List of Famous people born in Finland
Olli Lindholm
Olli Lindholm was a Finnish singer and guitarist. He was the lead singer of the renowned Finnish band Yö since the early 1980s with a string of hits and albums. In addition, he worked on a solo basis with his own four albums released on various labels including Maailma on kaunis in 2010 that peaked at number one on The Official Finnish Chart Suomen virallinen lista.
Maria Ohisalo
Maria Karoliina Ohisalo is a Finnish politician. She is a member of the Green League and has served as the party's leader since 2019. In the 2019 parliamentary election she was elected with 11,797 votes. She was named Minister of the Interior in the Rinne Cabinet and continued with her duties in the following Marin Cabinet.
Robert Taylor
Robert Thomas Taylor is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder and wing-back for Eliteserien club Brann and the Finland national team.
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg was a Finnish mathematician known for work on the central limit theorem.
Sergei Loiko
Sergey Leonidovich Loiko is a writer, war photographer, and journalist. As a journalist and photographer he has covered armed conflicts in Russia and the former USSR since 1991 working primarily for the Los Angeles Times. In 2001, Loiko covered the war in Afghanistan and in 2003, the war in Iraq.
Teemu Packalén
Teemu Packalén is a Finnish mixed martial artist. He was the Amateur Champion of Finland and the Finnish Open Championship winner in 2010. Packalén competed in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Mika Vainio
Mika Tapio Vainio was a Finnish electronic musician. He was best known as a member of Pan Sonic. In addition to his real name, he recorded under the aliases Ø, Kentolevi, Philus, and Tekonivel.
Ari Vatanen
Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen is a Finnish rally driver turned politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009. Vatanen won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar Rally four times. Since 2013 Vatanen has been the President of the Estonian Autosport Union.
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (baron).
Iina Kuustonen
Iina Kuustonen is a Finnish actress.