Famous People with Name Tapio

Tapio Heikkilä            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Tapio Heikkilä: is a Finnish football player currently playing for FC Honka.

Tapio Koskinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Tapio Koskinen: is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. He played for Ässät.

Tapio Levo            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Tapio Levo: is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga and National Hockey League. He played for Ässät in Finland, and the New Jersey Devils and Colorado Rockies in the NHL.

Tapio Räisänen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Tapio Räisänen: is a former Finnish ski jumper who competed in the late 1970s. He won a gold medal in the individual large hill competition at the 1978 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti and finished 6th in the normal hill at those same championships.

Tapio Olavi Sipilä            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Tapio Olavi Sipilä: is a former wrestler from Finland, who claimed the silver medal in the Men's Greco-Roman Lightweight Division (– 68 kg) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Nicknamed Tapsa he won the bronze medal four years later in the same weight division, when Seoul, South Korea hosted the Olympic Games.

Nina Tapio            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Nina Tapio: a Finnish singer, songwriter, musical actor, and session musician. Her singing career started already in the age of five in a children's record in 1977.Tapio studied in Helsinki Pop & Jazz Conservatory where she got a singing teacher's degree. In 1994 she

Kaj Tapio            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Kaj Tapio: was a Finnish athlete, singer and movie actor.When the Winter War broke out the Navy was not very active in the war and Rautavaara was allowed to continue working at the Osuustukkukauppa (OTK) mill. However, when the Continuation War broke out he was called to the army and he was ordered to be the first two years of the war in the front line.In summer 1943 Rautavaara was transferred to the war entertainment troops and worked for one year as a radio journalist on the frontier based Aunus Radio. During this time he became known to the troops. In the summer of 1944 the Finns had to pull out from East Karelia and Rautavaara’s radio career ended.