[1] In the early 20th century, Malmi Cemetery even had its own train connection and water tower.

Many well-known Finns also rest in the Malmi Cemetery, e.g. actors Tauno Palo, Matti Pellonpää and Ansa Ikonen, singers Alexi Laiho (former singer and guitarist of the melodic death metal band Children of Bodom), Petri Gerdt (Perpetrator of the Myyrmanni bombing), Olavi Virta, Tapio Rautavaara and Laila Kinnunen, designer Birger Kaipiainen,[1] and one of the Winter War heroes, Captain Aarne Juutilainen.

Approximately 2,000 burials are carried out each year, which makes Malmi functionally the largest cemetery in Finland.

A private water tower was built on the hill at the northern end of the cemetery in the 1930s and has since been decommissioned.

As the cemetery was quite far outside the city area when completed, a funeral train rail connection was arranged there by building a two-kilometer-long power line from Malmi railway station.