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''Suuret suomalaiset'' (''Great Finns'') was a 2004 television show broadcast in
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
by
Yle
Yleisradio Oy ( Finnish, literally "General Radio Ltd." or "General Broadcast Ltd."; abbr. Yle ; sv, Rundradion Ab, italics=no), translated to English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, found ...
(the Finnish Broadcasting Company), which determined the ''100 greatest
Finns
Finns or Finnish people ( fi, suomalaiset, ) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.
Finns are traditionally divided into smaller regional groups that span several countries adjacent to Finland, both those who are native to these ...
of all time'' according to the opinions of its viewers. The viewers were able to vote during a programme which lasted from October to December 2004. The show was a Finnish spin-off of the
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's programme
''Great Britons''.
The list
The winner
During the final stage of voting, people had the chance to vote for the following three leading candidates:
Risto Ryti
Risto Heikki Ryti (; 3 February 1889 – 25 October 1956) served as the fifth president of Finland from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a political background figure during the interwar perio ...
,
C.G.E. Mannerheim and
Urho Kekkonen
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (; 3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986), often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He also served as prime minister ...
. The winner was
baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, a war hero,
Marshal of Finland
In Finnish Defence Forces Field Marshal ( fi, sotamarsalkka, lit=War Marshal, sv, fältmarskalk) is officially not an active military rank but an honorary rank that can be bestowed upon 'especially distinguished generals'. So far the only hold ...
, and
president
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
.
Top Ten
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C.G.E. Mannerheim (1867–1951) (
President of Finland, 1944–1946, and
Marshal of Finland
In Finnish Defence Forces Field Marshal ( fi, sotamarsalkka, lit=War Marshal, sv, fältmarskalk) is officially not an active military rank but an honorary rank that can be bestowed upon 'especially distinguished generals'. So far the only hold ...
)
#
Risto Ryti
Risto Heikki Ryti (; 3 February 1889 – 25 October 1956) served as the fifth president of Finland from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a political background figure during the interwar perio ...
(1889–1956) (President of Finland, 1940–1944)
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Urho Kekkonen
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (; 3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986), often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He also served as prime minister ...
(1900–1986) (President of Finland, 1956–1981)
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Adolf Ehrnrooth (1905–2004) (infantry general, a figurehead for the Finnish veteran community)
#
Tarja Halonen
Tarja Kaarina Halonen (; born 24 December 1943) is a Finnish politician who served as the 11th president of Finland, and the first woman to hold the position, from 2000 to 2012. She first rose to prominence as a lawyer with the Central Organisa ...
(1943–) (First female President of Finland, 2000–2012 )
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Arvo Ylppö
Arvo Henrik Ylppö (27 October 1887 – 28 January 1992) was a Finnish physician and professor of pediatrics who significantly decreased Finnish infant mortality during the 20th century. He is credited as the father of Finland's public m ...
(1887–1992) (famed paediatrician)
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Mikael Agricola
Mikael Agricola (; c. 1510 – 9 April 1557) was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territo ...
(1510–1557) (Protestant reformer and creator of literary
Finnish language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedis ...
)
#
Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius ( ; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often ...
(1865–1957) (world-famous composer of
romantic music)
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Aleksis Kivi (1834–1872) (national author)
#
Elias Lönnrot
Elias Lönnrot (; 9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for creating the Finnish national epic, ''Kalevala'',
(1835, enlarged 1849), from short ...
(1802–1884) (anthropologist)
Facetious voting and speculation on manipulated results
Everybody in the top ten can be regarded as "serious" candidates, but right after those first ten are a number of candidates that have probably been selected in a more humorous sense. Positions 11–14 are held by:
* Position 11,
Matti Nykänen
Matti Ensio Nykänen (; 17 July 1963 – 4 February 2019) was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991. Widely considered to be the greatest male ski jumper of all time, (1963–2019) – A four-time Olympic gold medalist who is also known for his later ill-fated careers as a singer and a
stripper. He is a person loved dearly by the Finnish sensationalist press.
* Position 12,
Väinö Myllyrinne
Väinö Myllyrinne (27 February 1909 – 13 April 1963)
was a Finnish Finnish language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedis ...
, the words "great", "tall" and "big" can all be expressed with the word ''"suuri"'', which is used in the name of the program. Thus, voting for Myllyrinne was a kind of joke.
* Position 13,
Ville Valo
Ville Hermanni Valo (; born 22 November 1976) is a Finnish singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the gothic rock band HIM.
Born and raised in Helsinki to a Hungarian mother and Finnish father, Valo began hi ...
(1976–) – The vocalist of the famous Finnish
alternative rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commerci ...
band
HIM.
* Position 14,
Lalli – A mythical and possibly
apocrypha
Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin. The word ''apocryphal'' (ἀπόκρυφος) was first applied to writings which were kept secret because they were the vehicles of esoteric knowledge considered ...
l figure who, according to a medieval legend, killed
Bishop Henry in Finland in 1156.
After the results were published, much speculation started on the issue of whether Yle had manipulated the results to keep facetious candidates out of the top ten. Yle has condemned the accusations but has refused to publish the number of votes that candidates below top ten received.
The person most conspicuously not appearing on the list is the international diplomat and former President of Finland
Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari (; born 23 June 1937) is a Finnish politician, the tenth president of Finland (1994–2000), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a United Nations diplomat and mediator noted for his international peace work.
Ahtisa ...
, who has been a perennial favourite in Finland for the
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...
, and was finally awarded it in 2008.
Advocates
In broadcast order:
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Jari Tervo, (1959–) author, humorist and TV personality from the show ''Uutisvuoto'' (''
Have I Got News For You''); for Arvo Ylppö
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Paula Lehtomäki
Paula Lehtomäki (born 29 November 1972 in Kuhmo, Finland) is a Finnish politician. She started her political career in 1996, when she was elected to the Kuhmo town council. In 1999 she was elected to the Finnish Parliament, and again in 2003. In ...
, (1972–) current Minister for Foreign Trade and Development (
Kesk.); for Urho Kekkonen
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Pirkko Saisio, (1949–)
Finlandia
''Finlandia'', Op. 26, is a tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It was written in 1899 and revised in 1900. The piece was composed for the Press Celebrations of 1899, a covert protest against increasing censorship from the Russian ...
-winning author; for Mikael Agricola
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Kaari Utrio, (1942–) author and
feminist; for Tarja Halonen
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Jukka Virtanen, author, director and actor; for Aleksis Kivi
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Lasse Lehtinen, (1947–) author,
Member of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.
When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
(
PES); for Risto Ryti
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Sari Kaasinen
A sari (sometimes also saree or shari)The name of the garment in various regional languages include:
* as, শাৰী, xārī, translit-std=ISO
* bn, শাড়ি, śāṛi, translit-std=ISO
* gu, સાડી, sāḍī, translit-std= ...
, musician in the traditional music band
Värttinä; for Elias Lönnrot
#
Arto Nyberg, (1966–) journalist, TV personality, host of the talk show ''
Arto Nyberg''; for Adolf Ehrnrooth
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Pekka Kuusisto
Pekka Kuusisto (born 7 October 1976 in Espoo) is a Finnish musician.
Biography
Kuusisto comes from a musical lineage. His grandfather was a composer and organist, his father is a jazz musician who has composed operas, and his mother is a music t ...
, (1976–) musician, composer, prize-winning violin player; for Jean Sibelius
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Riitta Uosukainen, (1942–) veteran politician (
Kok.), first female Speaker of the
Parliament of Finland
The Parliament of Finland ( ; ) is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906. In accordance with the Constitution of Finland, sovereignty belongs to the people, and that power is vested in the Parliament. The ...
; for C. G. E. Mannerheim
Other editions
Other countries have produced similar shows; see
Greatest Britons spin-offs
References
External links
Suuret suomalaiset
{{Countries' greatest people TV series
Greatest Nationals
2004 Finnish television series debuts
2004 Finnish television series endings
Finnish television shows
Finnish television series based on British television series
Lists of Finnish people
Yle original programming