Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

Rolf Herman Nevanlinna ( 22 October 1895 – 28 May 1980 ) was one of the most famous Finnish mathematicians.

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 ".

Eero Saarinen () ( August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961 ) was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.

He appeared with actress / singer Birgit Kronström in the 1941 romantic comedy " Onnellinen ministeri " (" Happy Minister "), which included the famous song " Katupoikien Laulu ", remade by other Finnish pop singers including Katri Helena.

In Kulkurin Valssi, he uttered perhaps the most famous words in the history of Finnish film, " I will be remembered not as the mere shadow of the man I once was, but as the mere shadow of the man I am now.

Commercial rights for the Osborne brand name were later acquired by the Finnish clone PC maker Mikrolog Ltd which to this day markets its server and desktop PCs domestically under that once world famous name.

Runeberg's most famous work is Fänrik Ståls sägner ( The Tales of Ensign Stål, Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat in Finnish ) written between 1848 and 1860.

The famous one is the bilberry pie ( Finnish: mustikkapiirakka, Swedish blåbärspaj ).

The most famous of these are the two poem collections Helkavirsiä ( 1903 and 1916 ), in which he extensively uses Finnish mythology and folklore.

The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock band famous for humorously performing rock and roll covers of popular songs, exaggerated pompadour hairstyles, long, pointy shoes, often featuring a Russian military band, the Alexandrov Ensemble.

: The Kalevide visits Ilmarinen ( Ilmarine in Estonian ), the famous Finnish blacksmith, and asks him to create a sword.

In the 1890s Finnish nationalism based on the Kalevala spread, and Jean Sibelius became famous for his vocal symphony Kullervo.

Ackté also began a festival in Savonlinna the following year ; this was the precursor of the Savonlinna Opera Festival, which was started in the 1960s, shortly before the new Finnish opera became famous in the 1970s.

The punk movement arrived in Finland in 1977 and had a great influence on the Finnish youth culture, Pelle Miljoona being the most famous Finnish punk singer.

The most famous Finnish Jazz musician is Edward Vesala, others are Heikki Sarmanto, Jarmo Savolainen, Markku Ounaskari, Samuli Mikkonen, Juhani Aaltonen and Eero Koivistoinen.

The works of the most famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto can be seen throughout the city.

Several buildings in the main campus area were designed by famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

Geographically, Kirkkonummi has two famous peninsulas, namely Porkkala and Upinniemi, the latter one of which houses a major Finnish naval base.

Incidentally, these paintings were found by the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius himself.

Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen ( August 20, 1873, Rantasalmi, Finland – July 1, 1950, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States ) was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century.

During the revelries, after a free buffet and official speeches, the famous Finnish all-girl band Indica threw a private gig for the fortunate audience, having most smitten by their performance.

The legend is enshrined in a famous Finnish folk poem called Henrikin surma (" The Slaying of Henry ").

* Ai ( chimpanzee ), a female chimp famous for showing surprising numerical capability

Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.

A drag queen may imitate famous female film or pop-music stars.

* Ning Baizura, a famous female singer.

Macready's most famous Lady Macbeth was Helena Faucit, who debuted dismally in the role while still in her mid-20s, but who later achieved acclaim in the role for an interpretation that, unlike Siddons ', accorded with contemporary notions of female decorum.

The most well-known finds include the oldest female statue made of mammoth-bone ( 22, 800 BCE ), the famous Venus of Moravany.

As Christine builds her city, she uses each famous woman as a building block for not only the walls and houses of the city, but also as building blocks for her defense of female rights.

There are several Carmelite figures who have received significant attention in the 20th century, including Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, one of only three female Doctors of the Church, so named because of her famous teaching on the " way of confidence and love " set forth in her best-selling memoir, " Story of a Soul "; Titus Brandsma, a Dutch scholar and writer who was killed in Dachau Concentration Camp because of his stance against Nazism ; and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ( née Edith Stein ), a Jewish convert to Catholicism who was also imprisoned and died at Auschwitz.

Probably the most famous captive was a female named Sandy, which in August 1980 became the only great white to be housed at the California Academy of Sciences ' Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

Composers such as Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Lodovico Agostini, and later Carlo Gesualdo, represented the avant-garde tendency of the composers there, writing for gifted virtuoso performers, including the famous concerto di donne — the three virtuoso female singers Laura Peverara, Anna Guarini, and Livia d ' Arco.

Notable works of the school still extant are the famous archaic female statues found on the Athenian Acropolis in 1885 – 1887, the seated statues of Branchidae, the Nike of Archermus found at Delos, and the objects in ivory and electrum found by D. G.

José Guadalupe Posada created a famous print of a figure he called La Calavera de la Catrina (" skull of the rich woman ") as a parody of a Mexican upper-class female.

The most famous use of cultural relativism as a means of cultural critique is Margaret Mead's dissertation research ( under Boas ) of adolescent female sexuality in Samoa.

Internationally famous Dutch film actors are Jeroen Krabbé, Rutger Hauer, Derek de Lint and also a few female stars like Sylvia Kristel, Famke Janssen and Carice van Houten.

In the 1960s the popular British TV program, The Avengers incorporated much fetish costuming for their lead female performers including Diana Rigg's famous leather catsuits and leotards as well as Tara King's continual thigh-length boots and shoulder length leather gloves.

The Jean Pierre Melville film Army of Shadows ( based on a book of the same name ) depicts several famous events in Moulin's war experience, such as his visits to London, his reliance on his female assistant, his decoration by Charles de Gaulle and his parachuting back into France during the war.

Bonheur is widely considered to have been the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.

The famous Uruk Vase ( found in a deposit of cult objects of the Uruk III period ) depicts a row of naked men carrying various objects, bowls, vessels, and baskets of farm produce, and bringing sheep and goats, to a female figure facing the ruler.

It was the site of a famous Marian apparition in 1917, after which it achieved some popularity as a female personal name among Roman Catholics, especially Portuguese-speaking and to some degree Spanish-speaking.

Swarga also has a set of famous heavenly dancers: Urvasi, Menaka, Rambha, and Tilottama ( all female ), whose job is to entertain the heavenly court, and upon orders from the heavenly kings, to distract people on the earth from accumulating too much good deeds so as to become a threat to the heavenly kings.

Sweet Gwendoline was the main female character in his works, published largely in the 1950s and 60's, and possibly the most famous bondage icon after Bettie Page.

Perrysville is the birthplace of the famous 19th century female author Rosella Rice, and home to retired boxer " Raging " Craig Weber.

Betsy King, the famous female golfer, grew up here.

* Barbette-A world famous female impersonator ( born Vander Clyde December 19, 1899 in Round Rock, later legally changed to Vander Clyde Broadway, and died August 5, 1973, at age 74, in Round Rock ).

Taka Kato, a male pornographic film actor, is famous in the Japanese pornography industry for his alleged ability to induce female ejaculation.