People
- A notable family of Swedish-speaking Finns:
- Ole Torvalds (1916–1995), journalist and poet
- Nils Torvalds (b. 1945), son of Ole; broadcast journalist, writer and politician
- Linus Torvalds (b. 1969), son of Nils; software engineer and creator of the Linux kernel, who now works and lives in the U.S.
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