2011 in Finland

Decades:	1990s; 2000s; 2010s; 2020s; ;
See also:	Other events of 2011; Timeline of Finnish history;

The following lists events that happened in 2011 in Finland.

Incumbents edit

17 April – 2011 Finnish parliamentary election
15 May – Finland wins the IIHF world Championship for the second time since 1995
16 October – the 2011 Ålandic legislative election
26 December – Tapani was dubbed the worst storm in Finland in 10 years.^[1]

11 February – Bo Carpelan, poet (b. 1926)
26 March – Yrjö Hietanen, sprint canoer (b. 1927).^[3]
27 May – Jukka Toivola, long-distance runner and chemist (b. 1949).^[4]
12 June – Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, writer and translator (b. 1947)
5 July – Mika Myllylä, cross country skier (b. 1969)
7 August – Harri Holkeri, statesman, Prime Minister of Finland 1987–1991, speaker of the UN General Assembly 2000–2001 (b. 1937)
25 October – Sinikka Keskitalo, long-distance runner (b. 1951).^[5]
5 November – Hannu Haapalainen, ice hockey player (b. 1951)
8 November – Lauri Sutela, military officer (b. 1918)

^ "Värsta stormen på tio år" (in Swedish). HBL.fi. 26 December 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2016.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Arvonen, Päivi (August 17, 2012). "TangaReef offers divers a booking service and helps to save the seas". Enterprise Helsinki. Archived from the original on November 20, 2012. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yrjö Hietanen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jukka Toivola". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sinikka Keskitalo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2016.