Vaeino Rissanen -- the first in Finland to become a Baha'i

Vaeino Rissanen (1909-1973)

He was the first in Finland to become a Baha'i in 1938 by Josephine Kruka, the "Mother of Finland". 
(The Baha'i World 1976-1979; Paragraph 171.3 footnotes of Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1963-1986)