List of Famous people born in Finland

Stefan Ingves

First Name Stefan
Last Name Ingves
Born on May 23, 1953 (age 72)

Stefan Nils Magnus Ingves is a Swedish banker, economist and civil servant currently serving as the Governor of Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden.

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Ville Uusitalo

First Name Ville
Last Name Uusitalo
Born on July 6, 1979 (age 46)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Ville Uusitalo is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman.

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Toni Koskela

First Name Toni
Last Name Koskela
Born on February 16, 1983 (age 43)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Toni Koskela is a Finnish football coach and a former player. He is currently managing HJK where he followed Mika Lehkosuo. Before that he was head coach of RoPS and before that the Under-19 team of HJK. He had to retire his football career in 2009, aged 26, due to numerous injuries on his knee.

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Paradise Oskar

First Name Paradise
Last Name Oskar
Born on October 23, 1990 (age 35)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Axel Ehnström is a Finnish songwriter and musician. He is known for writing songs for artists such as Phoebe Ryan, Lost Frequencies and Alle Farben. He participated as Paradise Oskar in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011.

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Antti Hackzell

First Name Antti
Born on September 20, 1881
Died on January 14, 1946 (aged 64)

Antti Verner Hackzell was a Finnish politician from the National Coalition Party and Prime Minister of Finland from August to September 1944.

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Kullervo Manner

First Name Kullervo
Born on October 12, 1880
Died on January 15, 1939 (aged 58)
Born in Finland, Satakunta

Kullervo Achilles Manner was a Finnish politician and journalist, and later a Soviet politician. He was a member of the Finnish parliament, serving as its Speaker in 1917. He was also chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland between 1917 and 1918. During the Finnish Civil War, he led the Finnish People's Delegation, a leftist alternative to the established Finnish government. After the war, he escaped to the Soviet Union, where he co-founded the Finnish Communist Party. It is said if the Red Guards had won the Civil War, Manner might have risen to the position of the "Leader of the Red Finland".

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Evert Eloranta

First Name Evert
Last Name Eloranta
Born on October 10, 1879
Died on January 1, 1941 (aged 61)
Born in Finland, Satakunta

Frans Evert Eloranta was a Finnish politician and a Member of the Parliament for the Social Democratic Party in 1908–1918. During the Finnish Civil War, Eloranta served as the Minister of Agriculture of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. In March 1918, he was elected the commander-in-chief of the Red Guards as a member of the triumvirate with Eino Rahja and Adolf Taimi. After the war, Eloranta fled to the Soviet Russia, where he allegedly died in 1936.

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Paavo Talvela

First Name Paavo
Died on September 30, 1973 (aged 3)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Paavo Juho Talvela was a Finnish soldier and a Knight of the Mannerheim Cross. He volunteered in the Jäger Movement in Germany from 1916 until 1917. He was then a battalion commander in the Finnish Civil War. Afterwards Talvela was promoted to the rank of major, and was at the time the youngest major in Finland. In accordance with his nationalistic views, Talvela temporarily resigned from the Finnish Army to act as a leading figurehead for the Kinship Wars of the 1920s. He served as the Commander in Chief of the 1919 Aunus expedition.

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Kojo

Born on May 9, 1953 (age 72)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Timo Kojo is a Finnish pop rock singer. He started his recording career in 1977 when his band, Madame George, released their only album, Madame George: What's Happening?.

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Henrik Wigström

First Name Henrik
Born on October 2, 1862
Died on March 14, 1923 (aged 60)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Henrik Immanuel Wigström a Finnish silver & goldsmith, was one of the most important Fabergé workmasters along with Michael Perchin. Perchin was the head workmaster from 1886 until his death in 1903, when he was succeeded by his chief assistant Henrik Wigström. These two workmasters were responsible for almost all the imperial Easter eggs.

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