In a cohabitation situation as with Matti Vanhanen's recent second government right-wing government and left-wing President Tarja Halonen, there can be friction between government ministers and the president.

* Matti Vanhanen's first cabinet

* Matti Vanhanen's second cabinet

In April 2004, she was chosen to be the Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, making her the youngest minister in Matti Vanhanen's first cabinet.

On April 17, 2007 it was announced that she would be the Minister for Environment in Matti Vanhanen's second cabinet.

She has been the Minister of Justice in Matti Vanhanen's second cabinet and

Matti admired his father more as a businessman than as an athlete, and the two never discussed his running career.

They had two sons, Matti ( born 1928 ) and Taneli ( 1928 – 1985 ).

In 2005, the party's former secretary and Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions's assistant head Matti Viialainen formed a society to promote merger between the two largest Finnish left-wing political parties, the Left Alliance and the Social Democrats.

A Bay class frigate ( Matti Kurki ), two Dark class fast patrol boats ( Vasama 1 and Vasama 2 ) and four BYMS class minesweepers were bought from the UK, two Riga class frigates ( Hämeenmaa and Uusimaa ) and four Osa II class fast attack craft ( Tuima class missile boats ) were obtained from the Soviet Union.

He had two sons, Matti and Enn, but Enn died of starvation in an orphanage in 1944.

Estuarine sediments exposed along the valley of the Angermanalven River, allowed De Geer to further extend the chronology into the early Holocene. The resulting varve chronology was called the Swedish Time Scale, and geologists outside Sweden soon followed suit using varved sediments to build high-resolution chronologies of glacial retreat, most notably Matti Sauramo in Finland.

* 2008 – Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide.

File: Matti Vanhanen 2008. jpg | Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister 2003-2010

The team's general manager Matti Virmanen was moved to work as the director of sports activities for Jokerit, and was replaced as the general manager by former Jokerit-alumni and Finnish international player, Keijo Säilynoja, who started as the GM for Jokerit on June 15, 2008.

Matti Klinge in October 2008.

File: Matti Vanhanen 2008. jpg | Matti Vanhanen candidate of the Centre Party, finished 3rd on 1st round with 18. 6 % of the votes.

* Hämäläinen, Matti ( 2008 ) Calopteryx splendens ( Harris, 1780 )-a note on the publication date of the description of the Banded Demoiselle Journal of the British Dragonfly Society 24 ( 1 ): 19-23

On the famous race on 11 July 1957 when the " three Olavis " ( Salsola, Salonen and Vuorisalo ) broke the world record for the 1, 500 m, Matti Nurmi finished a distant ninth with his personal best, 2. 2 seconds slower than his father's world record from 1924.

The roots of Finnish schlager () date back to the interwar period, when popular singers included Georg Malmstén and Matti Jurva.

Between 1985, when Matti Nykänen flew 191 m, and 2011, new world records have always been set at Planica rather than any other ski jumping hill ( e. g., Kulm in Austria, Harrachov in the Czech Republic, Oberstdorf in Germany, or Vikersundbakken in Norway ).

A particular variety of green brinjal known as Matti gulla is grown in Matti, a village of the Udupi district in Karnataka state.

* 1945 – Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor

* 1945 – Matti Salminen, Finnish opera singer

* 1955 – Matti Vanhanen, Finnish politician, former Prime Minister

Following an interview in the monthly supplement of Helsingin Sanomat, Lynn's coauthor Tatu Vanhanen, a political scientist and father of the Prime Minister of Finland Matti Vanhanen, was investigated by the Finnish police between 2002 and 2004.

# A Finnish historian, Matti Klinge, has speculated that the words " Wends " or " Vandals " used in Scandinavian sources occasionally meant all peoples of the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea from Pomerania to Finland, including some Finnic peoples.

** Matti Nykanen, Finnish ski jumper

The Finnish IWW community produced several folk singers, poets and song-writers, the most famous being Matti Valentine Huhta ( better known as T-Bone Slim ), who penned " The Popular Wobbly " and " The Mysteries of a Hobo's Life ".

The 2009 meeting participants in Greece included: Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis ; Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen ; Sweden foreign minister Carl Bildt ; United States Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg ; U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; World Bank president Robert Zoellick ; European Commission head José Manuel Barroso ; Queen Sofia of Spain ; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

* Finnish: Matias, Matti

In Caracas ' harbour, Törni met one of his Winter War commanders, Finnish colonel Matti Aarnio, who was in exile and settled in Venezuela after the war.

Although the Irish people were reassured of their neutrality before agreeing to the Nice Treaty, the Finnish Prime Minister, Matti Vanhanen, on 5 July 2006, while speaking to the European Parliament as Council President declared:

* according to the Finnish historian Matti Klinge, an earlier name for Finland

Matti Pellonpää ( 28 March 1951 in Helsinki – 13 July 1995 in Vaasa ) was an award-winning Finnish actor and a musician.

Other popular Finnish iskelmä singers are among all Katri-Helena, Danny ( a. k. a. Ilkka Lipsanen ), Fredi, Eino Grön, Erkki Junkkarinen, Frederik ( a. k. a. Ilkka Sysimetsä ), Marion Rung, Tapani Kansa, Kirka ( a. k. a. Kirill Babitzin ), Matti & Teppo, Jari Sillanpää, and Kikka Sirén.

* Kuusi, Matti, Keith Bosley, and Michael Branch, translators and editors ( 1977 ) Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic: An Anthology in Finnish and English.

Matti Taneli Vanhanen () ( born November 4, 1955 ) is a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland from 2003 to 2010.

In a 2006 book commissioned for the presidential elections, Se on ihan Matti, Vanhanen compared the Finnish tabloid press to the KGB and Stasi, former Soviet Union and East German secret police agencies.

The Prime Minister of Finland ( 2003 – 2010 ) Mr. Matti Vanhanen has mentioned that he wants to see more electric cars on Finnish roads as soon as possible and with any cost to the governmental car related tax incomes.

Thus, the Finnish Navy of the late 1910's and early 1920's consisted of some gunboats ( Klas Horn, Matti Kurki, Turunmaa, and Karjala ), 6 S-class torpedo boats, 8 C-class torpedo boats, 1 minelayer ( Louhi ), several minesweepers, and 5 T-class minelaying boats.