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unusual facts about Finnish American


Demographics of Massachusetts

Massachusetts also has large communities of people of Finnish and Swedish descent; Armenian, Lebanese descent; and Italian descent.


9793 Torvalds

The asteroid is named after Linus Torvalds, a Finnish-American software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel.

David Diaz-Infante

Diaz-Infante's father Marco Ignatio was a Mexican immigrant to the U.S. and was a Zapatista who died in 1988; Diaz-Infante's mother is Finnish American.


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Embassy of the United States, Oslo

The Embassy Chancery on Henrik Ibsens gate was designed by Finnish–American architect Eero Saarinen, who also designed the American Embassy in London and the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Ernest and Clarence Iverson

Slim Jim sided with the working man, and his first songbook even had an adaptaton of The Popular Wobbly by the Finnish-American labor activist T-Bone Slim.

Greta Kukkonen

Greta Peck (née Eine Matilda Kukkonen; January 25, 1911, Helsinki, Finland – January 19, 2008, Beverly Hills, California) was a Finnish-American real estate broker and first wife of Hollywood actor Gregory Peck.

Naselle, Washington

Jennifer L. Holm's Newbery Honor-winning novel Our Only May Amelia is set in pioneer Naselle, then spelled "Nasel", and is based on Holm family documents of life as a Finnish-American frontier family.

Opal City

Eero Saarinen - noted Finnish-American architect (Starman Secret Files and Origins # 1)

Pietilä

Bonita Pietila, Finnish American casting director and producer for The Simpsons

Taina Elg

Her son by her first marriage to Carl Björkenheim, which ended in divorce in 1958, is Finnish-American jazz guitarist Raoul Björkenheim.