Mikko is a Finnish masculine given name and equivalent of the English name
Michael
Michael may refer to:
People
* Michael (given name), a given name
* Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael
Given name "Michael"
* Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian an ...
, having been borrowed into the
Finnish language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish ...
. The given name Mikko is shared by the following notable people:
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Mikko Alatalo
Mikko Tapio Alatalo (born 1 May 1951) is a Finnish musician and politician.
Career
Alatalo was born in Kuivaniemi, now a part of Ii, Finland. He is mostly known for his long and successful musical career. His style is primarily seen as chi ...
, Finnish musician and politician
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Mikko Eloranta
Mikko Henrikki Eloranta (born 24 August 1972) is a Finland, Finnish former ice hockey player who played with TPS (ice hockey), TPS Turku of the SM-Liiga. He represented Finland in both the Olympic Winter Games and the World Cup of Hockey.
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, Finnish ice hockey left winger
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Mikko Franck
Mikko Franck is a Finnish conductor and violinist.
Biography
Franck was born in Helsinki. He began learning the violin at the age of 5 and started violin studies at the Sibelius Academy in 1992. The Academy let Franck conduct an orchestra in 19 ...
, Finnish conductor
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Mikko Heiniö Mikko Kyösti Heiniö (born 18 May 1948) is a Finnish composer and musicologist.
Life
Mikko Heiniö was born in 1948 in Tampere, and studied composition with Joonas Kokkonen and piano with Liisa Pohjola at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 197 ...
Mikko Hyppönen
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen (; born 13 October 1969) is a Finnish computer security expert, speaker and author. He is known for the Hyppönen Law about IoT security, which states that whenever an appliance is described as being "smart", it is vulner ...
, Finnish security guru and an author
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Mikko Ilonen
Mikko Ilonen (born 18 December 1979) is a retired Finnish professional golfer who played on the European Tour, winning five times. He is considered to be the greatest golfer from Finland.
Career
Ilonen was born in Lahti, Finland. He won the 2000 ...
, Finnish golfer
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Mikko Juva
Mikko Einar Juva (22 November 1918 – 1 January 2004) was a Finnish historian, theologian and Lutheran archbishop.
Biography
He was professor in Nordic history 1957–1962 at the University of Turku and professor in Finnish and Scandinavian ...
, Finnish historian, theologian, and archbishop
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Mikko Kavén
Mikko Juhani Kavén (born 19 February 1975 in Lahti) is a retired Finnish football goalkeeper who used to play for Tampere United in Finland's Veikkausliiga.
He is currently acting as goalkeeping coach in Veikkausliiga side Ilves.
Trivia
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, Finnish footballer
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Mikko Koivu
Mikko-Sakari Koivu (born 12 March 1983) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. Koivu was drafted sixth overall in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Minnesota Wild. After four seasons with HC TPS, TPS in the Liiga, SM-liiga, Koivu joine ...
, Finnish
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
player
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Mikko Kolehmainen
Mikko Yrjö Ilmari Kolehmainen (born 18 August 1964 in Mikkeli) is a Finnish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in the K-1 500 m event at Barcelona in ...
, Finnish flatwater canoer
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Mikko Korhonen
Mikko Korhonen (born 23 July 1980) is a Finnish professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour. He won the 2018 Shot Clock Masters and the 2019 Volvo China Open.
Professional career
Korhonen turned professional at the late age of 24 ...
, Finnish golfer
* Mikko Koskinen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
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Mikko Larkas
Mikko Larkas (born 22 June 1981) is a Finns, Finnish professional basketball coach, currently head coach of the Helsinki Seagulls.Mikko Leppilampi, Finnish actor and musician
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Mikko Lindström Mikko is a Finnish masculine given name and equivalent of the English name Michael, having been borrowed into the Finnish language. The given name Mikko is shared by the following notable people:
* Mikko Alatalo, Finnish musician and politician
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, guitarist for Finnish band HIM
* Mikko Nissinen, Finnish ballet dancer and current director of
Boston Ballet
The Boston Ballet is an American professional classical ballet company based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams and Sydney Leonard, and was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. I ...
Mikko (restaurant)
Mikko, formally Mikko Nordic Fine Foods, is a restaurant and catering service in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States, specializing in Nordic cuisine. The restaurant was opened in 2018 by Mikko Kosonen, who was prev ...