Famous People with Name Jori

Jori Hulkkonen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Jori Hulkkonen: a Finnish DJ and a producer of house music, originally from Kemi, Finland. Hulkkonen started his career in the early 1990s when he worked with Jukka Hautamäki, Tuomas Salmela and Ari Ruokamo for their own label Lumi Records. In 1996 Hulkkonen signed a record deal with French record label F Communications; his debut album of the same year was called Selkäsaari Tracks. Internationally, Hulkkonen's most popular recording is the single Sunglasses at Night, a version of Corey Hart's 1980s hit, created together with Canadian producer Tiga. His most recent solo full-length Dualizm, released in 2005, featured collaborations with John Foxx, Nick Triani, Tiga, Jerry Valuri, and José González. Following up on the success of the Lo-Fiction single on Dualizm on which they collaborated, Jori began a synth-pop side project with Jerry Valuri called Processory, which released its self-titled debut in February 2007.

Jori Lehterä            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Jori Lehterä: is a Finnish professional ice hockey center.

Jori Olkkonen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Jori Olkkonen: is one of the most widely known Finnish computer game musicians of the 1980s, making music for Commodore 64. Some of his most widely known pieces of music are Omega Man and 5th Dream About Happiness, latter of which was first published in Pure-Byte demo Scroll Machine and later used in the high-score list music of the game BMX Kidz (the main game music was composed by Rob Hubbard). The Omega Man song was used in the game with same name. Olkkonen also made the music for Jukka Tapanimäki's game Netherworld and Pasi Hytönen's game Uuno Turhapuro.

Francesco Di Jorio Or Franco Di Iorio            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss

Francesco Di Jorio Or Franco Di Iorio: is a Swiss professional footballer of Portuguese origin who played almost his entire professional career in the Swiss first division. He is notable in football lore for a unique and gruesome accident that he suffered on the football pitch, which resulted in him losing his left ring finger.

Albert Joris            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Albert Joris: was a Belgian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1930s. He competed in the K-2 1000 m at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, and was eliminated in the heats.