List of Finnish supercentenarians

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.

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.

His mother died when the First World War broke out, and his father, a left-wing journalist and agitator, remarried.

During the war, he was captured by the Whites during the battle of Joutseno and survived a year at the Tammisaari prison camp.