Pekka
Pekka is a Finnish male given name. It was most popular around the middle of the 20th century. As of 2013 there were more than 100,000 people registered with this name in Finland. The nameday is the 29th of June in the Finnish tradition and the 25th of June on the orthodox calendar. It originated as a variation of the name Peter.
Notable people with this name include:
- Pekka-Eric Auvinen, perpetrator of the Jokela school shooting in 2007
- Pekka Haavisto, Finnish politician and minister
- Pekka Harttila, Finnish diplomat and a lawyer
- Pekka Heino (television presenter), Swedish television host and presenter
- Pekka Heino (singer), Finnish metal singer
- Pekka Himanen, Finnish philosopher
- Pekka Huhtaniemi, Finnish diplomat
- Albert Järvinen, Finnish guitarist
- Pekka Koskela, Finnish speed skater
- Pekka Kuusisto, Finnish violinist
- Pekka Lagerblom, Finnish footballer
- Pekka T. Lehtinen, Finnish arachnologist and taxonomist
- Pekka Lehto, Finnish film director
- Pekka Leskinen, Finnish figure skater
- Pekka Lundmark, Finnish business executive
- Pekka Niemi (skier), Finnish cross-country skier
- Pekka Niemi (weightlifter), Finnish weightlifter
- Pekka Pohjola, Finnish multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer
- Pekka Pyykkö, Finnish chemist
- Pekka Rinne, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
- Pekka Rautakallio, Finnish ice hockey defenceman and coach
- Pekka Saarinen, Finnish racing driver
- Pekka Salminen, Finnish architect
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish orchestral conductor and composer
- Pekka Sammallahti, Finnish professor of Sámi languages
- Pekka Tarjanne, Finnish scientist and politician
- Pekka Vehkonen, Finnish former professional motocross racer
Fictional characters
- Pekka Puupää, Finnish comic and film character
- P.E.K.K.A., robotic character in Clash of Clans and its spinoff games
- Pekka Rollins, Six of Crows, a duology by Leigh Bardugo