title: 2013 in Iceland
text: # 2013 in Iceland
  
  The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Iceland.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
  * Prime Minister – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (until 23 May), Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson (starting 23 May)
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January
  
  * January 31 - Icelandic teenager Blaer Bjarkardottir wins a legal fight to use the name given to her by her mother, which the Icelandic Naming Committee had argued was not a proper female given name.
  
  ### February
  
  * February 27 - Gæðakokkar 30% meat pie on Iceland is found to not contain any meat at all.
  
  ### April
  
  * April 27 - Voters in Iceland go to the polls for a parliamentary election with a centre-right coalition expected to regain office.
  
  ### May
  
  * May 22 - Prime Minister elect of Iceland, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, declares that a January decision to freeze European Union membership talks will be extended indefinitely.
  
  ### December
  
  * December 2 - The Icelandic police kills a person for the first time since it became a republic in 1944.
  * December 12 - Four former Icelandic bank bosses are jailed over concealing illegal activities within the bank Kaupthing.
  