List of Famous people born in Kokkola, Central Ostrobothnia

Mikko Juva

Mikko Einar Juvelius

First Name Mikko

Born on November 22, 1918

Died on January 1, 2004 (aged 85)

Born in Central Ostrobothnia, Kokkola

Mikko Einar Juva was a Finnish historian, theologian and archbishop.

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Lars Sonck

Lars Eliel Sonck

First Name Lars

Born on August 10, 1870

Died on March 14, 1956 (aged 85)

Born in Central Ostrobothnia, Kokkola

Lars Eliel Sonck was a Finnish architect. He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately won a major design competition for a church in Turku, St Michael's Church, ahead of many established architects. The church was designed in the prevailing neo-Gothic style. However, Sonck's style would soon go through a dramatic change, in the direction of Art Nouveau and National Romanticism that was moving through Europe at the end of the 19th century. During the 1920s, Sonck would also design a number of buildings in the emerging Nordic Classicism style.

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