United States and several Latin American countries.

Magnús Guðmundsson was an Icelandic politician. He graduated in laws from the University of Copenhagen in 1907. Magnus was a member of Althingi for his constituency in North west Iceland from 1916 till the day of his death in 1937. He served as prime minister of Iceland from 23 June to 8 July 1926, and was a member of the now defunct Conservative Party (Íhaldsflokkurinn). He was the Minister of Industrial Affairs in the presiding Government of Jón Magnússon from 1924 to 1927. Prior to that he had served as Minister of Finance of Iceland from 1920 to 1922. He was a founding member of the Independence Party and served as a minister of Justice in the first government that the Independence Party participated in, from 1932 to 1934.

Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson is an Icelandic politician and diplomat. He was Minister of Finance from 1987 to 1988 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1988 to 1995.

Katrín Júlíusdóttir, is a former Icelandic politician. She was elected to the Parliament of Iceland in 2003 and served as Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism from May 2009 to January 2012 and as Minister of Finance and Economy from 2012 to 2013. In 2016 she left Politics and has since then been the Managing Director of Finance Iceland. In 2020 she received the Svartfuglinn-Award for her first Crime Novel, Sykur, published by Veröld in October 2020. Katrín is married to the Icelandic author Bjarni M. Bjarnason and they have four sons.

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is an Icelandic politician who was the fifth president of Iceland from 1996 to 2016. He was previously a member of the Icelandic Parliament for the People's Alliance and served as Minister of Finance from 1988 to 1991.

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.

Steingrímur Jóhann Sigfússon is an Icelandic politician. He has been a member of the Althing since 1983 and was the founding chairman of the Left-Green Movement from 1999 until 2013. He was the Minister for Agriculture and Communications from 1988 to 1991. He was Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2011. In 2011, he took on the roles of Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture and Minister of Economic Affairs.

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.

Jón Þorláksson was prime minister of Iceland from 8 July 1926 to 28 August 1927. He was the only leader of the Conservative Party (Íhaldsflokkurinn) which merged with the Liberal Party to form the Independence Party in 1929, and the Mayor of Reykjavík from 1933 to his death.

Þorsteinn Pálsson served as prime minister of Iceland for the Independence Party from 1987 to 1988. Þorsteinn led the Independence Party from 1983 to 1991, when he lost an inner partial election to then vice-chairman of the party and mayor of Reykjavík, Davíð Oddsson.