Jari may refer to:

Finnish male given name

The name ''Jari'' derives from the Finnish name ''

Jalmari Jalmari is a Finnish male given name which derives from the Old Norse male name ''Hjalmar'' or ''Hjálmarr'' (''hjalmr'' 'helmet' + ''arr'' 'warrior/army'). Notable people with the name ''Jalmari'' include: *Jalmari Eskola (1886–1958), Finnish a ...

'', which in turn derives from the

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...

male name ''Hjalmar'' or ''Hjálmarr'' (''hjalmr'' 'helmet' + ''arr'' 'warrior/army'). With the influence of Finnish footballer Jari Litmanen, there are also over 2,000 people named Jari in the Netherlands and Belgium.Hollannissa on yli 2000 Jaria, ja moni heistä pelaa jalkapalloa – mutta tuleeko kenestäkään Litmasen Jarin veroista?

Helsingin Sanomat , abbreviated ''HS'' and colloquially known as , is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma. Except after certain holidays, it is published daily. Its name derives from that of the Finnish capital ...

, 28 November 2017 Notable people with the name ''Jari'' include: *

Jari Aarnio Jari Seppo Aarnio (born 5 September 1957) is the former head of Helsinki's anti-drugs police and a convicted felon. He was given a 13-year prison sentence for drug crimes and other offences. Aarnio spent 30 years in the anti-drugs force. He grew ...

, Finnish former head of police and convicted felon *

Jari De Busser Jari De Busser (born 21 October 1999) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Dutch club Go Ahead Eagles. Career De Busser started his senior career with Lierse, making his professional debut Belgian First Division ...

, Belgian footballer *, Finnish cartoon drawer * Jari Europaeus, Finnish football player and manager * Jari Grönstrand, Finnish ice hockey player *

Jari Haapalainen Jari Haapalainen (born 1971) is a Finnish-Swedish musician, songwriter and producer.Jari Halonen Jari Juhani Halonen (born 30 September 1962) is a Finnish film and theatre director, writer and occasional actor. Known as a controversial and outspoken person, his films, such as '' Back to the USSR'' (1992), '' Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of S ...

, Finnish film and theatre director and actor *, Finnish journalist and writer *

Jari Helle Jari Juhani Helle (August 10, 1962 in Tampere – April 20, 2017) was a Finnish ice hockey player and coach. He had a brief career in the SM-liiga, playing 18 games for Ilves Tampere in 1979-80 and 9 with Lukko Rauma in 1981-82./ He started his ...

, Finnish ice hockey player *

Jari Hudd Jari Hudd (born 13 April 1965) is a retired Finnish football defender In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. D ...

, Finnish footballer *

Jari Huttunen Jari Huttunen (born 28 February 1994) is a Finnish rally driver from Kiuruvesi. He currently competes in the World Rally Championship-2, the premier support category of the World Rally Championship, for M-Sport Ford World Rally Team. He gained n ...

, Finnish WRC rally driver *

Jari Ilola Jari Ilola (born 24 November 1978) is a Finnish former professional footballer who played for Finnish clubs Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS), HJK Helsinki, as well as for Swedish club IF Elfsborg. Ilola was part of the HJK squad that qualified for t ...

, Finnish footballer *

Jari Isometsä Jari Olavi Isometsä (born 11 September 1968) is a Finland, Finnish former cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skier who competed from 1990 to 2006. He won three bronze medals in the 4 × 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics (1992, 1994 ...

, Finnish cross-country skier *

Jari Jolkkonen Jari Juhani Jolkkonen (born 5 March 1970) is a Finnish prelate who has been bishop of the Diocese of Kuopio since May 2012. Biography Born in Ilomantsi, Jolkkonen graduated as an undergraduate in 1989 and later gained a Master of Science in The ...

, Finnish prelate *

Jari Jones Jari Jones (born 1991) is an American actress, model, producer, and activist. Jones was a cast member, script consultant, acting coach, and producer of ''Port Authority''. Career Jones was the first black trans woman producer of a film compet ...

, American actress and producer *

Jari Jäväjä Jari Jäväjä (born 16 August 1973) is a retired Finland, Finnish football striker. Jäväjä was part of the HJK Helsinki squad that qualified for the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage as the first and still the only Finnish club eve ...

, Finnish footballer *

Jari Jääskeläinen Jari Jääskeläinen (born 23 August 1981) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player who last played for JYP of the SM-liiga The Liiga, colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top profes ...

, Finnish ice hockey player *

Jari Kainulainen Jari "Jartsi" Kainulainen (born 29 April 1970) is a Finnish bass guitarist. He is best known as the former bassist of the power metal band Stratovarius from 1993 to 2005. He is currently the bassist of Masterplan, having joined 2012. After hi ...

, Finnish power metal bass guitarist *

Jari Kessler Jari Kessler (born 29 November 1996) is a Croatian and Italian figure skater. For Croatia, he is the 2020 NRW Trophy champion, 2022 Jegvirag Cup silver medalist, 2022 Merano Ice Trophy bronze medalist, and four-time Croatian national champion ( ...

, Croatian-Italian figure skater *

Jari Ketomaa Jari Ketomaa (born 18 April 1979) is a Finnish former rally driver. Career A former kart racer, Ketomaa started rallying in 1995. He made his World Rally Championship debut in 2000 at Rally Finland. He won the Group N class of the Finnish R ...

, Finnish rally driver *

Jari Kirkland Jari aka "Yari" Kirkland (born 1976) is an American ski mountaineer and marathon mountain biker. She has been member of the national ski mountaineering selection since 2010. Selected results * 2010: ** 9th, World Championship relay race, toget ...

, American ski mountaineer *

Jari Koenraat Jari Koenraat (born 26 September 1995) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a winger for Achilles Veen. Club career He made his Eerste Divisie debut for RKC Waalwijk on 18 August 2017 in a game against FC Emmen FC Emmen is a Dutch profession ...

, Dutch footballer *

Jari Korpisalo Jari Korpisalo (born 17 February 1966) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. Playing career He played 575 games in the SM-liiga with Ässät Pori, scoring 213 goals and 231 assists for 444 points, while accumulating 893 penalty m ...

, Finnish ice hockey player *

Jari Koskela Jari Jukka Hannu Koskela is a Finnish politician currently serving in the Parliament of Finland for the Finns Party at the Satakunta Satakunta (in both Finnish language, Finnish and Swedish language, Swedish, ; historically ''Satacundia'') ...

, Finnish politician *

Jari Kuosma Jari Kuosma (born 3 March 1969 in Helsinki) is the original developer of modern and commercial wingsuit (as a product), wingsuit flying (as a sport) and owner of BirdMan Inc. Kuosma has over 5000 jumps. He has worked as an Accelerated Free Fall (AFF ...

, Finnish wingsuit flyer *

Jari Kurri Jari Pekka Kurri (; born 18 May 1960) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. Beginning in 1980, he played Winger (ice hockey), right wing for five National Hockey League (NHL) teams: the Edmonton Oilers, the Los Angeles Kings, the N ...

, Finnish ice hockey player *

Jari Laukkanen (disambiguation) Jari Laukkanen may refer to: * Jari Laukkanen (cross-country skier) (1962–2019), Finnish cross-country skier * Jari Laukkanen (ice hockey) (born 1967), Finnish ice hockey defenceman and coach * Jari Laukkanen (curler) (born 1965), Finnish cur ...

Jari Leppä Jari Juhani Leppä (born 24 June 1959 in Pertunmaa Pertunmaa () is a former municipality of Finland located in the Southern Savonia region. The municipality was merged to the municipality of Mäntyharju on 1 January 2025. The municipality had ...

, Finnish politician and former Minister of Agriculture *

Jari Levonen Jari "Japa" Levonen (Born: 23 August 1966) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey winger and referee. Levonen represented the Porin Ässät and the Jokipojat during his player career. He has won the golden Whistle award 15 times in the S ...

, Finnish ice hockey referee *

Jari Lindroos Jari Juhani Lindroos (born 31 January 1961 in Pieksämäki, Finland) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. He played for JYP, Jokerit and Kärpät and competed with the Finland national ice hockey team at ...

, Finnish ice hockey player *

Jari Litmanen Jari Olavi Litmanen (; born 20 February 1971) is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or a second striker. He was the first-choice captain of the Finland national team between 1996 and 2008 in an inter ...

, Finnish football player *

Jari Lipponen Jari Matti Lipponen (born 17 October 1972) is a Finnish former archer who participated in three consecutive Olympic competitions, starting in 1992. He won the silver medal in the Men's Team Competition in 1992 (Barcelona, Spain) alongside Tomi ...

, Finnish archer *

Jari Lähde Jari Juhani Lähde (born 8 February 1963) is a Finnish former racing cyclist. He won the Finnish national road race title in 1988. He also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV ...

‚ Finnish racing cyclist *

Jari Mantila Jari Mantila (born 14 July 1971 in Kotka) is a Finnish nordic combined athlete who competed from 1992 to 2003. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the 2002 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Mantil ...

, Finnish nordic combine athlete * Jari Myllykoski, Finnish politician *

Jari Mäenpää Jari Mäenpää (born 23 December 1977) is a Finnish singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He is the founder of the melodic death metal band Wintersun for which he records all instruments except the drums. Before forming Wint ...

, Finnish heavy metal musician *

Jari Naranen Jari Naranen is a Finnish former paralympic athlete. He represented Finland at the 1988 Summer Paralympics The 1988 Summer Paralympics () were the first Paralympics in 24 years to take place in the same city as the 1988 Summer Olympics, Olym ...

, Finnish paralympic athlete *

Jari Neugebauer Jari Neugebauer (born 21 October 1994 in Berlin) is a German professional ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, l ...

, German ice hockey player *

Jari Niemi Jari Niemi (born 2 February 1977 in Nokia, Finland, Nokia) is a retired Finland, Finnish Association football, footballer. He has played for R.A.E.C. Mons (1910), R.A.E.C. Mons, Standard Liège and K. Sint-Truidense V.V. in Belgium. In the Finni ...

, Finnish football player *

Jari Niinimäki Jari Olavi Niinimäki (1 December 1957 – 10 June 2023) was a Finnish footballer who played as a forward. He made three appearances for Finland national team. Club career Niinimäki played most of his career at his hometown club FC Ilves. The ...

, Finnish footballer *

Jari Nikkilä Jari Nikkilä is a Finnish professional footballer. See also *Football in Finland Football in Finland is not, or at least has traditionally not been, the most popular spectator sport, which is in contrast to most European countries; it fal ...

, Finnish footballer * Jari Nurminen, Finnish racing driver *

Jari Oosterwijk Jari Oosterwijk (born 3 March 1995) is a Dutch former professional footballer who plays as a forward. Club career Oosterwijk came to FC Twente as a youth player. He attended the club's academy and made his debut in professional football with Jon ...

, Dutch footballer * Jari Porttila, Finnish sports journalist and reporter * Jari Poutiainen, Finnish footballer *

Jari Puikkonen Jari Markus Puikkonen (born 25 June 1959) is a Finnish former ski jumper. Career Puikkonen made his debut internationally in the Four Hills Tournament competition in Oberstdorf on 30 December 1977. He won his first World Cup victory at Innsbruck ...

, Finnish skijumper *

Jari Pyykölä Jari Pyykölä (born 29 February 1956) is a Finnish football manager. He is currently the Coaching Director of Finnish third-tier club Tervarit. Pyykölä has managed FC Jazz, FC Lahti, KuPS and VPS in the Finnish premier division Veikkauslii ...

, Finnish football manager *

Jari Pälve Jari Pälve (born 12 May 1965) is a Finnish sports shooter. He competed in three events at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, wer ...

, Finnish sports shooter *

Jari Rantanen Jari Rantanen (born 31 December 1961 in Helsinki, Finland) is a retired football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqua ...

, Finnish football player *

Jari Rouvinen Jari Rouvinen is a Finland, Finnish male curling, curler and curling coach (sport), coach. At the national level, he is a four-time Finnish Men's Curling Championship, Finnish men's champion curler (2003, 2007, 2008, 2015) and two-time Finnish J ...

, Finnish curler *

Jari Räsänen Jari Räsänen (born 28 January 1966) is a Finnish former cross-country skier who competed from 1988 to 1998. He won two bronze medals in the 4 × 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (), also known as the Wint ...

, Finnish cross-country skier * Jari Rinne, Finnish football player *

Jari Sara Jari Sara (born 25 April 1989) is a Finnish former football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (wo ...

, Finnish footballer * Jari Sarasvuo, Finnish entrepreneur, motivational speaker and television presenter *

Jari Sailio Jari Sailio (born 18 March 1986 in Hyvinkää) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho in the Finnish Liiga The Liiga, colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan i ...

, Finnish ice hockey player *

Jari Schuurman Jari Schuurman van Klaveren (born 22 February 1997) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Dordrecht. Club career Feyenoord Schuurman made his senior debut on 8 May 2016, coming on as 87th-minute substitute for ...

, Dutch footballer *

Jari Sillanpää Jari Veikko Sillanpää (; born 16 August 1965) is a Finnish- Swedish singer. With over 820,000 records sold, he is the fifth-best-selling music artist and second-best-selling solo artist in Finland. Life and career Born into a Sweden-Finnis ...

, Finnish singer *

Jari Tervo Jari Tervo (born 2 February 1959) is a Finnish author, columnist, and former TV personality. He is a major name in Finnish literature. Writing Tervo mainly writes traditional plot-driven prose fiction, in genres ranging from comedy (''Polii ...

, Finnish author *

Jari Tolsa Jari Juha Tolsa (born April 20, 1981) is a Swedish professional ice hockey left winger who plays for Varberg Vipers in the Swedish Division 2. Personal life Born in Gothenburg, Sweden, Tolsa is of Finnish descent, and he also has Finnish citi ...

, Swedish-Finnish ice hockey player * Jari Torkki, Finnish ice hockey player *

Jari Vandeputte Jari Vandeputte (born 14 February 1996) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Cremonese, on loan from Catanzaro. Career He made his debut on 27 July 2013 in the first round of the 2013–14 season against Wa ...

, Belgian footballer * Jari Vanhala, Finnish footballer *, Belgian road bicycle racer * Jari Vilén, Finnish diplomat and politician *

Jari Viuhkola Jari Viuhkola (born 27 February 1980) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey centre. He represented Kärpät in the Finnish SM-liiga. Viuhkola's career ended with season 2014–2015, after suffering from knee injuries. His last playing sessi ...

, Finnish ice hockey player *

Jari Vlak Jari Vlak (born 15 August 1998) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club ADO Den Haag. Club career Vlak made his Eerste Divisie debut for Volendam on 5 October 2018 in a game against RKC Waalwijk, as a starter. On ...

, Dutch footballer *

Jari-Matti Latvala Jari-Matti Latvala (; born 3 April 1985) is a Finnish rally driver who has competed in the World Rally Championship (WRC). His co-driver for most of his career was Miikka Anttila, who co-drove for Latvala between the 2003 Rallye Deutschland and ...

Finnish rally driver * Jari-Pekka Keurulainen, Finnish football manager, coach and physioteherapist

Other

Jari gan Jarigan (), (Persian Jari/zari for lamentation and Bengali gan for song) or (song of sorrow) is one of the few indigenous music art performances of Bangladesh, West Bengal, the Barak Valley and the Brahmaputra Valley. Though varied and dive ...

, genre of music in Bengal *

Jari (dwarf) Jari may refer to: Finnish male given name The name ''Jari'' derives from the Finnish name ''Jalmari'', which in turn derives from the Old Norse male name ''Hjalmar'' or ''Hjálmarr'' (''hjalmr'' 'helmet' + ''arr'' 'warrior/army'). With the influe ...

, Norse dwarf *

Jari, Rio Grande do Sul Jari is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality of the western part of the States of Brazil, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The population is 3,349 (2022 census) in an area of 856.46 km2. Its elevation is 441 m. It is located west of ...

, city in Brazil * Jari, Iran (disambiguation) *

Jari River The Jari River, or Jary River (), is a northern tributary of the Amazon River on the border between the states of Pará and Amapá in northeastern Brazil. It is in the most downstream regions of the Amazon Basin and borders the Guiana Highlands ...

, a northern tributary of the Amazon river on the border between the states of Pará and Amapá in Brazil *

Jari River (Purus River) The Jari River () is a river in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, a tributary of the Purus River. Course The basin of the Jari River, an important right tributary of the Purus in its middle course, as well as the natural resources and associated fi ...

, a tributary to the Rio Purus, which itself is a major tributary to the Amazon River *JARI, the Japan Automobile Research Institute *''

Zari Zari () is an even thread traditionally made of fine gold or silver used in traditional Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani garments, especially as brocade in saris etc. This thread is woven into fabrics, primarily silk, to make intricate pat ...

'', or ''jari'', metallic thread used in South Asian brocade * Albert Ekka (Jari) block, a community development block in Jharkhand, India **

Jari, Gumla Jari is a village in the Albert Ekka (Jari) CD block in the Chainpur subdivision of the Gumla district in the India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencie ...

, a village in Jharkhand India *

JARI USV The JARI USV, also known as the Orca, is an uncrewed surface vehicle developed by the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), specifically between its No. 716 Research Institute, the Jiangsu Automat ...

, Chinese unmanned surface vehicle

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