# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hannu-makela
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:45:32.713Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hannu-makela"
name: "Hannu Mäkelä"
slug: "hannu-makela"
description: "Hannu Mäkelä is an author of more than 100 books in Finnish: novels, collections of short stories, edited anthologies and children's books. Hannu Mäkelä is known for his books for children in many countries around the world, especially the Herra Huu series."
tagline: "Finnish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hannu_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4_Turku_2013_C_IMG_3928.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-08-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.44
  momentum:             12.10526315789473
  historical:           11.87753866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0617409/"
    handle:    "nm0617409"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.hannumakela.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4567173"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4"
    title: "Hannu Mäkelä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4_(writer)"
    title: "Hannu Mäkelä (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4"
    title: "Hannu Mäkelä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4"
    title: "Hannu Mäkelä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4"
    title: "Hannu Mäkelä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4"
    title: "Hannu Mäkelä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4"
    title: "Hannu Mäkelä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4"
    title: "Hannu Mäkelä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%83"
    title: "Мякеля, Ханну"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4"
    title: "Hannu Mäkelä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%83_%D0%9C%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F"
    title: "Ханну Мякеля"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannu_M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/535add92-2e76-483c-90e7-fa3b737d2cef"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q907963"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1194933"
    title: "Hannu Mäkelä"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump