Siv Friðleifsdóttir

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Siv.

Siv Friðleifsdóttir
Minister of Health and Social Security
In office 7 March 2006 – 24 May 2007
Prime Minister	Geir Haarde
Preceded by	Jón Kristjánsson
Succeeded by	Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson (as Minister of Health) Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (as Minister of Social Affairs and Social Security)
Minister for the Environment
In office 1999–2004
Prime Minister	Davíð Oddsson; Halldór Ásgrímsson; Geir Haarde
Preceded by	Guðmundur Bjarnason
Succeeded by	Sigríður Anna Þórðardóttir
Personal details
Born	(1962-08-10) 10 August 1962 Oslo, Norway
Political party	Progressive Party
Spouse	Þorsteinn Húnbogason
Children	Two sons (b. 1985, 1993)
Alma mater	University of Iceland

Björg Siv Juhlin Friðleifsdóttir (born 10 August 1962), commonly known as Siv Friðleifsdóttir, is an Icelandic politician. She is half-Norwegian, having partly grown up in Norway, where she spent almost every summer next to the Oslofjord with her grandparents. She was a member of the Althing (Iceland's parliament) for the Progressive Party for the Reykjanes constituency from 1995 to 2003 and represented the Southwest Iceland constituency from 2003 to 2013. She has been Chairman of the Progressive Party parliamentary group since 2007, was Minister of Health and Social Security from 2006 to 2007, and Minister for the Environment and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 1999 to 2004.

One of her notable policies was to make it illegal for strip clubs (and strippers) to operate in Iceland. This was made possible by parliament trying to develop feminist policies. Iceland's sex industry was shut down by feminist politicians on 30 July 2010. Under Siv's law, Iceland became the first European country to ban strip clubs.