Matti (given name)
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Matti is a given name, a Finnish version of the name Matthew and may refer to:

In sports:
  • Matti Breschel
    Matti Breschel
    Matti Breschel is a Danish professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI ProTeam .-Career:He got his breakthrough with small Danish Team PH, finishing 6th at the U/23 Cycling World Championship in Verona in 2004 where he helped fellow Dane Mads Christensen finish 3rd...

    , professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI ProTour outfit Team CSC
  • Matti Hagman
    Matti Hagman
    Matti Risto Tapio "Hakki" Hagman is a former Finnish ice hockey professional. Hagman was the first Finnish-born and Finnish trained player to play an NHL game and the first to play in a Stanley Cup final...

    , Finnish hockey player
  • Matti Hautamäki
    Matti Hautamäki
    Matti Antero Hautamäki is a Finnish ski jumper.-Biography:Matti made his first ski-jumping attempts at the age of seven near his home town of Oulu. When his older brother Jussi and his friend Lauri Hakola moved to Kuopio, Matti followed them...

    , Finnish ski jumper
  • Matti Mäki
    Matti Mäki
    Matti Mäki is a male backstroke swimmer from Finland. He competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-References:*...

    , Finnish backstroke swimmer
  • Matti Nykänen
    Matti Nykänen
    Matti Ensio Nykänen is a Finnish former ski jumper who won five Olympic medals , nine World Championships medals and 22 Finnish Championships medals . Most notably, Nykänen won three gold medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics, becoming, along with Yvonne van Gennip of the Netherlands, the most...

    , Finnish ski jumper
  • Matti Oivanen
    Matti Oivanen
    Matti Tapio Oivanen is a Finnish volleyball player who plays in the Italian Volleyball League club Yoga Volley Forlì 1975 and the Finland men's national volleyball team. In the previous season Matti played in the Italian club Copra Berni Piacenza...

    , Finnish volleyball player
  • Matti Pitkänen
    Matti Pitkänen
    Matti Pitkänen is a former Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won two medals in the 4 x 10 km at the Winter Olympics with a gold in 1976 and a bronze in 1980...

    , Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s
  • Matti Rajakylä
    Matti Rajakylä
    Matti Rajakylä is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer from Finland. He has hold several Finnish national records in both long course and short course...

    , Finnish swimmer
  • Matti Wasama
    Matti Wasama
    Matti Wasama Matti Wasama Matti Wasama (b. January 14, 1918, Tampere, Finland - d. July 10, 1970, Tampere, Finland was a former ice hockey Forward who played for Ilves. Matti Wasama was the father of Jarmo Wasama, one of the most promising ice hockey Defenders of his time....

    , Finnish hockey player


In music:
  • Matti Caspi
    Matti Caspi
    Matti Caspi is an Israeli composer, musician, singer, and lyricist. Born in 1949, he is regarded as one of Israel’s top musicians.His music style is difficult to classify. He is influenced by classical music, Brazilian and Latin music, Jazz, Rock and other genres. It is possible to hear all these...

    , Israeli composer, musician, singer and lyricist
  • Matti Salminen
    Matti Salminen
    Matti Salminen is a Finnish operatic bass singer, who has sung at all of the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival....

    , Finnish bass singer
  • Vesa-Matti Loiri
    Vesa-Matti Loiri
    Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri is a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004....

    , Finnish actor, musician and comedian


In politics:
  • Matti Vanhanen
    Matti Vanhanen
    Matti Taneli Vanhanen is a Finnish politician. He is a former Prime Minister of Finland and a former Chairman of the Centre Party. In the second half of 2006 he was President of the European Council. In his earlier career he was a journalist...

    , former Prime Minister of Finland
  • Matti Nikki, Finnish anti-censorship activist
  • Matti Mattson
    Matti Mattson
    Matti August Mattson was an American labor organizer, social activist, and Veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.-Background:...

    , Veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
    Abraham Lincoln Brigade
    The Abraham Lincoln Brigade refers to volunteers from the United States who served in the Spanish Civil War in the International Brigades. They fought for Spanish Republican forces against Franco and the Spanish Nationalists....

     in the Spanish Civil War
    Spanish Civil War
    The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...



In other fields:
  • Matti Klinge
    Matti Klinge
    Matti Klinge is a Finnish historian.He studied at the University of Helsinki and gained his Ph.D. in 1969. Later, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris 1970–1972, and held the Swedish Professorship of History at the University of Helsinki between 1975 and 2001. Klinge is one...

    , Finnish historian
  • Matti Saari (disambiguation), multiple people


Matti is also a nickname
Nickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....

for the Hebrew boys' name Mattisyahu, or for the Yiddish girls' name Mattel.
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