Juha is a masculine given name of
Finnish origin derived from
Johannes (or
John 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 Hock ...
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Juha Gustafsson
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Juha Hakola
Juha Pekka Hakola (born 27 October 1987) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Grankulla IFK in the Kakkonen.
Club career
Hakola played two seasons for FC Flora Tallinn. Hakola was named the Meistriliiga Footballer ...
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Juha Harju
Juha Harju (born 1981 in Kuopio) is a Finnish heavy metal musician. He was the vocalist of the Finnish dark metal/black metal band Shade Empire and dark-metal band Chaosweaver (Cypher Commander). He also plays bass in black metal bands Ajattar ...
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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 ...
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Juha Hautamäki
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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 To ...
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Juha Hernesniemi
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Juha Hirvi
Juha Hirvi (born 25 March 1960 in Kymi, Finland, Kymi) is a Finland, Finnish shooting sports, sport shooter. He won the silver medal in Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics, men's 50 metre rifle three positions at the 2000 Summer Olympics ...
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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, Finlandiaprisen ...
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Juha Ikonen
Juha Ikonen (born June 7, 1970) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player, who last played in 2002.
Ikonen played in the SM-liiga for Espoo Blues
The Espoo Blues were an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They played in Espoo, Finland, ...
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Juha Isolehto
Juha Isolehto (born 6 June 1968) is a retired Finnish high jumper.
He finished tenth at the 1990 European Championships. He also competed at the World Championships in 1991, 1993 and 1995 without reaching the final. He became Finnish champion in ...
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Juha Janhunen
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Juha Jokela
Juha Petteri Jokela (born 7 January 1970 in Tampere) is a Finnish playwright and scriptwriter, best known for his '' Mobile Horror'' play and TV series.
Jokela graduated from high school gymnasium in Tampere in 1989 and studied the literature of ...
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Juha Järvenpää
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Juha Kankkunen
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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 Finland ...
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Juha Kilpiä
Major General Juha Kilpiä (born in 1953), a native of Finland, served as Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO). He was appointed to this position by the United Nations Secretary-General Ba ...
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Juha Kivi
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Juha Kylmänen
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Juha Lallukka
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Juha Laukkanen
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Juha Leimu
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Juha Leiviskä
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Juha Leskinen
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Juha Lind
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Juha Malinen
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Juha Mannerkorpi
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Juha Metsola
Juha Antero Metsola (born February 24, 1989) is a Finland, Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for EHC Kloten of the National League (ice hockey), National League (NL).
Playing career
Prior to the 2018-19 KHL season, 20 ...
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Juha Metsäperä
Juha Metsäperä (born 1979) is a Finnish pop singer and songwriter. He became known with his debut album ''Pienen hetken'' in 2006 and went on tour with his band through Finland, playing 150 gigs in a year. He has also participated in the songw ...
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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 ...
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Juha Pasoja
Juha Pasoja (born 16 November 1976) is a Finland, Finnish football coach and former defender. Since 2020 he has been the head coach of Mikkelin Palloilijat, MP. Before that, he was the head coach of Dreams F.C. (Ghana), Dreams FC in Ghana.
Dur ...
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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
Juha Pentikäinen (born 1940) is a Finnish professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at the University of Helsinki. With a field-work oriented approach to the study of religious traditions he is especially interested in the oral history ...]
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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 ...
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Juha Pitkämäki
Juha Pitkämäki (born December 4, 1979) is a Finnish retired professional ice hockey goaltender.
Pitkämäki played in the SM-liiga for Ilves, JYP and HIFK. He also played in Elitserien for Mora IK and Timrå IK and the Danish Ligaen for AaB I ...
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Juha Plosila
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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
The Finnish Hockey Hal ...
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Juha Rehula
Juha Tapani Rehula (born 3 June 1963 in Hollola, Finland) is a Finnish politician and the vice chairman of the Finnish Centre Party. Rehula worked as the Minister of Social Affairs and Health in Finland between 2010–2011 and Minister of Family ...
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Juha Reini
Juha Reini (born 19 March 1975) is Finnish former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Playing career
A versatile defender, Reini started his professional career in Finland with Veikkausliiga club VPS in 1996. In 1998, he moved to ...
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Juha Riihijärvi
Juha Riihijärvi (born 15 December 1969 in Keminmaa, Finland) is a former professional ice hockey left winger who played his last season for Bolzano-Bozen Foxes in Italian Serie A.
Playing career
Career in Finland
Juha Riihijärvi played 4 sea ...
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Juha Riippa
Juha Riippa (born 12 September 1968 in Kokkola) is a Finnish former football player, who played in defence and midfield. Riippa won the Finnish league championship in 1996 with FC Jazz.
Riippa played one international match for Finland in 1996.
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Juha Ruusuvuori
Juha Ensio Ruusuvuori (born 16 July 1957) is a Finnish freelance writer. He was born in Oulu, and graduated to Master of Arts from the university of Tampere in 1987. He has worked as photographer in the news paper Kaleva (news paper), Kaleva, edi ...
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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 cham ...
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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
Mika Juhani Salo (born 30 Novem ...
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Juha Sihvola
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Juha Sipilä
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Juha Soukiala
Juha Soukiala (born 12 February 1983 in Espoo) is a Finnish football goalkeeper. Soukiala currently plays for PK-35 in the second highest Finnish league, Ykkönen. He has also represented Tampere United, FC Hämeenlinna, and FC Lahti
FC ...
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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 also ...
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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 during the ...
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Juha Tuomi
Juha Tuomi (born 7 November 1989) is a Finland, Finnish football player currently playing for FC Lahti.
ReferencesGuardian Football
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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 ...
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Juha Uotila
Juha Uotila is a Finland, Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Kiekko-Espoo of the Suomi-sarja.
Uotila played hockey for the University of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks. He played one season with the Toronto Marlies of t ...
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Juha Väätäinen
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Juha Vainio
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Juha Valjakkala
Juha is a masculine given name of Finnish language, Finnish origin derived from Johannes (or John (given name), John in English language contexts). Notable people with the name include:
* Juha Alén
* Juha Gustafsson
* Juha Hakola
* Juha Harju
* J ...
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Juha Valkama
Juha S. Valkama (born September 26, 1979, in Turku) is a Finnish former competitive ice dancer. He teamed up with Jessica Huot in 1999. They are the 2002–04 Finnish national champions. Their highest placement at an ISU Championship was 18th a ...
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Juha Varto
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Juha Widing
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Juha Ylönen
See also
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Juha-Matti Räsänen
Juha-Matti Räsänen (born May 19, 1974) is a strongman competitor from Kuopio, Finland. Juha began training for strongman in 1995, began competing as an amateur in 1996 and turned professional in 2000. Juha competed in the 2001 and 2002 World's ...
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Juha-Matti Ruuskanen
Juha-Matti Ruuskanen (born 24 July 1984) is a Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 2002 to 2012, mainly at Continental Cup level. His lone World Cup victory was in a team event at the ski flying hill in Oberstdorf
Oberstdorf ( Low Ale ...
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Juhamatti Aaltonen
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Juha-Pekka Haataja
Juha-Pekka Haataja (born October 31, 1982) is a Finnish professional ice hockey winger. He currently plays for KooKoo of the Finnish Liiga. Playing career
In the 2012–13 season, he had the most points in the SM-Liiga at 59 while playing for Oul ...
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Juha-Pekka Hytönen
Juha-Pekka Hytönen (born May 22, 1981) is a Finnish ice hockey forward currently playing for JYP Jyväskylä.
Career
Juha-Pekka Hytönen started his career in JYP Jyväskylä junior teams. In 1999 he was chosen to Finnish national U18 team and n ...
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Juha-Pekka Inkeröinen
Juha-Pekka Inkeröinen (born 23 November 1988) is a Finnish football player currently playing for RoPS
Rops may refer to:
People
* Daniel-Rops (1901–1965), French writer and historian
* Félicien Rops (1833–1898), Belgian artist
Places
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Juha-Pekka "JP" Leppäluoto
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Juha-Pekka Pietilä
Juha-Pekka Pietilä (born April 30, 1991) is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who played with Pelicans in the SM-liiga
The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), (Finnish for ''League'') colloquially called the Finnish Elite L ...
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Juha-Petteri Purolinna
Juha-Petteri Purolinna is a Finnish ice hockey defenceman who currently plays professionally in Finland for Lukko of the SM-liiga
The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), (Finnish for ''League'') colloquially called the Finnish Elit ...
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