- Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910, in Kirkkonummi, Finland – September 1, 1961, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) was a Finnish American architect and product designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism. - Eliel Saarinen
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (August 20, 1873, Rantasalmi, Finland - July 1, 1950, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States) was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century. Saarinen was educated in Helsinki at the Helsinki University of Technology. From 1896 to 1905 he worked as a partner with Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren at the firm Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen. - Maila Nurmi
Maila Nurmi (born Maila Syrjäniemi, December 21, 1921 in Petsamo, Finland (now Pechenga, Russia)) created the well-remembered 1950s character of Vampira. Her portrayal of this character as a television horror host and in films was influential over decades that followed. - John Morton
John Morton was born in Delaware in 1724. In his youth he was noted for his quick intelligence and his habit of hard work. His stepfather, a well educated surveyor from England, gave him a sound education in practical matters and in surveying. In 1756 Morton was elected to the Provincial Assembly, and was elected president of the Assembly in 1775. He attended the Stamp Act Congress in 1765. - Gus Hall
Gus Hall was a leader of the Communist Party USA and its four-time U.S. presidential candidate. - Jennifer Granholm
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Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. She shot to fame during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy, "Pretty Woman", opposite Richard Gere. Since then, Roberts has become the highest-paid actress in the world, topping the "Hollywood Reporter's" annual power list of top-earning female stars for four consecutive years (2002-2005). - Hiski Salomaa
Hiski Salomaa, born Hiskias Möttö (born May 17, 1891 in Kangasniemi, Finland; died July 7, 1957 in New York City, USA) was a Finnish American folk singer and song writer. Born in Kangasniemi, Finland, Salomaa moved to the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, in 1908 after the death of his mother. There, he made his living as a tailor. - Arthur Kylander
Arthur Arkadius Kylander (February 16, 1892-1968) was Finnish-American folk musician, singer, song-writer, mandolinist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. Born in Lieto, Finland, Kylander moved to the United States at the age of 22 in 1914, where he became a migrant worker as a carpenter and in the logging industry. In 1925 he met his wife Julia Varila, a pianist and accordianist, and the two began performing together and touring. - Matt Damon
As a teen, Boston-native Matt Damon used to break-dance for money in Harvard Square. Matt Damon was an extra in Field of Dreams with friend Ben Affleck when they were just starting out. ... Matt Damon appeared on Will & Grace in 2002 as Jack's rival for a coveted spot in a gay men's chorus. - Amy Hill
Amy Hill (born May 9, 1953 in Deadwood, South Dakota) is a Japanese-Finnish-American actress who is most known for her roles as Mrs. DePaulo in "That's So Raven", the babysitter Mrs. Kwan in "The Cat in the Hat", and the voice of Jasmine Lee (aka "Ah-Mah") on "The Life and Times of Juniper Lee". Hill became an acclaimed actress working with the famed "Asian American Theatre Company" in San Francisco, California. - Renny Harlin
Renny Harlin is a film director and producer mostly known for action movies. Harlin moved to the U.S. in the mid 1980s and initially started directing low-budget films. Harlin gained attention after directing "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4", which proved to be a success. His next film, the Andrew Dice Clay film "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane" failed at the box office, but Harlin achieved financial success with "Die Hard 2". - T-Bone Slim
Matti Valentine Huhta (c.1890? - May 11?, 1942) better known by his pen name T-Bone Slim, was a humourist, poet, songwriter, hobo, and a labour activist in the Industrial Workers of the World. Very little is known of his early life or his death. He was born in Ashtabula, Ohio to Finnish working-class immigrants sometime before the turn of the century, married at a young age, and left the area around 1910, … - Wilho Saari
Wilho Saari is a fifth-generation Finnish-American player of the kantele, the Finnish psaltery. Kreeta Haapasalo, a well-known kantele player in Finland in the 1800s, was his great-great grandmother. Wilho's father, Wilho Sr., also performed the kantele in public, only in Washington, having brought a kantele with him to America in 1915. - Anselm Hollo
Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (born April 12, 1934) is a Finnish poet and translator. He has lived most of his life in the United States. - Taina Elg
Taina Elg (b. 9 March 1931, Helsinki) is a Finnish-American actress and dancer. Her earliest professional engagements were as a dancer with the Sadler's Wells and Marquis de Cuevas troupes. She was discovered in London by producer Edwin Knopf and was signed up by MGM to a seven-year contract. She made her Hollywood debut in 1955 in the epic film "The Prodigal" and partnered Gene Kelly in "Les Girls" (1957). - Jessica Lange
Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. - Albert Salmi
Albert Salmi was an American actor. - Christine Lahti
Born April 04, 1950 - Unpredictable American actress Christine Lahti majored in drama at the University of Michigan, then toured Europe with a group of pantomimists. She studied with Uta Hagen in New York, taking whatever stage work that came along (including her Obie award-winning performance in an Off-Broadway revival of Little Murders) before being steadily employed ... Continue Bio >> - Max Dimont
Max I. Dimont (born Maximilian Israel DiMont) (August 12, 1912-March 1992) was a Finnish-American historian and author. Born to a Jewish family in Helsinki, Finland, Dimont came to the United States in 1930. He taught himself the English language by reading Shakespeare, the Bible, and American plays translated into Finnish. After serving with U.S. Army intelligence in World War II, … - K. A. Laity
K.A. Laity, Ph.D. is a Finnish-American medievalist and award-winning author, noted for the novel "Pelzmantel: A Medieval Tale" ISBN 978-1892718464 as well as numerous short stories, plays and scholarly essays. - Lauri Törni
Lauri Allan Törni was a Finnish Army Captain who led an infantry company in Finnish Winter and Continuation War and moved to the United States after the war. He is known as the soldier who fought under three flags: Finnish and German, when he fought the Russians in World War II, and American (where he was known as Larry Thorne) when he fought in Vietnam. - Oskari Tokoi
Antti Oskari Tokoi (April 15, 1873, Perho, Finland- April 4, 1963, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States) was a Finnish politician. Tokoi was born as "Oskari Hirvi" in 1873 in Perho, Kannus in Central Ostrobothnia. In 1891 he moved to America where he worked as a miner and got involved in labour unions. He returned to Finland in 1900 and worked as a farmer and a merchant. In 1905 Tokoi was elected the chairman of the workers association of Kannus. - Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Carol Wuornos]] (born Aileen Carol Pittman) (February 29 1956 - October 9 2002) was an American prostitute and convicted serial killer who was sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1992. She ultimately received five additional death sentences. Wuornos admitted to killing seven men, in separate incidents, all of whom she claimed raped her (or attempted to) while she was working as a prostitute. - Emil Petaja
Emil Petaja (1915 - 2000) was an American science fiction writer. Born in Western Montana he studied at Montana State University where he published his first book, a book of poems, himself. It was illustrated by his close friend Hannes Bok. After three years of college he moved to California where he became a member of the Lovecraft circle and an early member of the California Futurians. - Rudy Autio
Rudy Autio (October 8 1926 - June 20, 2007) was an American sculptor, best known for his figurative ceramic vessels. Rudio Autio was born Arne Rudolf Autio to a family of Finnish immigrants in Butte, Montana. As a child, he first learned to draw by taking evening classes from Works Progress Administration artists working in Butte. He served in the Navy for two years during World War II. After the war ended, … - Joyce Randolph
Joyce Randolph, is a Finnish-American actress, best known for playing Trixie Norton on "The Honeymooners". Randolph was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and moved to New York City in 1943 to pursue an acting career. She took roles on Broadway and landed various television roles. In 1951, she was seen in a Clorets commercial by Jackie Gleason and was asked to appear in a skit on “Cavalcade of Stars", Gleason's variety show on the DuMont Television Network. - Lisa Niemi
Lisa Anne Haapaniemi (born May 26 1956) is an American actress and dancer. Niemi was born in Houston, Texas to her Finnish-American parents Edmond Melvin Haapaniemi and Edna Karin Hyttinen. She has been married to Patrick Swayze since June 12 1975. - Drew Gooden
Andrew Melvin "Drew" Gooden (born September 24 1981 in Oakland, California) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA. A 6'10", 250 lbs. power forward from the University of Kansas, Gooden was selected as the 4th overall pick by the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2002 NBA Draft. - Tiina Nunnally
Tiina Nunnally (born 7 August 1952, Chicago, Illinois) is an American author and translator, and is affiliated with the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband Steven T. Murray and their two cats. She received her MA in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a PhC from the University of Washington in 1979. Nunnally is an award-winning translator of Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish. - Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen is an American composer. Co-founder of The Group for Contemporary Music, Wuorinen writes serial instrumental music. Some of his pieces are influenced by fractal geometry and Benoît Mandelbrot, while his later works feature some tonal relationships. In 1970, Wuorinen was the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, for the electronic piece "Time's Encomium". He is also the author of "Simple Composition", ISBN 0-938856-06-5, … - Leo Mustonen
Leo Mustonen was a Finnish-American World War II Army Air Corps cadet who was reported missing after a plane crash on November 18, 1942 until his frozen remains were found in October 2005 at the bottom of a glacier in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, 63 years later. He was 22 at the time of his death. Mustonen joined the Army during his senior high school year in Brainerd, Minnesota and was in training to become a navigator when he was reported missing. - Oscar Wirkkala
Oscar Wirkkala (b. 1880, Kaustinen, Finland; d. January 25 1959, Naselle, Washington) was a Finnish-American logger and inventor who spent much of his life in the Pacific Northwest. His father Abraham and brother Andrew arrived in America first, working at a saw mill in Cosmopolis, Washington, to save money to pay for the migration of the rest of the family. Oscar arrived next, in 1898, followed closely by his mother, a sister, and three younger brothers. - Paul Kangas
Paul Kangas a former stockbroker with more than 12 years experience, is the Miami-based Anchor and Financial Commentator host of Nightly Business Report since it was a local Florida program in 1979. The show is still hosted from Florida, where he resides with his wife, Peni. Although he hosts the show that gives premier financial advice, he owns no stock. Kangas was born in Houghton, Michigan and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. - Brian Heidik
Brian Heidik (born March 9 1968 in Burtonsville, Maryland) won $1,000,000 on the Thailand edition of Survivor. Prior to being cast in Survivor, Brian was a used car salesman and actor. Some of his roles were in softcore adult films, although this didn't factor into his performance in Survivor. At this time he met actress Charmaine Heidik (while in the business she went by CC Costigan and then CC Heidik); they went on to marry as well as produce and co-star in adult films. - Dick Enberg
Dick Enberg is his ninth year calling play-by-play for CBS Sports' coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Enberg joined CBS Sports in January 2000 as play-by-play announcer for THE NFL ON CBS, college basketball and the U.S. Open Tennis Championships. He also contributes to the Masters and PGA Championship broadcasts. For the second straight year, Enberg also will call Thursday night NFL games on Westwood One and CBS Radio Sports. - Miriam Patchen
Miriam Patchen (1914-2000) was the wife and muse of poet and painter Kenneth Patchen, who dedicated each of his more than 40 works "To Miriam". After his death, she an activist advocating peace and poetry. She was born Miriam Oikemus in Waverly, Massachusetts on 28 September 1914 and died in Palo Alto, California on 6 March 2000. - Kayla Kleevage
Kayla Kleevage (born April 20, 1970) is a stripper and pornographic actress in the big-bust genre. Originally from Racine, Wisconsin, Kleevage began stripping in local clubs around Houston, Texas. Kleevage then signed a contract with Universal Entertainment. Kleevage has appeared in hardcore pornographic films and several adult magazines. Kleevage briefly appeared topless in "Big Money Hustlas", starring Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope of the Insane Clown Posse. - Marta Kristen
Marta Kristen (born Birgit Annalisa Rusanen on February 26, 1945, in Norway) is an American actress best known for her role as "Judy Robinson" in the cult television series "Lost in Space". Kristen was born to a Finnish mother and a German soldier father who was killed during World War II. She was adopted in 1949 by an American couple from Detroit, Michigan and was renamed Marta. - Carlton Appelo
Carlton Edward Appelo (1922 -) is a Finnish-American entrepreneur and amateur historian residing in southwest Washington state. Son of C. Arthur and Agnes Paju Appelo, he grew up in Deep River, Washington, working on the family's various enterprises: a store, an insurance company, a post office, and a telephone company. The latter business is still in existence, having grown from a community co-op to one of the largest private employers in Wahkiakum County.
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