Kristján Loftsson (born 17 March 1943) is an Icelandic businessman and a whaler.
[1] He has been the CEO of the commercial whaling and investment company Hvalur hf.
[2][3][4] He began his whaling career in 1956 at the age of 13 as a scout on his father's ship.
[5] Kristján was born in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, to Loftur Bjarnason and Sólveig Sveinbjarnardóttir.
[6] He is named after his uncle Kristján Bjarnason who was killed in the sinking of SS Hekla[2] by German submarine U-564 in 1941.