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Tom of Finland

1920 - 1991

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Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom of Finland has received more than 1,630,267 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Tom of Finland is the 403rd most popular painter (up from 421st in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Finland (up from 41st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Finnish Painter.

Tom of Finland is most famous for his homoerotic drawings of muscular, masculine men.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Tom of Finland ranks 403 out of 2,023. Before him are Jules Chéret, André Masson, Max Klinger, Shitao, Eva Gonzalès, and Asger Jorn. After him are Andrea Solari, Joseph Kosuth, John Bauer, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Vasily Perov, and Arkhip Kuindzhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Tom of Finland ranks 63. Before him are Maureen O'Hara, Jack Elam, Ștefan Kovács, Timothy Leary, Setsuko Hara, and Mario Beccaria. After him are Gene Tierney, Richard Farnsworth, Isaac Stern, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, and Ivan Kozhedub. Among people deceased in 1991, Tom of Finland ranks 42. Before him are Wilhelm Kempff, Stan Getz, Leo Fender, Don Siegel, Gino Colaussi, and James Irwin. After him are Gene Tierney, Ivan Kozhedub, Salvador Luria, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Shapour Bakhtiar, and Richard Stone.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Tom of Finland ranks 39 out of 751. Before him are Mauno Koivisto (1923), Mika Häkkinen (1968), Albert Edelfelt (1854), Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (1865), Hjalmar Siilasvuo (1892), and Aino Aalto (1894). After him are Ari Vatanen (1952), Aleksis Kivi (1834), Hannes Kolehmainen (1889), Matti Nykänen (1963), Eliel Saarinen (1873), and Hugo Simberg (1873).

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Among PAINTERS In Finland

Among painters born in Finland, Tom of Finland ranks 4. Before him are Helene Schjerfbeck (1862), Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865), and Albert Edelfelt (1854). After him are Hugo Simberg (1873), Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861), Magnus Enckell (1870), Amélie Lundahl (1850), Pekka Halonen (1865), Helena Westermarck (1857), Ellen Thesleff (1869), and Vilho Lampi (1898).

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