Johannes Virolainen (About this sound pronunciation ) (31 January 1914 – 11 December 2000) was a Finnish politician. Virolainen was born near Viipuri. After the Continuation War Virolainen moved to Lohja but he remained one of the leaders of the evacuated Karelians and never gave up the hope that Soviet Union and later Russia would return Finnish Karelia to Finland.
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