The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Iceland
This page contains a list of the greatest Icelander Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Iceland. This makes Iceland the birth place of the 49th most number of Chess Players behind Réunion, and Portugal.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Icelander Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Icelander Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Friðrik Ólafsson (b. 1935)
With an HPI of 58.29, Friðrik Ólafsson is the most famous Icelander Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.
Friðrik Ólafsson (born 26 January 1935) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster. He was president of FIDE from 1978 to 1982. He is a six-time Icelandic Chess Champion and a two-time Nordic Chess Champion.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Icelander chess players born between 1935 and 1935. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Icelander chess players include Friðrik Ólafsson.
