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Jónsdóttir
Jónsdóttir is a surname of Icelandic origin, meaning ''daughter of Jón''. 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 * Áslaug Jónsdóttir (b. 1963), Icelandic children's writer * Auður Jónsdóttir (b. 1973), Icelandic author and freelance journalist * Birgitta Jónsdóttir a member of parliament in Iceland and a former volunteer with WikiLeaks * Gunnfríður Jónsdóttir (1889–1968), Icelandic sculptor * Íeda Jónasdóttir Herman, Icelandic author and adventurer * Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir, Icelandic singer * Jóhanna Vala Jónsdóttir (b. 1986), Icelandic beauty queen; 2007 Miss Iceland * Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir (1646–1715), Icelandic woman whose face is on the 5000 kronur note * Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir (b. 1981), Icelandic televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Birgitta Jónsdóttir (born 17 April 1967) is an Icelandic politician, anarchist, poet, and activist. She was a Member of the Althing (MP) for the Southwest Constituency from 2013 to 2017, representing the Pirate Party, having been elected at the 2013 election. She was previously an MP for Reykjavík Constituency South from 2009 to 2013. In November 2017, she has announced to retire from politics "for now". She published her first book of poetry at the age of 22, and later became a web developer. She was a noted Icelandic activist, and took on a number of roles during the protests following the 2007–2008 financial crisis. She was first elected as an MP representing the Citizens' Movement in the 2009 election. Later in 2009, she left the Citizens' Movement and joined The Movement. She became involved with WikiLeaks during Julian Assange's visit to Iceland in 2010, and helped to produce the Collateral Murder video. Following her time with WikiLeaks, she created the Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir
Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir (born 16 October 1990), known outside Iceland as Yohanna, is an Icelandic-Danish singer. Beginning her music career as a child singer, Yohanna received international recognition after representing Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song " Is It True?", placing as the runner-up. This tied for the best result Iceland had ever achieved in the contest. Following the success at Eurovision, she released the studio album ''Butterflies and Elvis'' (2009). Following Eurovision 2009, Yohanna has since attempted to represent Iceland again on two occasions. In 2011, she reached the finals of '' Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2011'' with the song "Nótt", and later won the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2011 as well, while she failed to reach the finals in '' Söngvakeppnin 2013'' with the song "Þú". Early life Yohanna was born in Copenhagen to Icelandic parents Jón Sverrir Sverrison, an electrical engineer, and Margrét Steinþórsdóttir, a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auður Jónsdóttir
Auður Jónsdóttir (born 30 March 1973) is an Icelandic author. Her novels deal with family, particularly mother-daughter relationships. Career 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. The People in the Basement won the 2004 Icelandic Literary Prize followed by a nomination for Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2006. It came out and was very well received in Denmark and Sweden in the same year. ''Wintersun'' (''Vetrarsól''), received positive reviews in Der Spiegel and Hamburger Abendblatt among others. In 2009, Auður worked at the Reykjavik City Theater as an in-house writer for one year resulting in a play being adapted from ''The People in the Basement'' in the following year. The show was a huge success w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Áslaug Jónsdóttir
Áslaug Jónsdóttir (born 31 March 1963) is an Icelandic writer of children's books, illustrator and playwright. Early life and education She grew up near Borgarfjörður in west Iceland and then attended Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð in Reykjavik. She then studied in Copenhagen, Denmark at Skolen for Brugskunst (later the School of Design of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts). Career She published her first children's picture book in 1990. Her recent work includes collaboration with two other authors Swedish Kalle Guettler and Faroese Rakel Heimisdal on a series of six "Monsters" books published in Icelandic, Swedish and Faroese, starting with ''Nei! sagði litla skrímslið'' (''No! Said Little Monster'') in 2004. In 2002 she and Andri Snær Magnason collaborated on ''Sagan af bláa hnettinum'' which won the West-Nordic Children's Literature Prize. It has since been translated and published in English (''The Story of the Blue Planet'', 2013, Pushkin: ), Danish, Far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir
Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir (born 29 April 1981) is an Icelandic actress and television presenter who is the assistant director of RÚV, the Icelandic national broadcaster. She is a former Miss Iceland. Life and career Ragnhildur was born Keflavík where she lived most of her youth, excluding four years the family spent in Denmark. Her father is Jón Þór Harðarson, a mechanical engineer. Her mother, Ragnhildur Steinunn Maríusdóttir, died when she was seven years old. In the 1990s Ragnhildur was a gymnast; she won a bronze medal in the national championships in 1998 and was named to the national team. She completed an undergraduate degree in physiotherapy at the University of Iceland. In 2003, she won Miss Iceland. Ragnhildur began working for RÚV in 2004, with ''Ópið'', a programme for teenagers, and was later a journalist and co-host on the primetime news/talk show '' Kastljós'', and host of ''Dans dans dans'', the Icelandic version of the American TV show ''So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ágústína Jónsdóttir
Ágústína Jónsdóttir (born May 4, 1949) is an Icelandic writer, artist and educator. She was born in Reykjavík, studied cosmetics and later graduated as a pre-school teacher. In 1991, she received a teaching diploma from the Iceland College of Education. She works as an elementary school teacher in Kópavogur, a suburb of Reykjavík. In 1994, she published her first collection of poetry ''Að baki mánans'' ("Behind the Moon"). She has since published several other collections. Her work has been translated into English and French. One of her books was nominated for Dagblaðið Vísir's literary prize in 1997. See also * List of Icelandic writers Iceland has a rich literary history, which has carried on into the modern period. Some of the best known examples of Icelandic literature are the Sagas of Icelanders. These are prose narratives based on historical events that took place in Icel ... * Icelandic literature Selected works * ''Lífakur'' ("Field of Life" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnfríður Jónsdóttir
Gunnfríður Jónsdóttir (26 December 1889 – 1968), was an Icelandic sculptor born in the North West of Iceland. Family Gunnfríður's grandfather was Einar Andrésson, a rhymester who had been suspected of witchcraft.Davíðsson, Steingrím, Gunnfrídur Jónsdóttir: Listaverk, Gefið Út Á Kostnað Listakonunnar, 1964, translated from Icelandic by Einar Ragnarsson Kvaran Her parents were Halldóra Einarsdóttir Andréssonar and Jón Jónsson. Early life At the age of 19 Gunnfríður attended a young women's school, but was forced to move to Akureyri and learn to be a seamstress after the school burned down. She was to be successful both in Iceland and in Denmark, where she moved in 1919. By 1924 she had returned to Iceland and that year she married Icelandic sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson. She returned with him to Sweden, where he was studying with sculptor Carl Milles. In 1929 they returned to Iceland, making their home in Reykjavík. Gunnfríður and Ásmundar were divorc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic Name
Icelandic names are names used by people from Iceland. Icelandic surnames are different from most other naming systems in the modern Western world by being patronymic or occasionally matronymic: they indicate the father (or mother) of the child and not the historic family lineage. Iceland shares a common cultural heritage with the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Norway, and Sweden. Unlike other Nordics, Icelanders have continued to use their traditional name system, which was formerly used by all Nordic countries except Finland, whose indigenous people are Uralic speakers and thus distinct from the Germanic rest of Scandinavia. The Icelandic system is thus not based on family names (although some people do have family names and might use both systems). Generally, with few exceptions, a person's last name indicates the first name of their father (patronymic) or in some cases mother (matronymic) in the genitive, followed by ("son") or ("daughter"). Some fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir
Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir (1646–1715) was a wealthy member of the powerful Svalbarðsætt family. She was married twice, each time to a Lutheran bishop of Hólar: Gísli Þorláksson (she was his third wife) and Einar Þorsteinsson. She survived both husbands and retired in 1685 to the farm of Gröf in Höfðaströnd, just south of the modern-day village of Hofsós, appointing her younger brother Oddur as ''ráðsmaður'' (household manager). Ragnheiður was the daughter of (1606–1673) of Vatnsfjörður, a Lutheran priest and poet, and his wife Hólmfríður Sigurðardóttir (1617–1692). She was one of 12 children, nine of whom reached maturity. Her eldest brother was Magnús Jónsson í Vigur. Like Magnús, Ragnheiður was a patron of the arts, and her literary tastes are reflected in a surviving manuscript of poetry and hymns compiled for her in 1676 (cataloged in the Ny Kongelig Samling at the Royal Library in Copenhagen as "NKS 56 d 8vo"). After Gísli Þorláksson' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jónsson
Jónsson is a surname of Icelandic origin, meaning ''son of Jón''. In Icelandic names, the name is not strictly a surname, but a patronymic. The name refers to: * Arnar Jónsson (actor) (born 1943), Icelandic actor * Arnar Jónsson (basketball) (born 1983), Icelandic basketball player * Arngrímur Jónsson “The Learned” (1568-1648), Icelandic scholar *Bjarni Jónsson (1920–2016), Icelandic mathematician and logician *Bjarni Jónsson (artist) (1934-2008), Icelandic painter * Bjarni Jónsson (footballer) (born 1965), Icelandic international footballer *Björn Jónsson (1846-1912), Icelandic prime minister *Eggert Jónsson (born 1988), Icelandic footballer *Einar Jónsson (1874-1954), Icelandic sculptor *Emil Jónsson (1902-1986), Icelandic prime minister * Finnur Jónsson (philologist) (1858-1934), Icelandic philologist * Helgi Jónsson (1867-1925), Icelandic botanist and algologist * Hjálmar Jónsson (other) *Jón Jónsson, Icelandic singer *Jón Sveinbjørn Jónsson ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, although their use has largely been replaced by or transformed into patronymic surnames. Examples of such transformations include common English surnames such as Johnson (son of John). Origins of terms The usual noun and adjective in English is ''patronymic'', but as a noun this exists in free variation alongside ''patronym''. The first part of the word ''patronym'' comes from Greek πατήρ ''patēr'' "father" (GEN πατρός ''patros'' whence the combining form πατρο- ''patro''-); the second part comes from Greek ὄνυμα ''onyma'', a variant form of ὄνομα ''onoma'' "name". In the form ''patronymic'', this stands with the addition of the suffix -ικός (''-ikos''), which was originally used to form adjectives with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna G
Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) * Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425) * Anna of Cilli (1386–1416) * Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418) * Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432–1462) * Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1514) * Anna, Duchess of Prussia (1576–1625) * Anna of Russia (1693–1740) * Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781) * Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1783–1857) * Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) * Anna (feral child) (1932–1942) * Anna (singer) (born 1987) Places Australia * Hundred of Anna, a cadastral district in South Australia Iran * Anna, Fars, a village in Fars Province * Anna, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province Russia * Anna, Voronezh Oblast, an urban locality in Voro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
