Vilhelm Kiviniemi (17 March 1877 – 21 June 1951) was a Finnish farmer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature.

[1] He was amongst dozens of social democrat MPs who were persecuted for political reasons by the victorious Whites following end of the Finnish Civil War in 1918.

[11] Following the end of the Finnish Civil War, arrest warrants were issued for 50 social democrat MPs for treason.

[12][better source needed][15] In October 1918 the State Criminal Court sentenced nine social democrat MPs (Nestori Aronen, Erkki Härmä, Kiviniemi, Jussi Kujala, Jukka Lankila, Juho Lautasalo, Paavo Leppänen, Yrjö Mäkelin and Eetu Salin) to death for treason.

[17][18] A petition signed by 118 members (87 socialists and 31 liberals) of the Swedish Riksdag was submitted to the Finnish Government requesting pardons for the nine MPs and others who had been sentenced to death.