List of Famous people born in Turku, Finland
Robin Packalen
Robin Packalen, better known by his stage name Robin, is a Finnish singer who started as a teen pop artist. During his career, Robin's certified albums and singles have sold over 370,000 copies, which makes him one of the 70 best-selling artists of all-time in his country.
Saku Koivu
Saku Antero Koivu is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He began his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1995–96 after three seasons with TPS of the Finnish SM-liiga. Koivu served as the Canadiens' captain for ten of his 14 years with the club, which makes him the longest captaincy tenure in team history, tied with Jean Béliveau. Koivu was the first European player to captain the Montreal Canadiens.
Arto Salomaa
Arto K. Salomaa is a Finnish mathematician and computer scientist. His research career, which spans over forty years, is focused on formal languages and automata theory.
Joalin Loukamaa
Mikko Koivu
Mikko-Sakari Koivu is a Finnish professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). Koivu was drafted sixth overall in 2001 by the Minnesota Wild, and had spent his entire 15-year NHL career with Minnesota before joining Columbus in 2020.
Jarno Saarinen
Jarno Karl Keimo Saarinen was a Finnish professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. In the early 1970s, he was considered one of the most promising and talented motorcycle racers of his era until he was killed during the 1973 Nations Grand Prix in Italy. Saarinen's death led to increased demands for better safety conditions for motorcycle racers competing in the world championships. He remains the only Finn to have won a motorcycle road racing world championship. Saarinen was inducted into the F.I.M. MotoGP Hall of Fame in 2009.
Håkan von Eichwald
Håkan Ingvar von Eichwald was a Finnish-Swedish bandleader and conductor. He led dance bands which featured some of Sweden's most prominent early jazz musicians, and later became a conductor of symphonic and operatic works.
Henrik Moisander
Henrik Moisander is a Finnish professional footballer who plays for Inter Turku.
Rafael Erich
Rafael Waldemar Erich was a Finnish politician from the National Coalition Party, Professor, diplomat, and Prime Minister of Finland.
Samppa Lajunen
Samppa Lajunen is a retired Finnish Nordic combined athlete who competed during the late 1990s and early 2000s.