Famous People with Name Erkki

Erkki Sakari Tuomioja            Origin/Culture/Country: Europe

Erkki Sakari Tuomioja: was the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland between 2000 and 2007. He is currently a member of the Finnish Parliament. He is considered to be one of the most widely read politicians still active on the political stage in Finland.Tuomioja is a member o

Erkki Kurenniemi            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Erkki Kurenniemi: one of the most important characters in the history of Finnish electronic music. His mother was Marjatta Kurenniemi, the famous author of children's books. Erkki Kurenniemi founded an electronic music studio for the Department of Musicology at the University of Helsinki in the early 1960s. Alongside working on media art, happenings and short films of his own, Kurenniemi built several electronic instruments for himself and also for other people, such as M.A. Numminen, for whom he created first a "singing machine" with which Numminen participated in a singing contest in 1964, and in the late 1960s Sähkökvartetti ("The Electric Quartet"), which is heard on M.A. Numminen's track 'Kaukana väijyy ystäviä' (1968). An excerpt of Kurenniemi's own composition 'Dance of the Anthropoids' (1968) was heard on Finnish progressive rock band Wigwam's 1970 album Tombstone Valentine.

Erkki Pakkanen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Erkki Pakkanen: is a boxer from Finland.He competed for Finland in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the lightweight event where he finished in third place.

Erkki Olavi Savolainen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Erkki Olavi Savolainen: was a Finnish boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was eliminated in the first round of the flyweight class after losing his fight to Chiyoto Nakano.

Erkki Liikanen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Erkki Liikanen: has been Governor of the Bank of Finland since 12 July 2004. He is also Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (2004– ) and Governor of the International Monetary Fund for Finland (2004– ). Earlier in his career he was the first Finn