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Sigurðardóttir
Sigurðardóttir is a surname of Icelandic origin, meaning ''daughter of Sigurður''. In Icelandic names, the name is not strictly a surname, but a patronymic. The name refers to: *Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir (b. 1954), Icelandic bishop *Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (b. 1942), Icelandic politician, prime minister of Iceland from January 2009 until May 2012 *Ragna Sigurðardóttir (author) (born 1962), Icelandic author and artist *Ragna Sigurðardóttir (politician) (born 1992), Icelandic politician *Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir (b. 1964), Icelandic politician; first deaf person to be a member of the ''Alþing'' *Steinunn Sigurðardóttir (b. 1950), Icelandic author and poet *Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (b. 1963), Icelandic author of crime novels and children’s stories *Zuilma Gabriela Sigurðardóttir Zuilma Gabriela Sigurðardóttir (born 1962) is a professor in psychology at the University of Iceland, and specialist in behaviour analysis. Zuilma Gabriela is originally from Mexic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragna Sigurðardóttir (politician)
Ragna Sigurðardóttir (born 31 August 1992) is an Icelandic politician and member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, she has represented the Reykjavík South constituency since November 2024. Ragna was born on 31 August 1992 in Reykjavík. She is the daughter of physician Sigurður Einarsson. At the age of six she and her family migrated to Madison, Wisconsin, where her father was a resident gastroenterologist. The family regularly returned to Iceland for vacations. She studied at Madison West High School from 2006 to 2007 and obtained American citizenship. The family moved back to Iceland in 2008, a move that Ragna was not happy with. She studied at Kársnesskóli in Kópavogur and Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð from where she matriculated cum laude (2012). Ragna has Bachelor of Science (2017) and Doctor of Medicine (2022) degrees in medicine from the University of Iceland (HÍ). She was chair of Röskva from 2014 to 2015 and one of the founders o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (; born 4 October 1942) is an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 2009 to 2013. Elected as an MP from 1978 to 2013, she was appointed as Iceland's Minister of Social Affairs and Social Security, serving from 1987 to 1994, and from 2007 until 2009. In 1994, when she lost a bid to head the Social Democratic Party, she raised her fist and declared "''Minn tími mun koma!''" ("My time will come!"), a phrase that became a popular Icelandic expression. Later in 1994, she left the party and formed her own party, National Awakening (''Þjóðvaki''), with her as leader. The party received 7.1% of the popular vote in the 1995 parliamentary election and four elected MPs. In 1996 all of the MPs joined the Social Democratic Party. In the 1999 election, National Awakening ran with the newly formed Social Democratic Alliance. In 2000 the party officially merged with the Social Democratic Alliance. Jóhanna became prime minister on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuilma Gabriela Sigurðardóttir
Zuilma Gabriela Sigurðardóttir (born 1962) is a professor in psychology at the University of Iceland, and specialist in behaviour analysis. Zuilma Gabriela is originally from Mexico City, Mexico. She moved away from Mexico when she was 10 years old and, shortly thereafter, to Iceland. Before Zuilma became an Icelandic citizen, her name was Zuilma Gabriela Dragonné García Marín. Professional experience Zuilma Gabriela completed a BA in Psychology at the University of Iceland in the fall of 1985, an MA in Behaviour Analysis and Behaviour Therapy at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, in the United States in the spring of 1989, and a doctorate in Experimental Psychology from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1992. Zuilma Gabriela became a licensed psychologist the same year. She worked as a psychologist the next seven years. She was at the Regional Office for the affairs of the Disabled in Reykjavik (1992 to 1996). There she was initially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (born in 1963) is an Icelandic writer of both crime novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998. Her début crime novel was translated into English by Bernard Scudder. The central character in her crime novels so far is Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir), a lawyer. Yrsa has also written for children, and won the 2003 Icelandic Children's Book Prize with ''Biobörn''. Yrsa is married with two children, and she has a career as a civil engineer. Bibliography Children's fiction *''Þar lágu Danir í því'' (1998) *''Við viljum jólin í júlí'' (1999) *''Barnapíubófinn, Búkolla og bókarræninginn'' (2000) *''B 10'' (2001) *''Biobörn'' (2003) Crime novels Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series *''Þriðja táknið'' (2005), (English translation by Bernard Scudder: ''Last Rituals'', US:2007, UK:2008) *''Sér grefur gröf'' (2006) (English translation by Bernard Scudder and Anna Yates: ''My Soul to Take'', 2009) *''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragna Sigurðardóttir (author)
Ragna (Ragnheiður) Sigurðardóttir (born in Reykjavík on 10 August 1962) is an Icelandic writer, translator and artist. She studied at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands and also spent time in Denmark. In addition she studied French and fine arts at Aix-en-Provence. In 1987 she debuted with a collection of her short stories and poems titled ''Stefnumót'' ("Date"), followed in by ''Fallegri en flugeldar'' ("More beautiful than fireworks", 1989), ''27 herbergi'' ("27 rooms", 1991). Her debut novel ''Borg'' ("City", 1993), was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize, followed by ''Skot'' ("Shot", 1997), ''Strengir'' ("Strings", 2000), ''Hið fullkomna landslag'' ("The Perfect Landscape", 2009; translated into English by Sarah Bowen and published by Amazon Publishing in 2012), ''Bónusstelpan'' ("The Cashier", 2011), Vinkonur ("Girlfriends", 2016) and Þetta rauða, það er ástin (2022). In 2019, she published a collection of short stories, Vetrargulrætur ("Winter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir (born 26 August 1950) is an Icelandic poet and novelist. She finished her university studies in 1972 with a BA in psychology and philosophy at University College Dublin. Since then, she has worked as a journalist for radio and television. She has lived in different places in Europe, the United States and Japan. Since the mid-nineties, she has mostly lived abroad − first in Paris, now in Berlin. Career At the beginning of her writing career, until the 1980s, she published poems and short stories, thus becoming rather well known in her country. In 1995, she received the Icelandic National Prize for Literature for her novel ''Hjartastaður'' (''Heart Place''). In this novel, the author describes the difficult relationship between a mother living alone with her teenage daughter and the young girl. The text is integrating some elements of a road movie, because the protagonists are on a journey through Iceland from Reykjavík to the east coast. At the ... [...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 in that they are 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, Norway, and Sweden. Unlike these countries, Icelanders have continued to use their traditional name system, which was formerly used in most of Northern Europe. The Icelandic system is thus not based on family names (although some people do have family names and might use both systems). Generally, 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 family names exist in Iceland, most commonly adaptations from last names Icelanders adopted when living abroad, usually in Denmark. Notable Ic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir
Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir (born 23 April 1964) is the first deaf person to be a member of Alþingi (Iceland's parliament), on 1 October 2003 as a then-member of the Icelandic Liberal Party, serving for three months as a replacement for Gunnar Örlygsson while he served a sentence for fishery violations. In 2007 she left the Liberal Party along with several other members to join the Icelandic Movement – Living Country Icelandic Movement – Living Country () was a green politics, green list of political parties in Iceland, political party in Iceland founded by the reporter and environmentalist Ómar Ragnarsson and Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir in 2007 to .... References Website Sigurlín's Blog(Icelandic) 1964 births Living people Sigurlin Margret Sugurdardottir Sigurlin Margret Sugurdardottir Deaf politicians Liberal Party (Iceland) politicians Icelandic Movement – Living Country politicians Icelandic deaf people {{Iceland-politician- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelanders
Icelanders () are an ethnic group and nation who are native to the island country of Iceland. They speak Icelandic, a North Germanic language. Icelanders established the country of Iceland in mid 930 CE when the (parliament) met for the first time. Iceland came under the reign of Norwegian, Swedish and Danish kings but regained full sovereignty from the Danish monarchy on 1 December 1918, when the Kingdom of Iceland was established. On 17 June 1944, Iceland became a republic. Lutheranism is the predominant religion. Historical and DNA records indicate that around 60 to 80 percent of the male settlers were of Norse origin (primarily from Western Norway) and a similar percentage of the women were of Gaelic stock from Ireland and peripheral Scotland. History Iceland is a geologically young land mass, having formed an estimated 20 million years ago due to volcanic eruptions on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. One of the last larger islands to remain uninhabited, the first hu ... [...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 (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic. Patronymics are used, by custom or official policy, in many countries worldwide, although elsewhere their use has been replaced by or transformed into patronymic surnames. Examples of such transformations include common English surnames such as Johnson (surname), 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 language, Greek πατήρ ''patēr'' 'father' (Genitive case, 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 stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigurðsson
Sigurðsson is a surname of Icelandic origin, meaning ''son of Sigurður''. In Icelandic names, the name is not strictly a surname, but a patronymic. Sigurðsson may refer to: * Arnar Sigurðsson (b. 1981), Icelandic professional tennis player *Baldur Sigurðsson (b. 1985), Icelandic professional football player * Birgir Sigurðsson (handballer) (b. 1965), Icelandic handball player *Birgir Sigurðsson (writer) (1937–2019), Icelandic journalist and poet *Dagur Sigurðsson (b. 1973), Icelandic professional handball player and coach *Gylfi Sigurðsson (b. 1989), Icelandic professional football player *Hannes Sigurðsson (b. 1983), Icelandic professional football player * Haraldur Sigurðsson (b. 1939), Icelandic volcanologist and geologist *Helgi Sigurðsson (b. 1974), Icelandic professional football player *Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson (b. 1970), Icelandic businessman and bank manager *Indriði Sigurðsson (b. 1981), Icelandic professional football player *Jón Sigurðsson (1811 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to name change, change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
