Eino Markus Rautio (17 May 1891 – 14 February 1973), also known as Uncle Markus ( fi, Markus-setä), was a

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radio journalist and presenter. Between 1926 and 1956 he presented the children's radio show ''Children's Hour with Uncle Markus'' ( fi, Markus-sedän lastentunti) on the National Radio of Finland. On his show he said

Father Christmas Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas. Although now known as a Christmas gift-bringer, and typically considered to be synonymous with Santa Claus, he was originally part of a much older and unrela ...

( fi, Joulupukki) lived in Lapland on Ear Mountain (

Korvatunturi Korvatunturi is a fell in Lapland, on the border between Finland and Russia. Its Finnish part is within Urho Kekkonen National Park in the municipality of Savukoski. In Finnish the name ''Korvatunturi'' means "Ear Fell", referring to the mountai ...

), on the basis that this was where he could hear everything to find out who was naughty and nice. The theme was later taken up by Mauri Kunnas in his books on Christmas, wherein Santa Claus lives in a remote village on the side of the Hill, with his

elves An elf () is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore. Elves appear especially in North Germanic mythology. They are subsequently mentioned in Snorri Sturluson's Icelandic Prose Edda. He distinguishes " ...

and

reindeer Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 sub ...

. Rautio was buried in Hietaniemi Cemetery.

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* 1891 births 1973 deaths Mass media people from Helsinki People from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish radio presenters 20th-century Finnish journalists {{Finland-journalist-stub