List of Famous people born in Finland

Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari is a Finnish figure skater. He is a seven-time Finnish national champion and has represented Finland at the World Figure Skating Championships. He is the 2008 & 2009 Nordic champion.

Aleksis Kivi, born Alexis Stenvall, was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seitsemän veljestä in 1870. He is also known for his 1864 play Heath Cobblers. Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish, he is still considered one of the greatest.

Britt Lundberg is a politician in the Åland Islands, an autonomous and unilingually Swedish territory of Finland. She served as President of the Nordic Council during the 2017 session. She was formerly Speaker of the Parliament of Åland 2011–2015, Deputy Premier and Minister of Culture and Education 2007–2011, Minister of administration, equality and EU affairs 2005–2007 and a Member of the lagting 1999–2004.

Hans Robert Liljequist is a retired male badminton player from Finland.

Ahti Antti Johannes Pekkala was a Finnish politician from the Centre Party.

Elias Katz was a Finnish track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the 3000 metres steeplechase.

Pernilla Karlsson is a Finnish singer. She was born in Swedish-speaking minority in Siuntio in Southern Finland. Karlsson represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with her entry "När jag blundar". The song finished 12th in the first semi-final and failed to qualify for the Eurovision final.

Eetu Antti Oskari Heino is a Finnish badminton player. He started playing badminton at his school in Pargas, then in 2006, he joined Finnish national badminton team. In 2014, he won a bronze medal at the European Men's Team Championships in Basel.

Mikko Henrik Julius Paananen, better known as Mige, is a Finnish musician and songwriter, best known as the bassist and founding member of the gothic rock band HIM. Born to an artistic family, Mige attended the Sibelius Upper Secondary School of music and dance, when he first formed HIM with Ville Valo. The band broke up after Mige began his national military service, but they reformed in 1995. HIM would go on to release eight studio albums and become one of the most commercially successful Finnish bands of all time. The band announced their retirement in March 2017, and played their final show on New Year's Eve 2017.

Lauri ("Lassi") Rikhard Parkkinen was a Finnish speed skater. Lassi Parkkinen was born in Varkaus, an industrial town in the southeast of Finland. He made his debut at the World Allround Championships in 1938, finishing ninth. He also participated the next year, 1939, in what would turn out to be the last World Championships before World War II, but his results on the first three distances were not good enough to qualify for the final distance. Due to the war, it took eight years before the World Championships were held again. At these first World Championships since World War II, Parkkinen was crowned the 1947 World Champion. His success continued the next year at the 1948 Winter Olympics of St. Moritz, when he won Olympic silver on the 10,000 m.