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Mäkelä
Mäkelä is a surname originating in Finland (in Finnish language, Finnish, it means "hill farm"), where it is the fifth most common"Most common surnames" (English version), verkkopalvelut.vrk.fi/Nimipalvelu surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Eero Mäkelä (1942–2008), Finnish chef, first Michelin-starred in Finland * Hannu Mäkelä (writer) (born 1943), Finnish writer of children's books * Hannu Mäkelä (athlete) (born 1949), Finnish sprinter * Heikki Mäkelä (born 1946), Finnish sprint canoeist, Summer Olympics * Ilkka Mäkelä (born 1963), Finnish football manager and former player * Tomi Mäkelä (born 1964), Finnish-German musicologist * Jani Mäkelä, Finnish politician * Janne Mäkelä (born 1971), Finnish footballer * Juho Mäkelä (born 1983), Finnish foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Mäkelä
Klaus Mäkelä (; born 17 January 1996) is a Finnish conductor and cellist. He is the chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, and music director of the Orchestre de Paris. Mäkelä is also artistic partner and chief conductor-designate of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and music director-designate of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Biography Mäkelä was born in Helsinki into a family of musicians; his father is the cellist Sami Mäkelä, and his mother is the pianist Taru Myöhänen-Mäkelä. His grandfather, Tapio Myöhänen, is a violinist and violist. His younger sister, Ellen Mäkelä, is a dancer with the Ballets de Catalunya. Mäkelä studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy with Jorma Panula and cello with Marko Ylönen, Timo Hanhinen and Hannu Kiiski. He became interested in conducting at age 12, when he sang in the choir of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Finnish National Opera. Mäkelä has been a soloist with Finnish orchestras such as the Lahti Symp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juho Mäkelä
Juho Mäkelä (born 23 June 1983) is a Finnish former footballer who played as a striker. He is especially known for his pace. Club career Early career Mäkelä played in the youth sector of Oulun Luistinseura (OLS) in his home-town Oulu. He started his senior career with local rival club Tervarit, before moving to Veikkausliiga club HJK Helsinki for the 2003 season. He scored 33 goals in 66 appearances for the club in three seasons, and was the Veikkausliiga top scorer in 2005. He is known as 'The Surgeon'. Hearts Mäkelä signed for Hearts on a three-and-a-half-year deal during the January 2006 transfer window, for a transfer fee of €735,000. He scored his first goal for Hearts in 4–0 win over Dunfermline on 8 April 2006. On 20 September 2006 he scored a hat-trick on his first start for Hearts in a Scottish League Cup tie against Second Division side Alloa in a 4–0 win. He scored with his head, and both his feet, scoring a treble. His fifth and final Hearts goal came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikko Mäkelä (ice Hockey)
Mikko Matti Mäkelä (born February 28, 1965) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey left wing. Known as the "Flying Finn", he was drafted in the fourth round, 65th overall, by the New York Islanders in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft. Mäkelä made his NHL debut with the Islanders in the 1985–86 season. In four-plus seasons with the Islanders, Mäkelä scored 95 goals, including 37 in the 1987–88 season. The Islanders traded Mäkelä to the Los Angeles Kings during the 1989–90 season in exchange for Hubie McDonough and Ken Baumgartner. After finishing the 1989–90 season with Los Angeles, Mäkelä was traded again before the 1990–91 season. This time, he went to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for Mike Donnelly. After one season in Buffalo, Mäkelä returned to Europe, spending two-plus seasons playing in his native Finland and one in Sweden. Mäkelä returned to the NHL following the 1994–95 NHL lockout, appearing in 11 games with the Boston Bruins during the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valle Mäkelä
Valle Mäkelä (born 2 February 1986, Laitila, Finland) is a Finnish motor racing driver. Career Mäkelä began his kart racing career at the age of five. In 2000 he became Finnish Champion in the ICA-J class. In 2002, he began racing in Formula Ford in both the UK and Nordics with some success. In 2003, he finished 3rd in the British Formula Ford Championship class, winning one race and securing a further seven podiums. Remaining with Nexa Racing, Mäkelä won the 2004 British Formula Ford title with 506 points scored over the season, including ten victories. For 2005, he joined GR Asia in the World Touring Car Championship racing a Seat Toledo alongside Tom Coronel. His best result was a 10th place finish at Silverstone. In 2006, he returned to open wheel racing driving for Manor Motorsport in British Formula Renault. He ended the season in 13th position. In 2007, he returned to Nexa Racing in the Formula BMW UK series and finished 5th in the championship, winning the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannu Mäkelä (writer)
Hannu Mäkelä (born 18 August 1943 in Helsinki, Finland) is an author of more than 100 books in Finnish language, Finnish: novels, collections of short stories, edited anthologies and children's books. Hannu Mäkelä is known for his books for children in many countries around the world, especially the ''Herra Huu'' (Mr Boo) series. Career Mäkelä writes for both adults and children. The ''Herra Huu'' series for children is fantasy about a wizard. Mäkelä's children's books have been published in Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, and are especially popular in Russia. His success in Russia has been explained as a result of his friendship with the writer . Personal life Mäkelä has been married five times. His first marriage was to the children's writer ; they had one son. His fourth wife, Svetlana Aksjonova, whom he married in 2011, died in 2017. He married again in 2020. Awards * The State Literature Prize, * The Eino Leino Prize, 1982 * The Finlandia Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikko Mäkelä (filmmaker)
Mikko Mäkelä (born January 1989) is a British-based Finnish filmmaker. He is known for directing the feature films '' A Moment in the Reeds'' (2017) and ''Sebastian'' (2024). He was listed by '' IndieWire'' as one of 25 LGBTQ filmmakers on the rise. Early life Mäkelä grew up in a small town in eastern Finland. He was 18 when he moved to England, where studied at English literature and French at the University of Nottingham and University College London (UCL), and Drama at the City Literary Institute. He began his filmmaking career as an editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, organization, a .... Filmography References External links Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of University College London Alumni of the University of Nottingham Finnis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomi Mäkelä
Tomi Matti Mäkelä (born 3 January 1964 in Lahti) is a Finnish musicologist and pianist, professor at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. He studied music and musicology in Lahti, Vienna, Berlin (West) and Helsinki. As a pianist he studied with Rauno Jussila and Noel Flores. He got his doctoral degree 1988 in Berlin under the guidance of Carl Dahlhaus. He has published widely on the music of the nineteenth and twentieth century. His German book on Sibelius ''Poesie in der Luft'' (Breitkopf & Härtel 2007) got the award Geisteswissenschaft international 2008 and was published in English translation by Steven Lindberg as ''Jean Sibelius'' (2011). 2023 Tomi Mäkelä received the Fredrik-Pacius-Award of the Swedish Literature Society in Finland (Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland). Works * with Christoph Kammertöns & Lena Esther Ptasczynski (eds.): ''Friedrich Wieck – Gesammelte Schriften über Musik und Musiker ..mit einer Einführung y Tomi Mäke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janne Mäkelä
Janne-Pekka Mäkelä (born 23 July 1971) is a Finnish former footballer. Mäkelä played 12 seasons in the Finnish premier division Veikkausliiga. 1996–1997 he played 8 matches for Raith Rovers in the Scottish Football League. Mäkelä capped 20 times for the Finland national team. Retrieved 26 June 2013. Career statistics Club International Honours Haka * (2): , |
Eero Mäkelä
Eero Mäkelä (December 11, 1942 – June 10, 2008) was a Finnish chef. His Palace Gourmet restaurant was the first in Finland to win a Michelin star and became a Cordon Bleu in 1974. Eero Mäkelä was born in Turku. He first organized competitions in Finland between Scandinavian restaurant cooks. Competitions were held in Helsinki in 1982. He acted as judge in many international competitions, including four times at the Bocuse d'Or competition in Lyon. He was also an expert in the education and training of cooking and restaurant management. Eero Mäkelä also acted as the Finnish Chef Association's chairman, and later the association's honorary chair. Mäkelä was active and well-known chef in Finland, who made a whole career in Finnish food culture. He died, aged 65, in Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilkka Mäkelä
Ilkka Mäkelä (born 25 June 1963, in Elimäki) is a Finnish football manager, former player, and current club president of Mikkelin Palloilijat (MP). Coaching career He was sacked after the 2010 season as FC Lahti were relegated to Ykkönen ''Ykkönen'' (Finnish language, Finnish for 'Number One'; , previously I divisioona) is the third highest level of the Finnish football league system (after the Veikkausliiga and Ykkösliiga), managed by the Football Association of Finland. Until .... On 20 December 2010 he signed a three-year contract with Finnish FA, taking the Finland's U15, U16 and U17 teams under his management. On 19 November 2019 MyPa confirmed, that Mäkelä would return as the club's manager for the 2020 season. mypa.fi, 19 November 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toivo Mäkelä
Toivo Mäkelä (26 September 1909 – 20 April 1979) was a Finnish film actor, appearing in more than 50 films between 1951 and 1979. He won a Jussi Award for Best Actor in 1978 and was awarded a Pro Finlandia medal in 1960. Partial filmography * ''Pitkäjärveläiset'' (1951) - Mikko * ''Noita palaa elämään'' (1952) - Hannu * ''Kolmiapila'' (1953) - Drunken man * ''Kovanaama'' (1954) - Anders - The Boss * ''Sininen viikko'' (1954) -Bertel Forss * ''Olemme kaikki syyllisiä'' (1954) - Doctor Heiskanen * ''Nukkekauppias ja kaunis Lilith'' (1955) - Hovimestari (uncredited) * ''Villi Pohjola'' (1955) - Valokuvaaja * ''Viettelysten tie'' (1955) - Social worker * ''The Harvest Month'' (1956) - Viktor Sundvall * ''Pää pystyyn Helena'' (1957) - Eero Alanen * ''Kuriton sukupolvi'' (1957) - Toimittaja Arvo Kääri * ''Syntipukki'' (1957) - Lasse Aro * ''Asessorin naishuolet'' (1958) - Tuomari Pakkola * ''Verta käsissämme'' (1958) - Hovimestari * '' Red Line'' (1959) - Jussi Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satu Mäkelä-Nummela
Satu Mäkelä-Nummela (born 26 October 1970, in Orimattila, Finland) is a Finnish sports shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's Trap event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She has also won bronze medals in Women's Trap event in 1995 and 2009 at ISSF World Shotgun Championships. Her club is OSU (Orimattilan Seudun Urheiluampujat). She qualified to represent Finland at the 2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo .... References External links * * Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Finland Olympic shooters for Finland Finnish female sport shooters Living people 1970 births Sportspeople from Orimattila Trap and double trap s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
