The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Iceland
This page contains a list of the greatest Icelander Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Iceland. This makes Iceland the birth place of the 43rd most number of Astronauts behind Brazil, and Slovakia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Icelander Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Icelander Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Bjarni Tryggvason (1945 - 2022)
With an HPI of 44.43, Bjarni Tryggvason is the most famous Icelander Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason (September 21, 1945 – April 5, 2022) was an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a nearly 12-day mission to study changes in the Earth's atmosphere. Bjarni is the first, and as of 2024, only Icelandic astronaut.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Icelander astronauts born between 1945 and 1945. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Icelander astronauts include Bjarni Tryggvason.
