Mikko
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Mikko is a Finnish
Finnish language
Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...

 men's given name and equivalent of the English name Michael
Michael
Michael is a given name that comes from the , derived from the Hebrew question מי כמו אלוהים? meaning "Who is like God?" In English, it is sometimes shortened to Mike, Mikey, or, especially in Ireland, Mick...

, having been borrowed into the ancestral Finno-Ugric languages
Finno-Ugric languages
Finno-Ugric , Finno-Ugrian or Fenno-Ugric is a traditional group of languages in the Uralic language family that comprises the Finno-Permic and Ugric language families....

. The given name Mikko is shared by the following notable people:
  • Mikko Alatalo
    Mikko Alatalo
    Mikko Tapio Alatalo is a Finnish musician and politician.Alatalo is mostly known for his long and famous musical career. His style is primarily seen as children's music and folk music but he has contributed to other genres as well, including a long partnership with rock musician Juice Leskinen...

    , Finnish musician and politician
  • Mikko Eloranta
    Mikko Eloranta
    Mikko Eloranta is a former Finnish ice hockey who plays with TPS Turku of the SM-Liiga. He represented Finland in both the Olympic Winter Games and the World Cup of Hockey.-Playing career:...

    , Finnish ice hockey left winger
  • 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...

    , Finnish conductor
  • Mikko Heiniö
    Mikko Heiniö
    -Life:Heiniö was born in in Tampere, and studied composition with Joonas Kokkonen and piano with Liisa Pohjola at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 1971 to 1975, and then studied composition with Witold Szalonek in West Berlin from 1975–77 while at the same time beginning studies in musicology...

    , Finnish composer
  • 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...

    , Finnish World Rally Championship
    World Rally Championship
    The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...

     driver
  • Mikko Hypponen
    Mikko Hyppönen
    Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen is a computer security expert and columnist.-Career:Mikko Hyppönen is the Chief Research Officer for F-Secure. He has worked with F-Secure in Finland since 1991....

    , Finnish security guru and an author
  • Mikko Kavén
    Mikko Kavén
    Mikko Juhani Kavén is a Finnish football goalkeeper who used to play for Tampere United in Finland's Veikkausliiga.- Trivia :...

    , Finnish footballer
  • 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...

    , Finnish ice hockey
    Ice hockey
    Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

     player
  • Mikko Kolehmainen
    Mikko Kolehmainen
    Mikko Yrjö Ilmari Kolehmainen is a Finnish sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in the K-1 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992...

    , Finnish flatwater canoer
  • Mikko Leppilampi
    Mikko Leppilampi
    Mikko Johannes Leppilampi is a Finnish actor and musician who is the son of Jukka Leppilampi , a Finnish gospel musician. Leppilampi is considered to be one of the most promising stars of Finland's movie industry in the new millennium...

    , Finnish actor and musician
  • Mikko Viljami Lindström
    Mikko Viljami Lindström
    Mikko Viljami Lindström is the lead guitarist of the Finnish rock band, HIM. Lindström is commonly called by his nickname, Linde.-Biography:...

    , guitarist for Finnish band HIM
  • 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:...

    , bassist for the Finnish band HIM
  • Mikko Ruutu
    Mikko Ruutu
    Mikko Ruutu is a retired Finnish ice hockey forward.Ruutu played for HIFK and Jokerit in the Finnish SM-liiga, earning a silver medal with HIFK and the SM-liiga championship with Jokerit in 2002...

    , Finnish ice hockey forward
  • Mikko Sirén
    Mikko Sirén
    Mikko Sirén is the drummer for Finnish bands Apocalyptica and Megaphone. He became part of Apocalyptica's live shows in 2003 but only became a full-time member in 2005 after over 200 concerts and a recorded album.Mikko has a degree in Jazz music....

    , drummer of Finnish 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...

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