# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esa-pakarinen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:36:04.604Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esa-pakarinen"
name: "Esa Pakarinen"
slug: "esa-pakarinen"
description: "Feeliks Esaias \"Esa\" Pakarinen was a Finnish actor, singer, accordionist and comedian, best known for the role of Pekka Puupää in the Pekka and Pätkä films from 1953–1960. He was also a skilled, self-taught accordion player."
tagline: "Finnish actor and musician (1911–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Esa_Pakarinen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1911-02-09"
deathDate: "1989-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.88
  momentum:             9.354609929078014
  historical:           11.210512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0657088/"
    handle:    "nm0657088"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "اسا پاكارينين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Esa Pakarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Esa Pakarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pakarinen"
    title: "Esa Pakarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pakarinen"
    title: "Esa Pakarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pakarinen"
    title: "Esa Pakarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pakarinen"
    title: "Esa Pakarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Пакаринен, Эса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pakarinen"
    title: "Esa Pakarinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esa_Pakarinen"
    title: "Esa Pakarinen"
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    title: "Еса Пакарінен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4342319"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump