# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seppo-kaariainen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:08:57.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seppo-kaariainen"
name: "Seppo Kääriäinen"
slug: "seppo-kaariainen"
description: "Seppo Arimo Kääriäinen is a Finnish politician of the Centre Party and Doctor in Social Sciences. He served as the Minister of Defence of Finland between from 24 June 2003 to 19 April 2007. He has been MP since 1987 and was Minister of Trade and Industry and Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993–1995. He also served as the First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Finland."
tagline: "Finnish politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seppo_K%C3%A4%C3%A4ri%C3%A4inen_with_Donald_Rumsfeld_(cropped)_-_Seppo_K%C3%A4%C3%A4ri%C3%A4inen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1948-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.01
  momentum:             4.092792046396022
  historical:           6.8027
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1620732/"
    handle:    "nm1620732"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppo_K%C3%A4%C3%A4ri%C3%A4inen"
    title: "Seppo Kääriäinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppo_K%C3%A4%C3%A4ri%C3%A4inen"
    title: "Seppo Kääriäinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppo_K%C3%A4%C3%A4ri%C3%A4inen"
    title: "Seppo Kääriäinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppo_K%C3%A4%C3%A4ri%C3%A4inen"
    title: "Seppo Kääriäinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppo_K%C3%A4%C3%A4ri%C3%A4inen"
    title: "Seppo Kääriäinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppo_K%C3%A4%C3%A4ri%C3%A4inen"
    title: "Seppo Kääriäinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppo_K%C3%A4%C3%A4ri%C3%A4inen"
    title: "Seppo Kääriäinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3098641"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6056923"
    title: "Seppo Kääriäinen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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