Sillanpää (meaning "bridge's end") is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Miina Sillanpää
Miina Sillanpää (originally Vilhelmiina Riktig, born 4 June 1866 – died 3 April 1952) was a Finnish politician. She served as Deputy Minister of Social Affairs in 1926-1927. She was Finland's first female minister and a key figure in the wor ...
(1866-1952), Finnish politician, first female Finnish minister
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Rosa Sillanpää (1888–1929), Finnish trade union activist and politician
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Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (; 16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964) was one of the most famous Finnish writers and in 1939 became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature "for his deep understanding of his country's pea ...
(1888-1964), Finnish writer
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Jari Sillanpää
Jari Veikko Sillanpää (; born 16 August 1965) is a Finnish-Swedish singer. With over 820,000 records sold, he is the fifth-best-selling music artist and second-best-selling solo artist in Finland.
Life and career
Born into a Sweden-Finnish ...
(born 1965), Finnish singer
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Sanna Sillanpää
Sanna Riitta Liisa Sillanpää (born 15 April 1968) is a Finnish woman who shot three men to death with a rented 9mm Beretta 92FS semi-automatic pistol on 21 February 1999 in a shooting club in , Helsinki, and wounded another man, who received l ...
(born 1968), killed three men and wounded another in the Albertinkatu shootings
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Finnish-language surnames