Icelandic Presidents and Prime Ministers

This list is comprised of Presidents and Prime Ministers of Iceland. The President (Icelandic Forseti) is the head of state, a largely ceremonial role, while the Prime Minister (Forsætisráðherra) is the head of government. The office of President was established in 1944, when Iceland became fully independent from Denmark. The office of Prime Minister was established before independence.

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Name	Years	Type	Other Names
Sveinn Björnsson	1944-1952	president
Kristján Eldjárn	1968-1980	president
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir	1980-1996	president
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson	1996-2016	president
Guðni T. Jóhannesson	2016-	president	(Thorlacius)
Hannes Hafstein	1904-1909; 1912-1914	prime minister
Björn Jónsson	1909-1911	prime minister
Kristján Jónsson	1911-1912	prime minister
Sigurður Eggerz	1914-1915; 1922-1924	prime minister
Einar Arnórsson	1915-1917	prime minister
Jón Magnússon	1917-1922; 1924-1926	prime minister
Magnús Guðmundsson	1926	prime minister
Jón Þorláksson	1926-1927	prime minister
Tryggvi Þórhallsson	1927-1932	prime minister
Hermann Jónasson	1934-1942; 1956-1958	prime minister
Ólafur Thors	1942; 1944-1947; 1949-1950; 1953-1956; 1959-1963	prime minister
Björn Þórðarson	1942-1944	prime minister
Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson	1947-1949	prime minister
Steingrímur Steinþórsson	1950-1953	prime minister
Emil Jónsson	1958-1959	prime minister
Bjarni Benediktsson	1963-1970	prime minister
Jóhann Hafstein	1970-1971	prime minister
Ólafur Jóhannesson	1971-1974; 1978-1979	prime minister
Geir Hallgrímsson	1974-1978	prime minister
Benedikt Gröndal	1979-1980	prime minister
Gunnar Thoroddsen	1980-1983	prime minister
Steingrímur Hermannsson	1983-1987; 1988-1991	prime minister
Þorsteinn Pálsson	1987-1988	prime minister
Davíð Oddsson	1991-2004	prime minister
Halldór Ásgrímsson	2004-2006	prime minister
Geir Haarde	2006-2009	prime minister
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir	2009-2013	prime minister
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson	2013-2016	prime minister
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson	2016-2017	prime minister
Bjarni Benediktsson	2017; 2024-	prime minister
Katrín Jakobsdóttir	2017-2024	prime minister
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson	1932-1934; 1952-1968	prime minister; president