# 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'). With the influence of Finnish footballer Jari Litmanen, there are also over 2,000 people named Jari in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Notable people with the name Jari include:
* Jari Aarnio, Finnish former head of police and convicted felon
* Jari De Busser, Belgian footballer
* Jari Elsilä [fi], Finnish cartoon drawer
* Jari Europaeus, Finnish football player and manager
* Jari Grönstrand, Finnish ice hockey player
* Jari Haapalainen, Finnish-Swedish musician
* Jari Halonen, Finnish film and theatre director and actor
* Jari Hanska [fi], Finnish journalist and writer
* Jari Helle, Finnish ice hockey player
* Jari Hudd, Finnish footballer
* Jari Huttunen, Finnish WRC rally driver
* Jari Ilola, Finnish footballer
* Jari Isometsä, Finnish cross-country skier
* Jari Jolkkonen, Finnish prelate
* Jari Jones, American actress and producer
* Jari Jäväjä, Finnish footballer
* Jari Jääskeläinen, Finnish ice hockey player
* Jari Kainulainen, Finnish power metal bass guitarist
* Jari Kessler, Croatian-Italian figure skater
* Jari Ketomaa, Finnish rally driver
* Jari Kirkland, American ski mountaineer
* Jari Koenraat, Dutch footballer
* Jari Korpisalo, Finnish ice hockey player
* Jari Koskela, Finnish politician
* Jari Kuosma, Finnish wingsuit flyer
* Jari Kurri, Finnish ice hockey player
* Jari Laukkanen (disambiguation)
* Jari Leppä, Finnish politician and former Minister of Agriculture
* Jari Levonen, Finnish ice hockey referee
* Jari Lindroos, Finnish ice hockey player
* Jari Litmanen, Finnish football player
* Jari Lipponen, Finnish archer
* Jari Lähde‚ Finnish racing cyclist
* Jari Mantila, Finnish nordic combine athlete
* Jari Myllykoski, Finnish politician
* Jari Mäenpää, Finnish heavy metal musician
* Jari Naranen, Finnish paralympic athlete
* Jari Neugebauer, German ice hockey player
* Jari Niemi, Finnish football player
* Jari Niinimäki, Finnish footballer
* Jari Nikkilä, Finnish footballer
* Jari Nurminen, Finnish racing driver
* Jari Oosterwijk, Dutch footballer
* Jari Porttila, Finnish sports journalist and reporter
* Jari Poutiainen, Finnish footballer
* Jari Puikkonen, Finnish skijumper
* Jari Pyykölä, Finnish football manager
* Jari Pälve, Finnish sports shooter
* Jari Rantanen, Finnish football player
* Jari Rouvinen, Finnish curler
* Jari Räsänen, Finnish cross-country skier
* Jari Rinne, Finnish football player
* Jari Sara, Finnish footballer
* Jari Sarasvuo, Finnish entrepreneur, motivational speaker and television presenter
* Jari Sailio, Finnish ice hockey player
* Jari Schuurman, Dutch footballer
* Jari Sillanpää, Finnish singer
* Jari Tervo, Finnish author
* Jari Tolsa, Swedish-Finnish ice hockey player
* Jari Torkki, Finnish ice hockey player
* Jari Vandeputte, Belgian footballer
* Jari Vanhala, Finnish footballer
* Jari Verstraeten [nl], Belgian road bicycle racer
* Jari Vilén, Finnish diplomat and politician
* Jari Viuhkola, Finnish ice hockey player
* Jari Vlak, Dutch footballer
* Jari-Matti Latvala Finnish rally driver
* Jari-Pekka Keurulainen, Finnish football manager, coach and physioteherapist

## 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