Famous People with Name Onni

Onni Palaste            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Onni Palaste: is a Finnish Winter War veteran and writer.Onni Palaste started writing factual, but slightly dramatised novels about the Winter War in 1967. His original inspiration to writing was winning a short story competition during the war, after which his fellow soldiers suggested he try writing full-length novels.

Onni Alfred Hiltunen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Onni Alfred Hiltunen: was a Finnish politician, minister in several cabinets and chairman of the Social Democratic Party.Hiltunen worked as railwayman and was later a shopkeeper. He worked at a social democratic paper in Varkaus 1931-1946. Hiltunen was elected to the parliamen

Onni Pellinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Onni Pellinen: was a Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling.Pellinen competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris where he received a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the light heavyweight class.[1]

Delio Onnis            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Delio Onnis: a retired Argentine football forward. He was nicknamed "el Tano" (the Italian) in Argentina.He is still today the French championship highest scorer, scoring 299 goals from 1972 to 1986 for Stade de Reims, AS Monaco FC, Tours FC and Sporting Toulon Var.he however, has Argentine citizenship and began his career in Argentina. He was the star striker in the successful team of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata that finished third in 1970, known as "La Barredora" ("The Sweeper"). He joined Stade de Reims in 1971, which was a far less successful team than the one of fifteen years earlier and they struggled in Division 1. He then played for AS Monaco FC for seven years