List of Finnish supercentenarians
This is a list of Finnish supercentenarians. There have been 7 verified supercentenarians from Finland. The oldest person ever from Finland was Maria Rothovius, who died in 2000, aged 112 years 259 days.
All Finnish supercentenarians were born at a time when Finland was an autonomous state of the Russian Empire.
Oldest Finnish people ever
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age | Region or country of birth | Region of death |
| 1 | Maria Rothovius | F | 2 October 1887 | 17 June 2000 | Uusimaa | Pirkanmaa | |
| 2 | Hilda Häkkinen | F | 18 February 1894 | 31 December 2005 | South Ostrobothnia | South Ostrobothnia | |
| 3 | Selma Tuominen | F | 19 July 1903 | 12 April 2015 | Southwest Finland | Southwest Finland | |
| 4 | Aarne Arvonen | M | 4 August 1897 | 1 January 2009 | Uusimaa | Uusimaa | |
| 5 | Fanny Nyström | F | 30 September 1878 | 31 August 1989 | Southwest Finland | Southwest Finland | |
| 6 | Helfrid Eriksson | F | 23 June 1908 | 23 October 2018 | Uusimaa | Ostrobothnia | |
| 7 | Anna Hagman | F | 27 December 1895 | 18 April 2006 | Åland Islands | Åland Islands | |
| 8 | Andrei Kuznetsov | M | 17 October 1873 | 31 January 1984 | Arkhangelsk, Russia | Southern Savonia | |
| 9 | Elsa Tilkanen | F | 26 September 1896 | 5 December 2006 | Southwest Finland | Southwest Finland | |
| 10 | Helvi Kärki | F | 7 December 1906 | 23 January 2017 | Pirkanmaa | Tavastia Proper |
Biographies
Aarne Arvonen
Aarne Armas "Arska" Arvonen was a Finnish supercentenarian who 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.Born in Helsinki, Arvonen served for the Red Guard in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, and later became its last surviving veteran. After the war he spent a year at the Tammisaari prison camp. He married Sylvi Emilia Salonen and had two daughters, Irma and Paula. They lived in the Kallio district of Helsinki. At this time Arvonen was a smoker. When his wife died in 1938, he moved to Järvenpää. In the summer of 2005, Arvonen was still living in a house he had built himself. Eventually he moved into the Vanhankylänniemi rest home.
Arvonen had been interested in astronomy since his childhood. In 1921 he became a founding member of the Finnish amateur astronomy association Ursa, and his membership lasted nearly 87 years. He visited London when he turned 100 in 1997. He celebrated his 111th birthday in 2008 with his family, but skipped his yearly trip to the local McArthur pub.