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Armas Ralph Gustaf Grasbeck (born July 6, 1930, usually utilizes Ralph as first name) is a Finnish physician and clinical biochemist. He is best known for his contribution to the identification and naming of the Imerslund-Gräsbeck syndrome.

Jemima Repo is a political scientist based at the University of Helsinki. Her work includes contributions to feminist political thought, gender theory, biopolitics, and post-structuralism. Her Master's Thesis, Gendering the War on Terrorism, was awarded the Christina Institute Master's Thesis Prize 2007. Currently completing her doctorate, Repo's work has been published in journals including the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Japan Forum.

Alexander Etkind (born 1955, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a historian and cultural scientist. He is a professor of history and the Chair of Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute.

The University of Helsinki (Finnish: Helsingin yliopisto, Swedish: Helsingfors universitet; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Tsar Alexander I. The University of Helsinki is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available. In 2022, around 31,000 students were enrolled in the degree programs of the university spread across 11 faculties and 11 research institutes.

Anders (or Andreas) Dahl (17 March 1751 in Varnhem, Västergötland – 25 May 1789) was a Swedish botanist and student of Carl Linnaeus. The dahlia flower is named after him.

The Prometheus Society (Swedish: Studentföreningen Prometheus, Finnish: Prometheus-seura) was a Finnish student society at the University of Helsinki from 1905 to 1914, whose main purpose was to promote religious freedom.

Juliette Kennedy is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Helsinki. Her main research interests are mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. In the course of her work she has published extensively on the works of Kurt Gödel.

Jaana Toivari-Viitala (16 May 1964, Loviisa - 12 May 2017, Helsinki) was an egyptologist and museum curator from Finland, who was Chair of the Finnish Egyptology Society and Head of the Department of Egyptology at the University of Helsinki.

The International Institute of Applied Aesthetics (IIAA) is an institute operating under the Palmenia Center for Continuing Education of the University of Helsinki. It is focused on environmental aesthetics and other kinds of humanistic environmental research.

The takeover of Vanha (Finnish: Vanhan valtaus) was an uprising by a number of students on November 25, 1968, at the Old Student House (Vanha) of the University of Helsinki in Finland. It occurred on the night of the 100th birthday of the university's student union. The rioters took over Vanha during the celebrations, demanding changes to the university's administration and the curriculum.