I'm not really a Finland-fanatic..
It just buggs me that so few non-europeans have heard of it..
I kept on thinking more famous Finnish people..
Well bands like Aika (Hear me now), Nylon Beat (many songs in English and published abroad.. but I think that they're popular only in Japan besides Finland), Rasmus (Liquid and other songs.. played many times in MTV), Nightwish, Stratovarius.. they're Finnish.
And Tic'n'tac.. It's this band of girls aged from 15 to 18. They were on a tour with Aaron Carter in USA. According to the document America loved them. Well.. Mostly little children and their parents, but..
Then the movie director and producer Renny Harlin is from Finland. (Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea, Driven, Die Hard 2..)
And you probably all know the moomins.. The author, Tove Jansson, was Finnish.
Though she spoke Swedish and wrote the books in Swedish but she was still a Finn.