1974 in Iceland

The following lists events that happened in 1974 in Iceland.

Incumbents

 * President – Kristján Eldjárn
 * Prime Minister – Ólafur Jóhannesson, Geir Hallgrímsson

Events

 * Geirfinnur case

Births

 * 25 February – Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, actress
 * 27 March – Kristján Helgason, snooker player
 * 2 May – Garðar Thór Cortes, singer
 * 6 May – Birkir Hólm Guðnason, business leader
 * 13 June – Selma Björnsdóttir, actress and singer
 * 11 July – Hermann Hreiðarsson, footballer
 * 3 September – Guðmundur Benediktsson, footballer.
 * 17 September – Helgi Sigurðsson, footballer

Full date missing

 * Guðmundur Þór Kárason, puppet designer and puppeteer

Deaths

 * 4 March – Guðni Jónsson, professor of history and editor of Old Norse texts (b. 1901)
 * 20 April – Guðmundur Guðmundsson, chess player (b. 1918)
 * 21 September – Sigurður Nordal, scholar, writer and ambassador (b. 1876)
 * 8 November – Sesselja Sigmundsdottir, pioneer in the fields of pedagogy and the care for the mentally disabled (b 1902)
 * 12 November – Þórbergur Þórðarson, author and Esperantist (b. 1888 or 1889)