page_title: Helsinki
section_title: Born after 1900
hierarchical_section_title: Helsinki / Notable people / Born after 1900
caption_attribution_description: Tarja Halonen
context_page_description: Helsinki is the capital, primate and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of 650,058. The city's urban area has a population of 1,268,296, making it by far the most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, located 179 kilometres to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. Helsinki is located 80 kilometres north of Tallinn, Estonia, 400 km east of Stockholm, Sweden, and 300 km west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has close historical ties with these three cities.
  Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa, and Kauniainen, and surrounding commuter towns, Helsinki forms the Greater Helsinki metropolitan area, which has a population of nearly 1.5 million. Often considered to be Finland's only metropolis, it is the world's northernmost metro area with over one million people as well as the northernmost capital of an EU member state.
context_section_description: Lars Ahlfors (1907–1996), mathematician, Fields medalist
  Tuomas Holopainen (born 1976), songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer
  Helena Anhava (1925-2018), poet, author and translator
  Paavo Berglund (1929–2012), conductor
  Laci Boldemann (1921–1969), composer
  Irja Agnes Browallius (1901–1968), Swedish writer
  Bo Carpelan (1926–2011), Finland-Swedish writer, literary critic and translator
  Tarja Cronberg (born 1943), politician
  Ragnar Granit (1900–1991), Finnish-Swedish neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate
  Elina Haavio-Mannila (born 1933), Finnish social scientist and professor
  Tarja Halonen (born 1943), President of Finland
  Reino Helismaa (1913–1965), writer, film actor and singer
  Kim Hirschovits (born 1982), ice hockey player
  Bengt Holmström (born 1949), Professor of Economics, Nobel laureate
  Kirsti Ilvessalo (1920–2019), textile artist
  Tove Jansson (1914–2001), Finland-Swedish writer, painter, illustrator, comic writer, graphic designer
  Lennart Koskinen (born 1944), Swedish, Lutheran bishop
  Olli Lehto (born 1925), mathematician
  Samuel Lehtonen (1921–2010), bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
  Juha Leiviskä (born 1936), architect
  Magnus Lindberg (born 1958), composer and pianist
  Lill Lindfors (born 1940), Finland-Swedish singer and TV presenter
  Klaus Mäkelä (born 1996), cellist and conductor
  Susanna Mälkki (born 1969), conductor
  Georg Malmstén (1902–1981), singer, musician, composer, orchestra director and actor
  Tauno Marttinen (1912–2008), composer
  Vesa-Matti Loiri (born 1945), actor, comedian, singer
  Markku Peltola (1956–2007), actor and musician
  Elisabeth Rehn (born 1935), politician
  Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016), composer
  Kaija Saariaho (born 1952), composer
  Riitta Salin (born 1950), athlete
  Esa-Pekka Salonen (born 1958), composer and conductor
  Heikki Sarmanto (born 1939), jazz pianist and composer
  Aki Kaurismäki (born 1957), director, screenwriter and producer
  Märta Tikkanen (born 1935), Finland-Swedish writer and philosophy teacher
  Linus Torvalds (born 1969), software engineer, creator of Linux
  Elin Törnudd (1924– 2008), Finnish chief librarian and professor
  Sirkka Turkka (born 1939), poet
  Ville Valo (born 1976), lead singer of the rock band HIM
  Ulla Vuorela (1945–2011), professor of social anthropology
  Jari Mäenpää (born 1977), founder, former lead guitarist and current lead singer in melodic death metal band Wintersun, former lead singer and guitarist of folk metal band Ensiferum
  Mika Waltari (1908–1979), writer
caption: Tarja Halonen, former president of Finland
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