Business People
- Sari Baldauf – former Nokia executive
- Jorma Eloranta – CEO of Metso
- Aatos Erkko – minister, billionaire and major owner of Sanoma
- Harry Harkimo – a businessman in ice hockey business
- Antti Herlin – Chairman of the Board of KONE, the richest man in Finland with assets worth over 1 billion euros in KONE stock owned through his holding companies.
- Fredrik Idestam – industrialist, founder of Nokia
- Kari Kairamo – ex-CEO of Nokia (1932 – 1988)
- Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo – former CEO of Nokia
- Lasse Kurkilahti – CEO of Kemira
- Jorma Ollila – ex-CEO of Nokia
- Kirsti Paakkanen, – former CEO of Marimekko
- Karl Stockmann – Founder of the Stockmann department store
- Björn Wahlroos – CEO of Sampo
- Rudolf Walden – founder of United Paper Mills (1878 – 1946)
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