Cyril Jackson (born 1908 in northern England, died 1982 in Eastbourne) was an expert in the poetry of Matthías Jochumsson and a BBC broadcaster.

In July 1929, aged twenty-one, Jackson arrived in Iceland, staying first with the education minister Ásgeir Ásgeirsson.

In 1931 he took a master's degree at Leeds; his two-volume thesis was "A Collected Edition of the Hitherto Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Matthías Jochumsson".

[5] He proceeded to a doctoral degree at the University of Manchester, where Gordon then worked, on Matthías Jochumsson's poetry, a topic suggested by Sigurður Nordal.

[7] By the completion of his doctoral thesis, Jackson was more interested in working with people than books and became an English teacher in a state-school.