10 Facts About Finnish Americans

Finnish Americans comprise Americans with ancestral roots from Finland or Finnish people who emigrated to and reside in the United States.

Many townships were established by Finnish Americans, including Herman, located in Baraga County, Michigan.

Significant number of Finnish Americans immigrants settled in northern Minnesota, especially in the Arrowhead Region, along with portions of Aitkin, Crow Wing, and Carlton counties, often working in the region's iron mines.

In 1873 the Finnish Americans Laestadians started their own congregation at Calumet, Michigan.

Finnish Americans exodus took place after most of the available farmland in the United States was already taken and Canada's was largely still available.

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Finnish Americans's father was architect Eliel Saarinen, the first president of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Finnish Americans studied architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and later the Yale University and graduated in 1934.

Notable Americans of some Finnish descent include several film stars such as actresses Anna Easteden, Christine Lahti, Marian Nixon, Maila Nurmi, Pamela Anderson and Jessica Lange, actors Albert Salmi, Matt Damon, Richard Davalos and George Gaynes, and director David Lynch.

Porn actress Puma Swede is of Finnish Americans descent although she was born in Sweden.

Salolampi Finnish Americans Language Village is a Finnish Americans language immersion camp in Bemidji, Minnesota.