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This is a list of historical and living Finns (including ethnic Finns and people of full or partial Finnish ancestry) who are famous or notable. Finland is a Nordic country located between Sweden, Norway and Russia.
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 ...
Minkkinen was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1945 and emigrated to the United States in 1951. [5] He graduated from Wagner College with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, and began taking self-portraits in 1971, while working as an advertising copywriter on Madison Avenue in New York. [6]
Recently, on the Season Four premiere episode of Kevin Hart’s show ”Hart to Heart,” Jennifer Lopez’s ex-husband Ben Affleck was quoted as saying that J.Lo’s fame “was bananas ...
Ismo Mikael Leikola (born 22 January 1979), sometimes known professionally as ISMO, is a Finnish comedian, musician, author, screenwriter, and YouTuber. [1] Leikola made his United States debut in 2014, when he won the "Funniest Person in the World" competition organized by the comedy club Laugh Factory. [2]
Benjamin B. Rubinstein (1905–1989), physician and psychoanalyst; had a practice in New York; wrote extensively on philosophy of psychoanalysis; Linus Torvalds (born 1969), software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel; became a U.S. citizen in September 2010 [1]
Today in New York (displayed on-air as "Today in NY") is a local morning news and entertainment television program airing on WNBC, an NBC owned-and-operated television station in New York City. The program is broadcast each weekday morning from 4:30 to 7 a.m. Eastern Time , immediately preceding NBC's Today .
Suuret suomalaiset (Great Finns) was a 2004 television show broadcast in Finland by Yle (the Finnish Broadcasting Company), which determined the 100 greatest Finns of all time according to the opinions of its viewers. The viewers were able to vote during a programme which lasted from October to December 2004.