Famous People with Name Aino

Aino Aalto            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Aino Aalto: was a Finnish architect and designer. She was born in Helsinki, and completed her school education in 1913 at the Helsingin Suomalainen Tyttökoulu (Helsinki Finnish Girls' School). She began studies in architecture that same year at the Institute of Technology, Helsinki, and qualified as an architect in 1920. That same year she went to work for architect Oiva Kallio in Helsinki. In 1923 she moved to the city of Jyväskylä to work in the office of architect Gunnar A. Wahlroos, but the following year switched to working in the office of architect Alvar Aalto when they got married. The Aaltos spent their honeymoon in northern Italy. It was common at that time for young architects in Scandinavia to travel to Italy to study the vernacular architecture, and it had a profound influence on Scandinavian architecture during the 1920s, including the Aaltos, flourishing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style.

Aino Ackté            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Aino Ackté: was a Finnish soprano. She was the first international star of the Finnish opera scene after Alma Fohström, and a groundbreaker for the domestic field.Ackté's parents were mezzosoprano Emmy Achte and the conductor-composer Lorenz Nikolai Achte. Aino Ackté married doctor Heikki Renvall in 1901 and gave birth to a daughter (Glory Leppänen). Mies Reenkola, their son, was born in 1908.The young Ackté studied singing under her mother's tutelage until 1894 when she entered the Paris Conservatory (Edmond Duvernoy and Alfred Girodet). Her successful debut at the Paris Grand Opera happened in 1897 in Faust and she was signed on for six years as a result.

Aino Maria Susanna Haapoja            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Aino Maria Susanna Haapoja: was a Finnish politician in the Centre Party. Haapoja was born in Kauhava and became a Member of Parliament in 2003 and was elected for a second term in 2007. In 2005, she became the chair of the Kauhava city council. She was an agrologist by training.

Aino-Kaisa Saarinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Aino-Kaisa Saarinen: is a Finnish cross country skier who has competed since 1998. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won three bronze medals with one in 2006 (Team sprint) and two in 2010 (30 km, 4 x 5 km).Saarinen also won five medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with four golds (Team sprint: 2009, 10 km: 2009, 4 x 5 km: 2007, 2009) and a bronze (7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit: 2009). She has six individual victories in FIS races since 2002, but did not win her first World Cup event until she won the 30 km classical event at the Holmenkollen ski festival on March 17, 2007.

Aino Kinjo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Aino Kinjo: is a Japanese female professional ten-pin bowler. She is a member of the Japan Professional Bowling Association, license no. 284. Her nickname is "Bowling Queen of Okinawa."