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This is a list of notable people from Finland. Finland is a Nordic country located between Sweden, Norway and Russia. Actors and actresses. Ida Aalberg (1858–1915)
Tarja Halonen (born 1943), President of Finland (2000–2012) Johan Helo (1889–1966), lawyer & politician; Abdirahim Hussein Mohamed (born 1978), Finnish-Somalian media personality & politician; Yrjö Leino (1897–1961), communist politician, Minister of the Interior (1946–1948) Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951), statesman and ...
This is a list of heads of state of Finland; that is, the kings of Sweden with regents and viceroys of the Kalmar Union, the grand dukes of Finland, a title used by most Swedish monarchs and Russian emperors, up to the two-year regency following the independence in 1917, with a brief flirtation with a truly domestic monarchy.
This is a list of Finnish supercentenarians (people from Finland who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The oldest person ever from Finland was Maria Rothovius, who died in 2000, aged 112 years 259 days. [1] All Finnish supercentenarians were born at a time when Finland was an autonomous state of the Russian Empire.
Social Democratic Party of Finland * 25 November 1923, Turku † 12 May 2017, Helsinki Minister of Finance (1966–1967 and 1972). Governor of the Bank of Finland (1968–1982). Prime Minister (1968–1970 and 1979–1982). Elected as president by an electoral college in 1982 and re-elected in 1988. The first president born in independent Finland.
The Sami people of northern Finland have their own musical traditions, collectively Sami music. Finnish folk music has undergone a roots revival in the recent decades, and has also become a part of popular music. In the field of classical and contemporary art music, Finland has produced many musicians and composers.
A category for people from Helsinki. It contains both natives independent of location later in life as well as non-natives that have lived in Helsinki for considerable time. Subcategories
Finns or Finnish people (Finnish: suomalaiset, IPA: [ˈsuo̯mɑlɑi̯set]) are a Baltic Finnic [41] ethnic group native to Finland. [42] Finns are traditionally divided into smaller regional groups that span several countries adjacent to Finland, both those who are native to these countries as well as those who have resettled.