Famous People with Name Paavo

Paavo Heininen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Paavo Heininen: is a Finnish composer and pianist. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he was taught composition by Aarre Merikanto, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Einar Englund, and Joonas Kokkonen. He continued his studies in Cologne and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.Heininen is one of the most important Finnish modernist composers. His works can be roughly divided into two periods: dodecaphonic (c. 1957–1975) and postserialist (from 1976 onwards).

Paavo Olavi Lonkila            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Paavo Olavi Lonkila: was a Finnish farmer and cross-country skier who competed in the 1940s and 1950's.Lonkila also won a silver in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. He also won the 18 km event at the 1951 Holmenkollen ski festival.

Paavo Vaskio            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Paavo Vaskio: is a Finnish sprint canoer who competed in the early 1960s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 4 x 500 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

Paavo Lukkariniemi            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Paavo Lukkariniemi: is a Finnish ski jumper who competed in the mid-1960's. He won a bronze medal in the individual normal hill at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo.Lukkariniemi's lone victory was in the normal hill event at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1966.

Paavo Miettinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Paavo Miettinen: was a Finnish Olympic fencer. He competed in the team épée event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Pekka Paavola            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Pekka Paavola: is a Finnish social democratic politician, Minister of Justice in the 1972 cabinet, and a convicted criminal in multiple cases.He represents the Social Democratic Party of Finland. Paavola was a city manager in Tampere 1969–1985. He was the Minister of Ju

Rodney Earland "Rod" Paavola            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rodney Earland "Rod" Paavola: was an American ice hockey player. He won a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics.

Olavi Paavolainen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Olavi Paavolainen: was a Finnish essayist, journalist, travel book writer, poet, and cosmopolitan. He often went under the pseudonym of Olavi Lauri. Paavolainen was the central figure of the literary group Tulenkantajat (The Flame Bearers) and one of the most influential literary opinion leaders between the two World wars in Finland. He represented liberal and Europe oriented views of culture and had an eclectic eye for new ideas.In the late 1920s Paavolainen praised urban life, technology, and roaring cars in his works centering around modernism as the Italian Futurist poet F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944) had done two decades earlier. In the 1930s and 1940s he published a number of works that controversially criticised the members of the Nazi cabinet in Germany and later the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.