List of Finnish supercentenarians

This is a list of Finnish supercentenarians (people from Finland who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The oldest person ever from Finland was Maria Rothovius, who died in 2000, aged 112 years 259 days.[1] All Finnish supercentenarians were born at a time when Finland was an autonomous state of the Russian Empire.

Finnish supercentenarians

  Deceased   Living

RankNameSexBirth dateDeath dateAgeBirthplacePlace of death
or residence
01Maria Rothovius[1]
F
2 October 188717 June 2000112 years, 259 daysUusimaaPirkanmaa
02Hilda Häkkinen[1]
F
18 March 189431 December 2005111 years, 288 daysSouth OstrobothniaSouth Ostrobothnia
03Selma Tuominen[2]
F
19 July 190312 April 2015111 years, 267 daysSouthwest FinlandSouthwest Finland
04 Gunborg Hancock[3]
F
20 April 1912Living111 years, 188 daysUusimaaSweden
05Aarne Arvonen[1]
M
4 August 18971 January 2009111 years, 150 daysUusimaaUusimaa
06Fanny Nyström[1]
F
30 September 187831 August 1989110 years, 335 daysSouthwest FinlandSouthwest Finland
07Sirkka Nieminen[4]
F
28 April 191213 January 2023110 years, 260 daysSouthwest FinlandUusimaa
08Saara Ahonen[5]
F
24 November 190929 May 2020110 years, 187 daysPirkanmaaTavastia Proper
09Astrid Qvist[6]
F
6 March 191218 July 2022[7][8]110 years, 134 daysOstrobothniaOstrobothnia
10Helfrid Eriksson[9]
F
23 June 190823 October 2018110 years, 122 daysUusimaaOstrobothnia
11Anna Hagman[1]
F
27 December 189518 April 2006110 years, 112 daysÅlandÅland
12Elsa Tilkanen[1]
F
26 September 18965 December 2006110 years, 70 daysSouthwest FinlandSouthwest Finland
13Helvi Kärki[10]
F
7 December 190623 January 2017110 years, 47 daysPirkanmaaTavastia Proper

    Biographies

    Aarne Arvonen
    Aarne Arvonen (1897–2009), one of the oldest men ever documented, lived for 111 years and 150 days.

    Aarne Armas Arvonen (4 August 1897 – 1 January 2009[11]) lived for 111 years and 150 days. He became the last known living Finn to have been born in the 1800s, a time when Finland was still an autonomous part of the Russian Empire.[11]

    Arvonen was born in Uusimaa, Helsinki, Finland. His mother died when the First World War broke out, and his father, a left-wing journalist and agitator, remarried.

    He lost an eye after an accident playing with a gun. He was in the Red Guard in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, and later became its last surviving veteran. During the war he was captured by the Whites during the battle of Joutseno and survived a year at the Tammisaari prison camp.[12] He married Sylvi Emilia Salonen and had two daughters, Irma and Paula. They lived in the Kallio district of Helsinki. When his wife died in 1938, he moved to Järvenpää., where he continued to work in his profession as a decorative carpenter. In the summer of 2005, Arvonen was still living in a house he had built himself. Eventually he moved into the Vanhankylänniemi rest home.[13] Arvonen had been interested in astronomy since childhood and in 1921 he became a founding member of the Finnish amateur astronomy association Ursa; his membership lasted nearly 87 years. He celebrated his 111th birthday in 2008 with his family.[14]

    References
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    3. Aamisepp, Mattias (29 April 2023). ""Än finns det krut kvar i kärringen!"" ["There's still gunpowder left in the tank!"] (in Swedish). Tidningen Ångermanland. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
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    8. "Finlands äldsta, Närpesbon Astrid Qvist dog i måndags – 110-årsdagen firades i mars". Syd-Österbotten (in Finnish). 20 July 2022.
    9. Mattila, Sanni (24 October 2018). "Suomen vanhin ihminen Helfrid Eriksson on kuollut 110-vuotiaana" [Oldest person in Finland, Helfrid Eriksson, has died age 110]. Iltalehti (in Finnish). Retrieved 16 December 2018.
    10. Vuorio, Jukka (24 January 2017). "Suomen vanhin ihminen Helvi Kärki kuoli 110 vuoden iässä" [Finland's oldest person, Helvi Kärki, dies at 110]. Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 16 December 2018.
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    12. "At age 105, Aarne Arvonen still knows how to enjoy life" Helsingin Sanomat International Edition, 6 August 2002. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
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