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Raimo
Raimo is a masculine given name. People named Raimo include: *Raimo Aas (born 1953), Estonian humorist *Raimo Grönberg (born 1953), Finnish actor *Raimo Hämäläinen (born 1948), Finnish professor of Applied Mathematics and Operations Research * Raimo Heino (1932–1995), Finnish designer of coins, relief figures and medallions * Raimo Heinonen (born 1935), Finnish gymnast *Raimo Helminen (born 1964), Finnish ice hockey player *Raimo Hirvonen (born 1950), Finnish wrestler *Raimo Honkanen (born 1938), Finnish cyclist *Raimo Ilaskivi (born 1928), Finnish politician *Raimo Kangro (1949–2001), Estonian composer *Raimo Karlsson (1948–2007), Finnish wrestler * Raimo Kilpiö (born 1936), Finnish ice hockey player * Raimo Lahti (born 1946), Finnish professor of Criminal Law *Raimo Mähönen (born 1938), Finnish politician *Raimo Manninen (alpine skier) (1940–2009), Finnish alpine skier *Raimo Manninen (athlete) (born 1955), Finnish javelin thrower *Raimo Pajusalu (born 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimon
Ramon Pelegero Sanchis, who takes the stage name of Raimon (), is a Spanish singer. He performs in the musical style of Nova Cançó, and in the Catalan language. Biography Youth Raimon was born in Xàtiva in the province of Valencia, Spain on December 2, 1940, at ''el carrer Blanc'' (White Street), which he references in some songs. In his youth he worked for several years as a radio broadcaster in his hometown, absorbing the music of artists as diverse as Juliette Gréco, The Platters, and Juanito Valderrama. At age 21, he moved to Valencia in order to study history. It was there that he discovered Catalan culture, and read writers such as Ausiàs March, Salvador Espriu, Josep Pla, and Joan Fuster, among others. Prior to this, however, he had already written his first song, ''Al vent'' (To the wind). In 1962, Raimon made his first public appearance at a literary prize ceremony. A little later, after entering a contest in Castelló, where Els Setze Jutges parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimo Kilpiö
Raimo Olavi Kilpiö (born 2 February 1936 in Parikkala, Finland) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 459 games in the SM-liiga and its predecessor SM-sarja from 1953 to 1977. During his career he scored 261 goals and 492 points. He played for Ilves, RU-38, and Ässät. He is a six-time Finnish Champion and once won the bronze medal. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and the 1964 Winter Olympics. He was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. Career Kilpiö made his SM-sarja debut with Ilves during the 1953–54 season. Kilpiö was one of the best forward stars of his time. Among other things, he was chosen four times as the best forward in the SM-sarja. Kilpiö won the Finnish championship six times, the first four of which came with Ilves, one in RU-38 and one in Ässät. In SM-sarja and SM-liiga, Kilpiö scored 492 points in 459 matches. In football, Kilpiö won the silver medal in the national championship with TaPa in 1962. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimo De Vries
Raimo de Vries (born 10 June 1969) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Born in Den Helder, de Vries played college soccer with Wake Forest, scoring 28 goals and making 15 assists between 1989 and 1992. De Vries began his professional career in 1993 with the Raleigh Flyers. He later spent one season in Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada ... with Colorado, making four appearances. Personal life De Vries' son Jack is also a professional footballer. References 1969 births Living people De Vries, Raimo Dutch men's footballers De Vries, Raimo De Vries, Raimo Sportspeople from Den Helder Dutch expatriate men's footballers De Vries, Raimo De Vries, Raimo Men's association football midfielders< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimo Vistbacka
Raimo Viljam Vistbacka (born 19 October 1945 in Kauhava) is a Finnish politician and former member of the Finnish Parliament. Vistbacka has a master's degree in law ('' varatuomari'') and he was the rural police chief (''nimismies'') in Alajärvi in 1982–1996. He was first elected to the parliament in 1987, representing the Finns Party's predecessor, the Finnish Rural Party. When the Finns Party was founded in 1995, Vistbacka became the party's first MP. He retired from the parliament in April 2011. In 2010 Vistbacka said that he hopes that the Finns Party will not have more than 10–14 MPs (the total number of MPs in Finland is 200). Vistbacka believed that a bigger parliamentary group cannot be controlled. Vistbacka left the Finns Party in 2017 and joined the Blue Reform. He was one of the Blue Reform candidates in the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 14 April 2019. For the first time, no party received more than 20% of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimo Sirkiä
Raimo Sirkiä (born February 7, 1951, in Finland) is a Finnish operatic tenor whose repertoire ranges from spinto to dramatic. The musical education or Raimo Sirkiä began at the age of four. He was the Finnish Champion in accordion four times, 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1964. He studied music pedagogics and voice at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and in Rome with Gavarrini and Morelli. He won the prestigious Timo Mustakallio award for young opera singers in 1981. Raimo Sirkiä performed mainly in Germany from 1983 to 2001. He was the principal tenor at the Finnish National Opera from 1990 to 2006. Sirkiä's most noted roles are in Otello, Calaf, Tannhäuser (opera), Tannhäuser, Sigmund, Siegmund, and Lohengrin (opera), Lohengrin. Mr. Sirkiä has recorded several complete operas, symphonies, as well as many solo CDs of opera arias, Italian songs, film music, Christmas music, and tangos. In 1993 he was awarded with Beniamino Gigli Prize. Raimo Sirkiä was the Artistic Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimo Grönberg
Raimo Grönberg (born 8 March 1953 in Oulu, Finland) is a Finnish actor whose career has mainly based on television. Vierikko began acting in 1978 on television working consistently throughout the 1980s and 1990s appearing in a number of TV series. In film he starred in the 2003 film '' Sibelius'' working with Finnish director Timo Koivusalo and actors such as Martti Suosalo, Heikki Nousiainen, Seela Sella, Miina Turunen and Vesa Vierikko. The New York Times. Accessed March 3rd, 2012. He once again worked with director Koivusalo in '''' in |
Raimo Aas
Raimo Aas (born 18 June 1953 in Tallinn) is an Estonian humorist. Radio career Raimo Aas performed together with Margus Lepa in the Sunday morning radio programme Meelejahutaja for several years. Performance prohibition Aas was subject to a six-month Soviet prohibition of public performance for singing, on the tune of Pust' vsegda budet solnce (Russian for "May there always be sunshine"; et, Olgu jääv meile päike), lyrics that can be translated as "May there always be sunshine, may there always be smoked sausages". The performance was deemed as insulting to Soviet youth. Awards In 1999, Raimo Aas was awarded the Meie Mats Meie Mats, named after an Estonian folk song, is a prestigious yearly humour award issued since 1987 and originally initiated by Edgar Spriit, the chief editor of '' Pikker'', a long-time Estonian humour magazine.Maaleht 18 January 2001Kellest ... award for lifelong work in humour. 1953 births Recipients of Meie Mats Estonian humoris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimo Tuomainen
Raimo Sakari Tuomainen (born 25 November 1957 in Nilsiä, Finland) is a Finnish health sociologist and one of the authorities in so called Kuopio discipline, which emphasizes the need to control the expansion of medicalization in Western countries. His publications deal also with religion, science, demography and health care administration. He works at Kuopio University Hospital. Tuomainen has a political career, too. He has been a vice-chairman in the party council of Finnish Green League and a city counsellor in Kuopio. His ideological interests are especially in social ethics and social fairness. He underlines the meaning of social climate in human being's welfare. Tuomainen has presented the term ”green feminism”, which means that people should get rid of strict male and female roles and the society should purposefully promote that. Tuomainen has published some poetry and is a juryman of long standing in Finnish judicial system. Tuomainen has eight children. He married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimo Honkanen
Raimo Honkanen (10 August 1938 – 17 June 2020) was a Finnish cyclist. He was born in Turku and his profession was a postal worker. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve .... References External links * 1938 births 2020 deaths Finnish male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Finland Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Turku {{Finland-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimo Ilaskivi
Raimo Ilaskivi (born 26 May 1928 in Ruokolahti) is a Finnish politician. He holds a doctorate degree in political science from the University of Helsinki and has also studied in the United States and in the United Kingdom. He was born as ''Raimo Hämäläinen'' but changed his surname to ''Ilaskivi'' in 1947. Ilaskivi is best known as the Lord Mayor of Helsinki from 1979 to 1991. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland between 1962–1975 representing the National Coalition Party, a member of the European Parliament during 1996–1999, and a presidential candidate in the 1994 presidential election. Ilaskivi held the position of docent of economics at the University of Helsinki from 1959 to 1979 acting as a senior lecturer. He was the managing director of the Finnish Banker's Association, the Industrial Bank of Finland, and the Helsinki Stock Exchange. In addition, he has held management positions in several Finnish companies. Between 1999–2009 Ilaskivi was Chancellor of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimo Tuomela
Raimo Heikki Tuomela (9 October 1940 in Helsinki, Finland – 22 November 2020 in Helsinki) was a Finnish philosopher. Career Tuomela received his first degree of doctor of philosophy in 1968 from the University of Helsinki and the second one in 1969 from Stanford University. Tuomela was full professor of philosophy (especially methodology and philosophy of the social sciences) at the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki in 1971–2008. Having earlier worked and published in many fields of philosophy, especially philosophy of science and philosophy of action, the theory of social action has been his main research interest. Tuomela has received several grants and awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award (''Forschungspreis''), awarded in recognition of achievements in research, and the honour prize of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. During the five-year period 1995–2000, Tuomela was Academy Professor at the Academy of Finlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimo Pärssinen
Raimo Pärssinen (born 1956) is a Swedish social democratic politician who has been a member Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in ... of the Riksdag since 1998. He is of Finnish descent. References Raimo Pärssinen (S) Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats 1956 births Living people Members of the Riksdag 2002–2006 Swedish people of Finnish descent {{Sweden-SocialDemocratic-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
