Famous People with Name Risto

Risto Jalo            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Risto Jalo: is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga and National Hockey League. He played for Ilves, HPK, and Edmonton Oilers.

Risto Siltanen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Risto Siltanen: is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman. He played 8 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers, and Quebec Nordiques.

Risto Siilasmaa            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Risto Siilasmaa: is the Chairman, founder and former Chief Executive Officer of F-Secure Corporation (formerly Data Fellows), an anti-virus and computer security software company based in Helsinki, Finland.[1] He is also the biggest shareholder of F-Secure, owning around 40% of the company. More recently Siilasmaa has become known as a business angel, investing in several technology startups and serving in their boards of directors.[2][3]

Risto Pakarinen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Risto Pakarinen: is a Finnish journalist and author. A regular contributor to The Hockey News, writing the Eye on Europe column, he is also a contributor to the IIHF.com, and Finnish MTV3.fi. He's based in Stockholm, Sweden. Pakarinen also blogs about hockey on Finnish Plaza and writes for the nhl.com

Risto Mattila            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Risto Mattila: is a Finnish snowboarder. He is an all-around rider, who has many achievements in half pipe, big air and in park riding contests. He has also made a name by having shots in the international snowboarding magazines. He is well known as a confident rider an

Pekka Ristola            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Pekka Ristola: was a Finnish nordic combined skier who competed in the 1960s. He finished fourth in the Nordic combined event at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.

Nikola Ristov            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Nikola Ristov: is a Macedonian footballer who plays as a midfielder for FK Pobeda in the Macedonian First League.

Lazar "Laza" Ristovski            Origin/Culture/Country: Slavic

Lazar "Laza" Ristovski: is a Serbian actor, director, producer, musician and writer. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Belgrade as an actor. He has appeared on stage about 3000 times, and starred in over 40 films, TV series and TV dramas, mostly

Borko Ristovski            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Borko Ristovski: is a Macedonian handball player who plays for the VfL Gummersbach in the German Bundesliga and for the Macedonia national handball team. He started his handball career in 1995 as a member of the handball club "Rabotnicki" (1995/96, and 1996/97). In 1997 he signed for the handball club "Jug", in which he stayed for two years, until 1999. He spent the season 1999/2000 in the handball club Makedonija (now known as RK Metalurg Skopje). In 2001 he won the Macedonian handball championship with Vardar Vatrostalna. The same year he won the Macedonian Cup. His first experience in a European Championship was in Greece in 2000 in the Championship for juniors. Between the years 2001-2003 he played for Vardar Vatrostalna and in 2002 he won the second championship in his career. In 2002 he participated in the European Championship in Poland for juniors. The same year he was proclaimed for the best young sportsman in Macedonia. After two years in the handball club Vardar, he decided to make a transfer in another club. In 2003 he signed a two-year contract for that year's champion RK Metalurg Skopje. After the expiry of the contract, Ristovski decided to go to Spain, where he signed a one-year contract for the second league handball club SD Teucro. In the year 2006/2007 he marked a transfer in the Spanish handball club Algeciras BM, and became the first Macedonian handball player who played in the ASOBAL league. Due to family reasons in 2007 Ristovski has returned in Macedonia and signed a one-year contract with the handball club RK Metalurg Skopje, where he became one of the best players, and in the season 2007/2008 he won the Macedonian handball championship, third in his career. He signed for another two seasons, and in 2008/2009 he won the Macedonian cup again. Later he signed a deal with RK Vardar. In February 2012 Ristovski signed 2,5 year contract with the German team VfL Gummersbach.

Michael Ristow            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Michael Ristow: is a German medical researcher who has published influential articles on the metabolic basis of human diseases, including type 2 diabetes, obesity and cancer, as well as general aging processes. Amongst more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications, Ristow published a seminal article describing a genetic mutation associated with extreme human obesity.[1]