title: 1947 in Iceland
text: # 1947 in Iceland
  
  The following lists events that happened in 1947 in Iceland.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President – Sveinn Björnsson
  * Prime Minister – Ólafur Thors, Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson
  
  ## Births
  
  * 20 February – Eggert Magnússon, businessman
  * 4 March – Gunnar Hansen, actor (d. 2015)
  * 29 June – Ágúst Guðmundsson, film director and screenwriter
  * 24 August – Ólafur Haukur Símonarson, novelist and playwright
  * 8 September – Halldór Ásgrímsson, politician (d. 2015)
  * 25 September – Guðmundur Sigurjónsson, chess grandmaster
  * 26 October – Gísli Guðjónsson, professor of forensic psychology
  * 31 October – Gunnsteinn Skúlason, handball player.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 12 September – Thor Philip Axel Jensen, Danish entrepreneur who settled in Iceland (b. 1863)
  