Famous People with Name Paavo

Paavo Nikula            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Paavo Nikula: is a former Chancellor of Justice of Finland and a former Member of the Parliament of Finland. He served as the justice minister from 1978-1979. He announced his resignation as Chancellor of Justice on 26 April, 2007, effective at the end of June. During

Paavo Aho            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Paavo Aho: was a Finnish track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.In 1912 he finished sixth in the two handed shot put competition and tenth in the shot put event.

Paavo "Pekka" Johansson            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Paavo "Pekka" Johansson: was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the javelin throw.Johansson competed for Finland in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium, winning the bronze behind Jonni Myyrä and Urho Peltonen and ahead of Julius Saaristo as Finland claimed the

Paavo Liettu            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Paavo Liettu: was a Finnish track and field athlete who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Paavo Hukkinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Paavo Hukkinen: was a German-Finnish actor.Hukkinen entered film in 1937 starring in the film Tukkijoella and appeared in some 70 Finnish films and TV series between then and his retirement from acting in 1986.Huhtamo starred in the 1977 film alongside actors Antti Litja, Kauko Helovirta and Markku Huhtamo in Jäniksen vuosi a film about a Finnish man from Helsinki who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness.

Pekka Paavola            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Pekka Paavola: is a Finnish social democratic politician, Minister of Justice in the 1972 cabinet, and a convicted criminal in multiple cases.He represents the Social Democratic Party of Finland. Paavola was a city manager in Tampere 1969–1985. He was the Minister of Ju

Rodney Earland "Rod" Paavola            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rodney Earland "Rod" Paavola: was an American ice hockey player. He won a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics.

Olavi Paavolainen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Olavi Paavolainen: was a Finnish essayist, journalist, travel book writer, poet, and cosmopolitan. He often went under the pseudonym of Olavi Lauri. Paavolainen was the central figure of the literary group Tulenkantajat (The Flame Bearers) and one of the most influential literary opinion leaders between the two World wars in Finland. He represented liberal and Europe oriented views of culture and had an eclectic eye for new ideas.In the late 1920s Paavolainen praised urban life, technology, and roaring cars in his works centering around modernism as the Italian Futurist poet F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944) had done two decades earlier. In the 1930s and 1940s he published a number of works that controversially criticised the members of the Nazi cabinet in Germany and later the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.