The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from Finland
This page contains a list of the greatest Finnish Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 601 Businesspeople, 3 of which were born in Finland. This makes Finland the birth place of the 35th most number of Businesspeople behind Australia and Mexico.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Finnish Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Finnish Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Fredrik Idestam (1838 - 1916)
With an HPI of 56.48, Fredrik Idestam is the most famous Finnish Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Knut Fredrik Idestam (28 October 1838, Tyrväntö, Grand Duchy of Finland – 8 April 1916, Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland) was a Finnish mining engineer and businessman, best known as a founder of Nokia. In May 1865, Idestam obtained a permit to construct a groundwood paper mill at Tampere, Finland. The mill began operations in 1866. In 1871, Idestam and Leo Mechelin founded Nokia Ltd. and moved the company's operations to the city of Nokia, Finland. He was buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.
2. Jorma Ollila (1950 - )
With an HPI of 47.80, Jorma Ollila is the 2nd most famous Finnish Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Jorma Jaakko Ollila (born 15 August 1950) is a Finnish businessman who was chairman of Royal Dutch Shell from 1 June 2006 to May 2015, and at Nokia Corporation chairman from 1999 to 2012 and CEO from 1992 to 2006. He has been a director of Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. since 1996 and UPM-Kymmene since 1997, and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, a New York–based boutique investment bank founded by Joseph R. Perella and Peter Weinberg in 2006. For Nokia, he was credited with turning the company into the then world's largest mobile phone maker.
3. Michael Widenius (1962 - )
With an HPI of 40.41, Michael Widenius is the 3rd most famous Finnish Businessperson. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Ulf Michael Widenius (often called Monty; born 3 March 1962, in Helsinki, Finland) is the main author of the original version of the open source MySQL database, a founding member of the MySQL AB company and CTO of the MariaDB Corporation AB. Additionally, he is a founder and general partner at venture capital firm OpenOcean.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as businesspeople born between 1838 and 1962. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living businesspeople include Jorma Ollila and Michael Widenius. The most famous deceased businesspeople include Fredrik Idestam.
