2013 in Iceland

The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Iceland.

• President – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
• Prime Minister – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (until 23 May), Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson (starting 23 May)

• 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 27 - Gæðakokkar 30% meat pie on Iceland is found to not contain any meat at all.

• April 27 - Voters in Iceland go to the polls for a parliamentary election with a centre-right coalition expected to regain office.

• 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 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.