# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/orsteinn-palsson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:59:32.282Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/orsteinn-palsson"
name: "Þorsteinn Pálsson"
slug: "orsteinn-palsson"
description: "Þorsteinn Pálsson is an Icelandic politician who served as prime minister of Iceland for the Independence Party from 8 July 1987 to 28 September 1988. Þorsteinn led the Independence Party from 1983 to 1991, when he lost an inner partial election to then vice-chairman of the party and mayor of Reykjavík, Davíð Oddsson. His coalition was dissolved in September 1988 by Progressive Party leader, Steingrímur Hermannsson and Social Democratic Party leader, Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson because of different views on price stagnation."
tagline: "Prime Minister of Iceland"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%9Eorsteinn_P%C3%A1lsson_(cropped).jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-10-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump