Famous(?) Finns

[Bereta_Eder]

Jorma ollila the CEO of Nokia?


Nokianism

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
(That Finnish snowboarder is prolly there too, but I can't remember his name.)

Heikki Sorsa?

[Winston]

Glad to see this concept will likely catch on.

I knew Alvar Aalto, Martti Ahtisaari, Mika Häkkinen, Jari Litmanen, Gustaf Mannerheim, Paavo Nurmi, Jean Sibelius, Linus Torvalds and Mika Waltari.

Lots of skiers could no doubt have been included and I think Urho Kekkonen would've been a familiar person to a decent amount of foreigners as well. Not to mention the pioneer in modern sanitation, W.C. Hygieinen...

Is it my imagination, or did a fair number of Finns vote on this poll? All the choices seem to have a fair amount of votes. Only Finns could know that much about other Finns.

[Stefu]

Nooo! Everybody knows everything about Finland.

[Meticulous Man]

Winston: impressive

I think there have been 5-6 Finnish voters

[Felch]

The answer begins with an "N"

[Kropotkin]

Originally posted by Stefu
Nooo! Everybody knows everything about Finland.

Maybe 'cause there's about one million finns here that constantly starts threads about some obscure finnish happening or personality. Even if one is not the least bit interested one more or less have to read the titles of the threads to find something interesting about something else in the midst of 'em.

[Panag]

Re: Famous(?) Finns

Originally posted by Aivo½so
It would be nice to know the extent in which these people are known outside Finland. Select the persons on the list that you have heard of.

hi ,

Satu Hassi and Lipponen , ........

not on list , .....


off topic ; where can one get Finnish Euro's , ....who wants to sent them , ....for an other country of course , ......

have a nice day

[Pekka]

I think many can also identify Ville Valo.. as the lead singer in HIM. But i think he can not be considered as person because he's in a band..

[Meticulous Man]

I considered putting Valo on the list as the representant of Finnish pop musicians but then, for some reason, decided for Andy McCoy instead. It seems he's actually rather unknown to foreigners.

So, the Finns that are best known abroad seem to be Häkkinen and Torvalds...

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Aivo½so
So, the Finns that are best known abroad seem to be Häkkinen and Torvalds...

Who's Torvalds? ... (ducking and running)

[Thue]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph


Who's Torvalds? ... (ducking and running)

[Buck Birdseed]

I know all of these except McCoy, Thorne and Waltari.

I also know a lot of Karjalainen jokes. Where's he?

Oh, and the greatest poet ever to grace the Swedish language, Edith Södergran. She should be on there.

[Ecthy]

I know like a hand full of them, certainly less than of the Danes, not by far though.

I know Ahtisaari (politician, basically ended the Yugoslavia vs NATO thing), Häkkinen (F1), Litmanen (footy), Thorvalds (software stuff).

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Where's Hannu Mikkola?