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Mäkelä
Mäkelä is a surname originating in Finland (in Finnish, it means "hill farm"), where it is the fifth most common"Most common surnames" (English version), verkkopalvelut.vrk.fi/Nimipalvelu surname. Notable people with the surname include: * (1942–2008), Finnish chef, first Michelin-starred in Finland * (born 1943), Finnish writer of children's books * |
Klaus Mäkelä
Klaus Mäkelä (born 17 January 1996) is a Finnish conductor and cellist. He is currently chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, music director of the Orchestre de Paris, and artistic partner and chief conductor-designate of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Biography Mäkelä was born in Helsinki into a family of musicians; his father is the cellist Sami Mäkelä, and his mother is the pianist Taru Myöhänen-Mäkelä. His grandfather, Tapio Myöhänen, is a violinist and violist. His younger sister Ellen Mäkelä is a dancer with the Ballet de Catalunya. Mäkelä studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy with Jorma Panula and cello with Marko Ylönen, Timo Hanhinen and Hannu Kiiski. He became interested in conducting at age 12, when he sang in the choir of the Finnish National Opera. He has been a soloist with Finnish orchestras such as the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra and the Jyväskylä Sinfonia. He has performed at Finnish music festivals suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juho Mäkelä
Juho Mäkelä (born 23 June 1983) is a Finnish footballer who plays as a striker. He is especially known for his pace. Club career Early career Mäkelä started his career with Tervarit in his home-town, before moving to Veikkausliiga club HJK Helsinki for the 2003 season. He scored 33 goals in 66 appearances for the club in three seasons, and was the Veikkausliiga top scorer in 2005. He is known as 'The Surgeon'. Hearts Mäkelä signed for Hearts on a three-and-a-half-year deal during the January 2006 transfer window. He scored his first goal for Hearts in 4–0 win over Dunfermline on 8 April 2006. On 20 September 2006 he scored a hat-trick on his first start for Hearts in a Scottish League Cup tie against Second Division side Alloa in a 4–0 win. He scored with his head, and both his feet, scoring a treble. His fifth and final Hearts goal came on 1 October 2006 against Dundee United. On 16 January 2007, it was reported that Mäkelä was training with German side Greuthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikko Mäkelä
Mikko Matti Mäkelä (born February 28, 1965) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey left wing. Known as the "Flying Finn", he was drafted in the fourth round, 65th overall, by the New York Islanders in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft. Mäkelä made his NHL debut with the Islanders in the 1985–86 season. In four-plus seasons with the Islanders, Mäkelä scored 95 goals, including 37 in the 1987–88 season. The Islanders traded Mäkelä to the Los Angeles Kings during the 1989–90 season in exchange for Hubie McDonough and Ken Baumgartner. After finishing the 1989–90 season with Los Angeles, Mäkelä was traded again before the 1990–91 season. This time, he went to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for Mike Donnelly. After one season in Buffalo, Mäkelä returned to Europe, spending two-plus seasons playing in his native Finland and one in Sweden. Mäkelä returned to the NHL following the 1994–95 NHL lockout, appearing in 11 games with the Boston Bruins during the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valle Mäkelä
Valle Mäkelä (born 2 February 1986, Laitila, Finland) is a Finnish motor racing driver. Career Mäkelä began his kart racing career at the age of five. In 2000 he became Finnish Champion in the ICA-J class. In 2002, he began racing in Formula Ford in both the UK and Nordics with some success. In 2003, he finished 3rd in the British Formula Ford Championship class, winning one race and securing a further seven podiums. Remaining with Nexa Racing, Mäkelä won the 2004 British Formula Ford title with 506 points scored over the season, including ten victories. For 2005, he joined GR Asia in the World Touring Car Championship racing a Seat Toledo alongside Tom Coronel. His best result was a 10th place finish at Silverstone. In 2006, he returned to open wheel racing driving for Manor Motorsport in British Formula Renault. He ended the season in 13th position. In 2007, he returned to Nexa Racing in the Formula BMW UK series and finished 5th in the championship, winning the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikko Mäkelä (filmmaker)
''A Moment in the Reeds'' is a 2017 Finnish romantic drama film written and directed by Mikko Mäkelä in his feature directorial debut. It stars Janne Puustinen and Boodi Kabbani. The film had its world premiere at the 2017 BFI London Film Festival as part of the Love strand. Unusually for a Finnish film, most of the dialogue is in English as it is the only language shared by the two leading characters. Plot Leevi returns to Finland from his university studies in Paris to spend the summer helping his father Jouko renovate the family lakehouse for sale. Leevi is estranged from his conservative father, his only living relative, and hopes to avoid mandatory military service by obtaining French citizenship. Tareq, an architect by profession who has come to Finland from war-torn Syria seeking asylum, has been hired to help with the work. When Leevi's father returns to town on business, the two young men, speaking English, their only common language, establish a connection. They spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janne Mäkelä
Janne Mäkelä (born 23 July 1971) is a Finnish former footballer. Mäkelä played 12 seasons in the Finnish premier division Veikkausliiga. 1996–1997 he played 8 matches for Raith Rovers in the Scottish Football League The Scottish Football League (SFL) was a league featuring professional and semi-professional football clubs mostly from Scotland.One club, Berwick Rangers, is based in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is located approximately 4 km south .... Mäkelä capped 20 times for the Finland national team. Retrieved 26 June 2013. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannu Mäkelä (writer)
Hannu Mäkelä (born 18 August 1943 in Helsinki, Finland) is an author of more than 100 books in Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...: novels, collections of short stories, edited anthologies and children's books. Hannu Mäkelä is known for his books for children in many countries around the world, especially the popular "Mr. Hoo" (Mr. Boo) series. Works Novels *''Traveling all the time'' (1965) External linksMäkelä's Website 1943 births Living people Writers from Helsinki Finnish male poets Finnish-language poets Finnish male novelists Finnish male short story writers Finnish short story writers Finnish children's writers Finlandia Prize winners 20th-century Finnish novelists 20th-century Finnish poets 20th-century male writers Recip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilkka Mäkelä
Ilkka Mäkelä (born 25 June 1963, in Elimäki) is a Finnish football manager, former player, and current manager of MyPa. Coaching career He was sacked after the 2010 season as FC Lahti were relegated to 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 .... On 20 December 2010 he signed a three-year contract with Finnish FA, taking the Finland's U15, U16 and U17 teams under his management. On 19 November 2019 MyPa confirmed, that Mäkelä would return as the club's manager for the 2020 season. mypa.fi, 19 November 2019 Reference ...
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Tomi Mäkelä
Tomi Matti Mäkelä (born 4 January 1964 in Lahti) is a Finnish musicologist and pianist, professor at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. He studied music and musicology in Lahti, Vienna, Berlin (West) and Helsinki. As a pianist he studied with Rauno Jussila and Noel Flores. He got his doctoral degree 1988 in Berlin under the guidance of Carl Dahlhaus. He has published widely on the music of the nineteenth and twentieth century. His German book on Sibelius ''Poesie in der Luft'' (Breitkopf & Härtel 2007) got the award Geisteswissenschaft international 2008 and was published in English translation by Steven Lindberg as ''Jean Sibelius'' (2011). Works * with Christoph Kammertöns & Lena Esther Ptasczynski (eds.): ''Friedrich Wieck – Gesammelte Schriften über Musik und Musiker ..mit einer Einführung y Tomi Mäkelä' (Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Musik 10), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main etc. 2019; ; 390 pages * ''Saariaho, Sibelius und andere. Neue H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toivo Mäkelä
Toivo Mäkelä (26 September 1909 – 20 April 1979) was a Finnish film actor, appearing in more than 50 films between 1951 and 1979. He won a Jussi Award for Best Actor in 1978 and was awarded a Pro Finlandia medal in 1960. Partial filmography * ''Pitkäjärveläiset'' (1951) - Mikko * ''Noita palaa elämään'' (1952) - Hannu * ''Kolmiapila'' (1953) - Drunken man * ''Kovanaama'' (1954) - Anders - The Boss * ''Sininen viikko'' (1954) -Bertel Forss * ''Olemme kaikki syyllisiä'' (1954) - Doctor Heiskanen * ''Nukkekauppias ja kaunis Lilith'' (1955) - Hovimestari (uncredited) * ''Villi Pohjola'' (1955) - Valokuvaaja * ''Viettelysten tie'' (1955) - Social worker * ''The Harvest Month'' (1956) - Viktor Sundvall * ''Pää pystyyn Helena'' (1957) - Eero Alanen * ''Kuriton sukupolvi'' (1957) - Toimittaja Arvo Kääri * ''Syntipukki'' (1957) - Lasse Aro * ''Asessorin naishuolet'' (1958) - Tuomari Pakkola * ''Verta käsissämme'' (1958) - Hovimestari * '' Red Line'' (1959) - Jussi Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eero Mäkelä
Eero Mäkelä (December 11, 1942 – June 10, 2008) was a Finnish chef. His Palace Gourmet restaurant was the first in Finland to win a Michelin star and became a Le Cordon Bleu, Cordon Bleu in 1974. Eero Mäkelä was born in Turku. He first organized competitions in Finland between Scandinavian restaurant cooks. Competitions were held in Helsinki in 1982. He acted as judge in many international competitions, including four times at the Bocuse d'Or competition in Lyon. He was also an expert in the education and training of cooking and restaurant management. Eero Mäkelä also acted as the Finnish Chef Association's chairman, and later the association's honorary chair. Mäkelä was active and well-known chef in Finland, who made a whole career in Finnish food culture. He died, aged 65, in Helsinki. References *''This article was initially translated from the Finnish Wikipedia.'' Finnish chefs 1942 births 2008 deaths Finnish restaurateurs {{chef-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannu Mäkelä (athlete)
Hannu Mäkelä (born 23 April 1949) is a Finnish sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phi .... References 1949 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Finnish male sprinters Olympic athletes of Finland Place of birth missing (living people) {{Finland-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
