List of Famous people born in Uusimaa, Finland

Lauri Elias Markkanen is a Finnish professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In the 2017 NBA draft, he was taken by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the seventh overall pick before being included in a trade to the Chicago Bulls for Jimmy Butler. He is the son of Finnish basketball players Pekka and Riikka Markkanen, and the younger brother of soccer player Eero Markkanen.

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military leader and statesman. Mannerheim served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, Regent of Finland (1918–1919), commander-in-chief of Finland's defence forces during World War II (1939–1945), Marshal of Finland, and the sixth president of Finland (1944–1946).

Pihla Viitala is a Finnish actress. She studied acting at the Helsinki Theatre Academy.

Henri Kontinen is a Finnish tennis player.

Joel Pohjanpalo, is a Finnish professional football striker who plays for 1. FC Union Berlin, on loan from Bayer Leverkusen and represents the Finland national team. Pohjanpalo was born in Helsinki, Finland where he played for HJK before he was lent to Bayer 04 Leverkusen at age 19 in 2013.

Sauli Eerik Koskinen is a Finnish television host and entertainment reporter from Hyvinkää, Finland.

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions and other operating systems such as Android and Chrome OS. He also created the distributed revision control system Git and the scuba dive logging and planning software Subsurface.

Sakari Markus Oramo, is a Finnish conductor. He is currently chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Antti Juhani Rinne is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from June to December 2019, and served as Leader of the Social Democratic Party between 2014 and 2020.

Henri Joona Julius Laaksonen is a Swiss-Finnish tennis player. His highest singles ranking is world No. 93, which he achieved in August 2017, and his highest doubles ranking is world No. 191, achieved in December 2018.