Famous People with Name Raun

Rauni Mollberg            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Rauni Mollberg: was a Finnish film director who directed movies and TV movies.In 1963 Mollberg directed movies for YLE. He directed a version of The Unknown Soldier in 1985, 30 years after Edvin Laine directed the original version of it. Mollberg's movie's plot was same as Laine's movie. But Mollberg used unknown actors and the movie was colourised and shot by a handhold camera.Mollberg did not begin directing films for the cinema until he was well into his forties. He made a notable splash on the international festival circuit in 1974 with The Earth is a Sinful Song (1973), his debut feature, an earthy, erotically-charged, blood-soaked tale of a young village girl's ill-fated affair with a Lap reindeer herdsman. Based on a novel by the late Timo K. Mukka, one of Finland's most controversial young writers, the film "stunned Scandinavian critics and audiences alike with its simple,

Rauno August Aaltonen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Rauno August Aaltonen: also known as "The Rally Professor", is a Finnish former professional rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship throughout the 1970s. Before WRC was established Aaltonen competed in the European Rally Championship. He won the championship

Rauno Alliku            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Rauno Alliku: is a Estonian professional footballer, who plays in Estonian Meistriliiga, for FC Flora Tallinn, currently loaned to FC Pärnu Vaprus. He plays the position of striker. He is also a member of Estonia national under-19 football team.

Rauno Mäkinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Rauno Mäkinen: is a Finnish wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.Mäkinen competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the featherweight class.[1]

Rauno Miettinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Rauno Miettinen: is a former Finnish Nordic combined skier. He earned a silver in the individual event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. Miettinen also won three Nordic combined silver medals in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (Individual: 1978, 3 x 10 km tea

Thomas Raun            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Thomas Raun: is a Danish football Midfielder, who plays for the Swedish Superettan club Landskrona BoIS. He started his career with Danish clubs Silkeborg IF and Viborg FF.

Johanna Raunio            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Johanna Raunio: was chosen Miss Finland in 1974. Ms. Raunio competed in the 1974 Miss Universe and Miss International pageants and placed second runner-up in both competitions. She works nowadays as a hostess and actress. Since 2005, she has played Tanja Jääskeläinen in the Finnish soap series Salatut elämät on MTV3. She has acted also in theatre and in the TV series Tähtitehdas. Her role in both Tanja Jääskeläinen and Salatut elämät is that of a mother whose son is killed. In Tähtitehdas her son Kimi dies from a shooting and in Salatut elämät her son Riku dies in a car accident.

Christen Christensen Raunkiær            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Christen Christensen Raunkiær: was a Danish botanist, who was a pioneer of plant ecology. He is mainly remembered for his scheme of plant strategies to survive an unfavourable season ("life forms") and his demonstration that the relative abundance of strategies in floras largely corresponded to the Earth's climatic zones. This scheme, the Raunkiær system, is still widely used today and may be seen as a precursor of modern plant strategy schemes, e.g. J. Philip Grime's CSR system.

Anders Christian Barclay Raunkiær            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Anders Christian Barclay Raunkiær: was a Danish explorer and author, who died very young. On behalf of the Royal Danish Geographical Society, he made a journey in 1912 in eastern Arabia. His travel description is still a valuable source and an entertaining read.