List of people on stamps of Iceland
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This is a list of people on the postage stamps of Iceland including the years when they appeared on a stamp.
Danish dependency( -1918)
- 1907 Overlapping profiles of Christian IX and Frederick VIII of DenmarkFrederick VIII of DenmarkFrederick VIII was King of Denmark from 1906 to 1912.-Early life:Frederick was born on 3 June 1843 in the Yellow Palace in Copenhagen as Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior male line of the House of Oldenburg descended from Christian III of Denmark and who had...
- 1911 Jón SigurðssonJón SigurðssonJón Sigurðsson was the leader of the 19th century Icelandic independence movement.Born at Hrafnseyri, near Arnarfjörður in the Westfjords area of Iceland, he was the son of a pastor, Sigurður Jónsson. He moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1833 to study grammar and history at the university there...
100th anniversary of his birth. - 1912 Frederick VIII of DenmarkFrederick VIII of DenmarkFrederick VIII was King of Denmark from 1906 to 1912.-Early life:Frederick was born on 3 June 1843 in the Yellow Palace in Copenhagen as Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior male line of the House of Oldenburg descended from Christian III of Denmark and who had...
Kingdom of Iceland (1918–1944)
- 1920 King Christian X (the only official King of Iceland (1918-1944)(as Kristján X))
- 1935 Matthias JochumssonMatthías JochumssonMatthías Jochumsson was an Icelandic poet, playwright, and translator. He is best known for his lyrical poetry and for writing the national anthem of Iceland, Lofsöngur, in 1874. He was born in Skógar into a poor family and traveled to the continent to further his education...
- 1937 King Christian X
- 1941 Snorri SturlusonSnorri SturlusonSnorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was twice elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing...
700th Anniversary of the Death (3 stamps issued 17th Nov. 1941)
Iceland a republic (1944-)
- 1950 Bishop Jón ArasonJón ArasonJón Arason was an Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, who was executed in his struggle against the imposition of the Protestant Reform in Iceland.-Background:...
400th Anniversary of Death (2 stamps issued 7th Nov. 1950) - 1954 Hannes Hafstein 50th Anniversary of Appointment as First Native Minister of Iceland. (3 stamps issued 1st June 1954)
- 1957 Jonas Hallgrimsson (poet)Jónas HallgrímssonJónas Hallgrímsson was an Icelandic poet, author and naturalist. He was one of the founders of the Icelandic journal Fjölnir, which was first published in Copenhagen in 1835...
150th Anniversary of Birth (issued 16th Nov. 1957) - 1959 Jon Thorkelsson Bicentenary of his death (2 stamps issued 5th May 1959)
- 1961 Benedikt Sveinson and Bjorn M. Olson, to celebrate the University of IcelandUniversity of IcelandThe University of Iceland is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern comprehensive university, providing instruction for about...
(3 stamps issued 6th Oct) - 1963 Sigurður Guðmundsson to celebrate the National Museum (2 stamps issued 20th Feb. 1963)
- 1965 Einar Bendiktsson (Stamp issued 16th Nov. 1965)
- 1968 Fridrik Fridriksson (Stamp issued 5th Sept. 1968)
- 1968 Jón Magnússon (politician)Jón Magnússon (politician)Jón Magnússon was an Icelandic politician, and was Prime Minister of Iceland on two occasions. He served his first term, as a member of the Home Rule Party , from 4 January 1917 to 7 March 1922...
, 50th Anniversary of Independence, (2 stamps issued 1st Dec. 1968) - 1970 Grimur Thomsen (poet)Grímur ThomsenGrímur Thomsen , Icelandic poet and editor, was born in Bessastaðir in 1820. He was the son of Þorgrímur Tómasson, a goldsmith. In 1837, he went to the University of Copenhagen, where he studied law and philology, but he also became interested in philosophy and aesthetics...
150th Anniversary of Birth (Stamp issued 19th June 1970) - 1971 Tryggvi Gunnarsson To celebrate the centenary of the Patriotic Society 1871-1971 (2 stamps issued 19th Aug. 1971)
- 1975 Hallgrímur Pétursson (poet)Hallgrímur PéturssonHallgrímur Pétursson was one of Iceland's most famous poets and a minister at Hvalneskirkja and Saurbær in Hvalfjörður. The Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík and the Hallgrímskirkja in Saurbær are named after him. He was one of the most influential pastors during the Age of Orthodoxy...
, Árni MagnússonÁrni MagnússonÁrni Magnússon was an Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts. He assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection.-Life:...
, Einar JónssonEinar JónssonEinar Jónsson was an Icelandic sculptor, born in Galtafell, a farm in southern Iceland.-Biography:...
and Jón Eiríksson (1728-1787) Set of 4 stamps on "Celebrities" (issued 18th Sept. 1975) - 1975 Bertel ThorvaldsenBertel ThorvaldsenBertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor of international fame, who spent most of his life in Italy . Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a Danish/Icelandic family of humble means, and was accepted to the Royal Academy of Arts when he was eleven years old...
Celebrating the centenary of the Thorvaldsen Society (Stamp issued 19th Nov. 1975) - 1978 Halldor Hermannsson
- 1979 Jón SigurðssonJón SigurðssonJón Sigurðsson was the leader of the 19th century Icelandic independence movement.Born at Hrafnseyri, near Arnarfjörður in the Westfjords area of Iceland, he was the son of a pastor, Sigurður Jónsson. He moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1833 to study grammar and history at the university there...
and Ingibjörg Einarsdóttir Centenary of both of their deaths (Stamp issued 1st Nov. 1979) - 1980 Jon SveinssonJón SveinssonJón "Nonni" Stefán Sveinsson was an Icelandic children's writer and member of the Society of Jesus....
(Nonni) and Gunnar GunnarssonGunnar GunnarssonGunnar Gunnarsson was an Icelandic author who wrote mainly in Danish. He grew up, in considerable poverty, on Valþjófsstaður in Fljótsdalur valley and on Ljótsstaðir in Vopnafjörður...
writers (2 Stamps issued 28 April 1980) - 1982 Þorbjörg Sveinsdóttir a famous Icelander (Stamp issued 8th Sept. 1982)
- 1983 Kristjan EldjarnKristján EldjárnDr. Kristján Eldjárn was the third President of Iceland, from 1968 to 1980.His parents were Þórarinn Kr. Eldjárn, a teacher in Tjörn, and Sigrún Sigurhjartardóttir. He graduated in archaeology from the University of Copenhagen and taught at the University of Iceland...
- 1987 Rasmus Kristjan RaskRasmus Christian RaskRasmus Rask was a Danish scholar and philologist.-Biography:...
to mark his birth Centenary
- 1999 Composer Jon LeifsJón LeifsJón Leifs , was an Icelandic composer.Jón was born in Sólheimar. He left Iceland in 1916 to study in Germany at the Leipzig Conservatory. He graduated in 1921 having studied piano, and then devoted his time to conducting and composing. He became successful as a conductor, and also as a writer.He...
- 2002 Halldor LaxnessHalldór LaxnessHalldór Kiljan Laxness was a twentieth-century Icelandic writer. Throughout his career Laxness wrote poetry, newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories, and novels...
- 2002 Sesselja SigmundsdottirSesselja SigmundsdottirSesselja Sigmundsdóttir was a noted Icelandic pioneer in the fields of pedagogy and the care for the mentally disabled and founder of the Sólheimar community....
Advocate for Mentally Handicappedhttp://www.solheimar.is/default4.asp?Sid_NR=761&E_NR=733&VS=1VS1.asp&VT=696&VT2=761 founder of SólheimarSólheimar EcovillageSólheimar Ecovillage in Iceland is a small, intentional community of about 100 people, who live and work together. It is in the municipality of Grímsnes- og Grafningshreppur... - 2004 Hannes Hafstein
- 2007 Jonas HallgrimssonJónas HallgrímssonJónas Hallgrímsson was an Icelandic poet, author and naturalist. He was one of the founders of the Icelandic journal Fjölnir, which was first published in Copenhagen in 1835...
- 2007 Frederick VIII of DenmarkFrederick VIII of DenmarkFrederick VIII was King of Denmark from 1906 to 1912.-Early life:Frederick was born on 3 June 1843 in the Yellow Palace in Copenhagen as Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior male line of the House of Oldenburg descended from Christian III of Denmark and who had...
Royal Visit of 1907