Editing Helsinki (section)

=== Born before 1900 ===
[[File:Karl-fazer-historia-460x560.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Karl Fazer]], the chocolatier and Olympic [[Shooting sport|sport shooter]] best known for founding the [[Fazer]] company]]
[[File:Erkki Karu.jpg|thumb|170px|[[Erkki Karu]], film director and producer]]
* [[Peter Forsskål]] (1732–1763), Swedish-Finnish naturalist and orientalist
* [[Peter Hagerstein]] (1757–1810), Swedish-Finnish sailor and the advisor to the [[Kingdom of Tahiti|Kings of Tahiti]]
* [[Axel Hampus Dalström]] (1829–1882), architect
* [[Maria Tschetschulin]] (1850–1917), clerk
* [[Augusta Krook]] (1853–1941), politician and teacher
* [[Agnes Tschetschulin]] (1859–1942), composer and violinist
* [[Jakob Sederholm]] (1863–1934), petrologist
* [[Karl Fazer]] (1866–1932), baker, confectioner, chocolatier, entrepreneur, and [[Shooting sport|sport shooter]]
* [[Emil Lindh]] (1867–1937), sailor
* [[Oskar Merikanto]] (1868–1924), composer
* [[Signe Lagerborg-Stenius]] (1870–1968), architect and member the Helsinki City Council
* [[Maggie Gripenberg]] (1881–1976), dancer
* [[Gunnar Nordström]] (1881–1923), theoretical physicist
* [[Väinö Tanner]] (1881–1966), politician
* [[Walter Jakobsson]] (1882–1957), figure-skater
* [[Mauritz Stiller]] (1883–1928), Finnish-Swedish director and screenwriter
* [[Karl Wiik]] (1883–1946), Social Democratic politician
* [[Lennart Lindroos]] (1886–1921), swimmer, Olympic games 1912
* [[Erkki Karu]] (1887–1935), film director and producer
* [[Kai Donner]] (1888–1935), linguist, anthropologist and politician
* [[Gustaf Molander]] (1888–1973), Swedish director and screenwriter
* [[Johan Helo]] (1889–1966), lawyer and politician
* [[Minna Craucher]] (1891–1932), socialite and spy
* [[Artturi Ilmari Virtanen]] (1895–1973), chemist (Nobel Prize, 1945)
* [[Rolf Nevanlinna]] (1895–1980), mathematician, university teacher and writer
* [[Elmer Diktonius]] (1896–1961), Finnish-Swedish writer and composer
* [[Yrjö Leino]] (1897–1961), communist politician
* [[Fredrika Wetterhoff]] (1844– 1905), teacher and craft school founder
* [[Toivo Wiherheimo]] (1898–1970), economist and politician