Some of the most popular writers in Finland, such as Väinö Linna, Kalle Päätalo and Hannu Salama, hail from Tampere.

The record for most victories is four, shared by Hannu Mikkola ( 1978 – 79, ' 81 – 82 ) and Petter Solberg ( 2002 – 05 ), whose consecutive streak is unique.

Finland has also produced most of the world's best rally drivers, including the ex-WRC World Champion drivers Marcus Grönholm, Juha Kankkunen, Hannu Mikkola, Tommi Mäkinen, Timo Salonen and Ari Vatanen.

Hannu Pekka Toivonen (; born May 18, 1984 ) is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender who most recently played for the Malmö Redhawks in the HockeyAllsvenskan.

Throughout its proud history, the club ( known variously as the Linnets and then the Dragons ) has had around 50 internationals on its books, including Bengt Berndtsson of Sweden and Hannu Kankkonen of Finland in the late 1950s, while numerous others have left to pursue successful careers in the Football League.

* 1949 – Hannu Siitonen, Finnish athlete

Hannu Mikkola's 1970 World Cup Rally-winning Ford Escort RS1600.

The Quattro quickly became the car to beat on snow, ice or gravel ; and in 1983 took Hannu Mikkola to the World Rally Championship title.

The 2002 World Championship Tournament was Helminen's last World Championship tournament callup since Helminen was dropped as the last player from the 2003 World Championship squad by Hannu Aravirta

The 1985 Olympus “ World Championship Prototype ” event was won by Hannu Mikkola and Arne Hertz in a Group B Audi Quattro S1.

Hannu Mikkola's 1970 World Cup Rally-winning Escort.

The Ford works team was practically unbeatable in the late 1960s / early 1970s, and arguably the Escort's greatest victory was in the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally being driven by Finnish legend Hannu Mikkola.

In the 1979 season of the World Rally Championship, Björn Waldegård took the drivers ' title, Hannu Mikkola was runner-up and Ari Vatanen finished the year in fifth place, all driving Escort RS1800s.

He was later victor in the inaugural World Rally Championship series in 1979 for Ford and Mercedes-Benz, beating Hannu Mikkola in the final round at the Rallye Côte d ' Ivoire in the Ivory Coast, by finishing second behind his rival.

These performances brought him the FIA Cup for Drivers title, well ahead of main rivals Jean-Pierre Nicolas and Hannu Mikkola, and Fiat their second manufacturers ' title.

* Salmi, Hannu.

Notable SaPKo alumni include Jarmo Myllys, Ville Leino, Tuukka Rask and Hannu Aravirta.

The Ford Escort of Hannu Mikkola and Gunnar Palm won.

In 1981, Jean Todt, former co-driver for Hannu Mikkola, Timo Mäkinen and Guy Fréquelin among others, was asked by Jean Boillot, the head of Automobiles Peugeot, to create a competition department for PSA Peugeot Citroën.

Mämmilä is a full-page comic strip by Finnish cartoonist Tarmo Koivisto and co-written by Hannu Virtanen.

OSS was created in 1992 by Hannu Savolainen and is available in 11 major Unix-like operating systems.

Second and third place honors went to How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu and The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi.

The 1966 blasphemy trial of novellist Hannu Salama became a cause célèbre for the antiestablishmentarian position.

The same week, the incriminating minutes of a meeting of Centre Party leaders were leaked to the press, as later came clear, via the Centre Party second vice-chairman Hannu Takkula.

* Hannu Immonen.

In late November, Toivonen, this time partnered by White, surprised both experts and spectators by winning the Lombard RAC Rally, over four minutes ahead of runner-up Hannu Mikkola.

I mean, Hannu Mikkola knows the forests like the back of his hand so there is no use trying to drive to beat him.

Fellow " Flying Finns " Timo Salonen and Hannu Mikkola finished second and third.

* O. Aaltonen, " Antti Oskari Tokoi ," in Hannu Soikkanen ( ed.

The band consists of five members: vocalist Antti Haapanen, guitarists Tuukka Tuomela and Ville Lamminaho, bass guitarist Hannu Savolainen and drummer Ilkka Unnbom, a lineup they have maintained since their formation.

More recent science fiction novels have explored the possible consequences of the emergence of this technology, e. g., Michael Crichton's Prey ( 2002 ), or incorporated this technology as part of the story universe, e. g. Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief ( 2010 ).

In the Iraqgate scandal, Halonen's advisor Martti Manninen leaked confidential documents to the Centre Party leader Anneli Jäätteenmäki, who had become Prime Minister.

Lina Heydrich and her husband Reinhard Heydrich had a summer home here, which after the war Lina ran with her second husband Mauno Manninen, as a restaurant and inn until it burned down in February 1969.

Among Leino's friends were the artist Pekka Halonen and Otto Manninen, who gained fame as a poet and translator.

On 16 June it came to light that a presidential aide, Martti Manninen, affiliated with the Centre Party, had leaked the Foreign Ministry documents.

The Parliament was not satisfied with her account, and once Manninen on the same afternoon publicly claimed that Jäätteenmäki had specifically and forcefully asked for the information, and that he would be able to prove it, her coalition partners made it clear that they had no trust in her leadership.

The police investigation into the leak concluded on 19 December 2003 that Mrs. Jäätteenmäki should be prosecuted for aiding or abetting Manninen in revealing state secrets in contravention of the law.

A committee led by Minister for Regional and Municipal Affairs Hannes Manninen suggested creating a two-tier system of municipalities with different powers, while the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities () favoured a system where municipalities would be units of at least 20, 000 – 30, 000 inhabitants, cf.

It was founded in 1996 by Jaakko " Mellow-D " Manninen, though originally it existed as ftp. fm. org, an FTP-server for releases from the group Five Musicians.

* Kschzt. com Website for Jaakko Manninen ( now recording as Kschzt )

Later translations were made by Paavo Cajander in 1889 and Otto Manninen 1909.

At the end of 1999 he came back, switching places with Antero Manninen, who then went to play in a classical orchestra.

He attended the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he met future Apocalyptica band members Paavo Lötjönen, Antero Manninen, and Max Lilja.