Juha is a masculine given name of Finnish origin derived from
Johannes
Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Y ...
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John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
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* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
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in English language contexts). Notable people with the name include:
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Juha Alén
Juha Alén (born October 25, 1981) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. He played in the SM-liiga for Ilves, Espoo Blues Lukko and Lukko and also played in the American Hockey League for the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, the Swedish ...
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Juha Gustafsson
Juha Gustafsson (born April 24, 1979) is a Finnish former ice hockey player.
Career
He joined Tingsryd AIF in the Swedish 3rd division in September 2009. He came to Sport Ghiaccio Pontebba from Espoo Blues of the Finnish SM-liiga in January ...
Juha Haukkala
Juha Haukkala (born 28 June 1978) is a Finnish freestyle skier who specializes in the skicross discipline.
He made his World Cup debut in February 2003 in Les Contamines, and collected his first World Cup points in January 2004, with a 25th plac ...
Juha Helppi
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Juha Helppi (born 4 March 1977) is a Finnish professional poker player from Helsinki.
Career
Juha was originally a croupier. He worked as a dealer for RAY in Finland but never dealt poker. He made a name for himself in the first World Poker T ...
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Juha Hernesniemi
Juha Hernesniemi (born 1947) is a Finnish neurosurgeon and professor emeritus of the neurosurgery department in Helsinki.4,000 patients
**intracranial AVM and DAVF >500 patients
**brain tumour >3,000 patients
**head injury >600 patients
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Juha Hurme
Juha Hurme (born 29 June 1959 in Paimio) is a Finnish director, playwright and writer. In 2006 Hurme received the Eino Leino Prize and in 2017 he was awarded the Finlandia Prize
The Finlandia Prize ( fi, Finlandia-palkinto; sv, Finlandiaprise ...
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Juha Ikonen
Juha Ikonen (born June 7, 1970) is a Finland, Finnish former professional ice hockey player, who last played in 2002.
Ikonen played in the SM-liiga for Espoo Blues and in the Swedish Hockey League, Elitserien for Frölunda HC, Västra Frölunda ...
Juha Janhunen
Juha Janhunen (born 12 February 1952 in Pori, Finland) is a Finnish linguist whose wide interests include Uralic and Mongolic languages. Since 1994 he has been Professor in East Asian studies at the University of Helsinki. He has done fieldwork o ...
Juha Järvenpää
Juha Järvenpää (born May 11, 1989) is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender. He currently plays for Dornbirn Bulldogs in Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern ...
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Juha Kankkunen
Juha Matti Pellervo Kankkunen (; born 2 April 1959) is a Finnish former rally driver. His factory team career in the World Rally Championship lasted from 1983 to 2002. He won 23 world rallies and four drivers' world championship titles, which ...
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Juha Kaunismäki
Juha Pekka Kaunismäki (born 6 May 1979 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish-born Norwegian professional ice hockey defenceman, who currently plays with Stavanger Oilers of the Norway's elite GET-ligaen.
Career
Kaunismäki began playing in Finla ...
Juha Kivi Juha Kivi (born 26 January 1964 in Orivesi) is a retired Finnish long jumper.
He became Finnish champion in 1989 and 1993.
His personal best jump was 8.02 metres, achieved in August 1989 in Tampere
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Juha Kylmänen
Juha Kylmänen (born 20 January 1981) is a Finnish singer who is the lead vocalist of gothic metal bands For My Pain... and Reflexion.
Discography
Studio albums
* '' A Virgin and a Whore'' (2001, with Eternal Tears of Sorrow)
* '' Falle ...
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Juha Lallukka
Juha Lallukka (born 27 October 1979 in Kouvola) is a Finnish cross-country skier who competed between 2002 and 2018. He finished 34th in the 15 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Lallukka's best fi ...
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Juha Laukkanen
Juha Lauri Laukkanen (born 6 January 1969 in Pielavesi) is a retired male javelin thrower from Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares la ...
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Juha Leimu
Juha Leimu (born January 30, 1983 in Tampere, Finland) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman.
Playing career
Leimu made his SM-liiga debut in 2009–10 when he was offered an eight-game trial period with Tappara having spent t ...
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Juha Leiviskä
Juha Ilmari Leiviskä (born 17 March 1936 in Helsinki) is a prominent Finnish architect and designer. He is especially known for his churches and other sacral buildings.
Life and career
The son of engineer Toivo Ilmari Leiviskä and teacher ...
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Juha Leskinen
Twilightning was a power metal band from Imatra, Finland, which formed in 1998. They disbanded in June 2009.
Biography
Twilightning formed in 1998, consisting of guitarists Tommi Sartanen and Ville Wallenius, bassist Jussi Kainulainen, and drum ...
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Juha Lind
Juha Petteri Lind (born 2 January 1974 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player.
Lind started his career with Jokerit his hometown team. He was drafted 178th overall by the Minnesota North Stars in the 1992 NHL ...
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Juha Malinen
Juha is a masculine given name of Finnish origin derived from Johannes (or John in English language contexts). Notable people with the name include:
* Juha Alén
* Juha Gustafsson
* Juha Hakola
* Juha Harju
* Juha Haukkala
* Juha Hautamäki
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Juha Mannerkorpi
Juha Mannerkorpi (1915, Ashtabula, Ohio - 1980) was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize
The Eino Leino Prize is an annual prize award to top writers in Finland since 1956, with particular emphasis on poets.
It is named afte ...
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Juha Metsola
Juha Antero Metsola (born February 24, 1989) is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for EHC Kloten of the National League (NL).
Playing career
Prior to the 2018–19 season, Metsola joined Salavat Yulaev Ufa as a f ...
Juha Mieto
Juha Iisakki Mieto (born 20 November 1949) is a Finnish former cross-country skier, who was born in Kurikka. He competed in the 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympics and won five medals, including a gold medal in the 4 × 10 km relay in 1976 ...
Juha Pekka Alanen
Altaria is a Finnish heavy metal band from Jakobstad, who have released four albums on the record label Metal Heaven, a fifth on Escape Music and a sixth on Reaper Entertainment.
History
In January 2008, the band decided to part ways with t ...
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Juha Peltola
Juha Peltola (born 12 January 1975) is a Finnish orienteering competitor and World Champion. He participated on the Finnish winning team in the 2001 World Orienteering Championships.Juha Pentikäinen
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Juha Pirinen
Juha Pirinen (born 22 October 1991) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a left-back or a centre-back for Greek Super League club Volos.
Club career
Pirinen has played for Finnish Veikkausliiga club Tampere United and then moved ba ...
Juha Rantasila
Pekka "Juha" Rantasila (born June 5, 1945) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. He played for Porin Karhut and HIFK. Rantasila was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989. Currently, he ...
Juha Riihijärvi
Juha Riihijärvi (born 15 December 1969 in Keminmaa, Finland) is a former professional ice hockey Winger (ice hockey), left winger who played his last season for Bolzano-Bozen Foxes in Italy, Italian Serie A (ice hockey), Serie A.
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Juha Salminen
Juha Salminen (born 27 September 1976 in Vantaa) is a Finnish former professional motorcycle enduro racer. He is a 13-time World Enduro Champion (including the overall world championship titles from 2000 to 2004) and has also won the German cha ...
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Juha Salo
Juha Salo (born February 28, 1976) is a Finnish rally driver. He has won the Finnish Rally Championship nine times, in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2016. He is of no relation to Mika Salo.
Complete WRC results
PWRC res ...
Juha Sipilä
Juha Petri Sipilä (; born 25 April 1961) is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2015 to 2019. A relative newcomer to politics, he has a successful background in business. He was the leader of the Centre Party fr ...
Juha Suoranta
Juha Suoranta (born 24 February 1966 in Tampere, Finland) is a Finnish social scientist, and public intellectual. He is currently professor in adult education at the University of Tampere. Previously he worked as professor of education at the Unive ...
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Juha Tapio
Juha Leevi Antero Tapio (born 5 February 1974) is a Finnish singer, lyricist, composer and guitarist. His album ''Mitä silmät ei nää'' (2003) sold gold and the album ''Kaunis ihminen'' (2006) reached platinum. He is married to Raija Mattila, ...
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Juha K. Tapio
Juha K. Tapio (born October 17, 1957) is a Finnish writer and critic whose only novel, ''Frankensteinin muistikirja'' (Frankenstein's Notebook, 1996; no foreign translations thus far have been published) was awarded the Helsingin Sanomat Literary ...
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Juha Tiainen
Juha Tiainen (December 5, 1955 in Uukuniemi – April 27, 2003 in Lappeenranta) was a hammer thrower from Finland who won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and a ...
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Juha Toivonen
Juha Toivonen (born June 10, 1987) is a Finnish ice hockey goaltender. His is currently an Unrestricted Free Agent who most recently played with Mikkelin Jukurit in the Finnish Mestis.
Toivonen made his SM-liiga debut playing with HPK du ...
Juha Turunen Juha Turunen (born 22 September 1964 in Turku, now known as Juha Louhi) is a Finnish criminal and former SDP city council candidate living in Turku, who confessed to a kidnapping in 2009.
Kidnapping
Minna Nurminen, a 26-year-old member of a wealt ...
Juha Vainio
Juha Harri "Junnu" Vainio, also known as Juha "Watt" Vainio (10 May 1938 in Kotka, Finland – 29 October 1990, Gryon, Switzerland) was a Finnish lyricist, singer, composer and teacher. With the lyrics or music to over 2,400 songs to his name, ...
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Juha Valjakkala
Juha is a masculine given name of Finnish origin derived from Johannes (or John in English language contexts). Notable people with the name include:
* Juha Alén
* Juha Gustafsson
* Juha Hakola
* Juha Harju
* Juha Haukkala
* Juha Hautamäki
* Juh ...
Juha Widing
Juha Markku "Whitey, Flying Finn" Widing (July 4, 1947 – December 30, 1984) was a Swedish professional ice hockey centre who was the third Finnish-born player (after Albert Pudas and Pentti Lund) to play in the National Hockey League (NHL). W ...
Juha-Pekka "JP" Leppäluoto Juha-Pekka is a Finnish given name. Notable people with the given name include:
*Juha Pekka Alanen, Finnish guitarist of Altaria
* Juha-Pekka Haataja (born 1982), Finnish ice hockey player
* Juha-Pekka Hytönen (born 1981), Finnish ice hockey playe ...