Taipale is a common Finnish surname. As of December 2012, almost 4,000 people in Finland have this name, which makes it approximately one in 1,400. The meaning is

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, ''journey'' or ''stretch of road''.taipale in suomi englanti sanakirja
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Notable people

Notable people having this surname include: *

Armas Taipale Armas Rudolf Taipale (27 July 1890 – 9 November 1976) was a Finnish athlete. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics and won gold medals in two discus throw events, conventional and two-handed, where the total was counted as a sum of best thr ...

, Finnish athlete * Hannu Taipale, Finnish cross country skier *

Ilkka Taipale Väinö Ilkka Ilari Taipale (born 29 November 1942 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician, physician and activist. A social democrat, he was a member of the Parliament of Finland for Helsinki from 1971 to 1975 and 2000 to 2007. A doctor and surgeon ...

, Finnish politician and psychiatrist *

Ilmari Taipale Ilmari Richard Taipale (18 May 1928 in Tampere – 22 March 2008 in Porvoo) was a Finnish long-distance runner who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of ...

, Finnish long-distance runner *

K. A. Taipale K. A. (Kim) Taipale is an investor, legal scholar, and social theorist specializing in information, technology, and national security policy. He is a partner in Stilwell Holding, a private investment firm, and the former chairman of the executive c ...

, Finnish lawyer, scholar, and social theorist * Kuisma Taipale, Finnish cross-country skier * Tero Taipale, Finnish football player *

Vappu Taipale Vappu Taipale ( Puustinen; born 1 May 1940) is a Finnish retired politician and physician. Medical career In 1966, Taipale graduated with a licentiate's degree in medicine and qualified to practise medicine. In 1980, she obtained her doctorate ...

, Finnish politician and psychiatrist

References

{{surname Finnish-language surnames Surnames of Finnish origin