List of Famous people born in Uusimaa, Finland
Paradise Oskar
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.
Eero Snellman
Eero Juhani Snellman was Finnish artist. He co-designed the Flag of Finland with Bruno Tuukkanen.
Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari
Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari is a Finnish figure skater. He is a seven-time Finnish national champion and has represented Finland at the World Figure Skating Championships. He is the 2008 & 2009 Nordic champion.
Toni Hallio
Toni Hallio is the former drummer for and one of the founding members of melodic death metal band Norther. He left the band in October 2005 to pursue other interests. However, he still recorded the drums for Norther's Till Death Unites Us instead of the band's current drummer Heikki Saari.
Tania Weber
Tania Weber is a retired Finnish actress, best known for her many roles in 1950s Italian films.
Vilho Setälä
Max Lilja
Max Lilja is a Finnish cello player. He is best known as a founding member of the Finnish cello metal band Apocalyptica, a band he left in 2001 to join the Finnish thrash metal band Hevein. Beginning in 2007, Lilja has been a recording and touring member of Tarja Turunen's solo band. Throughout his career, Lilja has continued to play classical music alongside rock, metal, and crossover projects.
Kristian Ranta
Kristian Ranta, also known as Kride, was the guitarist of the Finnish melodic death metal band Norther, until their break up in 2012. Kristian has composed most of Norther's best known songs including Frozen Angel, and is also credited for renaming the band. Ranta has played the guitar on all the band's full-length albums, the most recent being Circle Regenerated (2011) and N (2008), and contributed clean vocals to the Solution 7 EP, Till Death Unites Us, the No Way Back EP and N. He has formed an experimental side project named Gashouse Garden with Children of Bodom drummer Jaska Raatikainen.
Toini Topelius
Toini Mathilda Topelius was a Finnish journalist and a writer for young people.
Esa Vuorinen
Esa Vuorinen is a Finnish cinematographer. At the 26th Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Best Cinematography for the film Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg. He has worked on more than 60 films since 1969.