Jari

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').

Notable people with the name Jari include:

• Jari Europaeus, Finnish football (soccer) player and manager
• Jari Isometsä, Finnish cross-country skier
• Jari Kurri, Finnish ice hockey player
• Jari Litmanen, Finnish football (soccer) player
• Jari Lipponen, Finnish archer
• Jari Mäenpää, Finnish heavy metal musician
• Jari Niemi, Finnish football (soccer) player
• Jari Puikkonen, Finnish skijumper
• Jari Pyykölä, Finnish football manager
• Jari Rantanen, Finnish football (soccer) player
• Jari Sillanpää, Finnish singer
• Jari Tervo, Finnish author
• Jari-Matti Latvala Finnish rally driver

Other

• Jari gan, genre of music in Bengal
• Jari (dwarf), Norse dwarf
• Jari, Rio Grande do Sul, city in Brazil
• Jari, Iran (disambiguation)
• Jari River, a northern tributary of the Amazon river on the border between the states of Pará and Amapá in Brazil
• Jari River (Purus River), a tributary to the Rio Purus, which itself is a major tributary to the Amazon River
• JARI, the Japan Automobile Research Institute
• Zari, or jari, metallic thread used in South Asian brocade
• Albert Ekka (Jari) block, a community development block in Jharkhand, India
  • Jari, Gumla, a village in Jharkhand India
• JARI USV, Chinese unmanned surface vehicle

See also

• Jarry (disambiguation)