People from Vaala

Anne Päivi Aulikki Huotari (born 31 December 1959) is a Finnish office worker and politician. She was born in Vaala, and was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1995 to 2007, representing the Left Alliance.

Tytti Seppänen (born 1980) is a Finnish Centre Party politician. She was born in Vaala, and the town's municipality manager.

Kaarlo (Kaarle) Eeronpoika Korhonen (Russian: Карл Эрикович Корхонен, Karl Erikovic Korxonen; 27 December 1878 – 11 February 1938) was a Finnish farmer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Oulu Province South between April 1917 and September 1918. Korhonen went to Soviet Russia during the Finnish Civil War and was executed there in 1938 during Stalin's Great Purge.