Famous People with Name Tarja

Tarja Kaarina Halonen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Tarja Kaarina Halonen: is the current President of Finland. She began her first six-year term of office in 2000 and was re-elected on January 29, 2006. Her current term expires in 2012. She is the first woman to hold the office.

Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli: is a soprano and songwriter, best known as the former lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic/power metal quintet Nightwish, which she founded along with Emppu Vuorinen and Tuomas Holopainen in 1996. After severing ties with the band in October 2005, Tarja Turunen is now devoting her time to her solo career under the stage name of Tarja. She is married to Argentine businessman Marcelo Cabuli. Tarja has also appeared in various Finnish television programs, and was a guest judge on "Idols" on 27 March 2007.

James Edward Tarjan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Edward Tarjan: is an American Grandmaster of chess.Tarjan was just 17 when he was selected to the American team for the 1969 World Students' Olympiad, at Dresden. He was a member of the winning American side at Haifa 1970, and was selected again at Graz 1972. He is a gr

Robert Endre Tarjan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Endre Tarjan: is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps.

Szilvia Tarjányi            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Szilvia Tarjányi: is a Hungarian handballer who plays for Békéscsabai Elore NKSE as a line player. She has also been capped for the Hungarian junior national team.