# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vaino-leskinen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:11:41.111Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vaino-leskinen"
name: "Väinö Leskinen"
slug: "vaino-leskinen"
description: "Väinö Olavi Leskinen was a Finnish politician, minister and a member of the parliament from Social Democratic Party of Finland. He is perceived as one of the major Finnish social democratic politicians of the 1950s and 1960s."
tagline: "Finnish politician and swimmer (1917–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Leskinen.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1917-03-08"
deathDate: "1972-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.15
  momentum:             8.255097202465622
  historical:           7.00414
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Leskinen"
    title: "Väinö Leskinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ڤاينو ليسكينين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Leskinen"
    title: "Väinö Leskinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Leskinen"
    title: "Väinö Leskinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Leskinen"
    title: "Väinö Leskinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Leskinen"
    title: "Väinö Leskinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%B6_Leskinen"
    title: "Väinö Leskinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D1%8F%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%91"
    title: "Лескинен, Вяйнё"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922901"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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