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Jussi

male given name

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ6303903 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jussi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈjusːi]) is a male given name. In Finnish originally it is short for Juhani or Juho, Finnish for Johannes/John, but is also recognized as a name in its own right for official purposes. It can also be short for Justus, or a Finnish form of Justin.

Notable people with the name

Jussi 69 (1972), drummer of The 69 Eyes

Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), Danish writer

Jussi Björling (1911–1960), Swedish tenor

Jussi Chydenius (1972), Finnish musician

Jussi Halla-aho (1971) Finnish Slavic linguist, blogger and a politician.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jussi” as male given name. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1950, 1911, 1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Jussi, male and given can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as male given name. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6303903. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1972, 1950, 1911 and 1960.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Jussi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.