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•  Linus Torvalds

  Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel and git revision control system. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator.

  

  28.6%
  

  40.5%
  

  31.0%
  
•  Tarja Halonen

  Tarja Kaarina Halonen (born 24 December 1943) is the 11th and current President of Finland. The first female to hold the office, Halonen had previously been a member of the parliament from 1979 to 2000 when she resigned after her election to the presidency. In addition to her political career she had a long and extensive career in trade unions and different non-governmental organizations. Halonen is a graduate of the University of Helsinki, where she studied law from 1963 to 1968.

  

  6.7%
  

  53.3%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Tove Jansson

  Tove Marika Jansson (9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-Finn novelist, painter, honorary Professor of Philosophy, illustrator, and comic strip author. She was the author of, among other works, the Moomin books.

  

  23.1%
  

  30.8%
  

  46.2%
  
•  Lars Ahlfors

  Lars Valerian Ahlfors (18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996) was a Finnish-born mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis.

  

  25.0%
  

  41.7%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Edvard Westermarck

  Edvard Alexander Westermarck (20 November 1862 – 3 September 1939) was a Swedish speaking Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo. He is known for first noting the Westermarck effect in which infants raised together are unable to form sexual feelings for one another as adults, regardless of their genetic relationship. Whilst professoring at the London School of Economics he helped found academic sociology in the United Kingdom.

  

  25.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Ville Valo

  Ville Hermanni Valo (born November 22, 1976), is a Finnish singer, songwriter, and frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM. Valo was also the drummer for the Daniel Lioneye project. Valo has a baritone vocal range.

  

  14.3%
  

  57.1%
  

  28.6%
  
•  Mika Waltari

  Mika Toimi Waltari (September 19, 1908 – August 26, 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian.

  

  35.7%
  

  14.3%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

  Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (15 January 1895 – 11 November 1973) was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  

  83.3%
  

  16.7%
  

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•  Matti Pellonpää

  Matti Pellonpää (28 March 1951 in Helsinki – 13 July 1995 in Vaasa) was an award-winning Finnish actor and a musician. He rose to international fame with his roles in both Aki Kaurismäki's and Mika Kaurismäki's films; particularly being a regular in Aki's films, appearing in 18 of them. He started his career in 1962 as a radio actor at the Finnish state-owned broadcasting company YLE.

  

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  40.0%
  

  60.0%
  
•  Kati Outinen

  Anna Katriina Outinen (born August 17, 1961, in Helsinki) is a Finnish actress who has often played leading female roles in Aki Kaurismäki's films. Having studied under Jouko Turkka during his "reign" of drama studies in Finland, she nevertheless has never been associated with the "turkkalaisuus" school of acting methodology. Her breakthrough role was as a tough girl in the generational classic youth film Täältä tullaan elämä by Matti Kassila. In 1984, she appeared in Aikalainen.

  

  50.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  25.0%
  

• People from Helsinki by likeorhate
• 1916 births by likeorhate
• 2003 deaths by likeorhate
• Analytic philosophers by likeorhate
• Finnish nobility by likeorhate
• Finnish philosophers by likeorhate
• Logicians by likeorhate
• Philosophers of language by likeorhate
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• Swedish-speaking Finns by likeorhate
• Swedish-language writers by likeorhate
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•  Environmental engineering

  Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the environment (air, water, and/or land resources), to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites. Environmental engineering involves water and air pollution control, recycling, waste disposal, and public health issues as well as a knowledge of environmental engineering law.

  

  50.0%
  

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•  Ångermanland

  Ångermanland, is a historical province or landskap in the north of Sweden. It borders to Medelpad, Jämtland, Lapland, Västerbotten and the Gulf of Bothnia. The name "Ångermanland" comes from the Old Norse "anger", which means "deep fjord" and refers to the deep mouth of the river Ångermanälven. "Ångermanland" is "Angermannia" in Latin.

  

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•  Kodacolor (still photography)

  For other uses of the "Kodacolor" brand, see Kodacolor. In still photography, Kodak's Kodacolor brand has been associated with various color negative films (i.e. film intended for making color prints with) since 1942. Kodak claims that Kodacolor print film was the world's first true color negative film. The Kodacolor name has subsequently been used on several negative films, including Kodacolor-X, Kodacolor VR and Kodacolor Gold.

  

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•  Worcester, Pennsylvania

  

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•  2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Group 3

  

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