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Helsinki Invites Pamela Anderson to Embrace Hyytiäinen Name

2/3/2026

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Helsinki launched Operation: Make Pamela a Hyytiäinen, a video and billboard campaign inviting Pamela Anderson, the actress, to visit and reclaim her grandfather's surname Hyytiäinen.
In a Vogue Scandinavia interview, Pamela Anderson expressed her wish to be Pamela Hyytiäinen.
Finnish actor Janne Hyytiäinen leads the campaign and outlines how Anderson can adopt the name.
With fewer than 1,800 people in Finland sharing surname Hyytiäinen, Helsinki hopes to form a connection.

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Story summary

Helsinki launched Operation: Make Pamela a Hyytiäinen, a video and billboard campaign inviting Pamela Anderson, the actress, to visit and reclaim her grandfather's surname Hyytiäinen.
In a Vogue Scandinavia interview, Pamela Anderson expressed her wish to be Pamela Hyytiäinen.
Finnish actor Janne Hyytiäinen leads the campaign and outlines how Anderson can adopt the name.
With fewer than 1,800 people in Finland sharing surname Hyytiäinen, Helsinki hopes to form a connection.