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List of Finns
This is a list of people from Finland, i.e. of noted Finns:
Actors
Architects
Artists
- Eija-Liisa Ahtila – photographer, video artist (1959 – )
- Albert Edelfelt – painter (1854 – 1905)
- Magnus Enckell – painter (1870 – 1925)
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela – painter (1865 – 1931)
- Jorma Gallen-Kallela – painter (1898 – 1939)
- Pekka Halonen – painter (1865 – 1933)
- Eila Hiltunen – sculptor (1922 – 2003)
- Eero Järnefelt – painter (1863 – 1937)
- Rudolf Koivu – illustrator (1890 – 1946)
- Kalervo Palsa – painter (1947 – 1987)
- Tero Laaksonen – painter (1953 – )
- Laila Pullinen – sculptor (1933 – )
- Osmo Rauhala – painter (1957 – )
- Juho Rissanen – painter (1873 – 1950)
- Helene Schjerfbeck – painter (1862 – 1946)
- Hugo Simberg – painter (1873 – 1917)
- Kaj Stenvall – painter (1951 – )
- Reidar Särestöniemi – painter (1925 – 1981)
Business people
- Aatos Erkko – the richest man in Finland
- Harry Harkimo – a businessman in ice hockey business
- Fredrik Idestam – industrialist, founder of Nokia
- Kari Kairamo – ex-CEO of Nokia
- Pentti Kouri - economist, investor
- Jorma Ollila – CEO of Nokia
- Karl Stockmann – Founder of the Stockmann department store
- Rudolf Walden - founder of United Paper Mills (1878 - 1946)
- Björn Wahlroos – CEO of Sampo bank
Composers and conductors
Computer pioneers
Designers
- Eva Brummer
- Kaj Franck
- Timo Sarpaneva – glass designer
- Tapio Wirkkala – designer, sculptor
Filmmakers
Musicians
Politicians
See also: Prime Minister of Finland, President of Finland
Scientists
- Lars Valerian Ahlfors (1907-1996) – mathematician, Fields Medalist 1936
- Kari Enqvist – cosmologist
- Ragnar Granit – medicine, Nobelist
- Hilma Granqvist – anthropologist
- Pekka Himanen – philosopher, technologist
- Jaakko Hintikka – philosopher
- Matti Häyry – philosopher
- Eino Kaila – philosopher
- Oiva Ketonen – philosopher
- Pehr Kalm – botanist
- Rafael Karsten – anthropologist
- Teuvo Kohonen – neurocomputing pioneer
- Olli Lehto (1925-) – mathematician
- Anto Leikola – biologist, historian, science writer
- Anders Lexell (1740-1784) – mathematician, astronomer
- Ernst Lindelöf (1870-1946) – mathematician, researcher of function theory and topology
- Lorenz Lindelöf (1827-1908) – mathematician, researcher of variational calculus
- Olli Lounasmaa (1930-2002) – physicist, researcher of low-temperature physics
- Hjalmar Mellin (1854-1933) – mathematician
- Pekka Myrberg (1892-1976) – mathematician
- Edvard Neovius (1851-1917) – mathematician, senator
- Rolf Nevanlinna (1895-1980) – mathematician
- Anders Johan Lexell, – mathematician
- Ilkka Niiniluoto – philosopher
- Leena Palotie – gene scientist
- Esa Saarinen – philosopher
- Raimo Tuomela – philosopher
- Esko Valtaoja – astronomer
- Artturi Ilmari Virtanen – chemist, Nobelist
- Jussi Väisälä (1935-) – mathematician
- Kalle Väisälä (1893-1968) – mathematician
- Vilho Väisälä (1889-1969) – mathematician, inventor of meteorological instruments
- Yrjö Väisälä (1891-1971) – astronomer, meteorologist
- Edvard Westermarck – philosopher, sociologist
- Georg Henrik von Wright – philosopher
- Arvo Ylppö – pediatrician
Soldiers
Sportspersons
Theologians, clergymen
Writers
Other notables
See also: List of Finland-Swedes, List of people by nationality
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