Famous People with Name Janne

Janne Kuusi            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Janne Kuusi: is a Finnish television and film director, screenwriter, producer and occasional actor.Directing since 1980 Kuusi has worked mostly on television in Finland although he has directed several feature films, short fictions and documentaries. His last film direction in 2006 was Saippuaprinssi working with actors such as Mikko Leppilampi and Pamela Tola. After that he has concentrated to writing.

Janne Tolsa            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Janne Tolsa: is a Finnish heavy metal musician. Known for his keyboard work in Tarot from the late 1980's, Tolsa also takes part in the melodic death metal band Eternal Tears of Sorrow, which he joined in 2005 for their album Before the Bleeding Sun, as well as the industrial metal band Turmion Kätilöt (under the alias RunQ). Tolsa is also known to work as a composer for television. Janne Tolsa plays keyboards in Marenne Band and is one of the composers in the band's debut album The Past Prelude.

Janne Immonen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Janne Immonen: is a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1993 to 2003. He was best known for his doping role in the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships doping scandal that would affect five other Finnish skiers for taking hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a blood plasma expander. Immonen was part of the 4 x 10 km team that finished first, but would be disqualified for his blood doping and would receive a two year suspension from the FIS as a result. He also finished 10th in the 30 km event at those same championships.

Janne Salmi            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Janne Salmi: is a Finnish orienteering competitor, winner of the 1997 World Orienteering Championships, Short distance. World champion Relay 2001, silver medal 1995, 1997 and 1999. Married to Swiss orienteer Vroni König-Salmi.

Janne Henrik Väätäinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Janne Henrik Väätäinen: was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1992 to 2001. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, he finished fifth in the team large hill and 30th in the individual normal hill events.Väätäinen's best finish at the Ski-flying World Championships was 14th at Planica in 1994. His best World Cup career finish was third in an individual normal hill event in Finland in 1996.

Capitaine Jean-François Jannekeyn            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Capitaine Jean-François Jannekeyn: was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. He also competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics as a fencer.