Árni Gunnarsson (14 April 1940 – 1 July 2022) was an Icelandic journalist and politician.
He was a reporter for Ríkisútvarpið when the eruption began on Heimaey in January 1973 and later wrote the book Eldgos í Eyjar.
[1] In 1978, he was elected a Member of Alþingi for Northeastern Region for the Social Democratic Party where he had a seat intermittently until 1991.
Árni was born in Ísafjörður to Gunnar Stefánsson, a representative of the State Travel Agency, and Ásta Árnadóttir, a housewife.
Árni was married to Hrefna Filippusdóttir with whom he had two daughters.