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Leif Ericson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson) (c. 980 – c. 1020) was an Icelandic/Norwegian explorer and the first European thought to have landed in North America—more specifically, the region that would become Newfoundland and, by later extension, Canada. His exploration resulted in several settlements, with some evidence suggesting that later Norsemen may eventually have penetrated as far as Minnesota, either coming down from Hudson Bay or going west through the Great Lakes.
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Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born November 21, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is a Brit Award-winning Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer (formerly the lead singer of alternative rock band The Sugarcubes), with an expressive range and an interest in many kinds of music including pop, alternative rock, jazz, ambient music, electronica, folk, and classical music. She is known for her innovative music videos and individualistic music. Her record label, One Little Indian, reported in 2003 that she has sold over 15 million albums worldwide.
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Davíð Oddsson (born 17 January 1948 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic politician and the longest-serving Prime Minister of Iceland, holding office from 1991 to 2004. He also served as foreign minister from 2004 to 2005. Previously, he was mayor of Reykjavík from 1982 to 1991, and since 2005 he has chaired the board of governors of the Central Bank of Iceland. By Icelandic standards, Davíð Oddsson’s career is very successful. He was only 34 years old when he became Mayor of Reykjavík, and only 43 years when he formed his first government. Although his implementation of wide-ranging and radical free-market reforms against bitter opposition generated controversy, he has left a large mark on Icelandic political history and that under his leadership, the Icelandic economy has changed beyond recognition.
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Einar Jónsson (May 11, 1874 – October 18, 1954) was an Icelandic sculptor, born in Galtafell, a farm in southern Iceland. Unlike most other sculptors, Einar worked almost entirely in plaster. This had to do partly with the lack of good modeling clay in Iceland, but it allowed Einar to work on his individual sculptures for years. Spending over a decade on a particular piece was not uncommon for him. The themes for his works—public monuments, private commissions, and private works—are frequently drawn from Norse mythology and Icelandic folk tales. Einar's world is populated by angels and trolls, by beautiful women and bold warriors, and most of all a layer of symbolic content that can invariably be felt, but not always understood.
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Erik the Red (950–c. 1003) founded the first Nordic settlement in Greenland. Born in the Jæren district of Rogaland, Norway as the son of Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson (Thorvald Asvaldsson), he therefore also appears, patronymically, as Erik Thorvaldsson (or as Eiríkr Þorvaldsson). The appellation the Red most likely refers to his hair color. Erik the Red had to flee Norway because of "some killings", as The Saga of Eric the Red recounts. He and his family settled in Iceland. The Icelanders later exiled Erik for several murders around the year 982.
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Geir Hilmar Haarde is a former Prime Minister of Iceland and chairman of the Independence Party. Geir became Prime Minister on June 15, 2006 following the announcement of Halldór Ásgrímsson's resignation as the Prime Minister of Iceland on June 5, 2006. He then led a coalition between his party and the Progressive Party. After the 2007 parliamentary elections, where the Independence Party increased their share of the vote, Haarde renewed his term as Prime Minister leading a coalition between his party and the Social Democratic Alliance. He was followed by Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir.
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Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson) (April 23, 1902 – February 8, 1998) was a 20th century Icelandic author of such novels as Salka Valka, Independent People, The Atom Station, Paradise Reclaimed, Iceland's Bell, The Fish Can Sing and World Light. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955. When he was 14 years old, his first article was published in Morgunblaðið under the name H.G. Not much later he published an article (about an old clock) under his own name in the same paper. During his career he wrote 51 novels, poetry, many newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories and more.
{{../box-footer|}} {{../box-header|Iceland/Selected biography 10 | Portal:Iceland/Selected biography/10 }} Portal:Iceland/Selected biography/10 Jón Sigurðsson (June 17, 1811 – December 7, 1879) was the leader of the 19th century Icelandic independence movement. He is often referred to as President (Jón forseti) by Icelanders. The main reason for this is that since 1851 he served as President of the Copenhagen Department of Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag (the Icelandic Literature Society). He was also the president of Althing several times, for the first time in 1849. He is currently pictured on Iceland's 500 krónur bill, and has been honoured on Icelandic postage stamps on the centenaries of his birth and death, the 150th anniversary of his birth, and on the creation of the Republic of Iceland (on his 133rd birthday).
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