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Mika
Mika is a given name, a nickname and a surname. Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People known just as Mika * Mika (singer) (born 1983), Lebanese-born British singer-songwriter Michael Penniman, Jr. * Mika (footballer, born 1987), Portuguese football defender Michael da Conceição Figueiredo * Mika (footballer, born 1991), Portuguese football goalkeeper Michael Simões Domingues * Mika (Armenian singer), Michael Varosyan, who represented Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 * Mika X, (born 1962), New Zealand Maori performing artist Fictional characters * Mika, a character in the horror game ''Ao Oni'' Mika as a given name Male given name (primarily used in Finland) * Mika Aaltola (born 1969), Finnish political scientist and director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs * Mika Aaltonen (born 1965), Finnish football player * Mika Brzezinski (born 1967), American talk-show host * Mika Chunuonsee (born 1989), Thai fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika (singer)
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr. (born 18 August 1983), known professionally as Mika ( , stylised as MIKA), is a singer-songwriter born in Beirut, Lebanon, and raised in Paris and London. After recording his first extended play, '' Dodgy Holiday'', Mika was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2007 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2007. Mika released his first full-length studio album, ''Life in Cartoon Motion'', on Island Records in 2007, which has sold more than 8.3 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit Award—Best British Breakthrough act—and receive a Grammy Award nomination. He topped the UK Singles Chart in January 2007 with "Grace Kelly" and has since gone on to record four more platinum-selling studio albums (most recently ''My Name is Michael Holbrook'' released in October 2019), as well as serve as judge/mentor on both the French version of ''The Voice'' and the Italian version of ''X Factor''. Mika also starred for tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Häkkinen
Mika Pauli Häkkinen (; born 28 September 1968), nicknamed "The Flying Finn", is a Finnish former racing driver. He won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1998 and 1999, both times driving for McLaren. Häkkinen is one of three Formula One drivers from Finland that have won the World Drivers' Championship, and the only one to have done so more than once. He currently works in driver management and is a brand ambassador for various companies. Häkkinen began his career in karting at the age of five and achieved success by winning regional and national kart championships. He progressed to car racing when he entered the Formula Ford and Formula Three series in Italy and the United Kingdom. After success in the series, Häkkinen entered Formula One in 1991 with the Team Lotus where he remained until 1992. The following year, he moved to McLaren as test driver before he was promoted to the race team following the departure of Michael Andretti. After four years which yie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Hannula
Mika Stefan Hannula (born 2 April 1979) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player. Playing career Hannula started playing ice hockey with Finnish team TPS. He is a hard-working and quick player with very good skating abilities. He is intense, works hard and is dangerous around the opponent's net. Hannula was drafted in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft by Minnesota Wild with their 9th choice, 269th overall selection. During his career, he has played for three different hockey teams in the Stockholm area: AIK Hockey, Djurgårdens IF and Hammarby IF. He also tried playing in the United States for the Houston Aeros in the American Hockey League during the season 2003–04, totalling 27 points in 67 regular season games. During the semifinal game in the 2006 World Championships in Riga, Latvia, against Canada, Hannula cross-checked the Canadian player Sidney Crosby to the neck and head area when Crosby was celebrating a goal he just had scored. Hannula was immediat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Brzezinski
Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough (; pl, Brzezińska; born May 2, 1967) is an American talk show host, liberal political commentator, and author who currently co-hosts MSNBC's weekday morning broadcast show ''Morning Joe''. She was formerly a CBS News correspondent, and was their principal "Ground Zero" reporter during the morning of the September 11 attacks. In 2007 she joined MSNBC as an occasional anchor, and was subsequently chosen as co-host of ''Morning Joe'', alongside Joe Scarborough. Mika Brzezinski is a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. Her main political interest is in wage equality for women. She is also the author of three books; two on her career as a journalist and one on food addiction. Brzezinski is the daughter of diplomat and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson and as the National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter. Early life Brzezinski was born in New York City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Mäkeläinen
Mika Mäkeläinen (born 30 May 1965) is a Finnish foreign news journalist and non-fiction writer, who has served as both the United States and Asia correspondent for the Finnish public broadcasting company Yle. Mäkeläinen was stationed in Washington, D.C., between 2006 and 2009 and in Beijing between 2015 and 2017. Mäkeläinen is a four-time recipient of the best report of the year award (in different categories) in the CNN World Report competition. He holds a master's degree in theology from the University of Helsinki, and was accepted into the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University in 2003. Mäkeläinen has received international attention for his coverage of North Korea. In 2016, he was the only Nordic journalist invited to cover the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea. His most notable book, ''Kimlandia: silminnäkijänä Pohjois-Korean kulisseissa'', is based on his experiences in the country. In 2019, a panel of judges selected ''Kimlandia' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Myllylä
Mika Kristian Myllylä (12 September 1969 – 5 July 2011) was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed from 1992 to 2005. He won six medals at the Winter Olympics, earning one gold (1998: 30 km), one silver (1994: 50 km), and four bronzes (1994: 30 km, 4 × 10 km; 1998: 10 km, 4 × 10 km). Myllylä also won a total of nine medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, winning four golds (1997: 50 km, 1999: 10 km, 30 km, 50 km), three silvers (10 km + 15 km combined pursuit: 1997, 1999; 4 × 10 km relay: 1997), and two bronzes (10 km: 1995, 1997). He was on his way to become one of the greatest stars in cross-country skiing history, until he was caught doping in the Finnish 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships scandal for taking hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a blood plasma expander usually used to cover up the use of erythropoietin (EPO) in athletes. The scandal also affected five other Finnish skiers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Muranen
Mika Kalevi Muranen (born 1971, Kotka, Finland) is a Finnish murderer who shot three people dead with an assault rifle and a crossbow in April 1994 and was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. After multiple appeals for parole, he was released in 2014. Murders Muranen, a military conscript, returned to his barracks in Hamina from a holiday on Sunday, 17 April 1994, stole an Rk 62 assault rifle from the barracks and fled to his hometown Kotka. The next day, still dressed in his uniform, he entered his neighborhood and fatally shot two of his neighbors, Reino Vulkko, 53, and his wife Sirkka, 54, with a crossbow he had taken from his home. On 19 April, he fatally shot a postman, Matti Olli, aged 45, with the assault rifle. He also shot randomly at nearby houses, escaping into the forest with his dog. During the chase, police shot the dog with a submachine gun, while Muranen returned fire with the assault rifle. The police chased him for a day before slightly wounding him. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Luttinen
Mika Kristian Luttinen is a Finnish vocalist who formed the black metal band Impaled Nazarene in 1990. After numerous line-up changes, he remains the only original member. Besides his main project, Mika has been involved in various other bands around the globe, such as the Canadian metal band Obscene Eulogy and the French black punk band, The Rocking Dildos which was formed by owner of the French label Osmose Productions, Hervé and himself. While in Impaled Nazarene, he was also involved with the band, Diabolos Rising (name later changed to Raism), together with then Rotting Christ keyboard player, Magus Wampyr Daoloth. Luttinen has made notable guest appearances in many bands, such as The Crown, Hypnos, Ancient Rites (Ancient Rites singer Gunther Theys was also Mika's best man at the latter's wedding. Mika has stated that his songwriting is influenced by many early thrash metal bands, such as Sodom and Kreator. Elements of Motörhead's music are also incorporated into his work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gas Lipstick (musician)
Mika Kristian Karppinen (born 8 February 1971), better known as Gas Lipstick, is a Swedish-Finnish musician, best known as the previous drummer of the Finnish gothic rock band HIM. He is also a drummer for other bands currently on hiatus, such as deathgrind group To Separate the Flesh from the Bones, heavy metal group Bendover, punk group Valvontakomissio, and punk group Ääritila. Biography Born in Eskilstuna, Sweden to Finnish parents, Karppinen moved to Finland with his family at age 13. He was a session drummer for one tour with the Finnish band Tarot (known as a project band of Nightwish's Marko Hietala). Before joining HIM, he was also a member of Kyyria, which included Santeri Kallio and Niclas Etelävuori from the Finnish band Amorphis and singer Ville Tuomi of Suburban Tribe. He sang and played guitar in a thrash metal band called Dementia which featured guitarist Roope Latvala of Children of Bodom. He also was a drum tech for Stratovarius at one point and played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Laitinen
Mika Antero Laitinen (born 5 April 1973) is Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 1990 to 2000. Career He won a gold medal in the Team large hill competition at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. His biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he won three medals, including two golds in the Team large hill event (1995, 1997) and a bronze in the Individual normal hill (1995). In the 1995/96 World Cup season, Laitinen dominated the first part of the season and won five of the nine events, until he fell and injured himself during a practice jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the O .... World Cup Standings Wins External links * * 1973 births Living people People from Kuopio Finnish m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Niskanen
Mika Niskanen (born July 24, 1973 in Helsinki, Finland) is a professional ice hockey defenceman, currently with Ilves in the Finnish elite league SM-liiga The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), (Finnish for ''League'') colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is one of the six founding leagu .... Career statistics Awards * Elitserien playoff winner with HV71 in 2004. External links * References * * 1973 births Espoo Blues players Finnish ice hockey defencemen HIFK (ice hockey) players HV71 players Ilves players KalPa players Living people Lahti Pelicans players Timrå IK players Ice hockey people from Helsinki {{Finland-icehockey-defenceman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Lahtinen
Mika Lahtinen (born 30 April 1985) is a Finnish former footballer. During his career he played for RoPS, JJK and Tampere United in the Veikkausliiga, and for PP-70 and FC Hämeenlinna in the Ykkönen ''Ykkönen'' (Finnish for 'Number One'; sv, Ettan) is the second highest level of the Finnish football league system (after the Veikkausliiga), although it is the highest league managed by the Football Association of Finland. The teams also play .... References External linksProfile at Guardian Football Profile at Veikkausliiga's we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
