title: Kauko
text: # Kauko
  
  Kauko is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
  
  * Kauko Armas Nieminen (1929–2010), Finnish self-taught physicist
  * Kauko Hänninen (1930–2013), Finnish Olympic rower
  * Kauko Helovirta (1924–1997), Finnish film actor
  * Kauko Jalkanen (1918–2007), Finnish Olympic fencer
  * Kauko Mäkinen (1927–1968), Finnish ice hockey player
  * Kauko Nieminen (born 1979), Finnish Speedway racer
  * Kauko Pirinen (1915–1999), Finnish historian, professor in church history at Helsinki University
  * Kauko Röyhkä, (born 1959), Finnish rock musician and author
  * Kauko Salomaa (1928–2016), Finnish former speed skater
  * Kauko Wahlsten (1923–2001), Finnish rower
  