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View Poll Results: Which of the following people have you heard of?
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Alvar Aalto
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Martti Ahtisaari
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Antti Hulkko aka Andy McCoy
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Mika Häkkinen
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Tove Jansson
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Aki Kaurismäki
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Touko Laaksonen aka Tom of Finland
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Jari Litmanen
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Gustaf Mannerheim
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6.33% |
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Tommi Mäkinen
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Paavo Nurmi
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Teemu Selänne
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Jean Sibelius
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Larry Thorne
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Linus Torvalds
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12.66% |
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Mika Waltari
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May 29, 2002, 07:22
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Famous(?) Finns
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.
Hope this is not considered a copycat thread.
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May 29, 2002, 07:41
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I know them all!
You didn't include Urho "Kekkonen Kekkonen Kekkonen" Kekkonen! 
Jorma Ollila seems to be missing, too...
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May 29, 2002, 08:01
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I know everybody but two, Antti Hulko and Larry Thorne
And you also forgot whatshisname that direct crappy action movies in Hollywood... And not to forget JL Runeberg 
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May 29, 2002, 08:02
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Well, there can only be 16 options... very many people had to be dropped from the list, including Kekkonen, Ollila, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikael Forssell, Saku Koivu, Harri Holkeri, Max Jakobson, Sirkka Hämäläinen, Marcus Grönholm, Runeberg... ... ...
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May 29, 2002, 08:10
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and Zacharias Topelius and Arvo Tuominen communist and author of "Sirpin ja vasaran tie" and Väinö Linna and...
Ok, now you´re just showing off...
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May 29, 2002, 08:12
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May 29, 2002, 08:15
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Oh, Kamrat: Don't forget Otto-Ville Kuusinen (Where from the name OttoK comes from  ), The 'prime minister' of the 'puppet government' in Finland during WW2 - He was a HC-communist
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May 29, 2002, 08:30
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Actually, after his charade as a Soviet stooge-of-a-prime-minister, Otto Wille Quislinginen was a moderately high shot in the Soviet government, where he was considered a moderate. Then again, this is Soviet Union we're talking 'bout.
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May 29, 2002, 08:36
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Originally posted by aaglo
Oh, Kamrat: Don't forget Otto-Ville Kuusinen (Where from the name OttoK comes from ), The 'prime minister' of the 'puppet government' in Finland during WW2 - He was a HC-communist
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Yes, how could I forget OttoK But since he was a Mosow puppet he´s not my kind of communist. At least Tuominen saw the error of his ways and choose the path that lead away from Stalins perverted massmurder project (ie the Soviet Union).
Aivo: Paljon kiitoksia!  I try to get my spelling as correct as possible, but it wasn´t hard. All I had to do was look in my book shelf
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May 29, 2002, 08:42
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Väinö Linna, "Tuntematon Sotilas" 
Considering the quality of finnish books and films about the war I'd love to see finns take over hollywoods production of wars films, then we would get some real films!
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May 29, 2002, 09:26
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Kropotkin, be carefull what you wish for.. renny harlin is considering on filming the story of Mannerheim.. though i'm not sure which era of his career it would consentrate on...maybe warstuff made in hollywood style.. i don't know.
i don't think it should be filmed though, because it's doomed to fail.
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May 29, 2002, 09:29
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YAY! I actually know one! Go Teemu!
(That Finnish snowboarder is prolly there too, but I can't remember his name.)
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May 29, 2002, 09:30
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Yaargh! Argh! No!
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May 29, 2002, 09:31
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...or was it Jude Law?
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May 29, 2002, 09:33
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There are so many finns well known in snowboarding, but i think you mean Heikki Sorsa..
And Larry Thorne is also known as Lauri Törni (he's real name).
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May 29, 2002, 09:34
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Jorma ollila the CEO of Nokia? 
Nokianism
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May 29, 2002, 09:35
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Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
(That Finnish snowboarder is prolly there too, but I can't remember his name.)
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Heikki Sorsa?
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May 29, 2002, 09:51
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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.
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May 29, 2002, 09:54
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Nooo! Everybody knows everything about Finland.
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May 29, 2002, 09:54
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Winston: impressive
I think there have been 5-6 Finnish voters
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May 29, 2002, 09:56
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The answer begins with an "N"
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May 29, 2002, 09:58
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Nooo! Everybody knows everything about Finland.
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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. 
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May 29, 2002, 10:01
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Re: Famous(?) Finns
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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.
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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
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May 29, 2002, 10:04
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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..
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May 29, 2002, 11:01
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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...
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May 29, 2002, 11:10
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Originally posted by Aivo½so
So, the Finns that are best known abroad seem to be Häkkinen and Torvalds...
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Who's Torvalds? ... (ducking and running)
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May 29, 2002, 11:43
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Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Who's Torvalds? ... (ducking and running)
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May 29, 2002, 12:38
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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.
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May 29, 2002, 12:47
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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).
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May 29, 2002, 12:50
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Where's Hannu Mikkola?
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