Tiina Sanila

Tiina Sanila

female, 26 years old
Ijahis Idja, Kå´llkue´ll še måttmešt tålkk, Inari, Finland, Sami musician, Province of Lapland, Lapland Province
Tiina Juulia Sanila is a Skolt woman from Sevettijärvi, a village in Inari, who published the first full-length rock CD in Skolt Sami ever in 2...
Pekka Sammallahti

Pekka Sammallahti

male, 54 years old
Sápmi, linguist, University of Oulu, Finnish, Lappland, Pekka Lars Kalervo Sammallahti
Pekka Lars Kalervo Sammallahti is a professor of Sámi languages at the Giellagas Institute at the University of Oulu. A prolific writer, he has p...
Giuseppe Acerbi

Giuseppe Acerbi

male, deceased (1846)
Sápmi, Italian, Ornithologist, lapland, explorer
Giuseppe Acerbi was an Italian explorer. In 1798 Acerbi travelled to Lapland, publishing his experiences in "Travel through Sweden, Finland and...
Vendela Vida

Vendela Vida

female, 37 years old
novelist, American women writer, Middlebury College alumni, Sápmi, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writer
Vendela Vida (born September 6, 1972) is an American novelist, journalist, and editor who lives in San Francisco with her husband, writer Dave...
Richard Chancellor

Richard Chancellor

male, deceased (1556)
tudor, Sápmi, From bristol, novaya zemlya, arctic, Politics of Muscovy
Richard Chancellor (d. 1556) was an English explorer and navigator; the first to penetrate to the White Sea and establish relations with Russia....
Alfred Newton

Alfred Newton

male, deceased (1907)
Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, Sápmi, Mascarene Islands, ornithology, zoology, Ornithologist
Alfred Newton was an English zoologist and ornithologist. In 1854 he was elected travelling fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he had...
Adolf Reichwein

Adolf Reichwein

male, deceased (1944)
Sápmi, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, German, Educator, brandenburg, Nazi Germany
Adolf Reichwein was a German educator, economist, and cultural policymaker for the SPD. He was also a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. After...
Ted Lewin

Ted Lewin

male, 74 years old
Sápmi, Amazon River, children's book, Children's literature, lapland, author
Ted Lewin is an author/illustrator of children's books. Lewin and his wife Betsy Reilly drew on their travels to exotic places such as the Amazon...
Matti Kurki

Matti Kurki

male, 809 years old
Finnish folklore, Sápmi, Tribal chief, 17th century, Medieval Finland, Danish
Matti Kurki was a legendary Finnish chieftain. If he was a real person, he is thought to have been living in the late 13th century. Folklore tales...
Olof Swartz

Olof Swartz

male, deceased (1816)
Taxonomist, Sápmi, University of Uppsala, hispaniola, lapland, British East India Company
Olof Peter Swartz was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes. He attended the...