List of Famous people born in Uusimaa, Finland

Staffan Stråhlman

First Name Staffan
Born in Finland, Uusimaa
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Kojo

Born on May 9, 1953 (age 72)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Timo Kojo is a Finnish pop rock singer. He started his recording career in 1977 when his band, Madame George, released their only album, Madame George: What's Happening?.

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Adolf Lindfors

First Name Adolf
Last Name Lindfors
Born on February 8, 1879
Died on May 5, 1959 (aged 80)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Adolf Valentin "Adi" Lindfors was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He competed at the 1912, where we became injured and had to withdraw, and 1920 Olympics, where he won a gold medal, aged 41.

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Gustaf Nyström

First Name Gustaf
Born on January 21, 1856
Died on December 30, 1917 (aged 61)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Gustaf Nyström was a Finnish architect. Nyström has been described as one of the most important architects in Finland at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. He was active both as an influential teacher, as an architect in his own right, and as an official involved in groundbreaking urban planning projects.

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Robert Kajanus

First Name Robert
Last Name Kajanus
Died on July 6, 1933
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Robert Kajanus was a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher. In 1882, he founded the Helsinki Orchestral Society, Finland's first professional orchestra. As a conductor, he was also a notable champion and interpreter of the music of Jean Sibelius.

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Julius Skutnabb

Julius Ferdinand Skutnabb
First Name Julius
Last Name Skutnabb
Born on June 12, 1889
Died on February 26, 1965 (aged 75)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Julius Ferninand Skutnabb was a Finnish speed skater. A fireman by profession, he made his international debut at the World Allround Championships in 1914, but his international career was interrupted by World War I. He kept competing nationally, becoming the Finnish Allround Champion in 1914, 1916, and 1917. International activity resumed in 1922 and Skutnabb, already 32 years old, finished fifth at the World Allround Championships that year. After placing sixth at the world championships the following year, his best year came in 1924.

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Armas Taipale

First Name Armas
Last Name Taipale
Born on July 27, 1890
Died on November 9, 1976 (aged 86)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa
Height 191 cm | 6'3

Armas Rudolf Taipale was a Finnish athlete. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics and won gold medals in two discus throw events, conventional and two-handed, where the total was counted as a sum of best throws with a left hand and with a right hand. After World War I he won a silver medal in the conventional discus throw at the 1920 Olympics and finished tenth in the shot put. At the 1924 Olympics he competed only in the discus throw and finished in 12th place. Taipale set two unofficial world records in the discus.

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Mikael Agricola

First Name Mikael
Last Name Agricola
Died on April 9, 1557
Born in Finland, Uusimaa, Loviisa

Mikael Agricola was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territory at the time. He is often called the "father of literary Finnish".

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Adolf von Becker

First Name Adolf
Last Name Becker
Died on January 1, 1909
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Adolf von Becker was a Finnish genre painter and art professor of German descent. He was one of the first Finnish artists to study in Paris, who taught many of the young artists of the Golden Age of Finnish Art.

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Arvid Adolf Etholén

First Name Arvid
Born on January 9, 1799
Died on March 29, 1876 (aged 77)
Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Arvid Adolf Etholén, or Adolf Karlovich Etolin was a naval officer, explorer and administrator in the Russian Empire who was employed by the Russian-American Company from July 1818. He was a Swedish-speaking Finn, born in Helsinki in Swedish Finland. Etholén first reached Novoarkhangelsk in Russian America in the service of the Russian-American Company in 1818, rising to become Chief Manager of the Company between 1840 and 1845..

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