Finnish Presidents and Prime Ministers

This list is comprised of Finnish Presidents and Prime Ministers. The President (Finnish Presidentti) is the head of state, in charge of foreign affairs and the military, while the Prime Minister is the head of government (Pääministeri). The positions were established in 1919 and 1917 respectively, at the time of Finnish independence.

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Name	Years	Type
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud	1917-1918; 1930-1931; 1931-1937	prime minister; president
Juho Kusti Paasikivi	1918; 1944-1946; 1946-1956	prime minister; president
Lauri Ingman	1918-1919; 1924-1925	prime minister
Kaarlo Castrén	1919	prime minister
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg	1919-1925	president
Juho Vennola	1919-1920; 1921-1922	prime minister
Rafael Erich	1920-1921	prime minister
Aimo Cajander	1922; 1924; 1937-1939	prime minister
Kyösti Kallio	1922-1924; 1925-1926; 1929-1930; 1936-1937; 1937-1940	prime minister; president
Lauri Kristian Relander	1925-1931	president
Antti Tulenheimo	1925	prime minister
Väinö Tanner	1926-1927	prime minister
Juho Sunila	1927-1928; 1931-1932	prime minister
Oskari Mantere	1928-1929	prime minister
Toivo Kivimäki	1932-1936	prime minister
Risto Ryti	1939-1940; 1940-1944	prime minister; president
Jukka Rangell	1941-1943	prime minister
Edwin Linkomies	1943-1944	prime minister
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim	1944-1946	president
Antti Hackzell	1944	prime minister
Urho Castrén	1944	prime minister
Mauno Pekkala	1946-1948	prime minister
Karl-August Fagerholm	1948-1950; 1956-1957; 1958-1959	prime minister
Urho Kekkonen	1950-1953; 1954-1956; 1956-1982	prime minister; president
Sakari Tuomioja	1953-1954	prime minister
Ralf Törngren	1954	prime minister
V. J. Sukselainen	1957; 1959-1961	prime minister
Rainer von Fieandt	1957-1958	prime minister
Reino Kuuskoski	1958	prime minister
Martti Miettunen	1961-1962; 1975-1977	prime minister
Ahti Karjalainen	1962-1963; 1970-1971	prime minister
Reino R. Lehto	1963-1964	prime minister
Johannes Virolainen	1964-1966	prime minister
Rafael Paasio	1966-1968; 1972	prime minister
Mauno Koivisto	1968-1970; 1979-1982; 1982-1994	prime minister; president
Teuvo Aura	1970; 1971-1972	prime minister
Kalevi Sorsa	1972-1975; 1977-1979; 1982-1987	prime minister
Keijo Liinamaa	1975	prime minister
Harri Holkeri	1987-1991	prime minister
Esko Aho	1991-1995	prime minister
Martti Ahtisaari	1994-2000	president
Paavo Lipponen	1995-2003	prime minister
Tarja Halonen	2000-2012	president
Anneli Jäätteenmäki	2003	prime minister
Matti Vanhanen	2003-2010	prime minister
Mari Kiviniemi	2010-2011	prime minister
Jyrki Katainen	2011-2014	prime minister
Sauli Niinistö	2012-2024	president
Alexander Stubb	2014-2015; 2024-	prime minister; president
Juha Sipilä	2015-2019	prime minister
Antti Rinne	2019	prime minister
Sanna Marin	2019-2023	prime minister
Petteri Orpo	2023-	prime minister