Gunnar Aleksander Korhonen (22 April 1918 – 9 June 2001) was a Finnish politician and the CEO of Finnair from 1960–1987.

Korhonen had a degree in economics and worked as a civil servant.

[3] He was the Minister of Social Affairs and Health briefly in 1970 during Aura's caretaker government.

[4] During Aura's second caretaker government from 1971–1972 he was both Minister of Trade and Industry and Deputy Minister of Health and Social Affairs.

[5] He was played by Taisto Oksanen in the Finnish docudrama Keihäsmatkat.