Karhunen
Karhunen is a Finnish surname of Virtanen type derived from the word karhu, "bear". In the past, the surname had a feminine form, Karhutar < Karhunen tytär ("Kahunen's daughter").[1]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Jorma Karhunen (1913–2002), Finnish WW II fighter ace
- Kari Karhunen (1915–1992), Finnish probabilist and mathematical statistician
- Esko Karhunen (1928–2016), Finnish basketball player
- Tomi Karhunen (born 1989), Finnish ice hockey goaltender
Fictional characters
- Kaisa Karhutar, from the 1980 Soviet-Finnish film Borrowing Matchsticks
See also
- All pages with titles containing Karhunen
- Karhu, Laine type counterpart
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, Se tavallinen Virtanen. Suomalaisen sukunimikäytännön modernisoituminen 1850-luvulta vuoteen 1921 ([The Usual Virtanen. The Modernization of the Finnish Surname Practice From the 1850s to 1921]), pp. 212, 213