Nils Torvalds

Nils Torvalds MEP
Member of the European Parliament
In office 5 July 2012 – 16 July 2024
Preceded by	Carl Haglund
Constituency	Finland
Personal details
Born	Nils Torvalds (1945-08-07) 7 August 1945 (age 79) Ekenäs, Finland
Political party	Finnish Swedish People's Party of Finland  EU Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Children	5, including Linus Torvalds
Alma mater	Helsinki University
Signature
Website	nilstorvalds.fi

Nils Ole Hilmer Torvalds^[1] (born 7 August 1945) is a Finnish politician who had been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2012 to 2024. He is a member of the Swedish People's Party of Finland, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

Swedo-Finnish Torvalds is the son of the poet Ole Torvalds, and the father of the software engineer Linus Torvalds of Linux kernel fame.^[2]