Claim: Pentti Pouttu, was a Finish/Swedish peasant rebellion leader, who took charge of recruiting Swedish speaking peasants.
Evidence: Pentti Pouttu, also known as Bengt Pouttu, died 1597 in Turku, Sweden (now Finland) was a Finnish/Swedish peasant rebellion leader, land owner and merchant with Swedish origin from Gammelgården (Old farm) in Karleby, Ostrobothnia. He was one of the leaders of the 1596/97 peasant uprising, the Cudgel War. Pouttu was known as the "political leader" of the cudgel war since he was one of the first peasant leader who organized the resistance in Storkyro and sailed to Stockholm to complain to Duke Charles (Hertig Karl).