List of Finnish Americans

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The following is a list of

Finnish Americans
, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

Lists of Americans
By US state
By ethnicity or nationality

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Finnish American or must have references showing they are Finnish American and are notable.

List

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See also the categories American people of Finnish descent and Finnish expatriates in the United States

Academics, inventors, scientists

  • Lars Ahlfors (1907–1996), mathematician, one of the first two people to be awarded the Fields Medal; Wolf Prize winner; William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
  • Computer Science at Columbia University. He served as chair of the department from 1995 to 1997, and again in the spring of 2003[citation needed
    ]
  • epistemic logic and of game semantics
    for logic
  • Bengt Robert Holmström (born 1949), economist, Nobel Laureate with Oliver Hart "for their contribution to contract theory", professor of economics; currently Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ruth Kaarlela (1919–2018), professor of blindness and vision studies, Western Michigan University; expert on rehabilitation, gerontology
  • Benjamin B. Rubinstein (1905–1989), physician and psychoanalyst; had a practice in New York; wrote extensively on philosophy of psychoanalysis
  • software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel; became a U.S. citizen in September 2010[1]
  • Vaino Jack Vehko (1918–1999), automotive engineer; NASA rocket scientist; in 1960 became Director of Engineering on the Saturn S1 and S1B booster rocket program at Chrysler Space Division's Michoud operation in New Orleans, Louisiana; the Saturn boosters successfully launched all the NASA Apollo and Moon missions
  • Carl A. Wirtanen (1910–1990), astronomer[2]

Arts and literature

  • Jean M. Auel (born 1936), author, wrote the Earth's Children books; her books have sold 34 million copies worldwide in many translations[3]
  • Rudy Autio (1926–2007), sculptor[4]
  • Max Dimont (1912–1992), historian; author of Jews, God and History, which received critical acclaim and has sold over a million and a half copies; has lectured on Jewish history throughout the United States, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, and Finland; author of The Indestructible Jews, The Jews in America, and Appointment in Jerusalem
  • The Kalevala
    , the Finnish national epic
  • Rick Hautala (1949–2013), writer
  • Clifton Karhu (1927-2007), artist in Japan renounced for woodblock prints of Kyoto and Kanazawa
  • Tiina Nunnally, author and translator
  • Emil Petaja, author
  • Hannu Rajaniemi, science fiction author
  • Eero Saarinen (1910–1961), architect and product designer of the 20th century, famous for his simple, sweeping, arching structural curves[5]
  • Eliel Saarinen (1873–1950), architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early 20th century[6]
  • Haddon Sundblom, artist
  • Mad Magazine, Marvel Comics)[7]

Business

  • Red Lobster
    business.
  • Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors
  • Mike Markkula (born 1942), entrepreneur; angel investor and second CEO of Apple Computer, Inc.; provided early critical funding and managerial support; known as Apple employee #3
  • Yahoo and former Google executive[8]
  • Gustave Niebaum (1842–1908), established Inglenook Winery in Napa Valley, California, the first Bordeaux style winery in the US
  • Oscar Wirkkala (1880–1959), logger and inventor, developed the high lead method of logging, which revolutionized the industry; also invented important pieces of that industry's machinery used during the first half of the 20th century

Film and television

Matt Damon

Military personnel

Musicians

Dance

Politics

Sports

Other

References

  1. ^ "Gmane Loom". thread.gmane.org. Archived from the original on 2013-08-20. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
  2. ^ Wirtasen vanhemmat olivat suomalaisia. [Wirtanen's parents were Finns.]
  3. ^ [1]"Finns in America"
  4. ^ [2] "Finnish was his first language and he didn't learn English until ..."
  5. ^ [3] "Finnish-born U.S. architect"
  6. ^ [4] "Eliel Saarinen (Finnish, 1873-1950)"
  7. ^ Steve Starger and J. David Spurlock: Wally's World, Vanguard Productions, 2006 [5] Archived 2008-01-30 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Marissa Mayer visits the land of her ancestors". Archived from the original on 2011-11-13. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  9. ^ "Iltalehti". www.iltalehti.fi. June 22, 2007. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  10. ^ "Huhu, joka osoittautui todeksi - "MacGyverilla" suomalaiset sukujuuret". Yle Uutiset (in Finnish). 22 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  11. ^ a b c d e "See the list of Finnish artists". Archived from the original on 2006-08-11. Retrieved 2006-10-07.
  12. ^ "FINN FILM ENTERTAINMENT provided by Bravenet.com". www.finnfilm3.bravehost.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08.
  13. ^ "Taina Elg". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
  14. ^ [6] Finnish-born (Helsinki)
  15. ^ [7] "Finnish director Renny Harlin..."
  16. ^ "Selviytyjät-voittaja on puoliksi suomalainen". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). 2003-09-22. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  17. ^ http://www.finnfilm4.bravehost.com/nancy_juvonen.html Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine> [bare URL]
  18. ^ "The Finns in America (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov.
  19. ^ "The Truth About Vincent Kartheiser | BlackBook". Blackbook. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
  20. ^ Born in Norway to a German father and a Finnish mother; describes herself as a "Finnish Girl" at [8]
  21. ^ "Finnish Americans - History, Modern era, The first finns in america". www.everyculture.com. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
  22. ^ Noted as one of several Finnish Americans at [9]; [10] notes that Lange is "the granddaughter of Finnish and Dutch-German migrants"
  23. Petsamo, Finland
  24. ^ Noted as one of several Finnish Americans at [12]; parents were Finnish immigrants
  25. ^ "Actress Vanessa Williams Explains How DNA Powers Her Family Tree". ancestry.com. May 14, 2013. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  26. ^ Described as "Finnish-American" at [13] Archived 2006-04-21 at the Wayback Machine; father was Finnish and mother was Jewish-American
  27. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-22. Retrieved 2009-09-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)"Jaco's Grandmother on his Mom's side, Kaisa Eriika ISOJÄRVI, was born north of the Arctic Circle in Lappi, Finland, and married David Haapala from Minnesota, whose father, Andrew Haapala was from Oulu, Finland"
  28. ^ "Arthur Kylander". Archived from the original on 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2012-07-23. "Arthur Kylander, Finnish American Folksinger"; born in Kangasniemi, Finland
  29. ^ [14] "T-Bone Slim (the itinerant Finnish-American worker from Ashtabula, Ohio, Matt Valentine Huhta)"
  30. ^ Holland, Bernard (24 November 1985). "Music: Finnish Tribute". The New York Times.
  31. ^ "Biennale de la Danse 2008". Archived from the original on 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
  32. ^ [15] Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine "Although a few younger Finns held notable positions in the party leadership (e.g. Gus Hall, the party general secretary)"
  33. ^ [16] Archived 2006-05-07 at the Wayback Machine "JOHN MORTON was an early Finnish-American"
  34. ^ [17] Archived 2010-01-03 at the Wayback Machine"William Alex Stolt"
  35. ^ "/volume7/countries/finland.html Welcome to... / Bienvenue à". Archived from the original on 2001-06-06. Retrieved 2006-08-01.
  36. Salt Lake Tribune
    . May 17, 1932. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
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