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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 1,488,417 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Tom of Finland is the 422nd most popular painter (down from 347th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Finland (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Finnish Painter.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Tom of Finland ranks 422 out of 1,421. Before him are Lorenzo Costa, André Lhote, Maud Lewis, Alessandro Allori, Hans Makart, and Jean-Étienne Liotard. After him are Carlo Levi, Lyubov Popova, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Christian Krohg, José Clemente Orozco, and Ary Scheffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Tom of Finland ranks 69. Before him are George Armitage Miller, Kim Yong-ju, Maureen O'Hara, César Rodríguez Álvarez, Arthur Hailey, and Robert Whittaker. After him are Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Dorothea Binz, Setsuko Hara, Mario Beccaria, Mario Benedetti, and Albert Barillé. Among people deceased in 1991, Tom of Finland ranks 46. Before him are Richard Stone, Ivan Kozhedub, Tony Richardson, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Princess Ileana of Romania, and Salvador Luria. After him are James Irwin, Jerzy Kosiński, Ralph Bellamy, George Stigler, W. Arthur Lewis, and Lee Remick.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Tom of Finland ranks 41 out of 642. Before him are Matti Nykänen (1963), Hannes Kolehmainen (1889), Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (1865), Hjalmar Siilasvuo (1892), Aino Aalto (1894), and Eero Saarinen (1910). After him are Albert Edelfelt (1854), Hannu Mikkola (1942), Ari Vatanen (1952), Lars Ahlfors (1907), Armi Kuusela (1934), and Mauritz Stiller (1883).

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Among PAINTERS In Finland

Among painters born in Finland, Tom of Finland ranks 3. Before him are Helene Schjerfbeck (1862) and Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865). After him are Albert Edelfelt (1854), Hugo Simberg (1873), Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861), Magnus Enckell (1870), Pekka Halonen (1865), Helena Westermarck (1857), Amélie Lundahl (1850), and Vilho Lampi (1898).

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