Miina Sillanpää

Miina Sillanpää ( born June 4, 1866 in Jokioinen, † April 3, 1952 in Helsinki) was a Finnish politician.

The daughter of a peasant family worked already from the age of 12 in a cotton mill, before she got a job as a maid with 18 years. She was active in the Finnish Social Democratic Party and belonged in 1907 to the 19 women who entered into the first Finnish Parliament for the abolition of the stands the Reichstag. The Parliament she served on until 1947, In 1926 she was briefly Minister of Social Affairs and thus first Minister of the Finnish Republic.

Sillanpää had during her political career held various positions. So she chaired the Social Democratic Women's Association ago, was a member of the party executive and was in the municipal parliament of Helsinki city council.