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In Icelandic names, the name is not strictly a surname, but a patronymic (see Icelandic name). The name refers to: Ágústína Jónsdóttir (b. 1949), Icelandic writer, artist and educator; Anna G. Jónasdóttir (b. 1942), Icelandic political scientist and academic; Arna Lára Jónsdóttir (b. 1976), Icelandic politician
A simple family tree showing the Icelandic patronymic naming system. Icelandic names are names used by people from Iceland.Icelandic surnames are different from most other naming systems in the modern Western world in that they are patronymic or occasionally matronymic: they indicate the father (or mother) of the child and not the historic family lineage.
Auður's debut novel, Bliss (Stjórnlaus Lukka), was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 1998. In 2002 she wrote the children's book One self is the strangest of all (Skrýtnastur er maður sjálfur), a portrait of her grandfather, the Nobel prize-winning author Halldor Laxness.
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Fisher was born in Iceland on 6 January 1991. Fisher announced they [a] were trans in 2010, and was one of the youngest people to have undergone a medical transition in Iceland. [1]
Born on 25 January 1888 in Arnanes on the Eyjafjörður in northern Iceland, she was the daughter of the shipbuilder Jón Antonsson and Guðlaug Helga Sveinsdóttir. After schooling in Reykjavík, she studied art in Copenhagen, first from 1909 at the Tegne- og Kunstindustriskolen for Kvinder (Women's Art College), then at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Valdemar Irminger and Peter ...
Sveindís Jane Jónsdóttir (born 5 June 2001) is an Icelandic footballer who plays for Frauen-Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Icelandic national team.. In 2020, she won the Icelandic championship with Breiðablik, while also being named the Úrvalsdeild Player of the Year and winning the Úrvalsdeild Golden Boot award.
Agnes Jónsdóttir (died 1507) was a prioress and later the abbess of the Benedictine convent Reynistathir abbey in Iceland from 1461 until her death in 1507. She succeeded Þóra Finnsdóttir/Barbara who was ordained as a nun with her in 1431.