Famous People with Name Pertti

Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen: was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, humorist, TV personality and practitioner of gags.During his career he directed, wrote, produced or acted in about 50 movies and participated in numerous TV productions, including the comedy Spede Show and the game-show Speden Spelit. Spede Pasanen named Bob Hope as one his biggest comedy influences. Much of his more commercial work was in collaboration with Vesa-Matti Loiri (whose most popular character created by Pasanen was called Uuno Turhapuro; first in TV sketches and then in a long-lasting series of motion pictures) and Simo Salminen. Pasanen's films and TV shows, often made fast and inexpensively in a conveyor-belt mode, usually didn't gain much recognition from the critics but were extremely popular among Finnish audiences from the 1960s onwards.

Pertti Nieminen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Pertti Nieminen: a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. He played for HPK and TPS. He was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985.

Pertti Purhonen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Pertti Purhonen: is a former Finnish welterweight boxer.

Pertti Kullervo Paasio            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Pertti Kullervo Paasio: is a Finnish politician from the Social Democratic Party.Paasio participated in the municipal politics of Turku and was elected into the municipal council in 1965. Paasio became member of the Parliament in July 1975, however, he lost the seat in the 1979

Pertti Koivulahti            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Pertti Koivulahti: is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. He played for Tappara.

Matti Rudolf "Masa" Perttilä            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Matti Rudolf "Masa" Perttilä: was a Finnish wrestler who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he won the bronze medal in the Greco-Roman middleweight competition after winning the final of the bronze medal round against Sjur Johnsen.