List of Famous people born in Finland
Tarja Turunen
Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli, known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish heavy metal singer-songwriter. She is a soprano with a three octave range.
Pihla Viitala
Pihla Viitala is a Finnish actress. She studied acting at the Helsinki Theatre Academy.
Pekka Rinne
Pekka Rinne is a Finnish professional hockey goaltender for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL). Drafted by the Predators in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, Rinne became their starting goaltender during the 2008–09 season and quickly established himself as one of the NHL's best goaltenders. He was a Vezina Trophy finalist as the NHL's top regular season goaltender in 2011, 2012 and 2015 before winning the award in 2018.
Henri Kontinen
Henri Kontinen is a Finnish tennis player.
Joel Pohjanpalo
Joel Pohjanpalo, is a Finnish professional football striker who plays for 1. FC Union Berlin, on loan from Bayer Leverkusen and represents the Finland national team. Pohjanpalo was born in Helsinki, Finland where he played for HJK before he was lent to Bayer 04 Leverkusen at age 19 in 2013.
Sauli Koskinen
Sauli Eerik Koskinen is a Finnish television host and entertainment reporter from Hyvinkää, Finland.
Jari Litmanen
Jari Olavi Litmanen is a Finnish former footballer. He was the first-choice captain of the Finland national team between 1996 and 2008 in an international career that ran from 1989 to 2010.
Kasperi Kapanen
Kasperi Kapanen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He made his Liiga debut playing with KalPa during the 2012–13 SM-liiga season. Kapanen was selected by the Penguins in the first round, 22nd overall, of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. On 1 July 2015, he was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs; he was traded back to the Penguins five years later.
Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Kaisa-Leena Mäkäräinen is a Finnish former world-champion and 3-time world-cup-winning biathlete, who currently competes for Kontiolahden Urheilijat. Outside sports, Mäkäräinen is currently studying to be a Physics teacher at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. Her team coach is Jonne Kähkönen, while Jarmo Punkkinen is her ski coach.
Armi Kuusela
Armi Helena Kuusela is a Finnish-American charity worker, model and beauty queen. In 1952, she won the Finnish national beauty contest Suomen Neito and was presented with a trip to the United States to participate in the first-ever Miss Universe pageant, becoming its first titleholder.