List of Finns

Actors

• Ida Aalberg
  Ida Aalberg
  Ida Aalberg was the most notable and internationally known Finnish actress of her time.- Biography :Aalberg was born in Tervakoski, Janakkala. She was a member of the Theatre of Finland from 1874 to 1883 and later a regular visiting actress. She also performed on foreign scenes, in Scandinavia,...
  
   (1858 – 1915)
• Aino Ackté
  Aino Ackté
  Aino Ackté was a Finnish soprano. She was the first international star of the Finnish opera scene after Alma Fohström, and a groundbreaker for the domestic field....
  
   (1876 – 1944)
• Jouko Ahola
  Jouko Ahola
  Jouko Ahola is a Finnish strongman and actor. He won the 1997 and 1999 World's Strongest Man, and finished second in 1998. Ahola won the Europe's Strongest Man contest twice in 1998 and 1999, and finished fourth in 1996. Jouko won the World's Strongest Team in 1997 and 1999, and was second in 1998...
  
  
• Olavi Ahonen
  Olavi Ahonen
  Olavi Ahonen was a Finnish film actor.Ahonen first appeared in film in 1954 and made many appearances in Finnish film between then and 1997 appearing in films such as the Rauni Mollberg historical film Aika hyvä ihmiseksi in 1977. He has also appeared in many films by Spede Pasanen...
  
  
• Irina Björklund
  Irina Björklund
  Irina Björklund is a Finnish actress.Björklund was born in Danderyd, Stockholm County, Sweden but she quickly moved to Finland with her family. She has acted in movies and in television series. Some well known movies include Rukajärven tie , Levottomat , Minä ja Morrison , and Vieraalla Maalla...
  
  
• Anna Easteden
  Anna Easteden
  Anna Easteden is an Award Nominated Finnish American actress whose film appearances include The House of Branching Love and Sideways . She is known for her performance as "Bee Sting" in Who Wants to Be a Superhero? season 2 on Sci Fi Channel...
  
  
• Peter Franzén
  Peter Franzen
  Peter Franzen is a retired English journalist, who was the editor of the Norwich-based regional newspaper the Eastern Daily Press, a position he occupied from 1993 until his retirement in 2009...
  
  
• George Gaynes
  George Gaynes
  George Gaynes is a Finnish-born American actor of stage, screen and television.He may be best known as Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy series, and to television fans as the curmudgeonly Henry Warnimont on the NBC series Punky Brewster, in which his wife, Allyn Ann McLerie,...
  
  
• Gina Goldberg
• Ville Haapasalo
  Ville Haapasalo
  Ville Haapasalo is an acclaimed stage and film actor in Finland and Russia. His acting career started in 1995, after finishing studying in St. Petersburg. In 2001, Ville Haapasalo was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation for his star-making turns in the films of...
  
  
• Anna-Leena Härkönen
  Anna-Leena Härkönen
  Anna-Leena Härkönen is a Finnish writer and actress.She was born in Liminka and studied acting at the college of drama and the University of Tampere's program of drama studies, which she concluded in 1989. She won the J. H...
  
  
• Ansa Ikonen
  Ansa Ikonen
  Aili Ansa Inkeri Ikonen was an award-winning Finnish film and theater actress. In a film career spanning three decades, Ikonen appeared in dozens of films, and was one of the most popular actresses of her time. She frequently starred with actor Tauno Palo as her leading man...
  
  
• Kata Kärkkäinen
  Kata Kärkkäinen
  Katariina Souri is a Finnish author, artist, columnist and Playboy's Playmate of the Month for December, 1988. She has been a writer after her brief Playboy career. On January 25, 2010 Kata Kärkkäinen announced that she changed her name to Katariina Souri.-Novels:*Minä ja Morrison, 1999...
  
  
• Marta Kristen
  Marta Kristen
  Marta Kristen is an American actress.The naturally blonde-haired Kristen is best-known for her role as Guy Williams's and June Lockhart's beautiful daughter, Judy Robinson, in the television series Lost in Space...
  
  
• Vesa-Matti Loiri
  Vesa-Matti Loiri
  Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri is a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004....
  
  
• Masa Niemi
  Masa Niemi
  Martti "Masa" Elis Niemi was a Finnish actor. Niemi started his career as a drummer, but became popular as a comedian. He is most famous for his role as "Pätkä" in all thirteen original Pekka ja Pätkä movies.- Life :Niemi was born in Viipuri. His films include Majuri maantieltä...
  
  
• Maila "Vampira" Nurmi
  Maila Nurmi
  Maila Nurmi was a Finnish-American actress who created the campy 1950s characterVampira. She portrayed Vampira as TV's first horror host and in the Ed Wood cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space...
  
  
• Kati Outinen
  Kati Outinen
  Anna Katriina Outinen is a Finnish actress who has often played leading female roles in Aki Kaurismäki's films.Outinen was born in Helsinki. Having studied under Jouko Turkka during his "reign" of drama studies in Finland, she nevertheless has never been associated with the "turkkalaisuus" school...
  
  
• Tauno Palo
  Tauno Palo
  Tauno Valdemar Palo was a Finnish actor and singer in what some consider the golden age of Finnish cinema....
  
   (1905 – 1982)
• Pertti "Spede" Pasanen
  Spede Pasanen
  Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, humorist, inventor, TV personality and practitioner of gags....
  
   (1930 – 2001)
• Matti Pellonpää
  Matti Pellonpää
  Matti Pellonpää was an award-winning Finnish actor and a musician. He rose to international fame with his roles in both Aki Kaurismäki's and Mika Kaurismäki's films; particularly being a regular in Aki's films, appearing in 18 of them.He started his career in 1962 as a radio actor at the Finnish...
  
   (1951 – 1995)
• Lasse Pöysti
  Lasse Pöysti
  Lasse Pöysti is a Finnish actor , director, theatre manager and writer....
  
  
• Pentti Siimes
  Pentti Siimes
  Pentti Siimes is a Finnish actor. He has appeared in 86 films and television shows since 1946. He starred in the film Miriam, which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• Maria Silfvan
  Maria Silfvan
  Maria Elisabeth Silfvan, as married Lempke and then Westerlund, in Swedish called Maria Sylvan, , was a Finnish actor, among the first professional native actors in Finland.- Biography :...
  
   – Finland's perhaps first actress. (1800–1865)
• Markku Toikka
  Markku Toikka
  Markku Tapani Toikka is a Finnish stand-up comedian and actor.His acting roles include "Rahikainen" in Aki Kaurismäki's Crime and Punishment and "Pekka" in another Aki Kaurismäki film Calamari Union...
  
  

Architects

• Aino Aalto
  Aino Aalto
  Aino Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. She was born in Helsinki, and completed her school education in 1913 at the Helsingin Suomalainen Tyttökoulu...
  
   (1894 – 1949)
• Alvar Aalto
  Alvar Aalto
  Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware...
  
   (1898 – 1976)
• Marco Casagrande
  Marco Casagrande
  Marco Casagrande, , is a Finnish architect, environmental artist, architectural theorist, writer and professor of architecture. He graduated from Helsinki University of Technology department of architecture .- Early life :...
  
   (1971 – )
• Carl Ludvig Engel
  Carl Ludvig Engel
  Carl Ludvig Engel, or Johann Carl Ludwig Engel , was a German architect known for his neoclassical style. He had a great impact on the architecture of Finland in the first part of the 19th century....
  
   (1778 – 1840)
• Juha Leiviskä
  Juha Leiviskä
  Juha Ilmari Leiviskä is a prominent architect from Finland.- Life and career :The son of engineer Toivo Ilmari Leiviskä and teacher Sonja Jämsén-Astala, Leiviskä studied architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, qualifying as an architect in 1963...
  
   (1936 – )
• Yrjö Lindegren
  Yrjö Lindegren
  Yrjö Lorenzo Lindegren was a Finnish architect.He was born in Tampere and died in Helsinki.Lindegren graduated as an architect in 1925 from the Helsinki University of Technology, and set up his own office later the same year.Lindegren's best-known work is the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, which he...
  
   (1900 – 1952)
• Juhani Pallasmaa
  Juhani Pallasmaa
  Juhani Uolevi Pallasmaa is a Finnish architect and former professor of architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and a former Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture . He runs his own architect's office – Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa KY – in Helsinki...
  
   (1936 – )
• Reima Pietilä (1923 – 1993)
• Viljo Revell
  Viljo Revell
  Viljo Revell was a Finnish architect of the functionalist school. Internationally Revell is best known for designing the Toronto City Hall....
  
   (1910 – 1964)
• Aarno Ruusuvuori
  Aarno Ruusuvuori
  Aarno Emil Ruusuvuori was a Finnish architect, professor and director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture...
  
   (1925 – 1992)
• Eero Saarinen
  Eero Saarinen
  Eero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.-Biography:Eero Saarinen shared the same birthday as his father,...
  
   (1910 – 1961)
• Eliel Saarinen
  Eliel Saarinen
  Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century....
  
   (1873 – 1950)
• J. S. Sirén
  J. S. Sirén
  Johan Sigfrid Sirén was a Finnish architect. He is best known for Eduskuntatalo, which is where the Parliament of Finland meets.-Career:...
  
   (1889 – 1961)
• Lars Sonck
  Lars Sonck
  Lars Eliel Sonck was a Finnish architect. He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately won a major design competition for a church in Turku, ahead of many established architects.Sonck ignored the growing trend toward architectural rationalism...
  
   (1870 – 1956)
• Josef Stenbäck
  Josef Stenbäck
  Josef Daniel Stenbäck was a Finnish church architect and engineer who worked in the Imperial Russia and independent Finland. He designed 35 churches for Finland and Finnish Karelia ceded to Soviet Union in 1944...
  
   (1854 – 1929)
• Martti Välikangas
  Martti Välikangas
  Martti Välikangas was a Finnish architect renowned for the design of so-called "Puu-Käpylä" [Wood-Käpylä], the Garden City housing area in Käpylä near Helsinki, designed in the Nordic Classicism style.Välikangas studied architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, qualifying as an architect...
  
   (1893 – 1973)

Visual Artists

• Wäinö Aaltonen
  Wäinö Aaltonen
  Wäinö Valdemar Aaltonen was a Finnish artist and sculptor. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "one of the leading Finnish sculptors".He was born to a tailor in the village of Marttila, Finland...
  
   – sculptor (1894 – 1966)
• Eija-Liisa Ahtila
  Eija-Liisa Ahtila
  Eija-Liisa Ahtila is a video artist and photographer. She lives and works in Helsinki.In 1998 Eija-Liisa Ahtila participated in the second edition of Manifesta. She was the winner of the inaugural Vincent Award in 2000. In 2002 she had a solo show at Tate Modern, and in 2006 her multi-screen video...
  
   – photographer, video artist (1959 –)
• Helena Arnell
  Helena Arnell
  Helena Arnell-Gezelius was one of the first Finnish painters in Finland.She was one of the few female artists known in Scandinavia before the 19th century, along with Swedish Ulrika Pasch and Danish Johanna Marie Fosie....
  
   – painter (1697 – 1751)
• Margareta Capsia
  Margareta Capsia
  Margareta Capsia was a Finnish artist, the first professional native female artist in Finland. She mainly painted altarpieces, but was also active as a portrait painter.-Biography and career:...
  
   – painter (1682 – 1759)
• Albert Edelfelt
  Albert Edelfelt
  Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt was a Swedish-speaking Finnish painter.Albert Edelfelt was born in Porvoo, Finland. His father Carl Albert was an architect. Edelfelt admired the poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, who was a friend of the family...
  
   – painter (1854 – 1905)
• Magnus Enckell
  Magnus Enckell
  Magnus Knut Enckell was a Finnish painter.Enckell was born in Hamina, a small town in eastern Finland, the son of Carl Enkell, a priest, and Alexandra Enckell...
  
   – painter (1870 – 1925)
• Akseli Gallen-Kallela
  Akseli Gallen-Kallela
  Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic . His work was considered very important for the Finnish national identity...
  
   – painter (1865 – 1931)
• Jorma Gallen-Kallela
  Jorma Gallen-Kallela
  Jorma Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish artist. He followed in the footsteps of his father, the famed artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela....
  
   – painter (1898 – 1939)
• Pekka Halonen
  Pekka Halonen
  Pekka Halonen was a painter of Finnish landscapes and people. He lived with his family in a home and studio on Lake Tuusula in Järvenpää, Finland that he, himself, designed and named Halosenniemi. The beautiful and serene building is now a museum that includes original furnishings and Halonen’s...
  
   – painter (1865 – 1933)
• Edvin Hevonkoski
  Edvin Hevonkoski
  Edvin Hevonkoski was a Finnish sculptor and contemporary artist who lived his later years in Vaasa....
  
   – sculptor
• Eila Hiltunen
  Eila Hiltunen
  Eila Hiltunen was a Finnish sculptor. She is most famous for the Sibelius monument . A statue by Hiltunen resembling a smaller version of the Sibelius Monument stands on the grounds of the United Nations headquarters in New York City.-External links:*...
  
   – sculptor (1922 – 2003)
• Tove Jansson
  Tove Jansson
  Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She is best known as the author of the Moomin books.- Biography :...
  
   painter, illustrator, and cartoonist of Moomin
  Moomin
  The Moomins are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland. They are a family of trolls who are white and roundish, with large snouts that make them resemble hippopotamuses...
  
  
• Antti Jokinen
  Antti Jokinen
  Antti Jokinen is a Finnish music video and film director.-Early life:Jokinen attended East Carolina University on a basketball scholarship and later graduated with a major in broadcast and film.-Music video career:...
  
   – video director in Hollywood
• Eero Järnefelt
  Eero Järnefelt
  Eero Erik Nikolai Järnefelt was a Finnish realist painter.Eero Järnefelt was born in Viipuri, Finland. His father August Aleksander Järnefelt was an officer in the Russian army and his mother was Elisabeth Järnefelt . He studied at the St...
  
   – painter (1863 – 1937)
• Rudolf Koivu
  Rudolf Koivu
  Rudolf Koivu was a Finnish illustrator and painter, best known for illustrating books of fairytales for children, which are enduringly and timelessly popular.-External links:*...
  
   – illustrator (1890 – 1946)
• Mauri Kunnas
  Mauri Kunnas
  Mauri Tapio Kunnas is a Finnish cartoonist and children's author.Kunnas matriculated in 1969 and graduated from the Finnish Academy of Arts as a graphic designer in 1975. He has worked as a political cartoonist in many Finnish newspapers...
  
  
• Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland)
  Tom of Finland
  Touko Laaksonen, best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland was a Finnish artist notable for his stylized androerotic and fetish art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W...
  
   – fetish artist (1920 – 1991)
• Kari T. Leppänen – cartoonist
• Totte Mannes
  Totte Mannes
  Totte Mannes is a renowned visual artist whose oil paintings are on display in many museums and collections. She lives in Madrid...
  
   – painter
• Arno Rafael Minkkinen
  Arno Rafael Minkkinen
  Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish photographer who works in the United States.-Career:Minkkinen is known for his black and white abstract pieces which juxtapose bodies and landscapes in surprising ways: he "directs scenes in which his body — or a portion of it — appears as an integral...
  
    – photographer
• Helvi Mustonen
  Helvi Mustonen
  Helvi Mustonen , is a Finnish artist and a painter. Mustonen's works of art are mainly paintings, but she also creates sculptures in bronze. Helvi Mustonen's art has typically very strong and emotional themes and strong colours. The paintings are usually quite dark and symbolistic.Mustonen was born...
  
   – painter
• Kalervo Palsa
  Kalervo Palsa
  Hugo Kalervo Palsa , or Kalle was a Finnish artist in a style that has been described as fantastic realism....
  
   – painter (1947 – 1987)
• Tuulikki Pietilä
  Tuulikki Pietilä
  Tuulikki Pietilä was a Finnish graphic artist and professor, born in Seattle, Washington. Pietilä was one of the most influential people in Finnish graphic arts, and her work has been shown in numerous art exhibitions...
  
   – graphic artist
• Helene Schjerfbeck
  Helene Schjerfbeck
  Helene Schjerfbeck was a Finnish painter. She is most widely known for her realist works and self-portraits, and less well known for her landscapes and still lifes...
  
   – painter (1862 – 1946)
• Hugo Simberg
  Hugo Simberg
  Hugo Gerhard Simberg was a Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist.-Life:Simberg was born at Hamina in Finland, the son of Colonel Nicolai Simberg and Ebba Matilda Simberg ....
  
   – painter (1873 – 1917)
• Kaj Stenvall
  Kaj Stenvall
  Kaj Kristian Stenvall is a Finnish artist who became internationally famous when he began his career in 1989 for painting what his site describes as "a very familiar looking duck." Many have likened this duck to the Donald Duck of Disney Comics.Stenvall received his art training at Turun...
  
   – painter (1951 – )
• Kari Suomalainen
  Kari Suomalainen
  Kari Yrjänä Suomalainen was Finland's most famous political cartoonist. His first cartoon appeared in the start of the year 1950, showing an infant boy contemplating two toys: a tank and a dove carrying an olive branch. The boy is saying: "Tank.....
  
   – painter and cartoonist (1920 – 1999)
• Reidar Särestöniemi
  Reidar Särestöniemi
  Reidar Särestöniemi was a Finnish painter from Finnish Lapland. He is considered one of the greatest Finland-Lappish artists in the entire history of Finland....
  
   – painter (1925 – 1981)
• Kain Tapper
  Kain Tapper
  Kain Tapper was a Finnish sculptor. He created works that are "remote", evoking things contemplated from a distance. Even when small, his pieces loom like menhirs, their massiveness imposing an inhuman scale.1 He combined nature and natural phenomena, old folklore and modernism.2 He epitomised the...
  
   – sculptor (1930 – 2004)

Business people

• Sari Baldauf
  Sari Baldauf
  Sari Maritta Baldauf is the former head of Nokia Networks.Baldauf graduated as a Master of Economics from Helsinki School of Economics in 1979 and joined Nokia in 1983. She was selected into Nokia's Group Executive Board in 1994.Baldauf was selected as the most influential female executive in the...
  
   – former Nokia
  Nokia
  Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
  
   executive
• Jorma Eloranta – CEO of Metso
  Metso
  Metso Corporation was created in 1999 through the merger of Valmet and Rauma and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Metso is a global supplier of process industry machinery and systems as well as know-how and aftermarket services...
  
  
• Aatos Erkko
  Aatos Erkko
  Aatos Juho Michel Erkko is a Finnish journalist and the main owner of Sanoma Corporation and the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. He has a Master of Science degree in Journalism from the Columbia College of Columbia University. Erkko is married to Mrs. Jane Erkko...
  
   – minister, billionaire and major owner of Sanoma
• Harry Harkimo
  Harry Harkimo
  Harry "Hjallis" Harkimo is a Finnish businessman and sportsperson. He is the chairman of the board of the Helsinki-based ice-hockey team Jokerit,. He is also the developer of the team's home arena, Hartwall Areena, and as an investor in sports...
  
   – a businessman in ice hockey business
• Antti Herlin
  Antti Herlin
  Antti Herlin is the current and fourth chairman of the Board of Finnish KONE Corporation. He is the richest man in Finland with assets worth nearly 1 billion euros in KONE stock owned through his holding companies. He is the son of Pekka Herlin, former chairman of the board of KONE as well...
  
   – Chairman of the Board
  Chair (official)
  The chairman is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office is typically elected or appointed by the members of the group. The chairman presides over meetings of the assembled group and conducts its business in an...
  
   of KONE
  KONE
  Kone Oyj , founded in 1910 and headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is an international engineering and service company employing some 32,500 personnel worldwide. The firm is the fourth largest manufacturer of elevators worldwide, a leading manufacturer of escalators, and also provides maintenance...
  
  , the richest man in Finland
  Finland
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
  
   with assets worth over 1 billion euros
  Billionaire
  A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency, usually the United States dollar, Euro, or Pound sterling. Forbes magazine updates a complete list of U.S. dollar billionaires around the...
  
   in KONE
  KONE
  Kone Oyj , founded in 1910 and headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is an international engineering and service company employing some 32,500 personnel worldwide. The firm is the fourth largest manufacturer of elevators worldwide, a leading manufacturer of escalators, and also provides maintenance...
  
   stock
  Stock
  The capital stock of a business entity represents the original capital paid into or invested in the business by its founders. It serves as a security for the creditors of a business since it cannot be withdrawn to the detriment of the creditors...
  
   owned through his holding companies.
• Fredrik Idestam
  Fredrik Idestam
  Knut Fredrik Idestam was a Finnish mining engineer and businessman, best known as a founder of Nokia....
  
   – industrialist, founder of Nokia
  Nokia
  Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
  
  
• Kari Kairamo
  Kari Kairamo
  Kari Antero Oswald Kairamo, titled Vuorineuvos , was a Chairman and CEO of Nokia Corporation and a significant and popular person in the industry, who was also actively involved in Finland's foreign policy.-Career:Kari Kairamo had a Master's degree in engineering...
  
   – ex-CEO of Nokia (1932 – 1988)
• Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
  Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
  Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo currently chairs the committee for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012, and is the former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Nokia, as well former board member for Nokia Siemens Networks.-Career:Kallasvuo joined Nokia in 1980 as Corporate Counsel, and has held...
  
   – former CEO of Nokia
• Lasse Kurkilahti – CEO of Kemira
  Kemira
  Kemira Oyj is a chemical industry group that consists of three main segments. Kemira is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.Kemira’s main shareholder is Oras Invest Oy and its owners, members of the Paasikivi family. Its former main owner, the State of Finland, sold the largest part of its holding...
  
  
• Jorma Ollila
  Jorma Ollila
  Jorma Jaakko Ollila is the Chairman and former CEO of the Nokia Corporation and a Member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company , UPM-Kymmene , and Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd...
  
   – ex-CEO of Nokia
• Kirsti Paakkanen, – former CEO of Marimekko
  Marimekko
  Marimekko is a Finnish company based in Helsinki that has made important contributions to fashion, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. They are particularly noted for brightly-colored printed fabrics and simple styles, used both in women's garments and in home furnishings.- Foundation :Marimekko was...
  
  
• Karl Stockmann – Founder of the Stockmann department store
• Björn Wahlroos
  Björn Wahlroos
  Björn Arne Christer Wahlroos is the Chairman of the Board in Sampo Group, Nordea and UPM-Kymmene. Wahlroos’s nickname is "Nalle", which means "teddy bear" in Finnish and Swedish.- Career :...
  
   – CEO of Sampo
• Rudolf Walden
  Rudolf Walden
  Karl Rudolf Walden was a Finnish industrialist and general.He received his military education in Hamina Cadet School 1892–1900....
  
   – founder of United Paper Mills (1878 – 1946)

Composers and conductors

• Kalevi Aho
  Kalevi Aho
  Kalevi Aho is a Finnish composer.- Career :Born in Forssa, he studied composition at the Sibelius Academy under Einojuhani Rautavaara, receiving a diploma in 1971. He continued his studies for a year in Berlin with Boris Blacher...
  
  
• B. H. Crusell
• George de Godzinsky
  George de Godzinsky
  George de Godzinsky was a Russian-born Finnish composer and conductor. Godzinsky is known from his Schlager music although he composed music for movies and operettas....
  
  
• Uuno Klami
  Uuno Klami
  Uuno Klami was a Finnish composer. He was born in Virolahti. Many of his works are related to the Kalevala. He was also influenced by French music, in particularly by Maurice Ravel and the group Les Six...
  
  
• Joonas Kokkonen
  Joonas Kokkonen
  Joonas Kokkonen was a Finnish composer. He was one of the most internationally famous Finnish composers of the 20th century after Sibelius; his opera The Last Temptations has received over 500 performances worldwide, and is considered by many to be Finland's most distinguished national opera.-...
  
  
• Juhani Komulainen
  Juhani Komulainen
  Juhani Komulainen is a Finnish composer of modern classical music. He lives in Helsinki.-Biography:...
  
  
• Toivo Kuula
  Toivo Kuula
  Toivo Timoteus Kuula was a Finnish conductor and composer. He was born in the city of Vaasa , when Finland still was a Grand Duchy under Russian rule. He is known as a colorful and passionate portrayer of Finnish nature and people...
  
   (1883 – 1918)
• Magnus Lindberg
  Magnus Lindberg
  Magnus Lindberg is a Finnish composer and pianist. He is currently the composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.-Education:...
  
  
• Aarre Merikanto
  Aarre Merikanto
  Aarre Merikanto was a Finnish composer.He was the son of Liisa Häyrynen and the famous romantic composer, professor Oskar Merikanto. His childhood he spent in Vilppula, Finland. From year 1919, he was married to Meri Grönmark...
  
   (1893 – 1958)
• Oskar Merikanto
  Oskar Merikanto
  Oskar Merikanto was a Finnish musician and composer.He was born to Swedish-speaking parents in Helsinki. His father, originally Frank Mattsson, changed the family name to sound more Finnish....
  
   (1868 – 1924)
• Selim Palmgren
  Selim Palmgren
  Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren , dubbed "The Finnish Chopin", was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. Palmgren was born in Pori, Finland, February 16, 1878. He studied at the Conservatory in Helsinki from 1895 to 1899, then continued his piano studies in Berlin with Ansorge, Berger and Busoni...
  
   (1878 – 1951)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara
  Einojuhani Rautavaara
  Einojuhani Rautavaara is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.-Life:...
  
  
• Kaija Saariaho
  Kaija Saariaho
  Kaija Saariaho is a Finnish composer.Kaija Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg and Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Her studies and research at IRCAM have had a major influence on her music and her characteristically luxuriant and mysterious textures are often created by...
  
  
• Aulis Sallinen
  Aulis Sallinen
  Aulis Sallinen is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. He writes in a modern, though tonal and not experimental music style. He studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen...
  
  
• Esa-Pekka Salonen
  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.-Early career:...
  
  
• Jukka-Pekka Saraste
  Jukka-Pekka Saraste
  Jukka-Pekka Saraste is a Finnish conductor and violinist.Saraste was trained as a violinist. He later studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy with Jorma Panula, in the same class as Esa-Pekka Salonen and Osmo Vänskä...
  
  
• Leif Segerstam
  Leif Segerstam
  Leif Segerstam is a Finnish conductor and composer.He studied violin, piano and conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and conducting at the Juilliard School in New York with Jean Morel....
  
  
• Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
  
   (1865 – 1957)
• Osmo Vänskä
  Osmo Vänskä
  Osmo Antero Vänskä is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist and composer.He started his musical career as an orchestral clarinetist with the Turku Philharmonic . He then became the principal clarinet of the Helsinki Philharmonic from 1977 to 1982...
  
  

Computer pioneers

• Johan Helsingius
  Johan Helsingius
  Johan "Julf" Helsingius, born in 1961 in Helsinki, Finland, started and ran the Anon.penet.fi internet remailer.Anon.penet.fi was one of the most popular Internet remailers, handling 10,000 messages a day. The server was the first of its kind to use a password-protected PO box system for sending...
  
   – creator and operator of The Penet remailer
  Penet remailer
  The Penet remailer was a pseudonymous remailer operated by Johan "Julf" Helsingius of Finland from 1993 to 1996. Its initial creation stemmed from an argument in a Finnish newsgroup over whether people should be required to tie their real name to their online communications...
  
  
• Jarkko Oikarinen
  Jarkko Oikarinen
  Jarkko Oikarinen is the inventor of the first Internet chat network, called Internet Relay Chat , where he is known as WiZ. While working at the University of Oulu in August 1988, he wrote the first IRC server and client programs, which he produced to replace the MUT program on the Finnish BBS...
  
   – creator of Internet Relay Chat
  Internet Relay Chat
  Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file...
  
   (IRC)
• Linus Torvalds
  Linus Torvalds
  Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator...
  
   – Initial creator of Linux kernel
  Linux kernel
  The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software....
  
  
• Michael Widenius
  Michael Widenius
  Ulf Michael Widenius , born 3 March 1962, in Helsinki, Finland, is the main author of the original version of the open-source MySQL database and a founding member of the MySQL AB company....
  
   – creator of MySQL
  MySQL
  MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
  
  
• Tatu Ylönen – creator of SSH
  Secure Shell
  Secure Shell is a network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network: a server and a client...
  
  

Designers

• Eero Aarnio
  Eero Aarnio
  Eero Aarnio is a Finnish interior designer, well known for his innovative furniture designs in the 1960s, notably his plastic and fibreglass chairs....
  
  
• Erik Bruun
  Erik Bruun
  Erik Bruun is a Finnish graphic designer.Bruun spent his childhood in village of Säiniö on the Carelian isthmus. In the war years his family was forced to move to Helsinki, where he later enrolled in the Central School of Industrial Design...
  
  
• Kaj Franck
  Kaj Franck
  Kaj Franck was one of the leading figures of Finnish design, the teacher of several generations of professional designers in Finland, and an influential figure in design and applied arts between 1940-1980...
  
   (1911 – 1989)
• Maija Isola
  Maija Isola
  Maija Isola was a leading Finnish designer of printed textiles. She also had a career as a visual artist.-Life and career:...
  
   – designer for Marimekko
  Marimekko
  Marimekko is a Finnish company based in Helsinki that has made important contributions to fashion, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. They are particularly noted for brightly-colored printed fabrics and simple styles, used both in women's garments and in home furnishings.- Foundation :Marimekko was...
  
  
• Stefan Lindfors
  Stefan Lindfors
  Erik Stefan Lindfors, known as Stefan Lindfors is a Finnish industrial designer, interior designer, film-maker and sculptor...
  
  
• Vuokko Nurmesniemi
  Vuokko Nurmesniemi
  Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi is a Finnish textile designer. She joined the Marimekko company in 1953 and designed patterns for many of their printed fabrics in the 1950s; together with Maija Isola, she was responsible for most of Marimekko's patterns. Nurmesniemi left Marimekko in 1960 and founded...
  
   – textile designer for Marimekko
• Timo Sarpaneva
  Timo Sarpaneva
  Timo Sarpaneva was an influential Finnish designer, sculptor, and educator best known in the art world for innovative work in glass, which often merged attributes of display art objects with utilitarian designations. While glass remained his most commonly addressed medium, he worked with metal,...
  
   – glass designer
• Tapio Wirkkala
  Tapio Wirkkala
  File:Wirkkala.jpgTapio Wirkkala was a Finnish designer and sculptor, a major figure of post-war design. His work ranges from plastic ketchup bottles and metalware to glass, ceramics and plywood in a range of styles. He designed the Finnish markka banknotes introduced in 1955...
  
   – designer, sculptor (1915 – 1985)

Filmmakers

• Jörn Donner
  Jörn Donner
  Jörn Johan Donner is a Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, politician, member of the Donner family and founder of Finnish Film Archive. He has been associated with several different political parties, and has at different times been a member both of the Finnish parliament and the...
  
  
• Renny Harlin
  Renny Harlin
  Renny Harlin is a Finnish-American film director and producer. He is best known for Die Hard 2 , Cliffhanger , The Long Kiss Goodnight and Deep Blue Sea...
  
   (1959 –)
• Klaus Härö
  Klaus Härö
  Klaus Härö, born 31 March 1971 in Porvoo , Finland, Finland-Swedish film director. In 2004, Härö won Finland's State Prize for Art.-Films:*Letters to Father Jacob *The New Mankind *Mother of Mine...
  
  
• Risto Jarva
  Risto Jarva
  Risto Antero Jarva was a Finnish filmmaker. His last film was Jäniksen vuosi . He died in a car accident on his way back from a private showing of the film, and the subsequent party....
  
   (1934 – 1977)
• Matti Kassila
  Matti Kassila
  Matti Kassila is a Finnish film director who achieved fame as one of the most prominent Finnish filmmakers in the 1950s and 60s. He is most famous for the series of four Inspector Palmu movies, based on the character created by Mika Waltari...
  
  
• Aki Kaurismäki
  Aki Kaurismäki
  -Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...
  
  
• Mika Kaurismäki
  Mika Kaurismäki
  Mika Juhani Kaurismäki is a Finnish film director.He is the elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki, and the father of Maria Kaurismäki who graduated from Tampere School of Art and Media in 2008 with her movie Sideline.Mika Kaurismäki has lived in Brazil since approximately 1992 and has made several...
  
  
• Ere Kokkonen
  Ere Kokkonen
  Erkki Olavi "Ere" Kokkonen , born in Savonlinna, was a Finnish film director.He worked closely with Spede Pasanen all the way from the 1960s until Spede's death, as a director and also a writer....
  
  
• Edvin Laine
  Edvin Laine
  Edvin Laine was a Finnish film director. Laine was born Bovellán.Laine directed Aaltoska orkaniseeraa, a comedy, in 1949....
  
  
• Armand Lohikoski
  Armand Lohikoski
  Armand Lohikoski was a Finnish movie director and writer. He is best known as a director of a number of Pekka ja Pätkä movies.-Career:...
  
   (1912 – 2005)
• Rauni Mollberg
  Rauni Mollberg
  Rauni Mollberg was a Finnish film director who directed movies and TV movies.In 1963 Mollberg directed movies for YLE. He directed a version of The Unknown Soldier in 1985, 30 years after Edvin Laine directed the original version of it. Mollberg's movie's plot was same as Laine's movie...
  
  
• Visa Mäkinen
  Visa Mäkinen
  Visa Mäkinen is a Finnish film director, film producer, actor and screen writer.He has directed and produced films such as the 1983 James Bond spoof Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit which featured actors Ilmari Saarelainen and Tenho Sauren.He has also acted and written for several films.-Feature...
  
  
• Risto Orko
  Risto Orko
  Risto Eliel William Orko was a Finnish film producer and director....
  
   (1899 – 2001)
• Spede Pasanen
  Spede Pasanen
  Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, humorist, inventor, TV personality and practitioner of gags....
  
   (1930 – 2001)
• Mauritz Stiller
  Mauritz Stiller
  Mauritz Stiller was a Finnish-Swedish actor, screenwriter and silent film director, who was mostly active in Sweden.-Life:...
  
   (1883 – 1928)
• Samuli Torssonen
  Samuli Torssonen
  Samuli Torssonen is a Finnish film writer, director, actor and producer, best known as the creator of the viral Star Wreck sci-fi series.He is currently producing the movie Iron Sky.-Torssonen's film career:...
  
  
• Mika Taanila
  Mika Taanila
  Mika Taanila is a Finnish film director and visual artist.His films can be categorized somewhere between the traditions of classic documentary film-making, avant-garde and video art...
  
  
• Casper Wrede (1929 – 1998, also theatre & TV director)

Opera

• Aino Ackté
  Aino Ackté
  Aino Ackté was a Finnish soprano. She was the first international star of the Finnish opera scene after Alma Fohström, and a groundbreaker for the domestic field....
  
   – soprano
• Monica Groop
  Monica Groop
  Monica Groop is a Finnish operatic mezzo-soprano. After graduating from the Sibelius Academy, she joined the Finnish National Opera in 1986 where she remains a member...
  
   – mezzosoprano
• Jorma Hynninen
  Jorma Hynninen
  Jorma Kalervo Hynninen is a Finnish baritone who performs regularly with the world's major opera companies. He has also worked in opera administration....
  
   – baritone
• Soile Isokoski
  Soile Isokoski
  Soile Isokoski is a Finnish lyric soprano. She is an opera singer as well as a concert and lieder singer.- Career :Isokoski was born in Posio...
  
   – soprano
• Karita Mattila
  Karita Mattila
  Karita Marjatta Mattila is a leading opera soprano. She was born in Somero, Finland.Mattila appears regularly in the major opera houses worldwide, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra Bastille, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco...
  
   – soprano
• Matti Salminen
  Matti Salminen
  Matti Salminen is a Finnish operatic bass singer, who has sung at all of the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival....
  
   – bass
• Martti Talvela
  Martti Talvela
  Martti Talvela was a Finnish operatic bass.Born in Hiitola, Finland , he studied in Lahti and Stockholm, and made his operatic debut in Helsinki in 1960 as Sparafucile. At , he was the tallest singer of his century. He trained as a boxer in his youth and developed the stamina necessary for the...
  
   – bass
• Tarja Turunen
  Tarja Turunen
  Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer. She is a full lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves....
  
   – soprano

Classical

• Kalevi Aho
  Kalevi Aho
  Kalevi Aho is a Finnish composer.- Career :Born in Forssa, he studied composition at the Sibelius Academy under Einojuhani Rautavaara, receiving a diploma in 1971. He continued his studies for a year in Berlin with Boris Blacher...
  
   – composer
• Paavo Berglund
  Paavo Berglund
  Paavo Allan Engelbert Berglund is a Finnish conductor.Born in Helsinki, Berglund studied the violin as a child, and played an instrument made by his grandfather. By age 15, he had decided on music as his career, and by 18 was playing in restaurants...
  
   – conductor
• Linda Brava
  Linda Brava
  Linda Magdalena Cullberg Lampenius, better known by her maiden name Linda Lampenius and international stage name Linda Brava, is a Finnish classical concert violinist and recording artist.-Background:...
  
   – violinist
• Mikko Franck
  Mikko Franck
  Mikko Franck is a Finnish conductor. He began to play the violin at the age of 5. By age 7, he reportedly preferred orchestral scores to all other reading matter. His first favorite score was Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 which he used to conduct while listening to a recording on earphones...
  
   – conductor
• Ralf Gothóni
  Ralf Gothoni
  Ralf Georg Nils Gothóni is a Finnish pianist and conductor. He is also active as a chamber musician, professor, composer, and author. Born in Rauma, Finland he made his orchestra debut at age 15. Besides his worldwide concert career he has made some 100 recordings with major labels...
  
   – pianist (father of Maris)
• Olli Mustonen
  Olli Mustonen
  Olli Mustonen is a Finnish pianist, conductor and composer.- Biography :He studied harpsichord and piano from the age of five with Ralf Gothóni and then Eero Heinonen. He studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1975...
  
   – pianist
• Sakari Oramo
  Sakari Oramo
  Sakari Markus Oramo OBE is a Finnish conductor.Oramo started his career as a violinist and concertmaster of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1989, he enrolled in Jorma Panula's conducting class at the Sibelius Academy...
  
   – conductor
• Jorma Panula
  Jorma Panula
  Jorma Panula is a Finnish conductor, composer, and professor of conducting.Panula is a graduate of the Sibelius Academy, where he studied the organ, church music and conducting...
  
   – conductor and conducting educator pioneer
• Einojuhani Rautavaara
  Einojuhani Rautavaara
  Einojuhani Rautavaara is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.-Life:...
  
   – composer
• Kaija Saariaho
  Kaija Saariaho
  Kaija Saariaho is a Finnish composer.Kaija Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg and Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Her studies and research at IRCAM have had a major influence on her music and her characteristically luxuriant and mysterious textures are often created by...
  
   – composer
• Esa-Pekka Salonen
  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.-Early career:...
  
   – conductor
• Jukka-Pekka Saraste
  Jukka-Pekka Saraste
  Jukka-Pekka Saraste is a Finnish conductor and violinist.Saraste was trained as a violinist. He later studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy with Jorma Panula, in the same class as Esa-Pekka Salonen and Osmo Vänskä...
  
   – conductor
• Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
  
   – composer
• John Storgårds
  John Storgårds
  John Gunnar Rafael Storgårds is a Finnish violinist and conductor.Storgårds studied violin with Esther Raitio and Jouko Ignatius at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and continued his violin studies with Chaim Taub in Israel. He was a founding member of the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra...
  
   – conductor

Folk music

• Islaja
  Islaja
  Islaja or Merja Kokkonen is a singer-songwriter and musician from Helsinki, Finland. Besides her solo career, she is a member of free improv and psych folk bands Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät, and the trio Hertta Lussu Ässä....
  
   – acid folk singer
• Konsta Jylhä
  Konsta Jylhä
  In Finnish fiddling, Konsta Viljam Jylhä was a folk-virtuoso who made the traditional pelimanni-style folk music a Finnish cultural phenomenon of wider currency, bringing his natural genius and traditional style to a burgeoning nationwide television audience, thus laying the foundation for a rich...
  
   – folk musician
• Sanna Kurki-Suonio
  Sanna Kurki-Suonio
  Sanna Kurki-Suonio is a Finnish singer, kantele player and composer in the contemporary folk / neo-folk music genre. She is probably most well-known for her work with the band Hedningarna, which extended over eight years between 1991 and 1999...
  
   – folk music singer
• Lau Nau
  Lau Nau
  Lau Nau or Laura Naukkarinen, is a singer-songwriter and musician from Helsinki, Finland. She is also a member of free improv and psych folk bands Kiila, Päivänsäde, the Anaksimandros, Avarus, Maailma, and the trio Hertta Lussu Ässä formed by fellow acid folk singer-songwriters Islaja and...
  
   – acid folk singer
• Gösta Sundqvist
  Gösta Sundqvist
  Gösta Erik Sundqvist was a famous Finnish musician and radio personality. He was the lead singer for Leevi and the Leavings since the forming of the band. The name "Leevi" is often taken to mean Sundqvist personally, although this is incorrect, and "Leevi" refers to a late friend of the band members...
  
   – folk music singer- Leevi and the Leavings
  Leevi and the Leavings
  Leevi and the Leavings was a Finnish rock band that operated from 1978 to 2003.The band consisted of Gösta Sundqvist, Risto Paananen, Juha Karastie and Niklas Nylund. Sundqvist was the leader of the band, he composed and wrote all the band's songs as well as being the vocalist...
  
  ' singer
• Jenny Wilhelms
  Jenny Wilhelms
  Jenny Wilhelms is a Finnish musician. She studied classical and folk music in many Nordic countries. She was the lead singer of the innovative folk band Gjallarhorn from 1994 to its disbandment in 2007...
  
   – folk music singer
• Maria Kalaniemi
  Maria Kalaniemi
  Maria Kalaniemi is a Finnish accordionist. She was originally classically trained, but has become mostly as folk musician having played this music from childhood, besides her classical music studies, and also at the folk music department of the Sibelius Academy.Groups she is or has been involved...
  
   – folk music accordion player

Electronic music

• Miika Eloranta & Janne Mansnerus – musicians, producers (as Super8 & Tab
  Super8 & Tab
  Super8 & Tab are a trance music duo of producers and DJs from Finland named Miika Eloranta and Janne Mansnerus . They recorded music as individual musicians until they teamed up in 2005.-Albums:*2010: Empire*2011: Empire Remixed-DJ Mixes:...
  
  )
• Jori Hulkkonen
  Jori Hulkkonen
  Jori Hulkkonen, born 28 September 1973, is a Finnish DJ and a producer of house music, originally from Kemi, Finland. Hulkkonen started his career in the early 1990s when he worked with Jukka Hautamäki, Tuomas Salmela and Ari Ruokamo for their own label Lumi Records...
  
   – DJ, musician, producer
• Erkki Kurenniemi
  Erkki Kurenniemi
  Erkki Kurenniemi is a Finnish designer, philosopher and artist, best known for his electronic music compositions and the electronic instruments he has designed. He is considered one of the leading early pioneers of electronic music in Finland...
  
   – musician, inventor
• Lassi Lehto aka. Jimi Tenor
  Jimi Tenor
  Jimi Tenor is a Finnish musician. His name is a combination of the first name of his youth idol Jimmy Osmond and the tenor saxophone. His band Jimi Tenor & His Shamans published its first album in 1988, Jimi's first solo album appeared in 1994. "Take Me Baby" became his first hit in 1994...
  
   – acid jazz musician
• Lassi Nikko aka. Brothomstates
  Brothomstates
  Brothomstates is one of the stage names of Lassi Nikko, a Finnish composer and musician. He also used to produce music in the demoscene under the moniker of Dune in the demogroup Orange...
  
   aka. Dune – musician
• Sasu Ripatti aka. Vladislav Delay
  Vladislav Delay
  Vladislav Delay is one of the pseudonyms of Sasu Ripatti , a Finnish electronic musician. He has also recorded as Luomo, Sistol, Uusitalo and Conoco.-Background:...
  
   – musician, DJ
• Esa Juhani Ruoho aka. Lackluster
  Lackluster
  Lackluster is the main stage name of Esa Juhani Ruoho , who has also recorded as Esa Ruoho, Can'o'Lard, Kökö and the Köks and XLLV. Lackluster is formerly known as the chiptune musician, Distance, part of the demoscene groups Orange, Monotonik, Calodox, The Digital Artists, The Planet of Leather...
  
   – musician
• Jaakko Salovaara aka. JS16
  JS16
  JS16, real name Jaakko Salovaara, is a Finnish musician and record producer. He owns the dance music record label 16 Inch Records.His first release was the vinyl Hypnosynthesis at the age of 16...
  
   – musician, producer – musician, producer
• Mika Vainio – musician, member of Pan Sonic
  Pan sonic
  Pan Sonic was a Finnish experimental electronic music duo consisting of Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen.-Music:...
  
  
• Ville Virtanen aka. Darude
  Darude
  Ville Virtanen , better known by his stage name Darude is a trance producer and DJ from Eura, Hinnerjoki, Finland. Debuting in 1995, he released the hit single "Sandstorm" in late 1999 and subsequent album Before the Storm...
  
  
• Ilpo Väisänen – musician, member of Pan Sonic
  Pan sonic
  Pan Sonic was a Finnish experimental electronic music duo consisting of Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen.-Music:...
  
  

Other

• Antti Boman – guitarist and vocalist of Demilich
  Demilich
  Demilich may refer to:*A type of lich, a creature in fantasy fiction*Demilich , a Finnish death metal band...
  
  
• Ismo Alanko
  Ismo Alanko
  Ismo Kullervo Alanko is a Finnish musician. He is known as the frontman of several bands, most famously Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet and Ismo Alanko Säätiö, as well as a successful solo artist....
  
   – rock musician
• Carola – jazz and pop singer
• Kirill Babitzin (1950 – 2007)
• Elastinen
  Elastinen
  Elastinen is a Finnish rap musician and also known as one of the founders and is the CEO of the Finnish independent rap label Rähinä Records. Together with his colleague Iso H, he forms the Finnish rap crew Fintelligens...
  
   – rap musician, half of the rap duo Fintelligens
  Fintelligens
  Fintelligens is a hip hop group from Helsinki, Finland. The band is formed of two MCs: Elastinen and Iso H. The band has released three albums and one compilation, all selling more than 150,000 copies. Fintelligens is arguably the most successful hip hop band in Finland.In the early 1990s the...
  
  
• Irwin Goodman
  Irwin Goodman
  Irwin Goodman was a popular Finnish rock and folk singer. In the late 1960s he was widely known as a protest singer. He recorded over 300 songs, most of which were his own compositions, with lyrics written by Vexi Salmi...
  
   aka Antti Hammarberg – Protestsinger (1943 – 1991)
• Hector
  Hector (musician)
  Heikki Veikko Harma is a Finnish singer-songwriter who has also distinguished himself as a translator of song lyrics, but has written popular lyrics of his own too...
  
  
• Aki Hakala – drummer of The Rasmus
  The Rasmus
  The Rasmus are a Finnish rock band that formed in 1995 in Helsinki while the band members were still in upper comprehensive school. The original band members were Lauri Ylönen , Eero Heinonen , Pauli Rantasalmi and Janne Heiskanen...
  
  
• Eero Heinonen – bassist of The Rasmus
  The Rasmus
  The Rasmus are a Finnish rock band that formed in 1995 in Helsinki while the band members were still in upper comprehensive school. The original band members were Lauri Ylönen , Eero Heinonen , Pauli Rantasalmi and Janne Heiskanen...
  
  
• Reino Helismaa
  Reino Helismaa
  Reino Vihtori "Repe" Helismaa was a Finnish singer-songwriter, musician and scriptwriter, mainly known for his humorous, yet homely songs. One of his best-known interpreters was Tapio Rautavaara.-Works:...
  
   (1913 – 1965)
• Marco Hietala
  Marco Hietala
  Marko Tapani "Marco" Hietala is a heavy metal vocalist and bassist. Internationally, he is most known as the current bassist, male vocalist and composer, of the symphonic metal band Nightwish...
  
   – bassist of Nightwish
  Nightwish
  Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. Formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen, Nightwish's current line-up has five members, although Tarja has been replaced by Anette Olzon and the...
  
  
• Sami Hinkka
  Sami Hinkka
  Sami Hinkka, born 1978 in Finland, is a heavy metal bass player, presently with Ensiferum. He joined his current band in 2004 as a replacement for Jukka-Pekka Miettinen after playing for some years in the melodic death/doom metal band Rapture...
  
   – bassist and lyricist of Ensiferum
  Ensiferum
  Ensiferum is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "heroic folk metal." Since their formation, Ensiferum has released four full-length albums, one EP, one compilation, three singles, and three demo albums and one unreleased album.-Musical...
  
  
• Tuomas Holopainen
  Tuomas Holopainen
  Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen is a Finnish composer known best for symphonic metal music. He has also studied jazz and classical styles, but prefers to be influenced by harmonic film music....
  
   – composer, songwriter & keyboardplayer of Nightwish
  Nightwish
  Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. Formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen, Nightwish's current line-up has five members, although Tarja has been replaced by Anette Olzon and the...
  
  
• Tony Kakko
  Tony Kakko
  Toni Kristian "Tony" Kakko is a Finnish musician, composer and vocalist. He is mainly known as the vocalist, primary songwriter, and creative force in the band Sonata Arctica since 1996.-Biography:...
  
   – vocalist, composer and songwriter of Sonata Arctica
  Sonata Arctica
  Sonata Arctica are a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1995. Their later works contain several elements typical of progressive metal.....
  
  
• Jari Kainulainen
  Jari Kainulainen
  Jari Kainulainen is a Finnish born bassist of the metal band called Devil´s Train. He was previously a member of, Stratovarius and the progressive power metal band Evergrey.Kainulainen plays Ibanez 6 string basses and uses Ampeg amplifiers...
  
   – ex-bassist of Stratovarius
  Stratovarius
  Stratovarius are a Finnish power metal band that formed in 1984. Since their formation they have released 13 studio albums and one live album. Along with Helloween, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody of Fire and Gamma Ray, Stratovarius are considered one of the leading groups of the power metal and symphonic...
  
  
• Maria Kalaniemi
  Maria Kalaniemi
  Maria Kalaniemi is a Finnish accordionist. She was originally classically trained, but has become mostly as folk musician having played this music from childhood, besides her classical music studies, and also at the folk music department of the Sibelius Academy.Groups she is or has been involved...
  
  
• Mika Karppinen
  Mika Karppinen
  Mika Kristian Karppinen, better known as Gas Lipstick , is currently the drummer for the rock band HIM. He is also the drummer of Finnish deathgrind band To Separate the Flesh from the Bones, punk band Ääritila and metal band Bendover. He also was a drum tech for Stratovarius at one point and was...
  
   – Drummer from the band HIM
• Perttu Kivilaakso
  Perttu Kivilaakso
  Perttu Päivö Kullervo Kivilaakso is a cello player for Finnish band Apocalyptica. Like fellow band members Eicca Toppinen and Paavo Lötjönen, he attended Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He plays a German 19th century cello; he started playing the cello when he was 5 years old and joined Apocalyptica...
  
   – cellist of cello-metal band Apocalyptica
  Apocalyptica
  Apocalyptica is a band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 1993. The band is composed of classically trained cellists Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, and Perttu Kivilaakso and drummer Mikko Sirén...
  
  
• Viktor Klimenko
• Samuli Kosminen
• Timo Kotipelto
  Timo Kotipelto
  Timo Antero Kotipelto is the vocalist of the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius and is the creator and vocalist of the power metal band Kotipelto...
  
   – Lead Singer of Stratovarius
  Stratovarius
  Stratovarius are a Finnish power metal band that formed in 1984. Since their formation they have released 13 studio albums and one live album. Along with Helloween, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody of Fire and Gamma Ray, Stratovarius are considered one of the leading groups of the power metal and symphonic...
  
  
• Sakari Kukko
  Sakari Kukko
  Sakari Kukko, Born on July 8, 1953, Kajaani, Finland, started his career in the early 1960s as a singer participating in several singing contests and performing in radio stations ,TV programs and other venues. At the age of 7, He began taking piano lessons. Soon after that he started to play also...
  
  
• Mikko Kuustonen
  Mikko Kuustonen
  Mikko Ari Kuustonen is a Finnish singer-songwriter.In 1998 Kuustonen was the first Finn to be nominated as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador. The following year he was awarded the Church’s Peace Prize . In 2003 he was nominated as The Most Positive Finn.- External links :* *...
  
   – Singer-songwriter
• Ville Laihiala
  Ville Laihiala
  Ville Laihiala is the current vocalist and guitarist of the Finnish Gothic metal group, Poisonblack. He was also the frontman for Sentenced from 1996 until the group ended their career in 2005.When joining Sentenced he was soon accepted by fans...
  
   – frontman of Sentenced and Poisonblack
  Poisonblack
  Poisonblack is a Finnish heavy/gothic metal band led by singer/guitarist Ville Laihiala, known for his vocals with the band Sentenced from 1996 - 2005...
  
  
• Alexi Laiho
  Alexi Laiho
  Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho is a Finnish singer, composer, and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead guitarist as well as lead vocalist for melodic death metal band Children of Bodom, and he is also the guitarist for Sinergy and Kylähullut...
  
   – frontman and lead guitarist of Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom is a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo. Formed in 1993, the group currently consists of Alexi Laiho , Roope Latvala , Janne Wirman , Henkka Seppälä , and Jaska Raatikainen...
  
  
• Jonne Aaron – frontman of Negative
• Roope Latvala
  Roope Latvala
  Roope Latvala is a Finnish guitarist who currently plays with the bands Children of Bodom and Sinergy. He was one of the founding members of Stone, which was one of the first notable bands in the history of Finnish heavy metal.-Biography:...
  
   – guitarist of Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom is a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo. Formed in 1993, the group currently consists of Alexi Laiho , Roope Latvala , Janne Wirman , Henkka Seppälä , and Jaska Raatikainen...
  
  
• Juice Leskinen
  Juice Leskinen
  Juhani Juice Leskinen , better known as Juice Leskinen , was one of the most prominent Finnish singer-songwriters of the late 20th century. From the early 1970s onward he released nearly 30 full-length albums, as well as writing song lyrics for dozens of Finnish artists...
  
   – rock musician
• Jani Liimatainen
  Jani Liimatainen
  Jani Allan Kristian Liimatainen is the former guitar player and one of the founding members of the power metal band Sonata Arctica....
  
   – Former guitarist
  Guitarist
  A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
  
   for Sonata Arctica
  Sonata Arctica
  Sonata Arctica are a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1995. Their later works contain several elements typical of progressive metal.....
  
  
• Petri Lindroos
  Petri Lindroos
  Petri Lindroos is a heavy metal guitarist and vocalist. He is currently the lead vocalist in Ensiferum and, prior to this, was a founder and lead vocalist for Norther.-Biography:...
  
   – Guitarist and main vocalist of Ensiferum
  Ensiferum
  Ensiferum is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "heroic folk metal." Since their formation, Ensiferum has released four full-length albums, one EP, one compilation, three singles, and three demo albums and one unreleased album.-Musical...
  
   and former Norther
  Norther
  Norther is a Finnish Melodic Death Metal band from Helsinki, Finland.-History:Norther was originally formed by Kristian Ranta, Jukka Koskinen, Tuomas Planman, Petri Lindroos and Toni Hallio in the year 1996 after various of early stage band formations. The band kicked into gear with its debut...
  
  
• Mikko Lindström – Guitarist from the band HIM
• Jyrki Linnankivi
  Jyrki 69
  Jyrki 69 , is the lead vocalist for Finnish rock band The 69 Eyes. In their early years, the band's sound was more closer to glam metal, but since the album Blessed Be they have shifted in to gothic rock...
  
   – lead singer of the 69 Eyes
  The 69 Eyes
  The 69 Eyes are a multi-platinum selling Finnish gothic rock band. They are currently signed to EMI Finland. The band's albums are now distributed worldwide. The End Records acts as the band's official North American distributor, as Nuclear Blast Records provides distribution in Mainland Europe,...
  
  
• Tommy Mansikka-Aho
• Jarkko Martikainen
  Jarkko Martikainen
  Jarkko Martikainen is a Finnish singer, songwriter and member of the rock band YUP. In addition to his musical career, Martikainen has worked as a columnist, a record producer and a documentary filmmaker...
  
  
• Jari Mäenpää
  Jari Mäenpää
  Jari Mäenpää is the founder of the band Wintersun in which he performs vocals, plays guitar and keyboards. He also played bass on Wintersun's first album before hiring a full-time line-up....
  
   – Composer, singer and guitarist of Ensiferum
  Ensiferum
  Ensiferum is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "heroic folk metal." Since their formation, Ensiferum has released four full-length albums, one EP, one compilation, three singles, and three demo albums and one unreleased album.-Musical...
  
   and Wintersun
  Wintersun
  Wintersun is an extreme metal band from Helsinki, Finland.Wintersun was originally created by guitarist Jari Mäenpää as a side project to folk metal band Ensiferum, for whom he was lead singer and guitarist. In 2003, Mäenpää began culling together songs that he'd been working on since 1995. These...
  
  
• Andy McCoy
  Andy McCoy
  Antti Hulkko , better known as Andy McCoy, is a Finnish musician. He is most famous for his role as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of Hanoi Rocks, but has also played with Iggy Pop....
  
   – rock musician
• Michael Monroe
  Michael Monroe
  Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm , best known by his stage name, Michael Monroe, is a Finnish rock musician, and multi-instrumentalist who rose to fame as the vocalist for the glam punk band Hanoi Rocks, and has served as the frontman for all-star side projects, such as Demolition 23...
  
   – rock musician
• Jukka Nevalainen
  Jukka Nevalainen
  Jukka Antero "Julius" Nevalainen is the drummer in the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish and the Finnish progressive metal band Sethian.- Biography :He spent his early years in the city of Kitee...
  
   – drummer of Nightwish
  Nightwish
  Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. Formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen, Nightwish's current line-up has five members, although Tarja has been replaced by Anette Olzon and the...
  
  
• Sara Nunes
  Sara Nunes
  Sara Nunes is a Finnish pop singer who gained some attention in 2005 after releasing her debut single "Simon Can't Sing" which was a parody of Simon Cowell, the famous American Idol & Pop Idol judge...
  
   – singer
• Anne Nurmi
  Anne Nurmi
  Anne Marjanna Nurmi is a Finnish singer, composer and keyboard player who is a member of the band Lacrimosa. She lives in Switzerland.In her youth she sang in church choirs and began playing keyboard....
  
   – vocalist and keyboard player of Lacrimosa
  Lacrimosa
  Lacrimosa is a duo led by German Tilo Wolff, the main composer, and Finnish Anne Nurmi, currently based in Switzerland, but originally from Germany...
  
  
• Tuomari Nurmio
  Tuomari Nurmio
  Tuomari Nurmio is the artist name of Hannu Juhani Nurmio , a Finnish rock singer and songwriter.-Work:Since his debut album, Nurmio has been regarded as one of the most original Finnish singer-songwriters. His lyrics are filled with peculiar and arresting metaphors and expressions, some of which...
  
  
• Mikko Paananen
  Mikko Paananen
  Mikko Henrik Julius Paananen , better known as Migé or Migé Amour, is the current and founding bassist of the rock band HIM.-History:...
  
   – Bass player for the band HIM
• Janne Parviainen
  Janne Parviainen
  Janne Parviainen, born 1973 in Finland, is a heavy metal drummer, who plays in the bands Sinergy, Barathrum and Ensiferum. He is a former member of Waltari and Zwanziger.Janne joined Barathrum in 2000, and Sinergy and Ensiferum more recently...
  
   – drummer of Ensiferum
  Ensiferum
  Ensiferum is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "heroic folk metal." Since their formation, Ensiferum has released four full-length albums, one EP, one compilation, three singles, and three demo albums and one unreleased album.-Musical...
  
  , Sinergy
  Sinergy
  Sinergy was a Finnish power metal band started in 1998 by American musician, Kimberly Goss. Aside from Sinergy, the most notable bands Goss has been involved with are Dimmu Borgir; as keyboardist, and Children of Bodom; where she filled in live for Janne Wirman and also contributed lyrics...
  
   and Barathrum
  Barathrum
  Barathrum is a Finnish black doom band. They originate from Kuopio but have since re-located to Helsinki. The first letters of their full-length albums spell "HEIL SOVA" , which completes their original eight-album plan. However, there have been rumours about a new record ever since the Anno Aspera...
  
  
• Hanna Pakarinen
  Hanna Pakarinen
  Hanna Helena Pakarinen is a Finnish pop and pop-rock singer who rose to fame as the winner of the first series of the Finnish singing competition Idols in 2004...
  
   – Finland's first Idols
  Idol series
  The British talent search television series Pop Idol has spawned spin-offs in 42 territories, in what is now referred to as the "Idols" format, as described by FremantleMedia...
  
  winner, pop singer
• Paleface
  Paleface (Finnish musician)
  Karri Pekka Matias Miettinen , better known by his stage name Paleface, is a Finnish hip hop musician.- Albums :* The Pale Ontologist * Quarter Past * Studio Tan * Helsinki – Shangri-La...
  
   – rap musician
• Maukka Perusjätkä
  Maukka Perusjätkä
  Maukka Perusjätkä is the stage name of Mauri Airta, a Finnish new wave and punk rocker during the 1970s and 1980s. He is especially known for his 1979 song Säpinää , which included chainsaw sounds...
  
   – punk rocker
• Mika Pohjola
  Mika Pohjola
  Mika Pohjola is a Finnish-born jazz pianist and composer, who resides in New York City. He is one of the most prolific Scandinavian jazz musicians in his generation.-Childhood in Helsinki, Finland 1971-87:...
  
   – Jazz pianist and composer
• Pekka Pohjola
  Pekka Pohjola
  Jussi Pekka Pohjola was a Finnish multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. Best known as a bass player, Pohjola was also a classically trained pianist and violinist...
  
  
• Kimmo Pohjonen
  Kimmo Pohjonen
  Kimmo Pohjonen is a Finnish accordionist who is involved in a number of projects.- Uniko :Kluster meets Kronos Quartet in the Uniko project featuring music composed by Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen, commissioned by Kronos. Concerts in Helsinki, Moscow and Molde Jazz Festival were major successes...
  
  
• Lauri Porra
  Lauri Porra
  Lauri Porra is a Finnish bassist and composer. Best known for his work in Stratovarius and Sinergy. Lauri Porra is a fourth generation musician, He is the great grandson of the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. He started to study music at age 6 when he started to play cello in a local music...
  
  
• Tomi Putaansuu
  Tomi Putaansuu
  Tomi Petteri Putaansuu , better known by his stage name Mr. Lordi, is the lead vocalist in the Finnish heavy metal/hard rock band Lordi. Mr. Lordi is the singer, songwriter and costume designer for hard rock band Lordi...
  
   – frontman and singer of Lordi
  Lordi
  Lordi is a Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band, formed in 1996 by the band's lead singer, songwriter and costume-designer, Mr. Lordi. The band is known for wearing monster masks and using pyrotechnics during concerts...
  
  
• Janne Puurtinen
  Janne Puurtinen
  Janne Johannes Puurtinen, better known as Emerson Burton, is the current keyboard-player in the Finnish rock band, HIM. He was born 17 October 1974, in Helsinki. Burton made his second debut as a temporary member of the band at the concert arranged at the Semifinal Club on 12 January 2001...
  
   – Keyboard player from the band HIM
• Jaska Raatikainen
  Jaska Raatikainen
  Jaska Ilmari Raatikainen or Jaska W. Raatikainen is the drummer of the band Children of Bodom.-Biography:Jaska Raatikainen was born in the town of Lappeenranta, in Finland. His first instrument was the piano, and during most of his childhood also played the French horn in a big band - a fact which...
  
   – drummer for Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom is a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo. Formed in 1993, the group currently consists of Alexi Laiho , Roope Latvala , Janne Wirman , Henkka Seppälä , and Jaska Raatikainen...
  
  
• Sami Raatikainen
  Sami Raatikainen
  Sami Raatikainen is a Finnish guitarist who plays for the German technical death metal band Necrophagist. He joined Necrophagist in 2006 after the departure of Christian Münzner...
  
   – guitarist for Necrophagist
  Necrophagist
  Necrophagist is a German death metal band, founded and fronted by Muhammed Suiçmez; a German-born, Turkish guitarist and vocalist. The band is known for its rapid and technical compositions....
  
  
• Iiro Rantala
  Iiro Rantala
  Iiro Rantala is a Finnish jazz pianist. He has studied piano in the jazz department of Sibelius Academy and classical piano in Manhattan School of Music. He is one of the best known Finnish jazz pianists, both in Finland and abroad. He's a pianist and composer of Trio Töykeät, a Finnish jazz trio...
  
  
• Pauli Rantasalmi – guitarist of The Rasmus
  The Rasmus
  The Rasmus are a Finnish rock band that formed in 1995 in Helsinki while the band members were still in upper comprehensive school. The original band members were Lauri Ylönen , Eero Heinonen , Pauli Rantasalmi and Janne Heiskanen...
  
  
• Tapio Rautavaara
  Tapio Rautavaara
  Kaj Tapio Rautavaara was a Finnish athlete, singer and movie actor.-Early life:...
  
  
• Henkka Seppälä
  Henkka Seppälä
  Henri Samuli Seppälä , better known as Henkka T. Blacksmith, is the bassist of the Finnish metal band Children of Bodom. Henkka is responsible for backing vocals both on studio and live....
  
   – bassist for Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom is a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo. Formed in 1993, the group currently consists of Alexi Laiho , Roope Latvala , Janne Wirman , Henkka Seppälä , and Jaska Raatikainen...
  
  
• Jari Sillanpää
  Jari Sillanpää
  Jari Sillanpää a Finnish singer. With over 820,000 records sold, he is the fourth-best-selling music artist and best-selling solo artist in Finland....
  
   – Finnish "tango king", singer
• Sir Christus
  Sir Christus
  Sir Christus is a Finnish guitarist, best known as the former rhythm guitarist of the glam rock band Negative. His father was Arwo Mikkonen, guitarist of the legendary Finnish rock band Popeda...
  
   – former guitarist for the band Negative
  Negative (Finnish band)
  Negative is a Finnish glam rock band founded at the end of 1997. Members of Negative cite musical influence such as Guns N' Roses, Queen, and Hanoi Rocks. The band itself labels the music as ”emotional rock’n roll”.- Members :...
  
  
• Aki Sirkesalo
  Aki Sirkesalo
  Finnish musician Aki Sirkesalo started his public career in 1984 as an announcer in the Finnish Broadcasting Company radio show Rockradio. In 1986 he formed a band called Giddyups, followed with a successful a cappella group Veeti and the Velvets...
  
   – singer (1962 – 2004)
• Emmi Silvennoinen
  Emmi Silvennoinen
  Emmi Silvennoinen, born in Finland in 1988, is keyboardist for the folk metal band Ensiferum. She has been filling the role on a so-far temporary basis following the departure of Meiju Enho from Ensiferum in September 2007 before joining it as the current member during the recording of the album...
  
   – keyboardist of Ensiferum
  Ensiferum
  Ensiferum is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "heroic folk metal." Since their formation, Ensiferum has released four full-length albums, one EP, one compilation, three singles, and three demo albums and one unreleased album.-Musical...
  
  
• Topi Sorsakoski
  Topi Sorsakoski
  Pekka Erkki Juhani Tammilehto , better known by his stage name Topi Sorsakoski, was a Finnish singer. His father was tango singer Yrjö Tapio aka Jylli Tammilehto...
  
   – schlager and rock'n'roll singer
• Gösta Sundqvist
  Gösta Sundqvist
  Gösta Erik Sundqvist was a famous Finnish musician and radio personality. He was the lead singer for Leevi and the Leavings since the forming of the band. The name "Leevi" is often taken to mean Sundqvist personally, although this is incorrect, and "Leevi" refers to a late friend of the band members...
  
  
• Jonna Tervomaa
  Jonna Tervomaa
  Jonna Marika Tervomaa is a Finnish pop singer and songwriter. She became famous at the age of ten, when she won the song contest "Syksyn Sävel" with the song "Minttu sekä Ville"...
  
   – pop singer
• Markus Toivonen
  Markus Toivonen
  Markus Toivonen is the founding member of the Finnish Viking/folk metal band Ensiferum. Markus founded the band in 1995 and is the sole original member to have lasted the distance to Ensiferum's present incarnation. His role in the band is guitarist and primary songwriter...
  
   – founder, guitarist, songwriter and backing vocalist of Ensiferum
  Ensiferum
  Ensiferum is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "heroic folk metal." Since their formation, Ensiferum has released four full-length albums, one EP, one compilation, three singles, and three demo albums and one unreleased album.-Musical...
  
  
• Timo Tolkki
  Timo Tolkki
  Timo Tapio Tolkki is a Finnish musician best known as the former guitarist, songwriter, and producer of the power metal band Stratovarius. He left Stratovarius in 2008 and formed a new band, Revolution Renaissance. To this day, with his tenure extending for more than twenty years, Tolkki was the...
  
   – Guitarist and Ex. Singer of Stratovarius
  Stratovarius
  Stratovarius are a Finnish power metal band that formed in 1984. Since their formation they have released 13 studio albums and one live album. Along with Helloween, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody of Fire and Gamma Ray, Stratovarius are considered one of the leading groups of the power metal and symphonic...
  
  
• Jukka Tolonen
  Jukka Tolonen
  Jukka Tolonen is a Finnish jazz guitarist. Tolonen became famous as guitarist for the band Tasavallan Presidentti...
  
  
• Eicca Toppinen
  Eicca Toppinen
  Eino Matti "Eicca" Toppinen is a Finnish cellist, songwriter, producer, arranger, and drummer. In 1993 he formed the quartet Apocalyptica.- Biography :...
  
   – cellist of cello-metal band Apocalyptica
  Apocalyptica
  Apocalyptica is a band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 1993. The band is composed of classically trained cellists Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, and Perttu Kivilaakso and drummer Mikko Sirén...
  
  
• Antti Tuisku
  Antti Tuisku
  Antti Tapani Tuisku is a Finnish pop singer, made famous by the 2003 Idols talent show, the Finnish version of Pop Idol. Although Tuisku finished third in the show, he has easily become the most popular artist of the three. Currently Tuisku lives in Helsinki.Tuisku has sold over 200,000 records in...
  
   – pop musician, Idols
  Idol series
  The British talent search television series Pop Idol has spawned spin-offs in 42 territories, in what is now referred to as the "Idols" format, as described by FremantleMedia...
  
  star
• Tellu Turkka
  Tellu Turkka
  Tellu Turkka is a Finnish fiddler and singer in the contemporary folk / neo-folk music genre. She studied violin at the Jyväskylä Conservatory from 1978 to 1985, at the Savonlinna Art College from 1985 to 1988, and at the Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy from 1989 to 2001...
  
  
• Tarja Turunen
  Tarja Turunen
  Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer. She is a full lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves....
  
   – former lead singer of the symphonic metal band Nightwish
  Nightwish
  Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. Formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen, Nightwish's current line-up has five members, although Tarja has been replaced by Anette Olzon and the...
  
  .
• Petri Walli
  Petri Walli
  Petri Ilari Walli was the founder, vocalist, guitar-player, songwriter and producer of the Finnish psychedelic rock-band Kingston Wall....
  
   (1969 – 1995)
• Juha Watt Vainio
• Ville Valo
  Ville Valo
  Ville Hermanni Valo is a Finnish singer, songwriter and frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM. He has received the "Golden God" award in 2004 by the heavy metal magazine Metal Hammer. Valo has a baritone vocal range. Valo was ranked number 80 in Hit Paraders Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time...
  
   – lead singer of HIM
• Jussi Heikki Tapio Vuori
  Jussi 69
  Jussi 69 is the drummer for the Finnish rock band The 69 Eyes. He is most well known for his flamboyant playing style that has earned him the attention of fans and cameramen alike; his kit is set up low to allow for the maximum exposure of his on-stage antics.Jussi's drumming is simple yet...
  
  -drummer of the 69 Eyes
  The 69 Eyes
  The 69 Eyes are a multi-platinum selling Finnish gothic rock band. They are currently signed to EMI Finland. The band's albums are now distributed worldwide. The End Records acts as the band's official North American distributor, as Nuclear Blast Records provides distribution in Mainland Europe,...
  
  
• Olavi Virta
  Olavi Virta
  Olavi Virta was a Finnish singer, acclaimed as the king of Finnish tango. Between 1939 and 1966 he recorded almost 600 songs, many of which are classics of Finnish popular music, and appeared in many films and theatrical productions...
  
   – singer
• Laura Voutilainen
  Laura Voutilainen
  Sanna Laura Voutilainen , is a Finnish popsinger.-Career:Voutilainen's debut single was called "Muuttanut oon maailman" but her breakthrough came with the 1993 single "Kerran" which reached the Top Ten of the Finnish charts in January 1994...
  
   – pop singer
• Emppu Vuorinen
  Emppu Vuorinen
  Erno "Emppu" Matti Juhani Vuorinen is a Finnish guitarist, most famous for being a founding member and occasional songwriter of the symphonic metal band Nightwish...
  
   – guitarist of Nightwish
  Nightwish
  Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. Formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen, Nightwish's current line-up has five members, although Tarja has been replaced by Anette Olzon and the...
  
  
• Maija Vilkkumaa
  Maija Vilkkumaa
  Maija Johanna Vilkkumaa a Finnish pop rock singer-songwriter. Beginning her musical hobbies playing piano at an age before school, Vilkkumaa studied in high school where she and her friends set up the band Tarharyhmä in 1990, which broke up in 1995...
  
   – pop/rock singer
• Janne Wirman
  Janne Wirman
  Janne Viljami "Warman" Wirman is a Finnish musician; he is the keyboardist for the bands Children of Bodom and Warmen.-Biography:Born in the town of Espoo, Finland, Janne Wirman began playing the piano at the age of five...
  
   – keyboard player of Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom
  Children of Bodom is a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo. Formed in 1993, the group currently consists of Alexi Laiho , Roope Latvala , Janne Wirman , Henkka Seppälä , and Jaska Raatikainen...
  
  
• Lauri Ylönen
  Lauri Ylönen
  Lauri Ylönen is the frontman of the Finnish alternative rock band The Rasmus.-Early days:Ylönen was born and grew up in Helsinki. He learned to play the piano when he was five years old, and later learned to play guitar and drums...
  
   – lead singer of The Rasmus
  The Rasmus
  The Rasmus are a Finnish rock band that formed in 1995 in Helsinki while the band members were still in upper comprehensive school. The original band members were Lauri Ylönen , Eero Heinonen , Pauli Rantasalmi and Janne Heiskanen...
  
  
• A. W. Yrjänä
  A. W. Yrjänä
  Aki Ville Yrjänä , better known by the stage name, A. W. Yrjänä , is a poet and the singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of the Finnish rock band CMX. In addition to his musical work he has published four collections of poems.- Music :Yrjänä has studied theology and comparative religion,...
  
   – rock singer, bass guitarist, songwriter, poet
• Marko Saaresto – composer, lyricist, lead singer of rock band Poets of the Fall
  Poets of the Fall
  Poets of the Fall is a rock band from Finland. It consists of Marko Saaresto , Olli Tukiainen and Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen...
  
  

Philosophers

• Timo Airaksinen
  Timo Airaksinen
  Timo Airaksinen is Professor of Moral Philosophy, and head of department, at the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy at Helsinki University. By longstanding tradition in the University of Helsinki, the philosophy faculty is divided into two major areas, the practical and the theoretical...
  
  
• Lili Alanen
• Anders Chydenius
  Anders Chydenius
  Anders Chydenius was the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. Born in Sotkamo, Ostrobothnia, Sweden and having studied under Pehr Kalm at the Royal Academy of Åbo, Chydenius became a priest, Enlightenment philosopher and member of the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.The world's first...
  
  
• Arto Haapala
  Arto Haapala
  Arto Haapala is a Finnish philosopher, aesthetician and Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies at Helsinki University, Finland. Haapala received his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 1985...
  
  
• Jaakko Hintikka
  Jaakko Hintikka
  Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka is a Finnish philosopher and logician.Hintikka was born in Vantaa. After teaching for a number of years at Florida State University, Stanford, University of Helsinki, and the Academy of Finland, he is currently Professor of Philosophy at Boston University...
  
  
• Pekka Himanen
  Pekka Himanen
  -Biography:Pekka Himanen defines himself as a philosopher and a public intellectual. He studied philosophy at the University of Helsinki. In 1994, with his thesis on the philosophy of religion, The challenge of Bertrand Russell, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the same university, thus...
  
   – philosopher, technologist
• Matti Häyry
  Matti Häyry
  Matti Häyry is Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy of Law at the University of Manchester. He studied philosophy and ethics in Helsinki, Finland, and he is Adjunct Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. Matti Häyry has been a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and...
  
  
• Eino Kaila
  Eino Kaila
  Eino Sakari Kaila was a Finnish philosopher, critic and teacher. He worked in numerous fields including psychology , physics and theater, and attempted to find unifying principles behind various branches of human and natural sciences.- Life :Eino Kaila was born in Alajärvi, Finland...
  
   (1890 – 1958)
• Raili Kauppi
  Raili Kauppi
  Raili Kauppi , professor of philosophy at the University of Tampere. She was an internationally recognized scholar of Leibniz and intensional logic.Main publications:...
  
  
• S. Albert Kivinen
  S. Albert Kivinen
  S. Albert Kivinen is a Finnish author and doctor of philosophy and docent emeritus of University of Helsinki, known for his occult interests and study of monsters. He is a onetime winner of the Atorox Award for best Finnish short story, for his Lovecraftian pastiche Keskiyön Mato Ikaalisissa....
  
  
• Pentti Linkola
  Pentti Linkola
  Kaarlo Pentti Linkola is a radical Finnish deep ecologist, polemicist, and fisherman. He has written widely about his ideas and is a prominent thinker in Finland, but, at the same time, is also an extremely controversial figure. He lives a simple and austere life. Linkola was occupitional...
  
  
• Eeva-Liisa Manner
  Eeva-Liisa Manner
  Eeva-Liisa Manner , Finnish poet, playwright and translator. She was born in Helsinki but spent her youth in Vyborg . Manner started as a poet in 1944...
  
  
• Ilkka Niiniluoto
  Ilkka Niiniluoto
  Ilkka Maunu Olavi Niiniluoto is a Finnish philosopher and mathematician, serving as a professor of philosophy at the University of Helsinki since 1981. He is currently on leave from his position, having been appointed as rector of the University of Helsinki on August 1, 2003 for a five-year period...
  
  
• Esa Saarinen
  Esa Saarinen
  Esa Saarinen is a Finnish philosopher who is currently professor of applied philosophy at Aalto University and co-director of the Systems Intelligence Research Group....
  
  
• J. V. Snellman
• Eero Tarasti
  Eero Tarasti
  Eero Tarasti is a Finnish musicologist and semiotician, currently serving as Professor of Musicology at the University of Helsinki....
  
  
• Raimo Tuomela
  Raimo Tuomela
  Raimo Tuomela is a Finnish philosopher. Tuomela received his first degree of doctor of philosophy in 1968 from the University of Helsinki) and the second one in 1969 from Stanford University...
  
  
• Thomas Wallgren
  Thomas Wallgren
  Thomas Wallgren PhD is a Swedish-speaking Finnish philosopher, activist and politician. He studied philosophy at the University of Helsinki and where he is now a lecturer and docent. He was active in the Koijärvi environmental movement in the 1980s, and opposed Finnish membership of the European...
  
  
• Edward Westermarck
• Georg Henrik von Wright
  Georg Henrik von Wright
  Georg Henrik von Wright was a Finnish philosopher, who succeeded Ludwig Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambridge. He published in English, Finnish, German, and in Swedish. Belonging to the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland, von Wright also had Finnish and 17th-century Scottish...
  
  

Politicians

• Esko Aho
  Esko Aho
  Esko Tapani Aho is a statesman and former Prime Minister of Finland.-Early life and career:Aho was born in Veteli, Finland. Prior to attending university, he began a career in politics. From 1974 to 1979, he was Chairman of the Finnish Centre Youth, which had before him grown many of his...
  
   – prime minister 1991–1995
• Martti Ahtisaari
  Martti Ahtisaari
  Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland , Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work....
  
   – UN diplomat, Nobelist
  Nobel Prize
  The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
  
  , president 1994-2000
• Karl-August Fagerholm
  Karl-August Fagerholm
  Karl-August Fagerholm was Speaker of Parliament and three times Prime Minister of Finland . Fagerholm became chairman of the Social Democrats after the armistice in the Continuation War...
  
   – politician (1901 – 1984)
• Tarja Halonen
  Tarja Halonen
  Tarja Kaarina Halonen is the incumbent President of Finland. The first female to hold the office, Halonen had previously been a member of the parliament from 1979 to 2000 when she resigned after her election to the presidency...
  
   – first female president, 2000–
• Satu Hassi
  Satu Hassi
  Satu Maijastiina Hassi is a Finnish politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the Green League. She served as the Minister of Environment and Development Co-Operation in Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet between 15 April 1999 and 31 May 2002; in accordance with her party's position on...
  
   – MEP
  Member of the European Parliament
  A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
  
  
• Heidi Hautala
  Heidi Hautala
  -External links:* * *...
  
   – MEP
  Member of the European Parliament
  A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
  
  
• Harri Holkeri – prime minister and UN diplomat
• Ville Itälä
  Ville Itälä
  Ville Heimo Antero Itälä is a Finnish politician. He was elected member of the Finnish Parliament from the district of Finland Proper in 1995. Itälä served as the Minister of Interior under Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen in 2000–2003. He was elected chairman of the National Coalition Party ...
  
   – MEP
  Member of the European Parliament
  A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
  
  
• Max Jakobson
  Max Jakobson
  Max Jakobson is a retired Finnish Jewish diplomat and journalist.Jakobson began his career as a journalist. He worked at the BBC. From 1953 to 1974 he was employed by the Finnish foreign ministry, eventually acting as Finland's ambassador to the United Nations and Sweden...
  
   – UN diplomat
• Anneli Jäätteenmäki
  Anneli Jäätteenmäki
  Anneli Tuulikki Jäätteenmäki, Master of Laws was the first female Prime Minister of Finland, in office from 17 April 2003 to 24 June 2003....
  
   – prime minister 2003
• Kyösti Kallio
  Kyösti Kallio
  Kyösti Kallio was the fourth President of Finland . He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and served as Prime Minister four times and Speaker of the Parliament six times.-Early life:...
  
   – president 1937–1940 (1873 – 1940)
• Urho Kekkonen
  Urho Kekkonen
  Urho Kaleva Kekkonen , was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland and later as the eighth President of Finland . Kekkonen continued the “active neutrality” policy of his predecessor President Juho Kusti Paasikivi, a doctrine which came to be known as the “Paasikivi–Kekkonen...
  
   – president 1956–1982 (1900 – 1986)
• Mari Kiviniemi
  Mari Kiviniemi
  Mari Johanna Kiviniemi is a Finnish politician and former Prime Minister of Finland. On 22 June 2010, as the new leader of the Centre Party, she was elected Prime Minister of Finland by the Finnish Parliament following the resignation of Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen...
  
   – prime minister 2010–
• Mauno Koivisto
  Mauno Koivisto
  Mauno Henrik Koivisto is a Finnish politician who served as the ninth President of Finland from 1982 to 1994. He also served as Prime Minister 1968–1970 and 1979–1982...
  
   – president 1982–1994
• Hertta Kuusinen
  Hertta Kuusinen
  Hertta Elina Kuusinen was a Finnish Communist politician. She was a member of the central committee and the political bureau of the Communist Party of Finland, member of parliament , general secretary and the leader of the parliamentary group of the Finnish People's Democratic League...
  
   – communist politician (1904 – 1974)
• Otto Ville Kuusinen
  Otto Ville Kuusinen
  Otto Wilhelm Kuusinen was a Finnish-born Soviet politician, literary historian, and poet, who, after the defeat of the Reds in the Finnish Civil War, fled to the Soviet Union, where he worked until his death.- Early life :Kuusinen was born to the family of village tailor Wilhelm Juhonpoika...
  
   – head of the communist Terijoki Government, later Soviet
  Soviet Union
  The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
  
   politician (1881 – 1964)
• Axel Lille
  Axel Lille
  Axel Johan Lille was a Swedish-speaking Finnish journalist and politician and the main founder of the Swedish People's Party and its leader 1907–1917...
  
   – founder of the Swedish People's Party (1848 – 1921)
• Paavo Lipponen
  Paavo Lipponen
  Paavo Tapio Lipponen is a Finnish politician and former reporter. He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003, and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005...
  
   – prime minister 1995–2003, the 1st speaker
  Speaker (politics)
  The term speaker is a title often given to the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the...
  
   of the Finnish Parliament 2003-2007
• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and a Finnish statesman. He was Regent of Finland and the sixth President of Finland...
  
   – commander-in-chief
  Commander-in-Chief
  A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...
  
  , regent, president 1944-1946 (1867 – 1951)
• Martti Miettunen
  Martti Miettunen
  Martti Johannes Miettunen , was a politician in Finland. He was prime minister in 1961–1962 and 1975–1977.Miettunen was born in Simo...
  
   – prime minister 1961–1962 and 1975–1977
• Sauli Niinistö
  Sauli Niinistö
  Sauli Väinämö Niinistö is a Finnish politician from National Coalition Party. He is also President of the Football Association of Finland. A lawyer by training, he was Minister of Finance from 1996 to 2003 and the National Coalition Party candidate in the 2006 presidential election...
  
  
• Juho Kusti Paasikivi
  Juho Kusti Paasikivi
  Juho Kusti Paasikivi was the seventh President of Finland . Representing the Finnish Party and the National Coalition Party, he also served as Prime Minister of Finland , and was generally an influential figure in Finnish economics and politics for over fifty years...
  
   – president 1946–1956 (1870 – 1956)
• Lauri Kristian Relander
  Lauri Kristian Relander
  Lauri Kristian Relander was the second President of Finland . A prominent member of the Agrarian League, he served as a member of Parliament, and as Speaker, before his election as President....
  
   – president 1925–1931 (1883 – 1942)
• Elisabeth Rehn
  Elisabeth Rehn
  Märta Elisabeth Rehn is a former MP of the Swedish People's Party and the first female Minister of Defence in Finland. In the 1994 presidential elections she was narrowly defeated by Martti Ahtisaari.Elisabeth Rehn spent her childhood in Mäntsälä, where her father worked as a community medical...
  
   – politician
• Heikki Ritavuori
  Heikki Ritavuori
  Heikki Ritavuori, originally Rydman , was a Finnish Bachelor of Law, a politician from the National Progressive Party, a member of the Parliament of Finland, Minister of Internal Affairs, and for a short time also Deputy Minister of Justice...
  
   – assassinated minister (1880 – 1922)
• Risto Ryti
  Risto Ryti
  Risto Heikki Ryti was the fifth President of Finland, from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a political background figure during the interwar period. He made a wide range of international contacts in the world of banking and within the...
  
   – president 1940–1944 (1889 – 1956)
• Miina Sillanpää
  Miina Sillanpää
  Miina Sillanpää was Finland's first female minister and a key figure in the workers' movement....
  
   – first female minister
• Taisto Sinisalo
  Taisto Sinisalo
  Taisto Jalo Sinisalo was a Finnish communist politician, MP of the SKDL , leader of the SKP`s orthodox pro-Soviet faction and vice chairman of the party . After the SKP split in the 1980s, Sinisalo became the first chairman of the Communist Party of Finland ....
  
   – communist politician
• Helvi Sipilä
  Helvi Sipilä
  Helvi Linnea Aleksandra Sipilä was a Finnish diplomat, lawyer and politician. She was known as a promoter of women's rights, and was the first-ever female Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations....
  
   – UN diplomat
• Johan Vilhelm Snellman
  Johan Vilhelm Snellman
  Johan Vilhelm Snellman was an influential Fennoman philosopher and Finnish statesman, ennobled in 1866.Snellman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, as son of Kristian Henrik Snellman, a ship's captain...
  
   – writer and senator (1806 – 1881)
• Osmo Soininvaara
  Osmo Soininvaara
  Osmo Heikki Kristian Soininvaara is a Finnish politician and writer. He served as Minister of Health on Social Services in Lipponen's second cabinet between 14 April 2000 and 19 April 2002. He was the leader of the Finnish Green League party from 2001 to 2005...
  
   – minister
• Kalevi Sorsa
  Kalevi Sorsa
  Taisto Kalevi Sorsa was a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland four times: 1972–1975, 1977–1979, 1982–1983 and 1983–1987 and at the date of his death still held the Finnish record of most days of incumbency as prime minister...
  
   – prime minister (1930 – 2004)
• Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
  Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
  Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg was a Finnish jurist and academic, who played a central role in the drafting of the Constitution of Finland in 1919. He was the first President of Finland and a nationalist liberal.-Early life:...
  
   – president 1919–1925 (1865 – 1952)
• Ulf Sundqvist
  Ulf Sundqvist
  Ulf Sundqvist is a former chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, a minister in four cabinets in 1970s and a banker in 1980s....
  
  
• Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
  Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
  Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad , December 15, 1861 – February 29, 1944) was the third President of Finland from 1931 to 1937. Serving as a lawyer, judge, and politician in the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, he played a major role in the movement for Finnish independence...
  
   – regent and president 1931-1937 (1861 – 1944)
• Väinö Tanner
  Väinö Tanner
  Väinö Tanner was a pioneer and leader in the cooperative movement in Finland, and Prime Minister of Finland from 1926 to 1927....
  
   – prime minister 1926–1927 (1881 – 1966)
• Oskari Tokoi
  Oskari Tokoi
  Antti Oskari Tokoi was a Finnish socialist who served as a leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. During the short-lived Revolution of 1918, Tokoi participated as a leading figure in the revolutionary government....
  
   – prime minister 1917 (1873 – 1963)
• Erkki Tuomioja
  Erkki Tuomioja
  Erkki Sakari Tuomioja is the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is currently a member of the Finnish Parliament.Tuomioja is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, although his political views are thought to be more to the left than the party line. He is also a member of ATTAC...
  
   – foreign minister 2000–2007
• Martti Turunen – Japanese Diet
  Diet of Japan
  The is Japan's bicameral legislature. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives, and an upper house, called the House of Councillors. Both houses of the Diet are directly elected under a parallel voting system. In addition to passing laws, the Diet is formally...
  
   member of Finnish origin 2001-
• Matti Vanhanen
  Matti Vanhanen
  Matti Taneli Vanhanen is a Finnish politician. He is a former Prime Minister of Finland and a former Chairman of the Centre Party. In the second half of 2006 he was President of the European Council. In his earlier career he was a journalist...
  
   – prime minister 2003–2010
• Johannes Virolainen
  Johannes Virolainen
  Johannes Virolainen was a Finnish politician.Virolainen was born near Viipuri. After the Continuation War Virolainen moved to Lohja, but he remained one of the leaders of the evacuated Karelians, and never gave up the hope that Soviet Union and later Russia would return Finnish Karelia to Finland...
  
   – prime minister in 1964–1966 (1914 – 2000)
• Hella Wuolijoki
  Hella Wuolijoki
  Hella Wuolijoki was a Finnish writer of Estonian origin, known for her Niskavuori series.-Life & career:Wuolijoki was born in Helme, Estonia....
  
  

Scientists

• Lars Valerian Ahlfors – mathematician, Fields Medal
  Fields Medal
  The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
  
  ist 1936 (1907 – 1996)
• Väinö Auer
  Väinö Auer
  Väinö Auer , the son of senator Kyösti Auer, was a Finnish geologist and geographer, chiefly remembered as an explorer of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia...
  
   – explorer, geologist, geographer (1895 – 1981)
• Anders Chydenius
  Anders Chydenius
  Anders Chydenius was the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. Born in Sotkamo, Ostrobothnia, Sweden and having studied under Pehr Kalm at the Royal Academy of Åbo, Chydenius became a priest, Enlightenment philosopher and member of the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.The world's first...
  
   – classical liberal (1729 – 1803)
• Kari Enqvist
  Kari Enqvist
  Kari-Pekka Enqvist is a professor of cosmology in the Department of Physical Sciences at the University of Helsinki...
  
   – cosmologist
• Johan Gadolin
  Johan Gadolin
  Johan Gadolin was a Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist. Gadolin discovered the chemical element yttrium...
  
   – chemist (1760 – 1852)
• Ragnar Granit
  Ragnar Granit
  Ragnar Arthur Granit was a Finnish/Swedish scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald....
  
   – medicine, Nobelist
  Nobel Prize
  The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
  
   (1900 – 1991)
• Hilma Granqvist
  Hilma Granqvist
  Hilma Granqvist was a Swedish-speaking Finnish anthropologist who conducted long field studies of Palestinians. She was a student of Edward Westermarck.-Studies:...
  
   – anthropologist (1890 – 1972)
• Pehr Kalm
  Pehr Kalm
  Pehr Kalm was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus...
  
   – botanist (1716 – 1779)
• Teuvo Kohonen
  Teuvo Kohonen
  Teuvo Kohonen, Dr. Ing , is a Finnish academician and prominent researcher. He is currently professor emeritus of the Academy of Finland.Prof...
  
   – neurocomputing pioneer
• Jussi V. Koivisto
  Jussi V. Koivisto
  Dr. Jussi V. Koivisto is a Finnish economist and educator, who has also been active in business life.-Education and career:Jussi V. Koivisto has earned a Doctor of Science in Economics and Business Administration degree from Aalto University Helsinki School of Economics in 1999, majoring in...
  
   – economist
• Anders Johan Lexell
  Anders Johan Lexell
  Anders Johan Lexell was a Swedish-born Russian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist who spent most of his life in Russia where he is known as Andrei Ivanovich Leksel .Lexell made important discoveries in polygonometry and celestial mechanics; the latter led to a comet named in...
  
   – mathematician, astronomer (1740 – 1784)
• Ernst Lindelöf – mathematician, researcher of function theory and topology (1870 – 1946)
• Olli Lounasmaa
  Olli Lounasmaa
  Olli Viktor Lounasmaa was a Finnish academician, experimental physicist and neuroscientist...
  
   – physicist, researcher of low-temperature physics (1930 – 2002)
• Hjalmar Mellin
  Hjalmar Mellin
  Robert Hjalmar Mellin was a Finnish mathematician and functional theorist.He studied at the University of Helsinki and later in Berlin under Karl Weierstrass. He is most noted as the developer of the integral transform known as the Mellin transform...
  
   – mathematician (1854 – 1933)
• Risto Näätänen
  Risto Näätänen
  Risto Kalervo Näätänen, born 1939, is a modern Finnish psychologist and neuroscientist, member of the Finnish Academy of Science, Professor in University of Helsinki 1975-1999, one of the few Finnish scientists who have been appointed permanent Academy Professors of the Academy of Finland...
  
   – psychologist and neuroscientist (born 1939)
• Rolf Nevanlinna
  Rolf Nevanlinna
  Rolf Herman Nevanlinna was one of the most famous Finnish mathematicians. He was particularly appreciated for his work in complex analysis.- The Nevanlinna family :...
  
   – mathematician (1895 – 1980)
• Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld
  Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld
  Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld was a Finnish mineralogist and a traveller. He was the father of explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.-Life:...
  
   – mineralogist (1792 – 1866)
• Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
  Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
  Freiherr Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld , also known as A. E. Nordenskioeld was a Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and arctic explorer of Finnish-Swedish origin. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists...
  
   polar explorer, political refugee in Sweden (1832–1901)
• Gunnar Nordström
  Gunnar Nordström
  Gunnar Nordström was a Finnish theoretical physicist best remembered for his theory of gravitation, which was an early competitor of general relativity...
  
   theoretical physicist, did not invent general relativity (1881–1923)
• Liisi Oterma
  Liisi Oterma
  Liisi Oterma was a Finnish astronomer, the first woman to get a Ph.D. degree in astronomy in Finland.She discovered or co-discovered some comets, including periodic comets 38P/Stephan-Oterma and 39P/Oterma, and quite a number of asteroids. The asteroid 1529 Oterma was named in her honour.-...
  
   – astronomer (1915 – 2001)
• Leena Palotie
  Leena Palotie
  Leena Peltonen-Palotie was a Finnish geneticist who contributed to the identification of 15 genes for Finnish heritage diseases, including arterial hypertension, schizophrenia, lactose intolerance, arthrosis and multiple sclerosis...
  
   – gene scientist
• Simo Parpola
  Simo Parpola
  Simo Parpola is a Finnish archaeologist, currently professor of Assyriology at the University of Helsinki. He specialized in epigraphy of the Akkadian language, and has been working on the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project since 1987...
  
   – orientalist, assyriologist
• Helena Ranta
  Helena Ranta
  Meri Helena Ranta is a Finnish forensic dentist. She has gained publicity particularly on contributing to several international forensic investigations of conflicts such as Kosovo. In addition, she has a University of Helsinki professor's position, a rare case of a Licentiate gaining a post...
  
   – pathologist, forensic dentist
• Eric Tigerstedt
  Eric Tigerstedt
  Eric Magnus Campbell Tigerstedt was one of the most significant inventors in Finland at the beginning of the 20th century, and has been called the "Thomas Edison of Finland"...
  
   – inventor, Thomas Edison of Finland (1887 – 1925)
• Kari S. Tikka
  Kari S. Tikka
  Kari Sulo Tikka was a Finnish legal scholar. He was Professor of Finance Law at the University of Helsinki and one of Finland's leading experts on taxation.-Career:...
  
   – justice and finance professor (1944 – 2006)
• Esko Valtaoja
  Esko Valtaoja
  Esko Jorma Johannes Valtaoja is a Finnish astronomer and writer. Valtaoja works as a professor at the University of Turku where he studies quasars....
  
   – astronomer
• Tatu Vanhanen
  Tatu Vanhanen
  Tatu Vanhanen is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere in Tampere, Finland...
  
   – political scientist (born 1929)
• Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
  Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
  Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.-Early life:Virtanen was born in Helsinki, Finland. He completed his school education at the Classical Lyceum in Viipuri, Finland. He married the botanist Lilja Moisio in 1920 and had two sons with her...
  
   – chemist, Nobelist
  Nobel Prize
  The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
  
   (1895 – 1973)
• Vilho Väisälä
  Vilho Väisälä
  Vilho Väisälä was a Finnish meteorologist and physicist, and founder of Vaisala.After graduation in mathematics in 1912, Väisälä worked for the Finnish Meteorological Institute in aerological measurements, specializing in the research of the higher troposphere...
  
   – mathematician, inventor of meteorological instruments (1889 – 1969)
• Yrjö Väisälä
  Yrjö Väisälä
  Yrjö Väisälä was a Finnish astronomer and physicist.His main contributions were in the field of optics, but he was also very active in geodetics, astronomy and optical metrology...
  
   – astronomer, meteorologist (1891 – 1971)
• Edvard Westermarck
  Edvard Westermarck
  Edvard Alexander Westermarck was a Swedish-speaking Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo....
  
   – philosopher, sociologist (1862 – 1939)
• Arvo Ylppö
  Arvo Ylppö
  Arvo Henrik Ylppö was a Finnish pediatrician who significantly decreased Finnish infant mortality during the 20th century. He is credited as the father of Finland's public child welfare clinic system, and held the title of archiater for forty years. He is often referred to as the Dr...
  
   – pediatrician (1887 – 1992)

Soldiers

• Aksel Airo
  Aksel Airo
  Aksel Fredrik Airo was a Finnish lieutenant general and main strategic planner during the Winter War and the Continuation War. He was the virtual second-in-command of the Finnish army under Field Marshal C.G.E. Mannerheim....
  
   – general (1898 – 1985)
• Adolf Ehrnrooth
  Adolf Ehrnrooth
  Adolf Erik Ehrnrooth was a Finnish general.Ehrnrooth entered cadet school in 1922 and served in the Uusimaa Dragoon Regiment ....
  
   – general (1905 – 2004)
• Axel Heinrichs – general (1890 – 1965)
• Simo Häyhä
  Simo Häyhä
  Simo Häyhä , nicknamed "White Death" by the Red Army, was a Finnish sniper. Using a modified Mosin–Nagant in the Winter War, he has the highest recorded number of confirmed sniper kills - 505 - in any major war....
  
   – first lieutenant, sharpshooter 505 confirmed sniper kills (1905 – 2002)
• Eino Ilmari Juutilainen – pilot, twice knight of Mannerheim cross
• Jorma Karhunen
  Jorma Karhunen
  Jorma Karhunen was a Finnish Air Force ace.He scored 31.5 kills in World War II; 25.5 of his air victories were achieved while flying the Brewster F2A Buffalo, American fighter....
  
   – pilot, aviation writer
• Jussi Kekkonen
  Jussi Kekkonen
  Uuno Johannes Kekkonen was a Finnish major, CEO and the younger brother of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen. Jussi Kekkonen fought successfully in the Winter War in the direction of Kuhmo but lost his sight when he was wounded in the early stages of the Continuation War.Kekkonen was born in...
  
   – major, younger brother of president Urho Kekkonen (1910 – 1962)
• Ruben Lagus
  Ruben Lagus
  Ernst Ruben Lagus was a Finnish Major General.Lagus was one of the Finnish Jaeger troops trained in the volunteer Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion...
  
   – major general (1896 – 1956)
• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and a Finnish statesman. He was Regent of Finland and the sixth President of Finland...
  
   – marshal of Finland (1867 – 1951)
• Vilho Petter Nenonen
  Vilho Petter Nenonen
  Vilho Petter Nenonen was a Finnish general.Received his military education in the Hamina Cadet School 1896-1901, in the Mihailov Artillery School in St Petersburg 1901-1903, and in St Petersburg Artillery Academy 1906-1909. He served in the Russian army during World War I...
  
   – general (1883 – 1960)
• Karl Lennart Oesch
  Karl Lennart Oesch
  Karl Lennart Oesch was one of the leading Finnish generals during World War II. He held a string of high staff assignments and front commands, and at the end of the Continuation War fully two-thirds of the Finnish ground forces were under his command...
  
   – lieutenant general (1892 – 1978)
• Mika Peltonen
  Mika Peltonen
  Finnish Army Major General Mika Peltonen is the current commander of the Multinational Task Force North of EUFOR.General Peltonen was born January 23, 1956 in Tampere, Finland. He was a foreign exchange student taking part in the Youth For Understanding exchange program. He lived in Glendale,...
  
   – Brigadier General (2005 –)
• Jorma Sarvanto
  Jorma Sarvanto
  Jorma Kalevi Sarvanto was a Finnish Air Force pilot and the foremost Finnish fighter ace of the Winter War.-Early life:...
  
   – fighter pilot, World War II ace
• Ensio Siilasvuo
  Ensio Siilasvuo
  Pehr Hjalmar Ensio Siilasvuo, was a Finnish general. His father was general Hjalmar Siilasvuo of Winter War fame....
  
   – general (1922 – 2001)
• Hjalmar Siilasvuo
  Hjalmar Siilasvuo
  Hjalmar Fridolf Siilasvuo was a Finnish general who led troops in the Winter War, Continuation War and Lapland War...
  
   – general (1892 – 1947)
• Georg Magnus Sprengtporten
  Georg Magnus Sprengtporten
  Count Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, or Göran Magnus Sprengtporten as he preferred to call himself, was a Swedish, Finnish and Russian politician, younger brother of Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten....
  
   – general (1740 – 1819)
• Torsten Stålhandske
  Torsten Stålhandske
  Torsten Stålhandske – Swedish for "Torsten Steelglove", sometimes written "Stålhansch" in the Swedish of the times , and referred to in German literature as Torsten Staalhansch, was a Finnish officer in the Swedish army during the Thirty Years' War.The son of Torsten Svensson , a noble military...
  
   – commander of Hakkapelites (1594 – 1644)
• Paavo Susitaival
  Paavo Susitaival
  Lieutenant Colonel Paavo Susitaival , born Paavo Sivén, was a Finnish author, soldier and politician. Paavo Sivén and his brother, Bobi Sivén were prominent figures in the Finnish interwar Nationalist movement. Paavo had acquired his reputation smuggling volunteers to Germany to enlist in the 27...
  
   – lieutenant colonel (1896 – 1993)
• Lauri Sutela
  Lauri Sutela
  General Lauri Johannes Sutela was a Finnish military officer. He served as an officer in the engineer corps during World War II....
  
   – general
• Paavo Talvela
  Paavo Talvela
  Paavo Talvela was a Finnish soldier and a Knight of the Mannerheim Cross. He was one of the volunteers who served in the Finnish Jaeger battalion in Germany in 1916 to 1917. He was a battalion commander in the Finnish Civil War...
  
   – general (1897 – 1973)
• Lauri Törni
  Lauri Törni
  Lauri Allan Törni was a Finnish Army captain who led an infantry company in the Finnish Winter and Continuation Wars and moved to the United States after World War II...
  
   (Alias Larry Throne) – captain (1919 – 1965)
• Rudolf Walden
  Rudolf Walden
  Karl Rudolf Walden was a Finnish industrialist and general.He received his military education in Hamina Cadet School 1892–1900....
  
   – general (1878 – 1946)
• Kurt Martti Wallenius
  Kurt Martti Wallenius
  Kurt Martti Wallenius was a Finnish Major General.Wallenius was a member of the Finnish Jäger troops trained in Germany prior to Finnish independence. In 1915 Wallenius travelled to Germany where he enrolled in the Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion...
  
   – major general (1893 – 1984)
• Hans Wind
  Hans Wind
  Hans Henrik "Hasse" Wind was a Swedish-speaking Finnish fighter pilot and flying ace in World War II with 75 confirmed air combat victories....
  
   – pilot, twice knight of Mannerheim cross
• Harald Öhquist
  Harald Öhquist
  Harald Öhquist was a Finnish Lieutenant General during the World War II.Öhquist joined the Jaeger Movement in 1915 and trained and fought in the Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion. During the Finnish Civil War he was promoted as Major, and Öhquist lead the White Guard battalion in the battle of...
  
   – lieutenant general (1891 – 1971)
• Hugo Österman – lieutenant general (1892 – 1975)

Athletics

• Asprihanal Pekka Aalto
  Asprihanal Pekka Aalto
  Ashprihanal Pekka Aalto is a Finnish ultramarathon runner who began running as a hobby at age 25.One of the best multiday runners in the world ranked second all-time for 3100 miles 2006. For three straight years he ran all three yearly Self-Transcendence multidays in New York - a feat...
  
   – Ultramarathoner and Extreme Endurance Athlete
• Arto Bryggare
  Arto Bryggare
  Arto Kalervo Bryggare is a former Finnish hurdling athlete. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1995 to 1999 and 2003 to 2007. His personal best time 13,35, made during trials in 1984 Los Angeles Games, is still the record time in...
  
   – hurdling athlete
• Sari Essayah
  Sari Essayah
  Sari Miriam Essayah is a Finnish retired race walker and a politician, Member of the European Parliament since 2009. Her father is from Morocco....
  
   – race walker, World champion
• Tommi Evilä
  Tommi Evilä
  Tommi Evilä is a Finnish long jumper. He gained fame following his surprise bronze in the 2005 Helsinki World Championships, which was Finland's only medal in the games....
  
   – long jumper
• Arsi Harju
  Arsi Harju
  Arsi Ilari Harju is a Finnish shot putter with the team Perhon kiri. He won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with a distance of 21.29 metres. His personal best is 21.39, which he put in the qualifiers for the same Olympics. Due to his success in the Olympics and elsewhere that year,...
  
   – shot putter, Olympic champion
• Eduard Hämäläinen
  Eduard Hämäläinen
  Eduard Hämäläinen is a retired decathlete from Finland and Belarus.-Biograpfhy:He originally competed for the Soviet Union and then Belarus after the Soviet dissolution, but changed nationality. His great-grandparents were deported from Finland to Turkestan in 1917...
  
   – decathlete
• Arto Härkönen
  Arto Härkönen
  Arto Kalevi Härkönen is a retired Finnish javelin thrower. He won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics, with a throw of 86.76 metres.-Achievements:-References:...
  
   – javelin thrower, Olympic champion
• Gunnar Höckert
  Gunnar Höckert
  Gunnar Mikael Höckert was a Finnish athlete, winner of 5000 m at the 1936 Summer Olympics.Born in Helsinki to a wealthy family, Gunnar Höckert had only one great season in 1936....
  
   – runner, Olympic champion (1910 – 1940)
• Volmari Iso-Hollo
  Volmari Iso-Hollo
  Volmari Fritijof Iso-Hollo was a Finnish athlete, winner of two gold medals in 3000 m steeplechase at the Olympic Games....
  
   – runner, two Olympic gold medals (1907 – 1969)
• Akilles Järvinen
  Akilles Järvinen
  Akilles Eero Johannes Järvinen was a Finnish athlete and decathlete and Olympic medallist....
  
   – decathlete (1905 – 1943)
• Matti Järvinen – javelin thrower, Olympic champion (1909 – 1985)
• Verner Järvinen
  Verner Järvinen
  Venne "Verner" Järvinen was a Finnish athlete who competed mostly in the throwing events. A gold medalist in the Greek-style discus from the 1906 Intercalated Games, he went on to win a bronze in the same event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.-Career:Originally one of Finland's leading wrestlers, he...
  
   – discus thrower, Olympic champion (1870 – 1941)
• Kaarlo Kangasniemi
  Kaarlo Kangasniemi
  Kaarlo Kangasniemi is a former Finnish weightlifter. He won an Olympic gold medal at 1968 Summer Olympics.In 1998 he was elected member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.-References:...
  
   – weightlifter, Olympic champion 1968 Mexico
• Olli-Pekka Karjalainen
  Olli-Pekka Karjalainen
  Olli-Pekka Karjalainen is a Finnish hammer thrower.The 1998 World Junior Champion, Karjalainen is the world junior record holder with 78.33 metres . His personal best throw is 83.30, achieved in July 2004 in Lahti....
  
   – hammer thrower
• Veikko Karvonen
  Veikko Karvonen
  Veikko Leo Karvonen was a Finnish athlete who mainly competed in the marathon. He won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1956 Summer Olympics...
  
   – marathon runner (Boston Marathon winner 1954)
• Elias Katz
  Elias Katz
  Elias Katz was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the 3000 metre steeple chase.He was Jewish, and born in Turku. He competed for Finland in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France in the 3000 metre steeple chase where he won the silver medal...
  
   – runner, Olympic champion (3,000-m team steeplechase) and silver (3,000-m steeplechase) (1901 – 1947)
• Jukka Keskisalo
  Jukka Keskisalo
  Jukka Pekka Sakari Keskisalo is a Finnish athlete competing in 3000 m steeplechase and 1500 m. He won 3000 m steeplechase at the European Championships in Gothenburg, 2006.-Career:...
  
   – runner
• Kimmo Kinnunen
  Kimmo Kinnunen
  Kimmo Kinnunen is a former Finnish javelin thrower. He won gold at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo and silver at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart....
  
   – javelin thrower, World champion
• Hannes Kolehmainen
  Hannes Kolehmainen
  Juho Pietari "Hannes" Kolehmainen was a Finnish long-distance runner. He is considered to be the first of a generation of great Finnish long distance runners, often named the "Flying Finns". Kolehmainen competed for a number of years in the United States, wearing the Winged Fist of the Irish...
  
   – runner, four Olympic gold medals (1889 – 1966)
• Valentin Kononen
  Valentin Kononen
  Valentin Kononen is a former Finnish race walker. His competitive accomplishments include winning several medals in major competitions, which ranks him as one of the top Finnish performer in his sport....
  
   – race walker, World champion
• Tapio Korjus
  Tapio Korjus
  Tapio Korjus is a Finnish former javelin thrower.Born in Vehkalahti, he was one of the leading representatives of javelin throwing in his home country in the 1980s, but did not attain international success until the year 1988.At the Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea, Korjus held the...
  
   – javelin thrower, Olympic champion
• Teodor Koskenniemi
  Teodor Koskenniemi
  Fredrik Teodor Koskenniemi was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the cross country team event during his career....
  
   – runner, Olympic champion (1887 – 1965)
• Paavo Kotila
  Paavo Kotila
  Paavo Edvard Kotila is a former Finnish long-distance runner, Olympian, and three-time national champion in the marathon .Kotila won his second consecutive national title in 1956 with a time of 2:18:04.8...
  
   – marathon runner (Boston Marathon winner 1960)
• Harri Larva – runner, Olympic champion (1906 – 1980)
• Lauri Lehtinen
  Lauri Lehtinen
  Lauri Aleksanteri Lehtinen was a Finnish athlete, winner of a controversial 5000 m at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles....
  
   – runner, Olympic champion (1908 – 1973)
• Eero Lehtonen
  Eero Lehtonen
  Eero Reino Lehtonen was a Finnish pentathlete. He won the Olympic gold at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics. After pentathlon was removed from the Olympic programme for 1928, Lehtonen quit his career...
  
   – pentathlete, two Olympic gold medals (1898 – 1959)
• Heikki Liimatainen – runner, two Olympic gold medals (1894 – 1980)
• Tiina Lillak
  Tiina Lillak
  Tiina Lillak is a former Finnish javelin thrower, who was among the best female javelin throwers in the world in the early and mid 1980s. While she has been credited for starting a string of successes for Finnish female Javelin thrower, her more notable accomplishments include winning a world...
  
   – javelin thrower, World champion
• Toivo Loukola
  Toivo Loukola
  Toivo Aarne Loukola was a Finnish athlete, winner of 3000 m steeplechase at the 1928 Summer Olympics....
  
   – runner, Olympic champion (1902 – 1984)
• Taisto Mäki
  Taisto Mäki
  Taisto Armas Mäki was a Finnish long-distance runner - one of the so-called Flying Finns. Like his coach and close friend, Paavo Nurmi, Mäki broke world records over two miles, 5000 metres and 10,000 metres - holding the records simultaneously between 1939 and 1942...
  
   – long-distance runner, multiple world record holder (1910 – 1979)
• Jonni Myyrä
  Jonni Myyrä
  Joonas "Jonni" Myyrä was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the javelin throw. At his first Olympics, the 1912 Summer Olympics, he took 8th place in the javelin....
  
   – javelin thrower, two Olympic gold medals (1892 – 1955)
• Pauli Nevala
  Pauli Nevala
  Pauli Lauri Nevala is a former track and field athlete from Finland who mainly competed in the men's javelin throw....
  
   – javelin thrower, Olympic champion
• Elmer Niklander
  Elmer Niklander
  Elmer Konstantin Niklander was a Finnish athlete who competed in discus throw and shot put.He was born in Rutajärvi, Hausjärvi and died in Helsinki....
  
   – discus thrower and shot putter, Olympic champion (1890 – 1942)
• Paavo Nurmi
  Paavo Nurmi
  Paavo Johannes Nurmi was a Finnish runner. Born in Turku, he was known as one of the "Flying Finns," a term given to him, Hannes Kolehmainen, Ville Ritola, and others for their distinction in running...
  
   – runner, nine Olympic gold medals (1897 – 1973)
• Eino Oksanen
  Eino Oksanen
  Eino Oksanen was a Finnish marathon runner who won the Boston Marathon three times . Oksanen also won the 1957 Turku Marathon in Finland and the 1959 Athens Peace Marathon.- References :...
  
   – marathon runner (Boston Marathon winner 1959, 1961,1962)
• Aki Parviainen
  Aki Parviainen
  Aki Uolevi Parviainen is a Finnish Javelin thrower, who won the gold medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics and a silver medal at the 2001 World Championships. His best throw is 93.09 in 1999. His best Olympic placing is 5th in 2000...
  
   – javelin thrower, World champion
• Tero Pitkämäki
  Tero Pitkämäki
  Tero Kristian Pitkämäki is a Finnish javelin thrower and the former World Champion. Pitkämäki is known for his rivalry with Olympic champion Andreas Thorkildsen. The two are very close friends, however...
  
   – javelin thrower
• Ville Pörhölä
  Ville Pörhölä
  Frans Wilhelm Pörhölä was a Finnish athlete who competed in shot put, discus throw, hammer throw and weight throw....
  
   – shot putter, Olympic champion (1897 – 1964)
• Heli Rantanen
  Heli Rantanen
  Heli Rantanen is a Finnish javelin thrower, who won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...
  
   – javelin thrower, Olympic champion
• Tapio Rautavaara
  Tapio Rautavaara
  Kaj Tapio Rautavaara was a Finnish athlete, singer and movie actor.-Early life:...
  
   – javelin thrower, Olympic champion (1915 – 1979)
• Ville Ritola
  Ville Ritola
  Vilho Eino Ritola was a Finnish athlete, specialised in the long distance events. In the 1920s, he won 8 Olympic medals...
  
   – runner, five Olympic gold medals (1896 – 1982)
• Seppo Räty
  Seppo Räty
  Seppo Henrik Räty is a Finnish javelin thrower. His personal best throw was 96.96 m in 1991, which was a world record at the time, however this throw was made using a modified 'Nemeth' javelin which was banned by the IAAF later that year and all records made using this javelin were retrospectively...
  
   – javelin thrower
• Julius Saaristo – javelin thrower, Olympic champion (1891 – 1969)
• Ilmari Salminen
  Ilmari Salminen
  Ilmari R. Salminen was a Finnish athlete, winner of the 10,000 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was born in Elimäki and died in Kouvola....
  
   – runner, Olympic champion (1902 – 1986)
• Albin Stenroos
  Albin Stenroos
  Oskar Albinus Stenroos was a Finnish athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1924 Summer Olympics....
  
   – marathon runner, Olympic champion (1889 – 1971)
• Olavi Suomalainen
  Olavi Suomalainen
  Heikki Olavi Suomalainen is a former Finnish marathon runner. He won Boston Marathon in 1972 by 18 seconds margin to Víctor Mora. In 1973 he finished third at the same race....
  
   – marathon runner (Boston Marathon winner 1972)
• Armas Taipale
  Armas Taipale
  Armas Rudolf Taipale was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw....
  
   – discus thrower, Olympic champion (1890 – 1976)
• Juha Tiainen
  Juha Tiainen
  Juha Tiainen was a former hammer thrower from Finland who won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. The same year he achieved his personal best throw, 81.52 metres.-Achievements:...
  
   – hammer thrower, Olympic champion
• Vilho Tuulos
  Vilho Tuulos
  Vilho Immanuel Tuulos was a Finnish triple jumper and long jumper.He was born in Tampere, and represented the sports club Tampereen Pyrintö. He won an Olympic gold medal in triple jump in the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp...
  
   – triple jumper, Olympic champion (1895 – 1967)
• Pekka Vasala
  Pekka Vasala
  Pekka Antero Vasala was a middle-distance athlete who won an Olympic gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....
  
   – runner, Olympic champion
• Lasse Virén
  Lasse Virén
  Lasse Artturi Virén is a former Finnish long-distance runner, winner of four gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics...
  
   – runner, four Olympic gold medals
• Paavo Yrjölä
  Paavo Yrjölä
  Paavo Ilmari Yrjölä , also known as the Bear of Hämeenkyrö , was a Finnish track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the decathlon at the Olympics in 1928....
  
   – decathlete, Olympic champion

Football

• Alexei Eremenko Jr.
  Alexei Eremenko
  Aleksei Alekseyevich Yeryomenko is a Russian-born Finnish professional footballer who currently plays for Rubin Kazan in Russia, in-between studying Architecture at University of Strathclyde...
  
  
• Roman Eremenko
  Roman Eremenko
  Roman Alekseevich Eremenko is a Russian-born Finnish footballer who currently plays for FC Rubin Kazan in the Russian Premier League. He is best known for his time in Dynamo Kyiv, with whom he became leader, winning the Ukrainian Premier League title in 2009, and playing in the Champions and...
  
  
• Mikael Forssell
  Mikael Forssell
  Mikael Kaj Forssell is a Finnish footballer who plays as a striker for Football League Championship team Leeds United and for the Finnish national team.-Club career:...
  
  
• Sami Hyypiä
  Sami Hyypiä
  Sami Tuomas Hyypiä is a retired European Cup winning Finnish footballer who played in the centre back position. He last played for German Bundesliga side Bayer 04 Leverkusen and was the captain of the Finland national football team. He joined Leverkusen in summer 2009, ending a ten year spell at...
  
  
• Jonatan Johansson
  Jonatan Johansson (footballer)
  Jonatan Lillebror Johansson is a retired Finnish footballer. He last played for TPS in Finnish Veikkausliiga. His main position was a striker and he was a regular in the Finnish national team.- Early career :...
  
  
• Jussi Jääskeläinen
  Jussi Jääskeläinen
  Jussi Albert Jääskeläinen is a Finnish football goalkeeper, who plays for Bolton Wanderers.-Club career:Jääskeläinen was born in Mikkeli, and made his Veikkausliiga debut in Finland for MP Mikkeli in 1992, and became the club's first choice goalkeeper in 1994. In 1996, he moved to VPS Vaasa where...
  
  
• Joonas Kolkka
  Joonas Kolkka
  Joonas Einari Kolkka is a Finnish footballer who currently plays for Willem II in the Netherlands. He has played as a left winger most of his career, but can also play on the right wing.-Club career:...
  
  
• Shefki Kuqi
  Shefki Kuqi
  Shefki Kuqi is a Kosovar-born Finnish professional footballer who is currently playing for League One side Oldham Athletic. Kuqi plays predominately as a striker. He has spent most of his career in the English league, and has played for clubs including Stockport County, Sheffield Wednesday, Ipswich...
  
  
• Jari Litmanen
  Jari Litmanen
  Jari Olavi Litmanen is a Finnish footballer, currently playing for HJK. He is the current vice-captain of Finland national football team, where he served as a first choice captain between 1996–2008...
  
  
• Antti Niemi
• Petri Pasanen
• Juhani Peltonen
  Juhani Peltonen
  Juhani Peltonen is a former Finnish footballer.Peltonen was the first Finnish player to play in the German Bundesliga. The forward made 38 appearances for Hamburger SV between 1964 and 1966, scoring six goals...
  
  
• Roni Porokara
  Roni Porokara
  Roni Porokara is a Finnish international football player, who currently plays for Beerschot AC in the Belgium Jupiler Pro League. Porokara is the first Jewish player on the Finnish national team since 1949.- FC Hämeenlinna :...
  
  
• Aki Riihilahti
  Aki Riihilahti
  Aki Pasinpoika Riihilahti is a Finnish footballer currently playing for HJK Helsinki in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. He is known as a hard working, defensive midfielder.- Club career :...
  
  
• Aulis Rytkönen
  Aulis Rytkönen
  Taavi Aulis Rytkönen is a Finnish football legend. He became the country's first professional player when he signed for France's Toulouse FC in 1952....
  
  
• Teemu Tainio
  Teemu Tainio
  Teemu Tainio is a Finnish footballer, who currently plays for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.He can play both as a defensive and attacking midfielder and out wide. Tainio also played at right-back under Juande Ramos at Tottenham.-Early career:...
  
  
• Hannu Tihinen
  Hannu Tihinen
  Hannu Tihinen is a retired Finnish footballer who played as a defender.He has played for clubs in Finland, Norway, England, Belgium and Switzerland.-Club career:...
  
  
• Mika Väyrynen
  Mika Väyrynen
  Mika Väyrynen is a Finnish footballer who plays for English Championship side Leeds United. He is a Finland international.-Club career:...
  
  
• Mika Ääritalo
  Mika Ääritalo
  Mika Ääritalo is a Finnish international footballer who plays as a striker for Veikkausliiga side TPS Turku.-Club career:...
  
  

Ice hockey

• Antti Bruun
  Antti Bruun
  Antti Bruun is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Ilves of the SM-liiga.-External links:...
  
  
• Aki Berg
  Aki Berg
  Aki-Petteri Berg is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted third overall by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft...
  
  
• Sean Bergenheim
  Sean Bergenheim
  Sean Bergenheim is a Finnish professional ice hockey winger, currently playing for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League .- Playing career :...
  
  
• Niklas Bäckström
  Niklas Bäckström
  Niklas Oskar Bäckström is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League . He has won both William M. Jennings Trophy and Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award...
  
  
• Valtteri Filppula
  Valtteri Filppula
  Valtteri Filppula is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward, currently playing for the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL...
  
  
• Mikael Granlund
  Mikael Granlund
  Mikael Antero Granlund is a Finnish professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for HIFK of the Finnish SM-Liiga...
  
  
• Matti Hagman
  Matti Hagman
  Matti Risto Tapio "Hakki" Hagman is a former Finnish ice hockey professional. Hagman was the first Finnish-born and Finnish trained player to play an NHL game and the first to play in a Stanley Cup final...
  
  
• Niklas Hagman
  Niklas Hagman
  Niklas Hagman is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League . He was a third round pick of the Florida Panthers, 70th overall, at the 1999 NHL Entry Draft and made his NHL debut with Florida in 2001...
  
  
• Riku Hahl
  Riku Hahl
  Riku Markus Hahl is a Finnish professional ice hockey centre, currently playing for Jokerit in the Finnish SM-liiga.-Playing career:Hahl was drafted 183rd overall in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft by the Colorado Avalanche....
  
  
• Raimo Helminen
  Raimo Helminen
  Raimo Ilmari Helminen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. He is often called "Raipe" or "Maestro" by his fans...
  
  
• Kim Hirschovits
  Kim Hirschovits
  Kim Hirschovits is a professional ice hockey forward. He was drafted by the New York Rangers as their sixth-round pick, #194 overall, in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He is 6'1" tall and weighs 183 lbs.-Career:...
  
  
• Jarkko Immonen
  Jarkko Immonen
  Jarkko Immonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
  
• Jussi Jokinen
  Jussi Jokinen
  Jussi Jokinen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Olli Jokinen
  Olli Jokinen
  Olli Jokinen is a Finnish professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League . He was initially drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in 1997, third overall after Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau. He was the captain of the Florida Panthers from 2003...
  
  
• Jan-Mikael Juutilainen
  Jan-Mikael Juutilainen
  Jan-Mikael Juutilainen is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Jokerit of the SM-liiga. He was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 6th round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.-External links:...
  
  
• Niko Kapanen
  Niko Kapanen
  Niko Klaus Petteri Kapanen is a Finnish professional ice hockey centre, currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
  
• Sami Kapanen
  Sami Kapanen
  Sami Hannu Antero Kapanen is a Finnish professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for KalPa of the SM-liiga. He has played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes and Philadelphia Flyers...
  
  
• Miikka Kiprusoff
  Miikka Kiprusoff
  Miikka Sakari Kiprusoff is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League . He was selected in the fifth round, 116th overall by the San Jose Sharks in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. He has also played for TPS of the Finnish SM-liiga...
  
  
• Mikko Koivu
  Mikko Koivu
  Mikko Sakari Koivu is a Finnish professional ice hockey center and captain of the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Saku Koivu
  Saku Koivu
  Saku Antero Koivu is a Finnish professional ice hockey player and an alternate captain of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League . He began his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1995–96 after three seasons with TPS of the Finnish SM-liiga...
  
   – current IOC member
• Lasse Kukkonen
  Lasse Kukkonen
  Lasse Kukkonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman who plays for Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League...
  
  
• Jari Kurri
  Jari Kurri
  Jari Pekka Kurri is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey right winger and a five-time Stanley Cup champion. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2001. He is currently the general manager of Team Finland....
  
  
• Antti Laaksonen
  Antti Laaksonen
  Antti Akseli Laaksonen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey left winger who last played for the Lukko of the SM-Liiga...
  
  
• Jere Lehtinen
  Jere Lehtinen
  Jere Kalervo Lehtinen is a former Finnish professional ice hockey forward. He played as a right wing. He was drafted 88th overall in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft by the Minnesota North Stars. Lehtinen handles defensive aspects of the game as well as offensive, hence he is a two-way forward for which...
  
  
• Kari Lehtonen
  Kari Lehtonen
  Kari Lehtonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Mikko Lehtonen
  Mikko Lehtonen (ice hockey b. 1978)
  Mikko Lehtonen is a Finnish ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Kärpät in the Finnish SM-liiga.- Playing career :...
  
  
• Jyrki Lumme
  Jyrki Lumme
  Jyrki Olavi Lumme is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League and SM-liiga. After beginning his career in Finland, playing with Ilves Tampere for three seasons, he moved to North America to join the Montreal Canadiens in 1988...
  
  
• Toni Lydman
  Toni Lydman
  Toni Lydman is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman with the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League. He has previously played for the Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, Tappara , and HIFK . He lives with his wife Heta and his two daughters, Amanda and Ellen...
  
  
• Pentti Lund
  Pentti Lund
  Pentti Alexander Lund is a retired Finnish-Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played for the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League. Lund is often credited as being the first Finnish player in the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Jussi Markkanen
  Jussi Markkanen
  Jussi Markkanen is an ice hockey goaltender for EV Zug of the National League A .-Playing career:Markkanen has played extensively in various European professional leagues as well as the NHL...
  
  
• Antti Miettinen
  Antti Miettinen
  Antti Miettinen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward who plays for Ak Bars Kazan of the KHL in Russia-Playing career:...
  
  
• Antti Niemi
  Antti Niemi (ice hockey)
  Antti Niemi is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently playing with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. During the 2009–10 NHL season as a member of the Chicago Blackhawks, he became the first Finnish goaltender to win the Stanley Cup.-Playing career:Niemi...
  
  
• Ville Nieminen
  Ville Nieminen
  Ville Nieminen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Janne Niinimaa
  Janne Niinimaa
  Janne Niinimaa is a professional ice hockey defenceman who has played over 700 games in the NHL. He was selected in the second round of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, 36th overall, by the Philadelphia Flyers...
  
  
• Antero Niittymäki
  Antero Niittymäki
  Antero Pertti Elias Niittymäki is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently a member of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He has previously played for the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers and Tampa Bay Lightning, as well as in the SM-liiga and the American Hockey League...
  
  
• Petteri Nokelainen
  Petteri Nokelainen
  Petteri Nokelainen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Mika Noronen
  Mika Noronen
  Mika Noronen is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender, currently playing for Lukko of SM-liiga.- Career :...
  
  
• Fredrik Norrena
  Fredrik Norrena
  Fredrik Jan Elis Norrena is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Linköping of the Swedish Elitserien.- Playing career :...
  
  
• Petteri Nummelin
  Petteri Nummelin
  Petteri Nummelin is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman, and a former NHL defenceman for the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets. He currently plays for HC Lugano of the Swiss Nationalliga A. He was drafted by the Columbus Blue Jackets as their fifth-round pick, #133 overall, in the...
  
  
• Teppo Numminen
  Teppo Numminen
  Teppo Kalevi Numminen is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League. He is currently an assistant coach for the Buffalo Sabres.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Ville Peltonen
  Ville Peltonen
  Ville Peltonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the HIFK of the SM-liiga . He was drafted by the San Jose Sharks as their third round pick, 58th overall, in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft....
  
  
• Tuomas Pihlman
  Tuomas Pihlman
  Tuomas Pihlman is a Finnish professional ice hockey player in the Finnish SM-liiga side Jokerit.Pihlman was drafted by the New Jersey Devils in the 2nd round, 48th overall, in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. He played a total of 15 NHL games over three seasons, 2003–04, 2005–06 and 2006–07.-External...
  
  
• Joni Pitkänen
  Joni Pitkänen
  Joni Pitkänen is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
  
• Timo Pärssinen
  Timo Pärssinen
  Timo Pärssinen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Timrå IK in the Swedish Elitserien.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Karri Rämö
  Karri Rämö
  Karri Rämö is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender currently with Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. His contract rights are owned by the Montreal Canadiens and he has also played for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:Rämö was drafted by the...
  
  
• Tuukka Rask
  Tuukka Rask
  Tuukka Mikael Rask is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League . Rask was drafted 21st overall in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs...
  
  
• Pekka Rinne
  Pekka Rinne
  Pekka Rinne is a Finnish professional hockey goaltender currently playing for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
  
• Jani Rita
  Jani Rita
  Jani Rita is a professional ice hockey winger.-Playing career:Despite limited NHL experience, Rita has played extensively in the American Hockey League and in the SM-liiga in his native Finland. Rita started his hockeycareer in a youth team of EKS...
  
  
• Reijo Ruotsalainen
  Reijo Ruotsalainen
  Reijo Ruotsalainen is a Finnish retired ice hockey defenceman. He was twice named Finland's top defenceman, and won two Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers, in 1987 and 1990.-Kärpät :...
  
  
• Christian Ruuttu
  Christian Ruuttu
  Christian Ruuttu is a former professional ice hockey player.Ruuttu is the father of Alexander Ruuttu, who was drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Jarkko Ruutu
  Jarkko Ruutu
  Jarkko Ruutu ; born August 23, 1975) is a Finnish professional ice hockey player. Ruutu is currently playing for SM-Liiga team Jokerit. He is the brother of Tuomo Ruutu, currently playing in the NHL on the Carolina Hurricanes, and retired player Mikko Ruutu....
  
  
• Tuomo Ruutu
  Tuomo Ruutu
  Tuomo Iisakki Ruutu is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward who plays for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Tony Salmelainen
  Tony Salmelainen
  Tony Salmelainen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward who plays for Genève-Servette HC and formerly for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Russian Super League...
  
  
• Sami Salo
  Sami Salo
  Sami Salo is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League . He began his professional career with TPS of the SM-liiga before being selected by the Ottawa Senators with their last pick in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft. He joined the Senators in...
  
  
• Tommi Santala
  Tommi Santala
  Tommi Santala is a Finnish ice hockey player, currently representing the Kloten Flyers of Switzerland's National League A.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Teemu Selänne
  Teemu Selänne
  Teemu Ilmari Selänne nicknamed "The Finnish Flash" is a Finnish professional ice hockey winger, an alternate captain of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League . An offensive player known for his skill and speed, Selanne has led the NHL in goal-scoring three times and has been named to...
  
  
• Ilkka Sinisalo
  Ilkka Sinisalo
  Ilkka Antero Jouko Sinisalo is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward who played eleven seasons in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers, Minnesota North Stars and Los Angeles Kings...
  
  
• Petri Skriko
  Petri Skriko
  Petri Kalevi Skriko is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey player, best remembered for his seasons starring in the NHL for the Vancouver Canucks in the 1980s...
  
  
• Esa Tikkanen
  Esa Tikkanen
  Esa Tikkanen is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey forward. He played for the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, St...
  
  
• Kimmo Timonen
  Kimmo Timonen
  Kimmo Timonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenseman and an alternate captain for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
  
• Vesa Toskala
  Vesa Toskala
  Vesa Tapani Toskala is a professional ice hockey goaltender, currently playing for Ilves.-Early career:Toskala was selected by San Jose in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft . The Sharks also took fellow Finn Miikka Kiprusoff in the fifth round...
  
  
• Ossi Väänänen
  Ossi Väänänen
  Ossi Väänänen is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for Jokerit of the Finnish SM-liiga, with whom he was won two silver medals as runner-up for the Kanada-malja in 2000 and 2005...
  
  

Motorsports

• Mika Ahola
  Mika Ahola
  Mika Ahola is a Finnish enduro rider and a five-time world champion. He is also a seven-time winner of the International Six Days Enduro World Trophy with Team Finland, and was the fastest overall in the competition in 1999, 2001 and 2002.Ahola debuted in the World Enduro Championship in a...
  
   – enduro rider
• Pentti Airikkala
  Pentti Airikkala
  Pentti Airikkala , was one of the 'Flying Finns' who dominated world rallying in the past four decades...
  
   – rally driver
• Markku Alén
  Markku Alén
  Markku Allan Alén is a Finnish former rally and race car driver. He drove for Fiat, Lancia, Subaru and Toyota in the World Rally Championship, and held the record for most stage wins in the series until 2011...
  
   – rally driver
• Samuli Aro
  Samuli Aro
  Samuli Aro is a Finnish enduro rider. He is a five-time World Enduro Champion and has also won the International Six Days Enduro World Trophy with Team Finland five times....
  
   – enduro rider
• Toni Gardemeister
  Toni Gardemeister
  Toni Gardemeister , is a professional rally driver in the World Rally Championship. After previously competing for SEAT's, Mitsubishi's, Škoda's and Ford's factory teams, as well as for privateer teams, he joined the Suzuki World Rally Team for the 2008 season.-Early:From the outset of his career...
  
   – rally driver
• Marcus Grönholm
  Marcus Grönholm
  Marcus "Bosse" Grönholm is a Finnish former rally driver. Driving for Peugeot, he won the World Rally Championship in 2000 and 2002. After Peugeot withdrew from the World Rally Championship, Grönholm moved to Ford for the 2006 season and placed second in the drivers' world championship, losing the...
  
   – rally driver. 2 time World Champion
• Mikko Hirvonen
  Mikko Hirvonen
  Mikko Hirvonen is a Finnish rally driver currently driving for the Citroën Total World Rally Team in the World Rally Championship. He placed third in the drivers' championship and helped Ford to the manufacturers' title in both 2006 and 2007. In 2008, 2009 and 2011, he finished runner-up to...
  
   – rally driver
• Mika Häkkinen
  Mika Häkkinen
  Mika Pauli Häkkinen is a Finnish racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion...
  
   – Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   driver 2 time World Champion
• Mika Kallio
  Mika Kallio
  Mika Kallio is a Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He debuted in the 125cc World Championship with the Finnish rookie team Ajo Motorsport in 2001 and was awarded the "Rookie of the Year" in 2002...
  
   – motorcycle racer
• Juha Kankkunen
  Juha Kankkunen
  Juha Matti Pellervo Kankkunen is a Finnish former rally driver. His factory team career in the World Rally Championship lasted from 1983 to 2002. He won 23 world rallies and four drivers' world championship titles, which were both once records in the series...
  
   – rally driver. 4 time World Champion
• Leo Kinnunen
  Leo Kinnunen
  Leo Juhani "Leksa" Kinnunen is a Finnish former car racer, the first Formula One driver from his country. He is also remembered for his success in sportscar racing and rallying....
  
   – Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   driver
• Heikki Kovalainen
  Heikki Kovalainen
  Heikki Johannes Kovalainen is a Finnish Formula One racing driver who spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons with British based team McLaren and the 2010 and 2011 seasons with Team Lotus....
  
   – Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   driver
• Teuvo Länsivuori
  Teuvo Länsivuori
  Teuvo Pentti "Tepi" Länsivuori is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He had his most successful years in 1973 when he finished in second place behind Giacomo Agostini in the 350cc World Championship, second in the 250 championship to Dieter Braun, and in 1976 when he finished second to his...
  
   – motorcycle racer
• JJ Lehto – Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   driver
• Jukka-Pekka Mattila – Offshore One driver
• Hannu Mikkola
  Hannu Mikkola
  Hannu Olavi Mikkola is a retired world champion rally driver. He was a seven time winner of the 1000 Lakes Rally in Finland and won the RAC Rally in Great Britain four times.- Career :...
  
   – rally driver
• Heikki Mikkola
  Heikki Mikkola
  Heikki Antero Mikkola was a four-time World Champion motocross racer. Known as the "Flying Finn", and characterized by a fierce, determined style, he was the first Finn to win a motocross world championship....
  
   – motocross racer
• Timo Mäkinen
  Timo Mäkinen
  Timo Mäkinen was one of the original "Flying Finns" of motor rallying. He is most famous for his hat-tricks of wins in the RAC Rally and the 1000 Lakes Rally-Career:...
  
   – rally driver
• Tommi Mäkinen
  Tommi Mäkinen
  "Turbo" Tommi Antero Mäkinen , tied with Juha Kankkunen and behind Sébastien Loeb , and fifth in wins .He is a four-time World Rally Champion, a series he first won, and then successfully defended, continuously throughout 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999, on all occasions driving the Ralliart Mitsubishi...
  
   – rally driver. 4 time World Champion
• Kauko Nieminen
  Kauko Nieminen
  Kauko Armas Nieminen is a Finnish self-taught physicist. His work is pseudoscience.Although Nieminen is most known for his works in physics, he does not have any academic training or degree in physics, but is entirely self-taught...
  
   – speedway racer
• Taru Rinne
  Taru Rinne
  Taru Rinne is a Finnish former motorcycle racer. She was the first woman to achieve points in Grand Prix motorcycle racing.-Karting:...
  
   – female motorcycle racer
• Keke Rosberg
  Keke Rosberg
  Keijo Erik Rosberg , nicknamed "Keke", is a Finnish former racing driver and winner of the Formula One World Championship. He was the first Finnish driver to compete regularly in the series. Rosberg grew up in Oulu and Iisalmi, Finland...
  
   – Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   driver, World Champion 1982
• Nico Rosberg
  Nico Rosberg
  Nico Erik Rosberg is a racing driver for the Mercedes GP Formula One team. He races under the German flag in Formula One, although he competed for Finland earlier in his career...
  
   – Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   driver
• Harri Rovanperä
  Harri Rovanperä
  Harri "Rovis" Rovanperä is a Finnish rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship from 1993 to 2006. He drove for SEAT , Peugeot , Mitsubishi and Red Bull Škoda Team...
  
   – rally driver
• Kimi Räikkönen
  Kimi Räikkönen
  Kimi Matias Räikkönen , nicknamed Iceman, is a Finnish racing driver, who will drive in Formula One for Lotus in . After nine seasons racing in Formula One, in which he took the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, he competed in the World Rally Championship from 2009-2011.Räikkönen entered...
  
   – Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   driver, World Champion in 2007; rally driver
• Jarno Saarinen
  Jarno Saarinen
  Jarno Karl Keimo Saarinen was a Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He is the only Finn to win a road racing World Championship.- Career :...
  
   – motorcycle racer (1945 – 1973)
• Juha Salminen
  Juha Salminen
  Juha Salminen is a Finnish enduro rider. He is a 13-time World Enduro Champion and has also won the German championship and the Spanish championship . In motocross, he won the Finnish championship in 2002...
  
   – enduro rider
• Mika Salo
  Mika Salo
  Mika Juhani Salo is a Finnish racing driver. He competed in Formula One between and . His best ranking was 10th in the world championship in 1999. He also won the GT2 class in the 2008 and 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans....
  
   – Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
   driver
• Timo Salonen
  Timo Salonen
  Timo Salonen is a Finnish former rally driver and the 1985 world champion for Peugeot. It was commented of him that he stood out from other drivers, because he was overweight, wore thick glasses and smoked heavily, but still remained one of the fastest and most competitive drivers in the sport...
  
   – rally driver
• Kari Tiainen
  Kari Tiainen
  Kari Tiainen is a Finnish enduro rider. He is a seven-time World Enduro Champion and held the record for most wins in the world championship , until the record was broken by compatriot Juha Salminen during the 2008 season...
  
   – enduro rider
• Henri Toivonen
  Henri Toivonen
  Henri Pauli Toivonen was a Finnish rally driver born in Jyväskylä, the home of Rally Finland. His father, Pauli Toivonen, was the 1968 European Rally Champion for Porsche and his brother, Harri Toivonen, became a professional circuit racer.Toivonen's first World Rally Championship victory came...
  
   – rally driver (1956 – 1986)
• Ari Vatanen
  Ari Vatanen
  Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen is a Finnish rally driver turned politician and Member of the European Parliament 1999–2009. Vatanen won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar Rally four times....
  
   – rally driver

Winter sports

• Janne Ahonen
  Janne Ahonen
  Janne Petteri Ahonen is a former Finnish ski jumper who has competed in the world cup between 1992-2011. A legendary ski jumper, he is widely considered one of the best and most successful athletes in the history of the sport...
  
   – ski jumper
• Antti Autti
  Antti Autti
  Antti-Matias Antero Autti is a Finnish snowboarding star who shot to fame when he defeated big-name talents Danny Kass, Andy Finch, and Shaun White in the Men's Superpipe at the 2005 Winter X Games to claim the gold...
  
   – snowboarder
• Veikko Hakulinen
  Veikko Hakulinen
  Veikko Johannes Hakulinen was a Finnish forestry technician and cross country skier, triple champion in both the olympics and world championship competition in cross country skiing...
  
   – cross-country skier, three Olympic gold medals
• Janne Happonen
  Janne Happonen
  Janne Mikael Happonen is a Finnish ski jumper who has competed since 2002. He represents Puijon Hiihtoseura as his ski club....
  
   – ski jumper
• Heikki Hasu
  Heikki Hasu
  Heikki Vihtori Hasu is a Finnish Nordic skier who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s who was born in Sippola....
  
   – Nordic combined, two Olympic gold medals
• Matti Hautamäki
  Matti Hautamäki
  Matti Antero Hautamäki is a Finnish ski jumper.-Biography:Matti made his first ski-jumping attempts at the age of seven near his home town of Oulu. When his older brother Jussi and his friend Lauri Hakola moved to Kuopio, Matti followed them...
  
   – ski jumper
• Antti Hyvärinen
  Antti Hyvärinen
  Antti Abram Hyvärinen was a Finnish ski jumper who competed in the 1950s. He was born in Rovaniemi....
  
   – ski jumper
• Kalevi Hämäläinen
  Kalevi Hämäläinen
  Kalevi Hämäläinen is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He won the 50 km event at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley...
  
   – cross-country skier
• Risto Jussilainen
  Risto Jussilainen
  Risto Jussilainen is a retired Finnish ski jumper. He won a silver medal in the team large hill event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....
  
   – ski jumper
• Marjatta Kajosmaa
  Marjatta Kajosmaa
  Marjatta Kajosmaa is a Finnish former cross country skier who competed during the 1970s. She competed in two Winter Olympics, earning a total of four medals. Kajosmaa also competed several times at the Holmenkollen ski festival, winning four times at 10 km and three times at 5 km...
  
   – cross-country skier
• Veikko Kankkonen
  Veikko Kankkonen
  Veikko Kankkonen is a Finnish ski jumper who was active in the 1960's.Kankkonen earned two ski jumping medals at the 1964 Winter Olympics with a gold in the individual normal hill and a silver in the individual large hill...
  
   – ski jumper
• Jouko Karjalainen
  Jouko Karjalainen
  Jouko Karjalainen is a former Finnish nordic combined skier. He won two silver medals in the individual Nordic combined at the 1980 Winter Olympics and the 1984 Winter Olympics....
  
   – Nordic combined
• Klaes Karppinen
  Klaes Karppinen
  Klaes or Klaus Karppinen , was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1930s...
  
   – cross-country skier
• Kalle Keituri
  Kalle Keituri
  Kalle Keituri is a Finnish ski jumper, who competes since 2002. His current club is Lahden Hiihtoseura , his nicknames are K2ri, Kal-el and Kallemon....
  
   – ski jumper
• Harri Kirvesniemi
  Harri Kirvesniemi
  Harri Tapani Kirvesniemi is a Finnish former cross country skier who competed from 1980 to 2001. During his career he won six Olympic medals , and also the 50 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 2000...
  
   – cross-country skier
• Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi
  Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi
  Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi is a former Finnish cross country skier. She was the big figure at the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo, winning all three individual cross country skiing events , and a bronze medal for Finland in the relay...
  
   – cross-country skier, three Olympic gold medals
• Anssi Koivuranta
  Anssi Koivuranta
  Anssi Koivuranta is a ski jumper, formerly nordic combined skier from Finland. Known for winning the 2008–09 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup...
  
   – Nordic combined
• Kiira Korpi
  Kiira Korpi
  Kiira Linda Katriina Korpi is a Finnish figure skater. She is the 2007 and 2011 European bronze medalist, 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard champion and a two-time Finnish National Champion .- Personal life :...
  
   – figure skater
• Markku Koski
  Markku Koski
  Markku Koski is a professional snowboarder from Sievi, Finland. He is well known within the snowboarding community for his consistent showing in half-pipe competitions and for his video parts with Standard Films...
  
   – snowboarder and Olympic bronze medalist (Men's Snowboarding Halfpipe)
• Kai Kovaljeff
  Kai Kovaljeff
  Kai Kovaljeff is a Finnish ski jumper.He made his Continental Cup debut in September 2007, his best result being a seventh place from Villach in September 2007. He made his World Cup debut in January 2009 in Zakopane, and collected his first World Cup points with a 21st place in that race. At the...
  
   – ski jumper
• Hilkka Kuntola
  Hilkka Kuntola
  Hilkka Riihivuori née Kuntola is a Finnish former cross country skier who competed during the 1970s and 1980s. She competed in three Winter Olympics, earning a total of four medals...
  
   – cross-country skier
• Risto Laakkonen
  Risto Laakkonen
  Risto Laakkonen is a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1986 to 1993. He won a gold medal in the team large hill competition at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville....
  
   – ski jumper
• Janne Lahtela
  Janne Lahtela
  Janne Lahtela is a Finnish former athlete, who established himself as one of the most dominant persons in the history of moguls skiing. He is currently the head coach of Japan's freestyle skiing team...
  
   – freestyle skier
• Mika Laitinen
  Mika Laitinen
  Mika Antero Laitinen is Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1990 to 2000. He won a gold medal in the Team large hill competition at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville....
  
   – ski jumper
• Samppa Lajunen
  Samppa Lajunen
  Samppa Lajunen is a retired Finnish Nordic combined athlete who competed during the late 1990s and early 2000s....
  
   – Olympic gold medalist (Nordic combined) and (sprint)
• Ville Larinto
  Ville Larinto
  Ville Larinto is a Finnish ski jumper. Larinto made his World Cup debut in 2007-08, and picked up his first World Cup points in the Four Hills opener at Oberstdorf, Germany on 30 December 2007, when he finished 29th....
  
   – ski jumper
• Hannu Manninen
  Hannu Manninen
  Hannu Kalevi Manninen is a Finnish nordic combined athlete. Debuting at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer at the age of 15, he took his first medal three years later at the age of 18 when he won silver in the 4 x 5 km team event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships...
  
   – Nordic combined
• Marjo Matikainen-Kallström
  Marjo Matikainen-Kallström
  Marjo Tuulevi Matikainen-Kallström is a politician and former Finnish cross-country skier.Matikainen-Kallström represents the National Coalition Party in Finland. From 1996 to 2004 she was a Member of the European Parliament, and since 2004 she has been a member of the Finnish Parliament...
  
   – cross-country skier
• Juha Mieto
  Juha Mieto
  Juha Iisakki Mieto . is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed during the 1970s and 1980s. He won five medals at the Winter Olympics...
  
   – cross-country skier
• Olli Muotka
  Olli Muotka
  Olli Muotka is a Finnish ski jumper and former Nordic combined athlete.Before 2007 Muotka competed mainly in Nordic combined, in the Junior World Ski Championships and World Cup B competitions....
  
   – ski jumper
• Kaija Mustonen
  Kaija Mustonen
  Kaija Marja Mustonen is a former speed skater from Finland.After winning silver and bronze at the 1964 Winter Olympics of Innsbruck, Mustonen went on to win gold and silver at the 1968 Winter Olympics of Grenoble....
  
   – speed skater
• Mika Myllylä
  Mika Myllylä
  Mika Kristian Myllylä was a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2005. He won six medals at the Winter Olympics, earning one gold , one silver , and four bronzes .Myllylä also won a total of nine medals at the...
  
   – cross-country skier
• Eero Mäntyranta
  Eero Mäntyranta
  Eero Antero Mäntyranta is a former Finnish skier and multiple Olympic Champion. With his seven medals from four Winter Olympics, he is one of the most successful skiers Finland has ever produced....
  
   – cross-country skier, three Olympic gold medals
• Toni Nieminen
  Toni Nieminen
  Toni Nieminen is a Finnish ski-jumper who competed from 1991 to 2004.His biggest success came very early in his career at the age of 16, where he won three medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, earning two gold medals in the individual and team large hill events; and a bronze medal in...
  
   – ski jumper, two Olympic gold medals
• Ari-Pekka Nikkola
  Ari-Pekka Nikkola
  Ari-Pekka Nikkola is a former Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1986 to 1998. He won two gold medals in the Team large hill competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville...
  
   – ski jumper, two Olympic gold medals
• Matti Nykänen
  Matti Nykänen
  Matti Ensio Nykänen is a Finnish former ski jumper who won five Olympic medals , nine World Championships medals and 22 Finnish Championships medals . Most notably, Nykänen won three gold medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics, becoming, along with Yvonne van Gennip of the Netherlands, the most...
  
   – ski jumper, four Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal
• Harri Olli
  Harri Olli
  Harri Olli is a Finnish former ski jumper who has been competing on World Cup level since 2002. He is best known for his silver medal in the individual large hill at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo...
  
  – ski jumper
• Kalle Palander
  Kalle Palander
  Kalle Markus Palander is a Finnish alpine skier, the most successful male Finn ever in the sport.In 1999 Palander won the world championship in slalom. He also won the Alpine skiing World Cup in slalom during the 2002–2003 season, and was fourth in the overall standings. Palander has also...
  
   – skier
• Peetu Piiroinen
  Peetu Piiroinen
  Peetu Piiroinen is a Finnish snowboarder.-Personal life:Living in Hyvinkää, Finland, with his home mountain being Sveitsin Hiihtokeskus, Peetu has been travelling the world competing since 1997....
  
   – snowboarder, one Olympic Silver Medal (halfpipe)
• Tanja Poutiainen
  Tanja Poutiainen
  Tanja Poutiainen is a Finnish alpine ski racer, the silver medalist in the women's giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino....
  
   – skier
• Jari Puikkonen
  Jari Puikkonen
  Jari Puikkonen is a former Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1977 to 1991. Puikkonen made his debut internationally in the Four Hills Tournament competition in Oberstdorf on December 30, 1977. He won his first World Cup victory at Innsbruck in 1981...
  
   – ski jumper
• Siiri Rantanen
  Siiri Rantanen
  Siiri Johanna "Äitee" Rantanen is a former cross-country skier from Finland who competed during the 1950s and early 1960s.She was born in Tohmajärvi....
  
   – cross-country skier
• Marjut Rolig
  Marjut Rolig
  Marjut Rolig Marjut Rolig Marjut Rolig (née Lukkarinen; (born February 4, 1966 in Lohja) is a former Finnish Cross-country skier who competed during the early 1990s. She won two medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville with a gold in the 5 km and a silver in the 15 km.Rolig also...
  
   – cross-country skier
• Mikko Ronkainen
  Mikko Ronkainen
  Mikko Ronkainen is a freestyle skier from Finland. He is a two-time World Champion and won the moguls World Cup during the 2000-2001 season. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Ronkainen won a silver medal.-References:...
  
   – freestyle skier
• Janne Ryynänen
  Janne Ryynänen
  Janne Ryynänen is a Finnish Nordic combined athlete who has been competing since 2003. His ski club is Ounasvaaran hiihtoseura. One of his greatest achievements include a gold medal from 4 x 5 km team competition at Sapporo 2007, where he had the longest jump of the Finnish team...
  
   – Nordic combined
• Veli Saarinen
  Veli Saarinen
  Veli Selim Saarinen was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1920s and 1930's.He was born in Martinsaari and died in Helsinki....
  
   – cross-country skier
• Julius Skutnabb
  Julius Skutnabb
  Julius Ferninand Skutnabb was a Finnish speed skater who won several Olympic medals. He was born in Helsinki and died there as well....
  
   – speed skater
• Jani Soininen
  Jani Soininen
  Jani Markus Soininen is a former Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1992 to 2001. He won two medals the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, earning a gold in the individual normal hill and a silver in the individual large hill.His biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships,...
  
   – ski jumper
• Helena Takalo – cross-country skier
• Jaakko Tallus
  Jaakko Tallus
  Jaakko Tapio Tallus is a nordic combined athlete from Finland who won gold and silver medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics...
  
   – Nordic combined
• Clas Thunberg
  Clas Thunberg
  Arnold Clas Robert Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz...
  
   – speed skater, five Olympic gold medals
• Jouko Törmänen
  Jouko Törmänen
  Jouko Törmänen is a former Finnish ski jumper who competed during the 1970s and early 1980s.His best known success was at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, where he won a gold medal in the individual large hill event.-External links:...
  
   – ski jumper
• Tuomo Ylipulli
  Tuomo Ylipulli
  Tuomo Ylipulli . is a former Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1983 to 1988. He won a gold medal in the Team large hill competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary....
  
   – ski jumper

Other

• Paavo Aaltonen
  Paavo Aaltonen
  Paavo Johannes Aaltonen was a Finnish gymnast and a three-time Olympic champion.Aaltonen was the second most successful gymnast at the 1948 Summer Olympics taking home four medals, of which three were gold. His fellow countryman, Veikko Huhtanen, managed five medals including three golds...
  
   – gymnast, three Olympic gold medals (1919 – 1962)
• Jouko Ahola
  Jouko Ahola
  Jouko Ahola is a Finnish strongman and actor. He won the 1997 and 1999 World's Strongest Man, and finished second in 1998. Ahola won the Europe's Strongest Man contest twice in 1998 and 1999, and finished fourth in 1996. Jouko won the World's Strongest Team in 1997 and 1999, and was second in 1998...
  
   – World's strongest man champion twice
• Patrik Antonius
  Patrik Antonius
  Patrik Antonius is a Finnish professional poker player, former tennis player and coach, and model from Vantaa, Finland. He currently resides in Monte Carlo...
  
   – High stakes poker player
• Kalle Anttila
  Kalle Anttila
  Kalle Anttila was a Finnish wrestler and Olympic champion in both freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling....
  
   – wrestler, two Olympic gold medals (1887 – 1975)
• Connie Garner
  Connie Garner
  Connie Garner is a fitness competitor, model, and fitness celebrity from Australia.Connie has won World Fitness Titles and won back to back Australian Fitness Titles. She was also Miss World Fitness 2000. Connie is a personal trainer, university educated and fitness models for a number of...
  
   - née Spannari – Miss World Fitness
• Veikka Gustafsson
  Veikka Gustafsson
  Eero Veikka Juhani Gustafsson, known as Veikka Gustafsson is a Finnish mountaineer. He was born in Espoo and he has three siblings, Elina, Erkki and Esa. His family bought a cabin in Tuupovaara and they moved there in 1976. In 1993 Veikka became the first Finnish person to have reached the top of...
  
   – mountain climber
• Yrjö Hietanen
  Yrjö Hietanen
  Yrjö Jalmari Hietanen was a Finnish sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals at Helsinki in 1952 in the K-2 1000 m and K-2 10000 m events.-References:...
  
   – rower, two Olympic gold medals
• Veikko Huhtanen
  Veikko Huhtanen
  Veikko Aarne Aleks Huhtanen was a Finnish gymnast and a three-time Olympic champion.Huhtanen was the most successful gymnast at the 1948 Summer Olympics by taking home five medals, of which three were golden...
  
   – gymnast, three Olympic gold medals (1919 – 1976)
• Robin Hull
  Robin Hull
  Robin Hull is a Finnish professional snooker player. For some time he was the sole Nordic player on the game's main tour, although his accent reflects the fact that he was largely raised in London, and his father is English....
  
   – snooker player
• Mikko Ilonen
  Mikko Ilonen
  Mikko Ilonen is a Finnish professional golfer.Ilonen was born in Lahti, Finland. He won the 2000 Amateur Championship, and turned pro in 2001. He plays mainly on the European Tour, where he has won two events...
  
   – golfer
• Pertti Karppinen
  Pertti Karppinen
  Pertti Johannes Karppinen is a Finnish rower who is legendary for his three consecutive Olympic Gold medals in Single Sculls in 1976, 1980, and 1984. He also won World Championships in 1979 and 1985. He once held the world record in indoor rowing. Karppinen's style was to row a steady race and...
  
   – rower, three Olympic gold medals
• Antti Kasvio
  Antti Kasvio
  Antti Kasvio is a former freestyle swimmer from Finland who won the bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Together with Jani Sievinen he was Finland's leading swimmer in the 1990s.At the 1993 European Swimming Championships in Sheffield, Kasvio...
  
   – swimmer
• Marko Kemppainen
  Marko Kemppainen
  Marko Kemppainen is an athlete from Finland. He competes in skeet shooting.Kemppainen won a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championship in Cairo. He represented Finland at the 2004 Summer Olympics. By winning the silver medal in men's skeet event he took the first medal for Finland in the Athens...
  
   – skeet shooter
• Mika Koivuniemi
  Mika Koivuniemi
  Mika Juhani Koivuniemi is a Finnish ten-pin bowler, currently on the Professional Bowlers Association tour in the United States, who has won bowling titles in 12 different countries in his career....
  
   – ten-pin bowler
• Väinö Kokkinen
  Väinö Kokkinen
  Väinö Kokkinen was a Finnish wrestler from Hollola in the Päijänne Tavastia region. He became two times Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling, and also European champion.-Olympics:...
  
   – wrestler, two Olympic gold medals (1899 – 1967)
• Petteri Koponen
  Petteri Koponen
  Petteri Koponen is a Finnish professional basketball player. He currently plays for Virtus Bologna. He is a point guard, weighs 195 pounds and is 6 feet 4.5 inches tall . He played for Virtus Bologna in Italian Lega Basket Serie A basketball league...
  
   – basketball player, first Finnish first round pick in NBA Draft
  NBA Draft
  The NBA Draft is an annual event in which the thirty teams from the National Basketball Association can draft players who are eligible and wish to join the league. These players are usually amateur U.S. college basketball players, but international players are also eligible to be drafted...
  
  
• Pentti Linnosvuo
  Pentti Linnosvuo
  Pentti Tapio Akseli Linnosvuo was a Finnish sport shooter, the most recent shooter to win Olympic gold medals in both 50 m Pistol and 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol . As the technique differs much between the two events, few modern top-level shooters even attempt to excel in both...
  
   – sport shooter, two Olympic gold medals
• Lasse Lintila
  Lasse Lintila
  Lasse Lintilä, born in Finland, is one of the worlds leading Ten-pin bowlers.Some of his achievements include coming 1st in the 2004 Super Bowl Eliminator, 2nd in the 2002 July High Roller and winning $20,000 as the winner of the 2001 High Roller Storm Shootout.-External links:*...
  
   – ten-pin bowler
• Hanno Möttölä
  Hanno Möttölä
  Hanno Aleksanteri Möttölä is a Finnish professional basketball player. Möttölä previously played for the Atlanta Hawks in the National Basketball Association , in the power forward position, where he became the first player from Finland to play in the NBA.Möttölä attended the University of Utah in...
  
   – basketball player, first Finnish NBA
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
   player
• Jarkko Nieminen
  Jarkko Nieminen
  Jarkko Kalervo Nieminen is a professional tennis player from Finland.His highest ranking is 13th, which was achieved on July 10, 2006. He has won one ATP singles title and two doubles titles in his career so far. His best performances in Grand Slam tournaments have been reaching the quarter-finals...
  
   – tennis player
• Lauri "Tahko" Pihkala
  Lauri Pihkala
  Lauri Pihkala was the inventor of pesäpallo, the Finnish variant of baseball. He also competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics....
  
   – inventor of Finnish baseball (1888 – 1981)
• Kustaa Pihlajamäki
  Kustaa Pihlajamäki
  Kustaa Pihlajamäki was a Finnish freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion.He received a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, a silver medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, and a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.-References:...
  
   – wrestler, two Olympic gold medals (1902 – 1944)
• Jarno Pihlava
  Jarno Pihlava
  Jarno Pihlava is a retired male breaststroke swimmer from Finland. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: in 2000 and 2004.-References:*...
  
   – swimmer
• Arto Saari
  Arto Saari
  Arto Saari is a professional skateboarder. He lives in Huntington Beach, California. He was selected as the "2001 Skater of the Year" by Thrasher magazine. His skating stance is regular. He is known for his big and aggressive skating style and also for his lipslides...
  
    – pro skateboarder
• Ale Saarvala – gymnast, two Olympic gold medals
• Kasperi Salo
  Kasperi Salo
  Kasperi Salo is a male badminton player from Finland.Salo played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing in the first round.-References:...
  
   – badminton player
• Heikki Savolainen – gymnast, two Olympic gold medals (1907 – 1998)
• Hanna-Maria Seppälä – swimmer
• Jani Sievinen
  Jani Sievinen
  Jani Nikanor Sievinen is a former medley swimmer from Finland, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...
  
   – swimmer
• Markku Uusipaavalniemi
  Markku Uusipaavalniemi
  Markku Uusipaavalniemi is a Finnish curler and politician.-Personal life:Uusipaavalniemi lives in Hyvinkää with his wife and three children. His older brother Jussi taught him how to curl.-Curling career:...
  
   – curler
• Antti Viitikko
  Antti Viitikko
  Antti Viitikko is a male badminton player from Finland. Viitikko played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing in the round of 32 to Shon Seung-mo of Korea.-External links:*...
  
   – badminton player
• Janne Virtanen
  Janne Virtanen
  Janne Virtanen is a strongman from Espoo, Finland. Janne earns his living as a carpenter in Finland....
  
   – World's strongest man champion
• Emil Väre
  Emil Väre
  Emil Ernst Väre was a Finnish wrestler who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He won two consecutive gold medals in the lightweight class.-External links:*...
  
   – wrestler, two Olympic gold medals (1885 – 1974)
• Verner Weckman
  Verner Weckman
  Johan Verner Weckman was a Finnish sport wrestler who competed in the 1906 Summer Olympics and in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was born in Loviisa in a family of farmer. He took Abitur in Helsinki 1902...
  
   – wrestler, two Olympic gold medals (1882 – 1968)
• Kurt Wires
  Kurt Wires
  Kurt Oskar Wires was a Finnish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two golds and one silver .-References:*...
  
   – rower, two Olympic gold medals (1919 – 1991)

Theologians, clergymen

• Mikael Agricola
  Mikael Agricola
  Mikael Agricola was a clergyman who became the de facto founder of written Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden . He is often called the "father of the Finnish written language". Agricola was consecrated as the bishop of Turku in 1554, without papal approval...
  
  
• Bishop Henry
  Bishop Henry
  Saint Henry was a medieval English clergyman...
  
  
• Lauri Ingman
  Lauri Ingman
  Lauri Ingman was a Finnish theologian, bishop and politician. From 1916 to 1930 he was the professor of practical theology in the University of Helsinki...
  
  
• Markku Koivisto
• Lars Levi Læstadius
  Lars Levi Læstadius
  Lars Levi Læstadius was a Swedish Lutheran pastor of partly Sami ancestry. From the mid 1840s and onward he became the leader of the Laestadian movement...
  
  
• Leo
  Leo (Makkonen) of Finland
  Archbishop Leo of Karelia and All Finland, head of the Finnish Orthodox Church, was born in Pielavesi in eastern Finland on June 4, 1948. After completing studies in 1972 at the Kuopio seminary, he was ordained deacon on 20 July 1973 and priest two days later.He was consecrated Bishop of Joensuu...
  
  
• Kari Mäkinen
  Kari Mäkinen
  Kari Mäkinen is the archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. On 11 March 2010 he was elected the 14th Archbishop of Turku and Finland, and he succeeded Jukka Paarma in that position on 6 June 2010...
  
  
• Jukka Paarma
  Jukka Paarma
  Jukka Paarma was the Archbishop of Turku and Finland, and the spiritual head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. He retired as Archbishop on June 1, 2010.-References:...
  
  
• Paavo Ruotsalainen
  Paavo Ruotsalainen
  Paavo Ruotsalainen was a Finnish farmer and lay preacher.Born in Tölvänniemi as the oldest son of plain farmers, he received his first bible at age six. At the time of his confirmation he had already read it three times. His preoccupation with the words of the bible gained him the nickname...
  
  
• John Vikström
  John Vikström
  John Edvin Vikström, , Archbishop emeritus of Finland, was born to parents Edvin and Hilma Vikström. In 1957 he married teacher Birgitta Vikström who died in 1994. John Vikström has three children...
  
  

Writers

• Juhani Aho
  Juhani Aho
  Juhani Aho, originally Johannes Brofeldt, was a Finnish author and journalist.Aho's literary output is wide-ranging since he pursued different styles as time passed....
  
   – first professional writer
• Minna Canth
  Minna Canth
  Minna Canth was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children...
  
   – first notable woman author (1844 – 1897)
• Bo Carpelan
  Bo Carpelan
  Baron Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan was a Finnish poet and author. He published his first book of poems in 1946, and received his Ph.D. in 1960. Carpelan, who wrote in Swedish, composed numerous books of verse, as well as several novels and short stories. He is the only person as of yet to have...
  
  
• Marco Casagrande
  Marco Casagrande
  Marco Casagrande, , is a Finnish architect, environmental artist, architectural theorist, writer and professor of architecture. He graduated from Helsinki University of Technology department of architecture .- Early life :...
  
  
• Jörn Donner
  Jörn Donner
  Jörn Johan Donner is a Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, politician, member of the Donner family and founder of Finnish Film Archive. He has been associated with several different political parties, and has at different times been a member both of the Finnish parliament and the...
  
   – author and politician
• Pentti Haanpää
  Pentti Haanpää
  Pentti Haanpää was a Finnish author. He is best known for his books Vääpeli Sadon tapaus 1935 and Noitaympyrä 1931.-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Aarne Haapakoski
  Aarne Haapakoski
  Aarne Haapakoski was a Finnish pulp writer. He is perhaps best known for a detective fiction series about architect/detective "Klaus Karma" and a science fiction series about a robot named "Atorox." The Atorox stories were written under the pseudonym Outsider. The Atorox Award for Finnish science...
  
   – pulp writer with pseudonym Outsider
• Paavo Haavikko
  Paavo Haavikko
  Paavo Haavikko was a Finnish poet and playwright, considered one of the country's most outstanding writers...
  
  
• Saima Harmaja
  Saima Harmaja
  Saima Rauha Maria Harmaja was a Finnish poet and writer. She is known for her tragic life and early death, which are reflected in her sensitive poems....
  
   – poet (1913 – 1937)
• Laila Hietamies
• Veikko Huovinen
  Veikko Huovinen
  Veikko Huovinen was a Finnish novelist known for his realism, pacifism, sharp intellect, and peculiar humor. He wrote 37 books.-Early life:...
  
  
• Antti Hyry
  Antti Hyry
  Antti Hyry is a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 2005. In 2009 his book Uuni won the Finlandia Prize, Finland's premier prize for literature. It details a man's reflections as he collects cement and bricks to build an oven for his home...
  
  
• Anna-Leena Härkönen
  Anna-Leena Härkönen
  Anna-Leena Härkönen is a Finnish writer and actress.She was born in Liminka and studied acting at the college of drama and the University of Tampere's program of drama studies, which she concluded in 1989. She won the J. H...
  
  
• Risto Isomäki
  Risto Isomäki
  Risto Isomäki is a Finnish environmental activist and author of science fiction and nonfiction books. His 2005 novel Sarasvatin hiekkaa was nominated for the Finlandia Prize in 2005 and won the Tähtivaeltaja award in 2006...
  
   – science fiction writer
• Tove Jansson
  Tove Jansson
  Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She is best known as the author of the Moomin books.- Biography :...
  
   – children's author of Moomin
  Moomin
  The Moomins are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland. They are a family of trolls who are white and roundish, with large snouts that make them resemble hippopotamuses...
  
   fame (1914 – 2001)
• Maria Jotuni
  Maria Jotuni
  Maria Gustaava Jotuni was a notable Finnish author and a playwright.-Life:...
  
   (1880 – 1943)
• Markus Kajo
  Markus Kajo
  Markus Aarni Erämies Kajo is a Finnish reporter, screenwriter and TV show host. He has appeared on YLE TV2 in shows such as Ihmisen käsikirja, Markus Kajon ruudunsäästöohjelma, Naurun paikka and TV-ohjelma Kettunen.Kajo's trademark laid-back, witty yet extremely dry style made a breakthrough in...
  
   – comedy writer (1957 –)
• Taito Kantonen
  Taito Kantonen
  Taito A. Kantonen was a theologian. At the age of 3 he moved to the United States, where he later attended Harvard University and received a degree in theology. He wrote many books including Man in the Eyes of God....
  
  
• Volter Kilpi
  Volter Kilpi
  Volter Kilpi, born Volter Ericsson, was a Finnish author best known for his two-volume novel Alastalon salissa often considered one of the best written in the Finnish language.-External links:...
  
  
• Marko Kitti
  Marko Kitti
  Marko Kitti is a Finnish author. He has published four works of fiction. He was a candidate for the 2008 Runeberg prize-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Aleksis Kivi
  Aleksis Kivi
  Aleksis Kivi , born Alexis Stenvall, was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers...
  
   – first significant author in Finnish (1834 – 1872)
• Leena Krohn
  Leena Krohn
  Leena Krohn is a Finnish author. Her large and varied body of work includes novels, short stories, children's books, and essays...
  
  
• Torsti Lehtinen
  Torsti Lehtinen
  Torsti Lehtinen, Finnish writer and philosopher, was born in Helsinki in 1942. He studied philosophy, theology and literature at the University of Helsinki....
  
   – writer and philosopher
• Joel Lehtonen
  Joel Lehtonen
  Joel Lehtonen was a Finnish author, translator, critic and journalist. Born in Sääminki , he committed suicide in November 1934. His childhood was fatherless and poverty-stricken, his mother suffered from mental frailties and Joel himself was forced into paupery...
  
  
• Kimmo Lehtonen
  Kimmo Lehtonen
  Kimmo Lehtonen is a Finnish science fiction novelist. He was also a longtime chairman of the Helsinki Science Fiction Society, and still is an active member of the Helsinki fandom scene...
  
   – science fiction novelist
• Eino Leino
  Eino Leino
  Eino Leino was a Finnish poet and journalist and is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry. His poems combine modern and Finnish folk elements. The style of much of his work is like the Kalevala and folk songs. Nature, love, and despair are frequent themes in Leino's work...
  
   (1878 – 1926)
• Rosa Liksom
  Rosa Liksom
  Rosa Liksom—née Anni Ylävaara, January 7, 1958, Ylitornio—is a Finnish writer and artist.She has studied antropology at the Helsinki and Copenhagen and social sciences at the University of Moscow. She won the J. H...
  
  
• Väinö Linna
  Väinö Linna
  Väinö Linna was one of the most influential Finnish authors of the 20th century. He shot to immediate literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas , and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla Väinö Linna (20 December 1920 – 21 April 1992) was one of the...
  
   – author of The Unknown Soldier
  The Unknown Soldier (novel)
  The Unknown Soldier is author Väinö Linna's first major novel and his other major work besides Under the North Star. Published in 1954, it is a story about the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union as told from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers...
  
   (1920 – 1992)
• Johannes Linnankoski
  Johannes Linnankoski
  Johannes Linnankoski was a Finnish author. His most famous work is the sensual Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta...
  
  
• Elias Lönnrot
  Elias Lönnrot
  Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for compiling the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore.-Education and early life:...
  
   – Compiled the Kalevala
  Kalevala
  The Kalevala is a 19th century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Finnish and Karelian oral folklore and mythology.It is regarded as the national epic of Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature...
  
   (1802 – 1884)
• Veijo Meri
  Veijo Meri
  Veijo Meri is a Finnish writer. Much of his work focuses on war and its absurdity. The work is anti-war and has dark humor....
  
  
• Pertti Nieminen
  Pertti Nieminen
  Pertti Ilmari Nieminen is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. He played for HPK and TPS. He was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985.-External links:*...
  
  
• Sofi Oksanen
  Sofi Oksanen
  Sofi Oksanen is a Finnish contemporary writer. She was born in Jyväskylä. Her father is Finnish and her mother is Estonian. So far, Oksanen has published three novels, one an international best seller and a play. She has received several awards for her literary work.-Life:Sofi Oksanen was born and...
  
  
• Arto Paasilinna
  Arto Paasilinna
  Arto Tapio Paasilinna is a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of the most successful novelists of Finland, he has won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before...
  
  
• Erno Paasilinna
  Erno Paasilinna
  Erno Paasilinna was a Finnish writer and journalist. He received several literary prizes, the most notable being the Finlandia Prize in 1984 for his collection of essays Yksinäisyys ja uhma...
  
  
• Olavi Paavolainen
  Olavi Paavolainen
  Olavi Paavolainen was a Finnish essayist, journalist, travel book writer, and poet. He often went under the pseudonym of Olavi Lauri. Paavolainen was the central figure of the literary group Tulenkantajat and one of the most influential literary opinion leaders between the two World wars in...
  
  
• Onni Palaste
  Onni Palaste
  Onni Palaste, born Onni Bovellan was a Finnish Winter War veteran and writer.Onni Bovellan was born in Kiuruvesi, Finland on 27 December 1917 to parents Joona Bovellan and Olga Miina Kärkkäinen. He was a frail child and was not originally expected to live long. However, he survived and became...
  
   – war novelist (1917 – 2009)
• Antti Puhakka
  Antti Puhakka
  Antti Puhakka was a Finnish national romantic poet from Kontiolahti in Finnish Karelia. He was known for using Kalevala meter in his poems....
  
   – national romantic poet & politician (1816 – 1893)
• Kalle Päätalo
  Kalle Päätalo
  Kaarlo Alvar Päätalo was a Finnish novelist, the most popular Finnish writer in the 20th century. His Iijoki series, comprising 26 novels, is one of the longest autobiographical works ever written....
  
   (1919 – 2000)
• Johan Ludvig Runeberg
  Johan Ludvig Runeberg
  Johan Ludvig Runeberg was a Finnish poet, and is the national poet of Finland. He wrote in the Swedish language....
  
   – national poet (1804 – 1877)
• Pentti Saarikoski
  Pentti Saarikoski
  Pentti Saarikoski was one of the most important poets in the literary scene of Finland during the 60's and 70's...
  
  
• Frans Emil Sillanpää – Nobelist (1888 – 1964)
• Johanna Sinisalo
  Johanna Sinisalo
  Aila Johanna Sinisalo is a Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer. She studied comparative literature and drama, amongst other subjects, at the University of Tampere...
  
  
• Tommy Tabermann
  Tommy Tabermann
  Tommy Tabermann was a Finnish contemporary poet and politician, radio personality and journalist...
  
   – also known from TV-series Have I Got News For You
  Have I Got News for You
  Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been broadcast since 1990, currently the BBC's longest-ever running television panel show...
  
  aka Uutisvuoto
• Marton Taiga
  Martti Löfberg
  Martti Erik Hjalmar Löfberg was a successful Finnish pulp fiction author, especially in the 1930s and the 1940s...
  
   – pseudonym of Martti Löfberg
• Jari Tervo
  Jari Tervo
  Jari Tervo is a well-known Finnish author of prose. He is a major name in current Finnish literature.He writes traditional plot-driven prose, sometimes more humoristic , sometimes more like a detective story . Often he includes autobiographical elements...
  
   – also known from TV-series Have I Got News For You
  Have I Got News for You
  Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been broadcast since 1990, currently the BBC's longest-ever running television panel show...
  
  aka Uutisvuoto
• Märta Tikkanen
  Märta Tikkanen
  Märta Tikkanen is a Finnish writer. Born in Helsinki she has worked as a reporter for Hufvudstadsbladet from 1956 to 1961. She graduated from the University of Helsinki, Master of Arts in 1958 and received a Master of Philosophy in 1961...
  
  
• Zacharias Topelius
  Zacharias Topelius
  Zachris Topelius was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.-Life and career:...
  
   – author and historian (1818 – 1898)
• Jouko Turkka
  Jouko Turkka
  Jouko Veli Turkka is a Finnish theatrical director and controversialist. He was assistant director of the Helsinki City Theatre from 1975 to 1982, and a professor at the Helsinki School of Drama from 1981 to 1988, being its rector from 1982 to 1985...
  
  
• Antti Tuuri
  Antti Tuuri
  Antti Elias Tuuri is a Finnish writer, known for his works dealing with Southern Ostrobothnia....
  
  
• Kaari Utrio
  Kaari Utrio
  Kaari Marjatta Utrio is a Finnish writer. She has written tens of historical novels and many non-fiction books on historical topics...
  
  
• Hella Wuolijoki
  Hella Wuolijoki
  Hella Wuolijoki was a Finnish writer of Estonian origin, known for her Niskavuori series.-Life & career:Wuolijoki was born in Helme, Estonia....
  
  
• Mika Waltari
  Mika Waltari
  Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian .- Early life :...
  
   (1908 – 1979)
• Kim Weckström
  Kim Weckström
  Kim Weckström is a Finnish journalist/writer turned serial entrepreneur. He launched his first venture – an alternative newsmonthly City-lehti in 1985, which is still successfully published in all major cities in Finland...
  
  
• Lauri Viita
  Lauri Viita
  Lauri Viita was a poet hailing from the Pispala district of Tampere, Finland.- Selected works : * Betonimylläri * Kukunor * Moreeni...
  
   – poet and novelist known for extreme rhyme skill
• Kjell Westö
  Kjell Westö
  Kjell Westö is a Finnish author and journalist. Westö writes in Swedish.In 2006, Westö won the prestigious Finlandia Prize for his novel Där vi en gång gått. He has been long-listed for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.- Bibliography :* Tango orange * Epitaf över Mr...
  
  

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• Simo Aalto
  Simo Aalto
  Simo Aalto is a stage magician from Karis, Finland. His awards include the FISM World Championship of Magic in close-up magic in Lisbon, 2000, and the Solmu Mäkelä Silver Medal to the most distinguished conjurer of all times in Finland by the Finnish Magic Circle, also in 2000...
  
   – stage magaician
• Ior Bock
  Ior Bock
  Ior Bock [i:or bok] was a Swedish-speaking Finnish tour guide, actor, mythologist and eccentric...
  
   – eccentric
• Donner family
  Donner family
  The Donner family is one of the renowned and wealthy Finland-Swedish families that grew in importance during the times of the Grand Duchy of Finland...
  
  
• Karl Fazer
  Karl Fazer
  Karl Otto Fazer was a Finnish commercial counselor, businessman, and sport shooter.He was born in Helsinki and died in Jokioinen. He had four children and was the grandfather of Peter Fazer...
  
   – confectionery manufacturer
• Janina Frostell
  Janina Frostell
  Janina Päivänsäde Fry is Finnish pop singer and model, considered by many to be a sex symbol. She hosts the show Bella on Finnish television channel Nelonen....
  
   – model
  Model (person)
  A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
  
  , sex symbol
  Sex symbol
  A sex symbol is a celebrity of either gender, typically an actor, musician, supermodel, teen idol, or sports star, noted for their sex appeal. The term was first used in the mid 1950s in relation to the popularity of certain Hollywood stars, especially Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte...
  
   and singer
• Tony Halme
  Tony Halme
  Tony Christian Halme was a member of the Finnish Parliament, representing the True Finns party. He was also known by the pseudonym Viikinki he used while appearing in the Finnish version of the TV game show Gladiators in the 1990s...
  
   – show wrestler (stage name Ludwig Borga), politician
• Erkki Hartikainen
  Erkki Hartikainen
  Erkki Juhani Hartikainen is the chairman of Atheist association of Finland . He qualified as a Master of Science in the University of Helsinki in 1967. His subjects were mathematics, a theoretical philosophy and computer science...
  
   – atheist activist
• Jukka Hilden
  Jukka Hilden
  Jukka Hildén is a Finnish media personality and member of The Dudesons stuntgroup. On the Music Television USA website Jukka is introduced as "the rockstar, the showman, the never-stopping energizer bunny of the Dudesons crew"....
  
   – part of The Dudesons
• Toni Jerrman
  Toni Jerrman
  Toni Jerrman is critic and editor of the Finnish sci-fi magazine Tähtivaeltaja.He has won several awards, including:* The Arctic Comic Festival's Publication-Lempi for Tähtivaeltaja...
  
   – science fiction critic
• Kuikka-Koponen
  Kuikka-Koponen
  Kuikka-Koponen was an illusionist and magician in folklore from Savo in Finland. He was a hypnotist and escapologist.- Literature :...
  
   – trickster and conjurer
• Armi Kuusela
  Armi Kuusela
  3. ; Victoria Advocate, 5 May, 19534. ; Owosso Argus-Press, 30, June 1952-External links:*...
  
   – Miss Universe 1952
  Miss Universe 1952
  Miss Universe 1952, the very first Miss Universe pageant, was held on June 28, 1952 at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, California, USA. 30 contestants competed for the crown...
  
  
• Jarno Laasala
  Jarno Laasala
  Jarno Laasala is a Finnish media personality and creator of The Dudesons stuntgroupand CEO of the Rabbit Films production company.As a child Laasala was a Super Mario Bros champion in Finland....
  
   – part of The Dudesons
• Aarne Lakomaa – aircraft designer (1914 – 2001)
• Jarno "Jarppi"/"Jarno2" Leppälä – part of The Dudesons
• Arvi Lind
  Arvi Lind
  Arvi Kullervo Lind is a retired Finnish television news presenter. He worked as the news anchor on Yleisradio TV1 from 1965 to 2003. Along with Kari Toivonen, he was one of the longest-serving employees of Yleisradio news....
  
   – newscaster
• Fanni Luukkonen
  Fanni Luukkonen
  Fanni Luukkonen was the longtime leader of the Finnish Lotta Svärd, a voluntary auxiliary organisation for women....
  
   – leader of Lotta Svärd
  Lotta Svärd
  Lotta Svärd was a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organisation for women. During the Finnish Civil War it was associated with the Suojeluskunta. After the war Lotta Svärd was founded as a separate organisation on September 9, 1920. The name comes from a poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg...
  
   (1882 – 1947)
• Sophie Mannerheim
  Sophie Mannerheim
  Baroness Sophie Mannerheim A famous nurse known as pioneer of modern nursing in Finland. She was daughter of a count and sister of a former Finnish President, marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. Her career started as a bank employee for 6 years until she got married in 1896...
  
   – nurse (1863 – 1928)
• Väinö Myllyrinne
  Väinö Myllyrinne
  Väinö Myllyrinne, was an acromegalic giant who was at one time the world's tallest person...
  
   – the tallest Finn, 248 cm (1909 – 1963)
• Larin Paraske
  Larin Paraske
  Larin Paraske was an Izhorian oral poet. She is considered a key figure in Finnish folk poetry and has been called the "Finnish Mnemosyne"...
  
   – poem singer
• Hannu-Pekka "HP" Parviainen
  Hannu-Pekka "HP" Parviainen
  Hannu-Pekka "HP" Parviainen is a snowboarder, Finnish media personality, and member of The Dudesons stuntgroup.Parviainen was born in Seinäjoki. According to an official fan page, HP is no longer qualified for health insurance from any companies in Finland.HP is the only Dudeson who graduated from...
  
   – part of The Dudesons
• Arndt Pekurinen
  Arndt Pekurinen
  Arndt Juho Pekurinen was a Finnish pacifist and conscientious objector....
  
   – pacifist
  Pacifism
  Pacifism is the opposition to war and violence. The term "pacifism" was coined by the French peace campaignerÉmile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress inGlasgow in 1901.- Definition :...
  
   (1905 – 1941)
• Anne Marie Pohtamo
  Anne Marie Pohtamo
  Anne Marie Pohtamo was the second woman from Finland to capture the Miss Universe crown. She claimed the Miss Universe crown in 1975 at the pageant held in El Salvador....
  
   – Miss Universe 1975
  Miss Universe 1975
  Miss Universe 1975 the 24th Miss Universe pageant was held at the National Gymnasium, San Salvador, El Salvador on July 19, 1975. The live telecast was broadcast on CBS. Miss Universe 1972, Kerry Anne Wells of Australia crowned the new Miss Universe, Anne Marie Pohtamo of Finland.The political...
  
  
• Krisse Salminen
  Krisse Salminen
  Krisse Salminen is a Finnish stand-up comedian and television talkshow hostess. She is the daughter of gameshow host Reijo Salminen. Her shtick is to present herself as a cow-eyed and stuck-up, self-centered blonde girly girl, speaking an exaggerated, urban, Helsinki-style nasal accent...
  
   – comedian
  Comedian
  A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
  
   and talk show
  Talk show
  A talk show or chat show is a television program or radio program where one person discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host....
  
   hostess
• Santa Claus
  Joulupukki
  Joulupukki is a Finnish Christmas figure. The name Joulupukki literally means Christmas Goat or Yule Goat. The Finnish word "pukki" comes from the Swedish "bock" and is an old Scandinavian tradition...
  
  
• Eugen Schauman
  Eugen Schauman
  Eugen Schauman was a Finnish nationalist and nobleman who assassinated the Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov.- Schauman's life :...
  
   – assassin who killed Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov
  Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov
  Nikolay Ivanovich Bobrikov ; born on in St. Petersburg – June 16, 1904 in Helsingfors, Grand Duchy of Finland) was a Russian soldier and politician....
  
   (1875 – 1904)
• Tabe Slioor
  Tabe Slioor
  Tabe Maria Ingeborg Slioor was a Finnish socialite, reporter, and photographer, living and working in Europe and the USA.-Background:...
  
   – socialite, reporter, photographer; founded the first gossip magazine in Finland
• Nils Torvalds
  Nils Torvalds
  Nils Torvalds is a Finnish-Swede broadcast journalist, writer and politician. Torvalds is the son of the poet Ole Torvalds, and the father of the computer programmer Linus Torvalds of Linux kernel fame.- Journalist career :...
  
   – journalist
• Ole Torvalds
  Ole Torvalds
  Ole Torvalds was a Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet from Finland. He was the father of Nils Torvalds and grandfather of Linus Torvalds....
  
   – journalist (1916 – 1995)
• Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
  Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
  Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, known as Áillohaš in the Northern Sami language was a Finnish Sami writer, musician and artist. He was born in Enontekiö in Lapland province, Finland. He lived most of his life in Käsivarsi, close to the border of Sweden, and also in Skibotn in Norway...
  
   – Sami activist (1943 – 2001)
• Folke West
  Folke West
  Folke West is a Finnish television producer, reporter and tour leader. Folke has made more than 370 tourism documents mainly in the 1990s. He acted as the producer of Yöradio radio programme of Radio Ykkönen in Finland. Tourism programmes made by West include Matkamies and Folken matkassa...
  
   – traveller