Notable Alumni
- Former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari.
- Former Finnish prime minister Paavo Lipponen
- The first professional Finnish writer Juhani Aho
- Film director and comedian Spede Pasanen
- Journalist Lasse Lehtinen, Member of European Parliament.
- August Ahlqvist (A. Oksanen), poet, critic, linguist and professor of Finnish at the University of Helsinki; strongest critic of the Finnish national writer Aleksis Kivi and his novel Seven Brothers
- Finnish Chancellor of Justice, Eliel Soisalon-Soininen (assassinated in 1905 by student Lennart Hohenthal)
- Bishop of Kuopio diocese, Wille Riekkinen
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