Juho Kusti Paasikivi

Juho Kusti Paasikivi

male, deceased (1956)
Juho Kusti Paasikivi (November 27, 1870 - December 14, 1956) was Prime Minister of Finland (1918 and 1944-1946). He was President of Finland from...
Johan Vilhelm Snellman

Johan Vilhelm Snellman

male, deceased (1881)
Johan Vilhelm Snellman (May 12, 1806 - July 4, 1881) was an influential Fennoman philosopher and Finnish statesman, nobilitated in 1866. Snellman...
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud

male, deceased (1944)
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad (December 15, 1861 - February 29, 1944) was the President of Finland from 1931 to 1937. Serving as a lawyer,...
Aleksis Kivi

Aleksis Kivi

male, deceased (1872)
Aleksis Kivi set in, and Kivi died in poverty at the age of 38. In 1995-1996, Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara wrote an opera about Kivi's...
Johan Ludvig Runeberg

Johan Ludvig Runeberg

male, deceased (1877)
Johan Ludvig Runeberg written between 1848 and 1860. It is considered the greatest Finnish epic poem outside the native Kalevala tradition and...

Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen

male
Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen (birth name Georg Zakarias Forsman, author name Yrjö Koskinen, 10 December 1830, Vaasa - 13 November 1903, Helsinki) was...
Johannes Linnankoski

Johannes Linnankoski

male
Johannes Linnankoski was a Finnish author. His most famous work is the sensual "Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta". His primary themes were exploring...

Eemil Nestor Setälä

male, deceased (1935)
Eemil Nestor Setälä was the acting head of state of Finland from November 7, 1917 to November 15, 1917. Setälä was a linguist, professor of Finn...
Julius Krohn

Julius Krohn

male
Julius Leopold Fredrik Krohn was a Finnish folk poetry researcher, a professor of Finnish literature, a poet, a hynmwriter, a translator and a...
Alexandra Gripenberg

Alexandra Gripenberg

female, deceased (1913)
Alexandra Gripenberg (30 August 1857 - 24 December 1913) was a leading voice within the movement for women's rights in Finland at the turn of the...