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List of people from Helsinki. 5 languages. ... Ragnar Granit (1900–1991), Finnish-Swedish neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1967)
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
Helsinki [a] [b] is the capital and most populous city in Finland.It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About 684,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.26 million in the capital region and 1.6 million in the metropolitan area.
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.
Mass media people from Helsinki (2 C, 11 P) Military personnel from Helsinki (23 P) Models from Helsinki (7 P) Musicians from Helsinki (2 C, 112 P) P.
A significant catalyst was the right of return, based on President Koivisto's initiative that people of Ingrian ancestry would be allowed to immigrate to Finland. [ 7 ] About 30,000 people have citizenship of the Russian Federation (2015) [ 8 ] and Russian is the mother language of about 70,000 people in Finland, which represents about 1.3% of ...
The Finnish People's Delegation, the government of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (as Red Finland was officially known), was established in Helsinki on 28 January 1918. German soldiers, allies of the White Guard , took Helsinki back from the Reds on 13 April 1918.
In the 21st century about 14,000 people, mostly of Finnish origin, emigrate every year. Many are well-educated and may return to Finland after a few years. About 300,000 Finnish citizens live abroad and it is estimated that about 1.5 million people of Finnish origin live overseas.