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List of Finns
This is a list of people from Finland, i.e. of noted Finns:
Actors
Architects
Artists
Business people
Composers and conductors
Computer pioneers
Designers
Filmmakers
Musicians
Opera
Classical
Folk music
Other
Politicians
See also: Prime Minister of Finland, President of Finland
Scientists
- Lars Valerian Ahlfors – mathematician, Fields Medalist 1936 (1907 – 1996)
- Kari Enqvist – cosmologist
- Johan Gadolin – chemist (1760 – 1852)
- Ragnar Granit – medicine, Nobelist (1900 – 1991)
- Hilma Granqvist – anthropologist (1890 – 1972)
- Pekka Himanen – philosopher, technologist
- Jaakko Hintikka – philosopher
- Matti Häyry – philosopher
- Eino Kaila – philosopher (1890 – 1958)
- Oiva Ketonen – philosopher
- Pehr Kalm – botanist (1716 – 1779)
- Rafael Karsten – anthropologist
- Teuvo Kohonen – neurocomputing pioneer
- Olli Lehto – mathematician (born 1925)
- Anto Leikola – biologist, historian, science writer
- Anders Johan Lexell – mathematician, astronomer (1740 – 1784)
- Ernst Lindelöf – mathematician, researcher of function theory and topology (1870 – 1946)
- Lorenz Lindelöf – mathematician, researcher of variational calculus (1827 – 1908)
- Olli Lounasmaa – physicist, researcher of low-temperature physics (1930 – 2002)
- Hjalmar Mellin – mathematician (1854 – 1933)
- Pekka Myrberg – mathematician (1892 – 1976)
- Edvard Neovius – mathematician, senator (1851 – 1917)
- Rolf Nevanlinna – mathematician (1895 – 1980)
- Ilkka Niiniluoto – philosopher
- Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld – mineralogist (1792 – 1866)
- Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld polar explorer, political refugee in Sweden (1832-1901)
- Liisi Oterma – astronomer (1915 – 2001)
- Leena Palotie – gene scientist
- Simo Parpola – orientalist, assyriologist
- Esa Saarinen – philosopher
- Raimo Tuomela – philosopher
- Esko Valtaoja – astronomer
- Artturi Ilmari Virtanen – chemist, Nobelist (1895 – 1973)
- Jussi Väisälä – mathematician (born 1935)
- Kalle Väisälä – mathematician (1893 – 1968)
- Vilho Väisälä – mathematician, inventor of meteorological instruments (1889 – 1969)
- Yrjö Väisälä – astronomer, meteorologist (1891 – 1971)
- Edvard Westermarck – philosopher, sociologist (1862 – 1939)
- Georg Henrik von Wright – philosopher (1916 – 2003)
- Arvo Ylppö – pediatrician (1887 – 1992)
Soldiers
Sportspersons
Athletics and running
Football
Ice hockey
Motorsports
Winter sports
Other
Theologians, clergymen
Writers
Other notables
See also: List of Finland-Swedes, List of people by nationality
The content of this page is retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Finns under GFDL
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