Prominent Social Democrats
| Oskari Tokoi | chairman of the Senate 1917 |
| Yrjö Sirola | founder of the Communist Party of Finland |
| Väinö Tanner | prime minister 1926–1927, foreign minister 1939–1940 |
| Karl-August Fagerholm | prime minister 1948–1950, 1956–1957 and 1958–1959, speaker of parliament 1945–1948, 1950–1956, 1957–1958, 1958–1962, and 1965–1966 |
| Rafael Paasio | prime minister 1966–1968 and 1972 |
| Kalevi Sorsa | prime minister 1972–1975, 1977–1979, and 1982–1987 |
| Mauno Koivisto | prime minister 1968–1970 and 1979–1982, president 1982–1994 |
| Martti Ahtisaari | president 1994–2000, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2008 |
| Erkki Tuomioja | foreign minister 2000–2007 and 2011– |
| Paavo Lipponen | prime minister 1995–2003, speaker of parliament 2003–2007 |
| Tarja Halonen | foreign minister 1995–2000, president 2000–2012 |
| Eero Heinäluoma | speaker of parliament 2011– |
| Jutta Urpilainen | finance minister and deputy prime minister 2011– |
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