List of Finns - Soldiers

Soldiers

  • Aksel Airo – general (1898 – 1985)
  • Adolf Ehrnrooth – general (1905 – 2004)
  • Axel Heinrichs – general (1890 – 1965)
  • Simo Häyhä – first lieutenant, sharpshooter 505 confirmed sniper kills (1905 – 2002)
  • Eino Ilmari Juutilainen – pilot, twice knight of Mannerheim cross
  • Jorma Karhunen – pilot, aviation writer
  • Jussi Kekkonen – major, younger brother of president Urho Kekkonen (1910 – 1962)
  • Ruben Lagus – major general (1896 – 1956)
  • Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim – marshal of Finland (1867 – 1951)
  • Vilho Petter Nenonen – general (1883 – 1960)
  • Karl Lennart Oesch – lieutenant general (1892 – 1978)
  • Mika Peltonen – Brigadier General (2005 –)
  • Jorma Sarvanto – fighter pilot, World War II ace
  • Ensio Siilasvuo – general (1922 – 2001)
  • Hjalmar Siilasvuo – general (1892 – 1947)
  • Georg Magnus Sprengtporten – general (1740 – 1819)
  • Torsten Stålhandske – commander of Hakkapelites (1594 – 1644)
  • Paavo Susitaival – lieutenant colonel (1896 – 1993)
  • Lauri Sutela – general
  • Paavo Talvela – general (1897 – 1973)
  • Lauri Törni (Alias Larry Throne) – captain (1919 – 1965)
  • Rudolf Walden – general (1878 – 1946)
  • Kurt Martti Wallenius – major general (1893 – 1984)
  • Hans Wind – pilot, twice knight of Mannerheim cross
  • Harald Öhquist – lieutenant general (1891 – 1971)
  • Hugo Österman – lieutenant general (1892 – 1975)

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Famous quotes containing the word soldiers:

    “On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.”
    —Oliver Cromwell’s Soldiers. Address, 1647, to the English Parliament. “Humble Representation.”

    “Better to die, or not to have been born,
    than hear that plaining, piteous convict wail
    about these beautiful dark eyebrowed women.
    It’s soldiers who sing these days. O Lord God.”
    —Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)

    “At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.”
    —Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919)