Famous People with Name Antti

Antti Tapani Tuisku            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Antti Tapani Tuisku: a popular Finnish pop singer, made famous by Idols, the Finnish version of Pop Idol TV-show in 2003. Although Tuisku finished third in the show, he has easily become the most popular artist of the three. Currently Tuisku lives in Helsinki which is the Finnish capital.Tuisku has sold over 160 000 albums. He is the first artist in Finland to release two albums on the same date (New York and Rovaniemi); they topped the chart as #1 and #2 on the first week. In addition, he has also acted in a musical called Altar Boyz where he plays a singer of Christian boyband called Matthew.[1] The musical originally came from USA but the musical has received so much attention that it has been modified in various countries like Finland and Hungary.[2]

Antti Akseli Laaksonen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Antti Akseli Laaksonen: a Finnish professional ice hockey left winger who currently plays for the Lukko of the SM-Liiga. Antti had a seven-year NHL career, mostly as a third line wing and penalty killer for the Boston Bruins, Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche.Laaksonen left Finland for North America in 1993 as a junior pro from the SM-Liiga. He enrolled at the University of Denver where he played four seasons for the Pioneers. Laaksonen was selected 191st overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. In 1997–98, Laaksonen made his professional debut in North America, playing with both the Charlotte Checkers of the ECHL and the Bruins affiliate, the Providence Bruins.

Antti Miettinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Antti Miettinen: a Finnish professional ice hockey forward who plays for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League.Miettinen was drafted by the Dallas Stars as their seventh-round pick, 224th overall, in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. Prior to playing in the NHL, Miettinen played for five years in the SM-Liiga with HPK Hämeenlinna picking up the Kultainen kypärä and the Lasse Oksanen trophy in his final year in Finland.

Antti Abram Hyvärinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Antti Abram Hyvärinen: was a Finnish ski jumper who competed in the 1950s. He was born in Rovaniemi.His best year as a ski jumper was 1956, when he won a gold medal in the Individual large hill at the Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo as well as the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival. He became the first non-Norwegian ski jumper to win an Olympic gold medal.

Antti Puhakka            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Antti Puhakka: was Finnish national romantic poet.[1] He was from Kontiolahti in Finnish Karelia. He was skilled writer and used Kalevala meter in his poems.Puhakka was illiterate until he was twenty-one but after gaining the skill of writing he wrote nearly twenty thousand lines of poetry. Later he also became a member of the Finnish Literature Society.Antti Puhakka was elected to the Diet of Finland four times after 1862 representing land-owning peasants and became a popular politician in Finland.[2]

Marko Anttila            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Marko Anttila: is a professional ice hockey player. Anttila currently plays for Ilves of the SM-liiga and was drafted by Chicago Blackhawks in 2004 260th overall pick.

Kalle Anttila            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Kalle Anttila: was a Finnish wrestler and Olympic champion in both freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling.He received a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp,[1] and also at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.[2]