List of Famous people born in Uusimaa, Finland
Krista Kosonen
Krista Erika Kosonen is a Finnish actress. She is best known for her appearances in movies such as Jade Warrior (2006), Prinsessa (2010) and Syvälle salattu (2011). The sketch comedy television show Putous made her a household name in Finland. She was selected as Best Actress in 2015 Shanghai International Film Festival for her performance in Wildeye. She has also won two Jussi Awards and is now starring in the HBO series Beforeigners being seen worldwide.
Maria Ohisalo
Maria Karoliina Ohisalo is a Finnish politician. She is a member of the Green League and has served as the party's leader since 2019. In the 2019 parliamentary election she was elected with 11,797 votes. She was named Minister of the Interior in the Rinne Cabinet and continued with her duties in the following Marin Cabinet.
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg was a Finnish mathematician known for work on the central limit theorem.
Mika Vainio
Mika Tapio Vainio was a Finnish electronic musician. He was best known as a member of Pan Sonic. In addition to his real name, he recorded under the aliases Ø, Kentolevi, Philus, and Tekonivel.
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (baron).
Iina Kuustonen
Iina Kuustonen is a Finnish actress.
Georg Westling
Georg Westling was a Finnish sailor who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the Finnish boat Lucky Girl, which won the bronze medal in the 8 metre class.
Alexander Stubb
Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician who served as the Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015. He rose to politics as a researcher specialized in the affairs of the European Union and was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 as a member of the National Coalition Party. In 2008, Stubb was appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs following a scandal surrounding his predecessor, Ilkka Kanerva. In 2011 Stubb stood for election to the Finnish Parliament for the first time and was elected MP with the second highest vote count in the election, which led to Stubb becoming the Minister for Europe and Foreign Trade in Jyrki Katainen's cabinet.
Iris Rauskala
Iris Eliisa Rauskala is a Finnish-born Austrian civil servant and economist who served as Minister of Education, Science and Research in the Bierlein government.
Sami Hyypiä
Sami Tuomas Hyypiä is a Finnish football manager and former defender.